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RKO Pictures, commonly known as simply RKO, is an American film, television and stage production company owned by Concord. In its original incarnation...

RKO refers to RKO Pictures, an American film company. RKO may also refer to: RKO General, holding company for General Tire and Rubber Company up to 1981...

RKO. Barrett and Orton continued their feud on the December 23 episode of SmackDown, where they brawled backstage and Orton hit Barrett with an RKO onto...

first appearance was in the novelization of the 1933 film King Kong from RKO Pictures, with the film premiering a little over two months later. A sequel...

The RKO Boston Theatre is a movie theatre in Boston, Massachusetts, located at 616 Washington Street, near Essex Street in the Boston Theater District...

RKO General Inc. (previously General Teleradio Inc. and RKO Teleradio Pictures Inc.) was an American broadcasting company that, from 1952 through 1991...

RKO 281 is a 1999 American historical drama television film directed by Benjamin Ross, written by John Logan, and starring Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell...

RKO Pictures (also known as RKO Productions, Radio Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures, and RKO Teleradio Pictures) is an American film production and distribution...

(1928), Hell's Angels (1930), and Scarface (1932). He later acquired the RKO Pictures film studio in 1948, recognized then as one of the Big Five studios...

RKO Forty Acres was a film studio backlot in Culver City, California. Its owners included RKO Pictures, Desilu Productions, and Paramount Pictures. Best...

RKO Records and Unique Jazz are two record labels which began in 1955 as Unique Records, a New York City pop music record label. After several small pop...

Theatre on the Air, Welles was courted by Hollywood. He signed a contract with RKO Pictures in 1939. Although it was unusual for an untried director, he was...

match before Randy Orton put him through one of the broadcast tables with an RKO. Later that month, Watkins announced the second-round picks for the Raw brand...

as RKO Teleradio Pictures; production and distribution halted in 1957; movie business dissolved in 1959 and RKO Teleradio renamed RKO General; RKO General...

Rated-RKO was a tag team in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) consisting of Edge and Randy Orton. Active on the Raw brand between October 2006 and May...

the company ended their agreements with such third-party distributors as RKO Radio Pictures and United Artists and formed their own distribution company...

RKO Keith's Theater may refer to: RKO Keith's Theater (Richmond Hill, Queens), est. 1929 RKO Keith's Theater (Flushing, Queens), est. 1928 Boston Opera...

made a handful of movies every year, he loaned out Mature's services to RKO, who used him as a leading man in the Anna Neagle–Herbert Wilcox musical...

Selznick and Louis B. Mayer, Selznick served as head of production at R.K.O. Radio Pictures and went on to become one of the first independent movie...

vaudeville house in the 1910s and 1920s. Under RKO Theatres, it became a movie palace called the RKO Palace Theatre in the 1930s, though it continued...

Treasure Island is a 1950 adventure film produced by RKO-Walt Disney British Productions, adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel of the same...

(RKO; 1933 short) Fits in a Fiddle (RKO; 1933 short) Snug in the Jug (RKO; 1933 short) Hey Nanny Nanny (RKO; 1934 short) In the Devil's Doghouse (RKO;...

The RKO Radio Network was a commercial radio network that operated in the USA from 1979 to 1985. The network was a subsidiary of the RKO General broadcasting...

teamed with Shawn Michaels to win the World Tag Team Championship from Rated-RKO (Edge and Randy Orton) before defeating Michaels at WrestleMania 23 on April...

25, 1995) were dance partners in a total of 10 films, 9 being released by RKO Pictures from 1933 to 1939, and 1, The Barkleys of Broadway, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...

the 1940s and early 1950s, appearing in forty-six B westerns released by RKO Pictures. In a career spanning more than four decades, Holt is best remembered...

fighter pilot, investment banker, actor, film and stage producer and CEO of RKO Pictures. His last acting credit was in 2012 and his last producing credit...

chain became part of RKO when it was established just before the theater opened on October 29, 1928, and it was also known as the RKO Keith's Theater. After...

was high-profile and led to his being signed to a long-term contract by RKO. Ryan appeared in Bombardier (1943), starring Pat O'Brien, and was fourth-billed...

Hollywood Pantages Theatre, formerly known as RKO Pantages Theatre and Fox-Pantages Theatre, also known as The Pantages, is a live theater and former...

subsidiaries, National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and Radio-Keith-Orpheum (RKO), and by May 1930, persuaded them to build a mass media entertainment complex...

as Lady of Deceit and in Australia as Deadlier Than the Male) is a 1947 RKO Pictures American film noir starring Lawrence Tierney, Claire Trevor and...

given leading roles in Higher and Higher and Step Lively (both 1944) for RKO. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cast Sinatra opposite Gene Kelly and Kathryn Grayson...

Gallery | Studio Backlots and Ranches | RKO Encino Ranch Archived 2015-10-16 at the Wayback Machine Bison Archives RKO Ranch photograph collection Dragnet...

television rights to the Disney shorts, Walt signed a distribution contract with RKO Radio Pictures on March 2, 1936. Walt Disney Productions exceeded its original...

The RKO Keith's Theater was an RKO Pictures movie theater at 135-35 Northern Boulevard in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens in New York City. It was...

in $1.5 million in worldwide rentals." King Kong Jewel, Richard (1994). "RKO Film Grosses: 1931–1951". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television...

career. Fontaine began her film career in 1935, signing a contract with RKO Pictures. Fontaine received her first major roles in The Man Who Found Himself...

