Word: rko
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Capture (RKO Radio) is a western with psychiatric overtones, a bright enough idea that didn't quite work out. Lew Ayres, an American oilman in Mexico, goes out after a payroll bandit and shoots the wrong man. Remorse, complicated by some amazing coincidences, leads him to break his engagement, quit his job, marry the murdered man's widow (Teresa Wright) and set out to clear the dead man's name. He is soon involved in a second murder, causes a suicide, and gets mixed up in a somewhat pointless chase sequence, in which he finally manages...
...Cinderella (Walt Disney; RKO Radio...
Diplomat Patterson, a former RKO executive, thought he saw his duty clearly. "We are trying to work out here in Guatemala," he later explained, "a pattern for containing Communism and injustice to U.S. companies everywhere." But he never seemed to get the knack of dealing with touchy, prideful Latins...
Boxer-turned-Painter William Grant Sherry, 35, who last fall managed to patch up a loudly publicized spat with his cinemactress wife Bette Davis, 42> was in trouble again. Sherry had noisily broken up a party at the RKO studio, where the cast of The Story of a Divorce had just presented Actress Davis with a monstrous trophy for being "a good egg" (see cut). When he heard that his didoes had prompted highstrung Bette to resume divorce proceedings, the ex-pug unburdened himself to the press: "I'm tired of being pushed around. She was the breadwinner...
Most everybody agreed that the dullest show of 1950 seemed to be the Academy Awards presentation itself at Hollywood's RKO Pantages Theater. A day before, Daily Variety had filled its front page with a completely accurate poll takers' forecast of the big awards. No one was surprised at the absence of foreign films or players among the major winners. Unlike last year, when Britain's Hamlet carried the day, none had been nominated. But the Academy's directors found it in their hearts to create a special award for Vittorio De Sica...