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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Never Wave at a WAC (Independent Artists; RKO Radio) suggests that the ladies of the Women's Army Corps, like the Northwest Mounties, always get their man. The heroines of this romantic recruiting poster are a spoiled Washington hostess (Rosalind Russell) and a stripteaser named Danger O'Dowd (Marie Wilson). Enlistment in the WAC does both of them good. Haughty Rosalind Russell becomes simple and sincere and is reunited with her ex-husband (Paul Douglas). The stripteaser finds true love with a quartermaster sergeant (Leif Erickson...
...Story of Robin Hood (Walt Disney; RKO Radio). All-live-action version of the old legend, with Richard Todd (TIME, June...
...Time for Flowers (Mort Briskin; RKO Radio) is an addlepated little romp that pits the party line against the romantic line in Behind-the-Iron-Curtairi Czechoslovakia. Viveca Lindfors is an unglamorous Prague secretary who stomps about dressed in what appears to be an old burlap bag, and whose clod of a boy friend woos her with gifts of herring. But soon a handsome comrade (Paul Christian), just returned from attache duty in the United States, shows up and starts to shower her with such capitalistic blessings as nylons, lipstick and champagne. He also offers her a bubble bath...
Even at that, he and his associates will have to perform something like a miracle to get RKO on its feet. The studio has been losing $100,000 a week, has made one picture in the last five months, has been sued by a group of stockholders and has no movie production boss. Hughes's first move was to announce plans for five movies; his next task will be to try to persuade a big-name producer to take the job. Meanwhile, RKO's 15,000 stockholders could only hope that one of the most harrowing scripts since...
Blackbeard, the Pirate (Edmund Grainger; RKO Radio), an expensively Technicolored penny dreadful, casts Robert Newton as the infamous 18th century privateer Edward Teach, popularly known as Blackbeard. In this fanciful biography, Blackbeard is as blackhearted a buccaneer as ever sailed the Spanish Main. As one of his own crew puts it, he "would make the flesh crawl on a squid." His shaggy beard daintily decorated with red ribbons, Blackbeard goes about flogging, stabbing and stringing up his enemies with the greatest of gusto, laughing fiendishly all the while. He cuts his rivals' throats, runs them through the gizzards...