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released before 1954 were released by RKO Radio Pictures (with the exception of Victory Through Air Power, refused by RKO and then released by United Artists);...

with RKO even though that studio had kept him idle for a year, causing him to miss a part in The High and the Mighty. He was under contract to RKO for...

Shawn Michaels) versus Rated-RKO (Edge and Randy Orton). Rated-RKO won the match after Orton pinned Triple H following an RKO onto a steel chair. The featured...

screenwriter best known for a string of low-budget horror films he produced for RKO Pictures in the 1940s. His son, also named Val Lewton, was a painter and...

mergers or acquisitions such as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's pre-May 1986 library or RKO Radio Pictures' library. The pre-1950 films distribution rights are held...

theater chain), Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros., 20th Century-Fox, and RKO Radio Pictures (the last of these five, which emerged in 1928). Also at this...

Robert Mitchum, Linda Darnell, and Jack Palance. It is notable as the first RKO film produced in 3D. A mob bookkeeper is killed by hitman Cappy Gordon, under...

Laurentiis and RKO-General alleging breach of contract, and attempted to develop their own remake of King Kong. In response, De Laurentiis and RKO-General filed...

infatuated with her. It was shot in late 1945 and early 1946, and was released by RKO Radio Pictures in August 1946. Notorious is considered by critics and scholars...

"Star Sapphire" by Gerald Drayson Adams. After Farrow submitted the film, RKO Pictures studio head Howard Hughes demanded extensive script revisions, recasting...

RKO Keith's Theater is a historic RKO Pictures movie theater located at 117-09 Hillside Avenue in the Richmond Hill section of the New York City borough...

is where the move got its name. The most famous of all the cutters is the RKO, the finishing move of Randy Orton. The cutter also formed the base for the...

Lasker for Howard Hawks' Winchester Pictures Corporation, and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film stars Margaret Sheridan, Kenneth Tobey, Robert Cornthwaite...

Chorus (1940). Morros had released a previous production through RKO, but with RKO no longer interested in Astaire, Morros had to find another distributor...

gallows high he swung, upon which all were to be hung..." A script reader at RKO Pictures recommended the novel as a "worthy addition to the rough, tough...

(DiversiTech General), rocketry and aeronautics (Aerojet), and broadcasting (RKO General). The company's tire division was sold to Germany's Continental AG...

motion picture studio Radio Keith Orpheum (RKO Pictures).[citation needed] After the establishment of RKO, motion pictures became the primary focus of...

Robert Mitchum. He appeared opposite a few other stars in RKO westerns. After the war, Martin left RKO and essayed the main role in the last Universal Pictures...

Richard Dix and Irene Dunne, and directed by Wesley Ruggles. Released by RKO, it won Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay (written...

Pictures, Fox Film Corporation (20th Century Fox as of 1935), Warner Bros., and RKO Radio Pictures (descendant of FBO), also belonged to companies with sizable...

happened when RKO bought out his contract with Universal to play one of Ginger Rogers' suitors in Kitty Foyle (1940). This was a big hit. RKO gave him the...

American supernatural horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur and produced for RKO by Val Lewton. The film tells the story of Irena Dubrovna, a newly married...

contract at RKO Radio Studio, the expulsion of his company Mercury Productions from the RKO lot, and the total suspension of It's All True." In 1942 RKO Pictures...

an automobile trip to Mexico. Produced independently and distributed by RKO Pictures, The Hitch-Hiker was the first mainstream-released American film...

werecats. It is a remake of 1942 film of the same name, and was produced by RKO Radio Pictures, the same studio that produced the original film. Giorgio...

NHL on RKO General relates to a small, syndicated network of stations owned by RKO General which broadcast National Hockey League games. In the United...

Women in the Wind (1939). Farrow re-emerged as a contract director for RKO, directing the highly profitable The Saint Strikes Back (1939), the second...

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narration. Welles lost control of the editing of The Magnificent Ambersons to RKO, and the final version released to audiences differed significantly from...

Wurlitzer 3 Manual/10 Rank theatre organ. It was taken over in March 1931 by RKO Radio Pictures. In July 1931, Gracie Fields appeared for a week 'twice-nightly'...

movies with Zaza (1938), directed by George Cukor. McCarey asked him over to RKO to edit Love Affair (1939). He returned to Paramount to edit the Bob Hope...

military service. When he got out, Selznick assigned his contract to RKO Pictures. RKO gave him a starring role in Till the End of Time, a drama about veterans...

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him to also make films with Universal Pictures, Paramount Pictures, and RKO Pictures as a freelancer. Reagan appeared in multiple western films, something...

schedule at RKO. Louis Hayward was originally announced as the male lead. RKO then announced Cary Grant would play the role. A few days later, RKO announced...

who made stunning montage sequences for Hollywood studio features at MGM, RKO, and Paramount. Vorkapich taught the autonomous nature of the cinematic art...

major studios, 20th Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, RKO Pictures, and Warner Bros. Then came three smaller companies, Columbia Pictures...

