Word: rko
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...divorce action last week, but not the kind that makes the gossip columns. Stockholders of Warner Bros. Pictures voted to divorce the company's producing & distributing business from its theaters, thus becoming the last of Hollywood's Big Five (Loew's, 20th Century-Fox, RKO, Paramount) to conform to the federal court decision won by the Government's trustbusters...
Last week Hughes picked the man he thinks can do the job. Subject to his board's approval, Hughes named as RKO's new president James R. Grainger, a veteran Hollywood distributor who is sales manager of Republic Pictures. But what RKO needed most of all was someone who could get it back into making movies...
...mostly fiction and would even have some love interest. "If Hollywood tries to blacklist some of its finest workers," he added, "that is Hollywood's loss, but if these workers help us ... that is our gain . . . The union has just as much right to make a movie as RKO...
Angel Face (RKO Radio) has as its leading character that familiar film figure-the beautiful but evil-hearted female. In this turgid thriller, she is a spoiled young woman (Jean Simmons) who, for no very clear reason, plots to murder her stepmother (Barbara O'Neil). She accomplishes her purpose by tampering with the reverse gear on her stepmother's automobile so that it backs over a cliff. Accidentally, the murderess' father (Herbert Marshall) also happens to be in the car at the time...
...most harrowing scripts since The Great Train Robbery, the tangled affairs of RKO Pictures recently featured all but one of these episodes...