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...deals in Odium's history. By contrast, he spent 17 years tinkering with the management of Manhattan's Bonwit Teller fashion store before he sold for more than $10 million a block of stock which had cost him less than $1,000,000. And after buying into RKO in 1935, Odium kept the company under his wing until he sold to Howard Hughes in 1948 at a profit of $17 million...
Stromboli (RKO Radio). Any film by Director Roberto Rossellini and Actress Ingrid Bergman would seem anti-climactic after their own stormy, thoroughly publicized private lives. As an anticlimax in moviemaking, this one can stand on its own feet. A bleak, draggy little picture, it fulfills neither RKO's prurient advertising claims, nor Rossellini's obviously artistic intentions...
This thumbnail review by an indiscreet studio executive was about all that the public really had to go on before RKO rushed Producer-Director Rossellini's Stromboli into more than 400 U.S. theaters this week. After loudly ballyhooing the movie for weeks as a kind of lurid peepshow ("Raging Island, Raging Passions"), the studio had suddenly refused all advance screenings for movie critics. The reason, RKO frankly admitted, was fear that unfavorable reviews might cool the fever of public interest in the Stromboli idyll of Director Rossellini and Ingrid Bergman (TIME...
From Rome, Director Rossellini added one more note to the controversy. RKO's Stromboli, he claimed, "differs substantially" from the film he made. But he was more concerned with his own affairs. Actress Bergman's Mexican divorce from Dr. Peter Lindstrom had come through ahead of schedule; to head off any attempt by Dr. Lindstrom to claim Ingrid's ten-day-old son, he registered the baby as Renato Roberto Giusto Giuseppe Rossellini, "mother ... to be named later." Then he hurried plans to marry the mother...
Cinderella (Walt Disney; RKO Radio) is beguiling proof that Walt Disney still knows his way around fairyland. Harking back to the style of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), a small army of Disney craftsmen has given the centuries-old Cinderella story* a dewy radiance and comic verve that should make children feel like elves and adults feel like children...