Studio (1918–1925), De Mille Studios (1925–1928), Pathé Studios (1928–1931), RKO-Pathé Studios (1931–1935), Selznick International Pictures (1935–1956), Desilu-Culver...

contract with RKO Pictures. Worth tested for a film by Edward Small, Clementina. It was not made. However she was top billed in her first film for RKO: China...

Pictures, the US/Canadian/Latin American/Australian distribution rights to the RKO Radio Pictures library (not including any films produced by Walt Disney and...

Special for the History Channel's Gettysburg (2011). He was Emmy-nominated for RKO 281 (1999), The Andromeda Strain (2008), and The Pillars of the Earth (2010)...

Theatre, the Warner Theatre, and the Cinerama Theatre. It closed as the RKO Warner Twin Theatre, and was demolished in 1987. The Strand Theatre was built...

of production at RKO Radio Pictures from 1942 until his death in 1946. Koerner is best remembered for firing Orson Welles from RKO. However, he was a...

The Saint (film series) refers to eight B movies made by RKO Radio Pictures between 1938 and 1941, based on some of the books in British author Leslie...

Gunga Din is a 1939 American adventure film from RKO Radio Pictures directed by George Stevens and starring Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, and Douglas Fairbanks...

Roberta (Comedy, Musical, Romance), Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, RKO Radio Pictures, retrieved September 10, 2025 Cromwell, John (June 15, 1935)...

he moved to RKO. At the time, David O. Selznick was running RKO, and Cromwell recalled his professional experience there fondly: "RKO was always an...

four Golden Globe Awards. He also portrayed Orson Welles in the HBO film RKO 281 (1999), and Otto Frank in the Nat Geo miniseries A Small Light (2023)...

between 1934 and 1941 while he was at RKO Studios. Prior to his production career, Marcus worked for FBO and then RKO as a sales executive, reaching the...

Theatre was originally called the RKO Roxy Theatre and built as part of the construction of Rockefeller Center. The RKO Roxy started construction in November...

Bowery (1933) and Viva Villa! (1934), both of which star Wallace Beery. For RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., Wray starred in her most identifiable film, King Kong...

which Philip Van Doren Stern's 1943 short booklet The Greatest Gift, and RKO Pictures 1946 film adaptation It's a Wonderful Life, are set. In 1945, Frank...

Cross Rhodes, with Rhodes responding with Orton's RKO. Orton inadvertently struck the referee with an RKO while blinded by an eye rake. Amidst the officiating...

Nevertheless, it recorded a loss of $378,000. Dore Schary, then head of RKO, said that he did not release the film when he was in charge of the studio...

Bernard Herrmann, and Miklós Rózsa. Steiner composed over 300 film scores with RKO Pictures and Warner Bros., and was nominated for 24 Academy Awards, winning...

Hawks, and starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. It was released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film tells the story of a paleontologist in a number...

RKO Radio Pictures: A Titan Is Born is a 2012 non-fiction book about RKO Radio Pictures and written by Richard B Jewell. Maltin, Leonard (June 7, 2012)...

Swiss Family Robinson is a 1940 American film released by RKO Radio Pictures and directed by Edward Ludwig. It is based on the 1812 novel The Swiss Family...

Mitchum's talent and recommended him to RKO. On May 25, 1944, Mitchum signed a seven-year contract with RKO at an initial salary of $350 per week, effective...

friend Gerald Fried, Kubrick had spent $3900 in making it, and sold it to RKO-Pathé for $4000, which was the most the company had ever paid for a short...

She left postwar Germany at the urging of Howard Hughes and signed with RKO. She co-starred with Robert Stack in The Iron Glove (1952), Rock Hudson in...

subsequently sold the rights to RKO Radio Pictures, who commenced production and cast McGuire in the lead. Filming took place at the RKO Radio Pictures studio lot...

film produced by RKO-Walt Disney British Productions which is about Rob Roy MacGregor. It was the last Disney film released through RKO Radio Pictures....

library of pre-1986 MGM films, Warner Bros. films made before 1948, and all RKO films, as well as license to 1,000 other films. In 1989, Turner created the...

aircraft mogul Howard Hughes, she was signed to a contract with Hughes's RKO Radio Pictures and cast as the lead in the studio's thriller Vendetta, which...

Retrieved 9 October 2025. "Ted Hartley, Actor, Producer and Former Chairman of RKO Pictures, Dies at 100". The Hollywood Reporter. November 14, 2025. Retrieved...

third film for RKO Radio Pictures, after Citizen Kane (1941) and The Magnificent Ambersons (1942). The project was a co-production of RKO and the Office...

Although he later claimed to have done it only as a favor to Lombard, files at RKO show that Hitchcock himself actively pursued the project. Ann and David Smith...

match at WrestleMania XX on March 14, 2004, when Orton pinned Foley after an RKO. This was Johnson's final wrestling match until November 2011. The Rock appeared...

several years earlier and worked at RKO Pictures, found his younger brother a job in the shipping department at RKO. Wise worked odd jobs at the studio...

Duggan as Miss Ruggles A Damsel in Distress was the first of Fred Astaire's RKO films to not feature Ginger Rogers, and 19-year-old Joan Fontaine was cast...

for RKO Pictures. Laughton and O'Hara would work together again in Jamaica Inn (1939) for the British-based Mayflower Pictures, and again at RKO for This...

his win only for his long-time rival Randy Orton to attack Cena with an RKO. On SmackDown that Friday, as Cena was about to cut another promo, he was...

