Word: rko
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Walt Disney's animated color film Alice in Wonderland (RKO Radio) is booked into Manhattan's Criterion Theater...
Hard, Fast and Beautiful (Filmakers; RKO Radio), a title that conjures up visions of a wanton wench on the marquee, turns out to apply to nothing more alluring than a tennis ball. The heroine (Sally Forrest) is a teen-aged tennis virtuoso whose selfish, frustrated mother (Claire Trevor) exploits the girl's talent to wangle a life of ease, travel and glamour...
Even the theater owners, who have most to lose from Hollywood's romance with TV, were wooing the medium in their own way. When the television networks refused to pay $100,000 for the rights to this week's Louis-Savold fight, the Paramount, Loew's RKO and Fabian theater chains grabbed at the chance to pipe the heavyweight battle to their theater screens. Only stipulation: to safeguard the gate, the fight will not be shown in any New York theaters...
Sealed Cargo (RKO Radio), a low-voltage drama of the high seas, pits some hapless Nazis against steel-jawed Dana Andrews, probably the most talkative down-Easter ever to ship out of Gloucester. Headed for the Newfoundland fishing banks, Andrews is still trying to sort out the spies among his crew when he comes across a disabled mother ship for German U-boats disguised as a Danish schooner...
...Forbidden Past (RKO Radio) is set in New Orleans during the gaslight era, when connoisseurs of showboat melodrama might have taken it seriously. The moss-hung script casts Ava Gardner as Barbara Beaurevel, a fiery belle scheming to win back the Yankee doctor (Robert Mitchum) who has scorned her and married another...