Hank Nelken. It was produced by Columbia Pictures, Revolution Studios and RKO Pictures and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing. The film grossed $58...

an RKO talent scout and given a film contract to work in Hollywood, California. In 1943 and 1944, Tierney was cast in several uncredited roles in RKO releases...

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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid is a 1982 American neo-noir comedy-mystery film, directed by Carl Reiner and starring Steve Martin, Rachel Ward and Reiner. Co-written...

scout/comic Benny Rubin. This led to a contract with RKO Pictures, which also believed that Miller was 18. When RKO discovered her true age later, Miller's father...

Given Sunday, which "changed his life".[3] He then wrote the television film RKO 281, a historical drama released in the same year. He co-wrote Gladiator...

sound era, Selznick moved to RKO Radio in 1931 where he served as the studio's executive producer. During his time at RKO he oversaw the production of...

Everett Sloane. Much of the troupe would later appear in Welles's films at RKO, particularly Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons. Part of the Works...

Copy is a 1981 comedy-drama film directed by Michael Schultz, produced by RKO Pictures and Hemdale Film Corporation, and released by Avco Embassy Pictures...

administered in separate Reichskommissariats: Reichskommissariat Ostland (RKO) formerly Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Belarus (except Gomel) 1941–1945...

known as an auteur of stylish and atmospheric genre films, many of them for RKO Pictures, including the supernatural horror films Cat People (1942), I Walked...

variety of jobs, including ghost writing. In 1943 Scott became established at RKO as a producer and got Paxton a job there was a writer. Paxton's first credit...

antisemitism is a motivating factor. Though produced by "B-movie" specialists RKO Pictures, the film proved a critical and commercial success and was nominated...

Tender Comrade is a 1943 black-and-white film released by RKO Radio Pictures, showing women on the home front living communally while their husbands are...

Team Champions Rated-RKO (Edge and Randy Orton) fought D-Generation X (Triple H and Shawn Michaels) to a no-contest, thus Rated-RKO retained. The other...

RKO Proctor's Theater is a historic movie theater located on Main Street in New Rochelle in Westchester County, New York. Herbert J. Krapp designed the...

Lewton, the producer of a series of distinctive low-budget horror films for RKO Radio Pictures, presented and narrated by director Martin Scorsese. Cat People...

Hitler's Children is a 1943 American black-and-white war film made by RKO Radio Pictures. The film stars Tim Holt, Bonita Granville and Kent Smith and...

and the US and Soviet Union had joined the war and become allies). The RKO Pictures release stars Joseph Cotten, who co-wrote the screenplay with Orson...

addition to the match taking place in a Steel Cage, Orton's finisher, the RKO, was banned. Another example was at the 2020 edition of AEW's All Out event...

and The Boss Baby (2017). Astaire and Rogers made nine films together at RKO Pictures; the others include The Gay Divorcee (1934), Roberta (1935), Follow...

Lang's 1956 film of the same name, it was Hyams' second reimagining of an RKO property after 1990's Narrow Margin. In it, a young journalist (Metcalfe)...

being screen-tested and put under contract by RKO Pictures. He appeared in A Southern Maid on stage in 1937. RKO initially put Kellaway into small roles: Everybody's...

Tire & Rubber bought the RKO Radio Pictures movie studio. All of its media and entertainment holdings were organized into the RKO General division. Due to...

Mayer and Irving Thalberg at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Pandro S. Berman at RKO Radio Pictures, and David O. Selznick of Selznick International Pictures...

earlier that year. Produced by Walter Wanger and initially released through RKO. Bergman had championed the role since her arrival in Hollywood, then chose...

Award for Best Animated Short Film List of Academy Award–nominated films RKO Radio was announced as a nominee for Stout Hearts and Willing Hands in Best...

11, 1973) was an American film and television actor. He played Tarzan for RKO Pictures between 1949 and 1953 and portrayed leading characters from Karl...

prop department at 20th Century Fox studios. He eventually went to work at RKO Pictures where he began training as a film editor. In 1940, he worked as...

"entertainment feature". Lorentz started filming in 1939 under contract to RKO Pictures, but RKO stopped production in 1942 for various reasons. The film was itself...

1975) was a motion-picture cinematographer best remembered for his work at RKO Pictures in the 1940s, including many of Val Lewton's series of B-picture...

live-action/animated musical drama film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Its world premiere was in Chicago, Illinois, on November...

His career flourished at RKO when David O. Selznick, the studio's head of production, assigned Cukor to direct several of RKO's major films, including What...

produced by Walt Disney Productions and released on November 25, 1938, by RKO Radio Pictures. It was directed by Dick Rickard and based on the 1936 book...

studios, but the original 1933 film and its sequel were produced and owned by RKO Radio Pictures. The films were inherited by Warner Bros. (via Turner Entertainment...

Adams RKO Radio Broadway Melody of 1936 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Captain Blood Cosmopolitan David Copperfield Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer The Informer RKO Radio The...

Fleetwood blamed the album's relative lack of commercial success on the RKO radio chain having played the album in its entirety prior to release, thereby...

name by Joseph Moncure March. The Set-Up was the last film Wise made for RKO, and he named it his favorite of the pictures he directed for the studio...

June 1946, Conway obtained a release from his RKO contract. He had already left the studio when his last RKO films were released: The Falcon's Alibi (on...

and musical numbers from RKO Radio Pictures' feature films and short subjects of the mid-1940s. It was the second of RKO's four "musical revue" features...

His other Emmy-nominated roles were for portraying Herman J. Mankiewicz in RKO 281 (1999) and Charles Talleyrand in Napoléon (2002). Other television roles...

Brooklyn, N. Y.) were under contract with RKO Radio Pictures. The two actors had appeared in three films in 1943 when RKO decided to team them as their answer...

signed on a film contract at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and subsequently with RKO, where she found her greatest success and is perhaps best remembered for...

composer. Webb has hundreds of film music credits to his name, mainly with RKO Pictures. Webb orchestrated and conducted for the Broadway stage, before...

postbox. In November 1939, Nathanael West was hired as a screenwriter by RKO Radio Pictures, where he collaborated with Boris Ingster on a film adaptation...

the 1940s by Val Lewton when he was the head of the 'horror department' at RKO Pictures—Cat People, Isle of the Dead, The Seventh Victim and I Walked with...

with Double Door (1934) at Paramount. Vidor accepted a contract to work at RKO Pictures. While there he directed Strangers All (1935), His Family Tree (1935)...

feature Superman and began filming in 1951 in California on RKO-Pathé stages and the RKO Forty Acres back lot. Cereal manufacturer Kellogg's sponsored...

starring role in Kitty Foyle (1940), and performed during the 1930s in RKO's musical films with Fred Astaire. Her career continued on stage, radio, and...

Fleischer and starring Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, and Jacqueline White. The RKO picture was written by Earl Felton, based on an unpublished story by Martin...

of Kong) is a 1933 American Pre-Code adventure monster film produced by RKO Pictures. Directed by Ernest Schoedsack and featuring special effects by...

United States (1945) Hartford-Empire Co. v. United States (1945) Bigelow v. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. (1946) United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. (1948)...

film produced by Walt Disney, directed by Alfred Werker, and released by RKO Radio Pictures on June 27, 1941. Essentially a tour of the then-new Walt...

by its accompanying tour, the Sol María Tour, and four singles: "TQMQA", "RKO", "La Canción Feliz del Disco" and "Mamá's Boy". Following the release of...

Boy Friends series. Stevens next moved to Universal Pictures and then to RKO Pictures. There, he directed several genre films, including Alice Adams starring...

Bataan is a 1945 American black-and-white World War II war film drama from RKO Radio Pictures, produced by Robert Fellows, directed by Edward Dmytryk, that...

Up Baby (1938). Hepburn made a comeback by buying out her contract with RKO Radio Pictures and acquiring the film rights to The Philadelphia Story, which...

actress and singer known for her work as a child actress for Paramount and RKO, in the early "talkies" era. She then acted on Broadway and in other stage...

somewhere to play the film in Detroit, Hughes acquired a 15-year lease on the RKO Downtown in Detroit with the intention of screening the film in the city...

Pictures (1929–1932) United Artists (1932–1937, 1943) RKO Radio Pictures (1937–1957) A dispute with RKO Pictures in 1953 over the distribution of The Living...

Holmes (2020). Her television roles include Hedda Hopper in the HBO film RKO 281 (1999), and Marnie Stonebrook in the HBO series True Blood (2011). She...

but because of the favorable terms Sam Goldwyn enjoyed with distributor RKO, RKO recorded an ultimate loss of $140,000 on the film. The film received 9...

Quality Street is a 1937 American historical comedy film made by RKO Radio Pictures. It was directed by George Stevens and produced by Pandro S. Berman...

live-action/animated anthology featurette produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Set in Latin America, it is made up of four different segments;...

musical anthology film produced by Walt Disney. It was released to theatres by RKO Radio Pictures on May 27, 1948. Made up of seven segments set to popular...

business. RKO Radio Pictures acquired the twice-weekly Pathé News along with most of the rest of the Pathé Exchange assets in 1931, rebranding it RKO Pathé...

the production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and was given a contract by RKO Pictures. From there, she went on to enjoy a long and highly successful career...

(1946), So Dear to My Heart (1949), and Treasure Island (1950), as well as RKO's The Window (1949). He served as the animation model and provided the voice...

in The Saint's Vacation (filmed by RKO's British studio in 1941) and The Saint Meets the Tiger (again produced by RKO in 1941 but shelved until Republic...

1929. In 1930, the duo signed with RKO Radio Pictures. They would go on to make twenty-two comedy shorts for RKO over the next five years. As with their...

and RKO announced the movie would be shot under the production unit run by Jerry Wald and Norman Krasna however no film resulted. Wald left RKO to join...

Filming took place on-location in Utah, and at the RKO and Universal studio lots in Hollywood. It was RKO's first film to be shot in CinemaScope and, at a...

starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Directed by George Stevens for RKO, it features Helen Broderick, Victor Moore, Betty Furness, Eric Blore and...

After gaining stage recognition, Peck was offered his first film role at RKO Radio Pictures, the male lead in the war-romance Days of Glory (1944), directed...

Joshua; Cormack, Robert (Directors) (August 15, 1946). Make Mine Music (Motion picture). United States: RKO Radio Pictures. Peter and the Wolf at IMDb...

left United Artists and established himself as an associate producer at RKO in January 1936; the studio bought out Reliance. Small said he was motivated...

an RKO attempt and performed a splash on Orton for a nearfall. Gunther attempted the move again, but Orton moved out of the way and performed an RKO on...

extensions. In 1955, General Tire purchased RKO Radio Pictures, giving the company's TV stations access to RKO's film library, and in 1959, General Tire's...

it was reported that RKO Pictures and Miramax had entered into a co-financing and distribution deal to remake 12 films from RKO's library with one of the...

Joe Young) is a 1949 American black-and-white fantasy film distributed by RKO Radio Pictures and produced by the same creative team responsible for King...

and commercial successes. Schary's Vanguard films were released through RKO, which offered him the job as head of the production. Although he still had...

success of Astaire and Rogers's first feature, Flying Down to Rio (1933), RKO's head of production, Pandro S. Berman, purchased the screen rights to Dwight...

long-term contracts and loaned them out to other studios. He loaned Stevenson to RKO he directed Tom Brown's School Days (1940). He went to Universal to direct...

managed to break Noël up on the stage without giggling myself." In 1931 RKO Pictures offered Olivier a two-film contract at $1,000 a week (equivalent...

roadshow that was held in 13 cities across the U.S. between 1940 and 1941 by RKO Radio Pictures; the first began at the Broadway Theatre in New York City...

studio was acquired by the much larger RKO Pictures. It continued making features as the semiautonomous division RKO Pathé into 1932, when all feature production...

under the title The Twisted Road and was released in the United States by RKO Radio Pictures as They Live by Night in November 1949. Although the film...

Most of his '40s work was for RKO Radio Pictures. He left the studio in 1947 when he refused to appear in a remake of RKO's Seven Keys to Baldpate. Phillip...

however, they would be interrupted by Randy Orton, who would hit KSI with an RKO. KSI is a supporter of Arsenal F.C. In his "Googling Myself" video, KSI revealed...

short Holland in Tulip Time (1934). Becky Sharp (1935), a Pioneer Pictures/RKO Radio production, was the first feature fully produced in three-strip Technicolor...

surrounding Howard Hughes's takeover of RKO Pictures. As a result of the delay, the second and third pictures Ray directed, RKO's A Woman's Secret (1949) and Knock...

eight Major film studios MGM, Paramount, Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, RKO, Columbia, Universal and United Artists. Other significant production and...

company was formed in 1944. It was headed up by Leo Spitz, an executive at RKO, and William Goetz, vice president in charge for production 20th Century...

Disney decided to create a studio in Britain, RKO-Walt Disney British Productions, Ltd. in association with RKO Radio Pictures and started production of Treasure...

Orton won the match and retained the title after pinning Cactus following an RKO. Another primary match on the undercard was Edge versus Kane, which Edge...

In 1955, General Tire purchased RKO Radio Pictures to give the company's television station group access to RKO's film library. In 1959, General Tire's...

by Walt Disney and Ben Sharpsteen and released on September 27, 1947, by RKO Radio Pictures. The film is a compilation of two stories: Bongo, narrated...

Robinson by Johann David Wyss, a previous adaptation having been released by RKO Pictures in 1940. Directed by Ken Annakin and shot in Tobago and Pinewood...

lost to Rated-RKO (Edge and Randy Orton) after fan-selected referee Eric Bischoff allowed the illegal use of a steel chair to give Rated-RKO the ill-gotten...

Marshall. RKO Producer Harriet Parsons acquired the rights for her studio for an updated World War II version set in New England. When RKO management...

costumes and managing wardrobe at RKO and its predecessor, FBO Pictures, since the mid-1920s. During his ten years there, RKO had sometimes assigned screen...

into a critically acclaimed film of the same name, released in 1931 through RKO Pictures. The story was again adapted for the screen by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...

was a television station in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, owned by RKO General. Originally established in 1948, WNAC-TV signed off for the final...

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six-pack challenge elimination match. Orton eliminated Jericho after an RKO. Cena eliminated Edge after an Attitude Adjustment. After interference by...

and incarceration, had a large impact on the production of The Big Steal. RKO head Howard Hughes saw Mitchum's notoriety surrounding the arrest (the actor...

the U.S. Army during World War II. His film career began in 1942 at the RKO studio, directing shorts, documentaries, and compilations of forgotten silent...

into an Ashkenazi Jewish immigrant family in Leeds, England, worked for RKO Pictures after immigrating to the United States, heading the movie trailer...

for Princeton University's student-run radio station, a radio producer for RKO, and a reporter for local television stations. In 1975, he joined ABC News...

believe she had the potential for major success and sold her contract to RKO. Often cast in film noir projects, Grahame was nominated for an Academy Award...

breakthrough playing the role of the vicious and slatternly Mildred Rogers in the RKO Radio production of Of Human Bondage (1934), a film adaptation of W. Somerset...

purchased RKO Radio Pictures in order to give its television stations a film and program library to draw from outside of network and local programming. RKO was...

Hale. After a production fraught with several clashes between Losey and RKO Pictures head Howard Hughes, The Boy with Green Hair was released on November...

to late-1950s, Hughes Tool owned the RKO companies, including RKO Pictures, RKO Studios, RKO Theatres, and the RKO Radio Network. In 1946, Hughes gave...

attention of either Cary Grant or RKO producer David Hempstead, who showed it to Grant's agent. In April 1944, RKO Pictures bought the rights to the story...

Register of Historic Places by its original name, the Hotel Mississippi and RKO Orpheum Theater. The Hotel Mississippi was listed on the Davenport Register...

Written by Charles O'Neal and DeWitt Bodeen, and produced by Val Lewton for RKO Radio Pictures, the film focuses on a young woman who stumbles on an underground...

animated musical anthology film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures on April 20, 1946. During World War II, much of Walt Disney's...

of RKO-Pathé in charge of non-newsreel productions. In 1952 he was placed in charge of RKO short subjects. He was executive vice president of RKO until...

president for four years. In June 2007, the company formed a joint venture with RKO Pictures to remake four films from the latter's library, namely Five Came...

nominations for her performances in Buffalo Girls (1995), and as Marion Davies in RKO 281 (1999), while also earning a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress...

brand of British champagne. Dors's RKO films flopped, so RKO elected not to make the other two films. In December 1958, RKO terminated its contract with Dors...

American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures, based on the 1812 German fairy tale "Snow White" by the Brothers...

producer Merian C. Cooper, who directed King Kong with Schoedsack. After RKO reduced the budget and time spent shooting for The Most Dangerous Game, Cooper...

with those filmed on the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, California, RKO Encino Ranch, and elsewhere, and as a result geographic incongruities appear...

before May 1986), and the North American distribution rights to films from RKO Radio Pictures. However, Turner Classic Movies also licenses films from other...

performed a superplex on Gunther from the middle rope. Gunther countered an RKO attempt into a German suplex. Gunther followed up with a shotgun dropkick...

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Oakley Annie Oakley RKO Pictures A Message to Garcia 1936 Raphaelita Maderos 20th Century Fox The Bride Walks Out Carolyn Martin RKO Pictures His Brother's...

Street location. It had previously been the main studio complex used by RKO Pictures and is now part of the Paramount Pictures lot. The series used what...

After Daiei briefly exhibited a subtitled print of the film in Los Angeles, RKO purchased distribution rights to Rashomon in the United States. The company...

Harve Foster and Wilfred Jackson, produced by Walt Disney, and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It is based on the Uncle Remus stories as adapted by Joel...

(April 8, 2024). "Logan Paul Retains US Title, YouTuber IShowSpeed Eats RKO At WWE WrestleMania 40". Wrestling Inc. Archived from the original on April...

later appeared in films in the 1930s and 1940s as a contract player for RKO Radio Pictures, being cast as a chorus girl or in similar roles, with lead...

Heavyweight Championship, which Orton won by pinfall after performing an RKO. The predominant match on the SmackDown! brand was John "Bradshaw" Layfield...

distribution deal with RKO Radio Pictures to distribute the Silly Symphony cartoons, along with the Mickey Mouse series. RKO would continue to distribute...

auspices of RKO, but not actually at that studio—she would be lent out. She would make an additional picture for 20th Century Fox while RKO got the services...

choreograph the dance numbers on an upcoming project he was set to direct at RKO Radio Pictures. Chi Chi and Her Papas, a 1924 German comedic play originally...

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play the lead in Storm Over Bengal (1938). Knowles signed a contract at RKO, for whom he made Beauty for the Asking (1939) with Lucille Ball; Five Came...

Army for the production of wartime training films. Douglas moved over to RKO Radio Pictures. He made a series of low budget comedies including The Great...

Disney Productions, created in 1942 and released on January 1, 1943, by RKO Radio Pictures. The cartoon, which features Donald Duck in a nightmare setting...

and production details, 2016. Retrieved August 12, 2024. Some sources cite RKO as the production company and distributor of The Painted Desert; however...

original on March 30, 2015. Retrieved August 29, 2014. "Richard B. Jewell's RKO film grosses, 1929–51: The C. J. Trevlin Ledger: A comment". Historical Journal...

Gretel is a 1954 stop-motion animated theatrical feature film released by RKO Radio Pictures. Hansel and Gretel are hungry at home, they daydream and sing...

1953 until 1967 when it was acquired by the Glen Alden Corporation to form RKO–Stanley Warner Theatres. Its headquarters were located in Manhattan at 1585...

company Pavilion Communications with RKO to form RKO Pictures, which owns the intellectual property of the RKO Radio Pictures movie studio. In the 1960s...

Ullman Jr. for $210,000 but earned much more, making it a box-office hit for RKO Pictures. The film was directed by Ted Tetzlaff, who worked as a cinematographer...

During his film career, he worked for companies such as Pioneer Pictures, RKO Pictures, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In 1925, he and Ernest B. Schoedsack went...

United States (1945) Hartford-Empire Co. v. United States (1945) Bigelow v. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. (1946) United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. (1948)...

adventure fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on J. M. Barrie's 1904 play of the same name, the film...

debut), Courtney B. Vance, Steven Weber and Tim Quill. It was produced by RKO Pictures and distributed by Paramount Pictures, and was shot in the Philippines...

Theatre on Broadway in 1979. Jewell, Richard; Harbin, Vernon (1982). The RKO Story. New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House, 1982, p. 227. "Top Grossers...

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the save. Despite the four standing tall together, Orton quickly gave an RKO to Rhodes, and though initially angered, Cody fell in line behind Orton....

produced it with Irving Cummings, Jr. The two men made two more films for RKO: Double Dynamite (1951) with Jane Russell, Groucho Marx, and Frank Sinatra...

Police Captain Sir Lancelot as Edward The film, which began production at the RKO Gower Street studios in Hollywood on August 26, 1943, and wrapped on October...

no less authoritative a source than veteran RKO executive Vernon Harbin's 1982 as-told-to tome, The RKO Story)—was promptly condemned by the Catholic...

touring with Cream. In March 1967, Cream performed a nine-show stand at the RKO Theater in New York. Clapton's 1964 painted Gibson SG guitar – The Fool –...

it was part of the takeover package when RKO Pictures acquired Pathé that year; it was re-released by RKO in 1931. Sylvia Brenner is a "plain" secretary...

with a sound prologue. The second half of the film was shot in sound at RKO Studios in Hollywood, due to the lack of suitable facilities in the United...

again, in lodgings next door to Greta Garbo. In 1935 Fonda starred in the RKO film I Dream Too Much with the opera star Lily Pons. The New York Times announced...

Proctor's Theatre, also known as Proctor's Twenty-Third Street Theatre, RKO Proctor's Twenty-Third Street Theatre and Keith & Proctor's Twenty-Third Street...

Stanwyck. The Samuel Goldwyn Productions film (originally distributed by RKO) concerns a group of professors laboring to write an encyclopedia and their...

The similarity between RKO's The Ex-Mrs. Bradford and M-G-M's The Thin Man (1934) was speculated about given the chances that RKO's film would eclipse After...

network broadcasters ABC CBS Fox NBC commentators Defunct networks Hughes RKO Canadian network broadcasters CBC Citytv CTV Global Radio-Canada American...

High (1931), supporting Bert Lahr. He was Irene Dunne's love interest in RKO's Consolation Marriage (1932), then co-starred opposite a young Bette Davis...

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had several prominent roles in the early 1940s as a contract player for RKO Radio Pictures. Born in Houston, Brooks spent her early life in Texas and...

Corporation, Fred Jackman and Warner Brothers Pictures, and Sidney Sanders and RKO Radio Pictures. For work in the technologies of cinematography and film projection...

in The Luckiest Girl in the World (1936) with Jane Wyatt, then he went to RKO to support Paul Muni and Miriam Hopkins in The Woman I Love (1937). Universal...

established by Walt and Roy O. Disney to distribute The Living Desert (1953) after RKO Radio Pictures, Disney's longtime distributor, refused to. The company would...

A Star Is Born (1954), and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958). He worked for RKO and MGM (where he was cast opposite Myrna Loy and William Powell in Love...

RKO Radio Pictures to support Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Irene Dunne in Roberta (1935), a hugely popular adaptation of the Broadway musical. RKO...

exchanges, were acquired by the major RKO Pictures studio, which established a semiautonomous, short-lived RKO Pathé division. (Four films completed by...

interest in RKO from Floyd Odlum's Atlas Corporation. From thereon, Schary clashed with Hughes's interference, and Schary resigned from RKO in July 1948...

Karloff's crazed religious fanatic in John Ford's The Lost Patrol (1934) at RKO, a picture about desperate soldiers gradually losing their minds fighting...

had a chain of fifty theaters. In 1929, he sold his remaining eleven to RKO (Radio-Keith-Orpheum). In 1872, Proctor married the "serio-comic" singer...

November 13, 2006, episode of Raw, Piper and Flair lost the title to Rated-RKO (Edge and Randy Orton). In 2007, Piper appeared in February to announce Dusty...

& John Foster Cowboy Blues February 15, 1931 Harry Bailey & John Foster RKO Radio Pictures The last cartoon that featured Milton Mouse's redesign. The...

United States (1945) Hartford-Empire Co. v. United States (1945) Bigelow v. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. (1946) United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. (1948)...

but the name was changed at the insistence of Howard Hughes, then head of RKO Pictures. A recurring ballad introduces this tale of "hate, murder, and revenge...

post-apocalyptic disaster film, directed by Felix E. Feist, and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film is very loosely based on the 1928 novel of the same...

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, but this was his first with the producer Sol Lesser at RKO Pictures. Lesser had previously produced Tarzan the Fearless and Tarzan's...

Wood. The film was produced by International Pictures, and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. In Baltimore, Elizabeth ("Liz") and John Andrew MacDonald...

profit of $3,715,000, making it the most profitable film in the history of RKO. Adjusted for inflation, it is the 57th highest-grossing film domestically...

events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. January 5: RKO acquires the producing and distribution arm of Pathé for $4.6 million. March...

Gymnastics is a Goofy cartoon produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures on September 23, 1949. Goofy enters home tired after a hard...

Sanders under a seven-year contract. Sanders returned to Hollywood, where RKO wanted him to play the hero in a series of B-movies, The Saint. The Saint...

1-ton PM (1958) 1½-ton PO (1959) 2-ton RKF (1957) 1-ton RKM (1957) 1½-ton RKO (1956) 2-ton RO (1958) SCA (1955) ¾-ton SCB (1955) 1-ton SCE (1955) 1-ton...

in The Goose and the Gander (1935) with Kay Francis, then was borrowed by RKO to make In Person (1935) with Ginger Rogers. At Warners he was top billed...

Pictures, but the producer sold the film to RKO, who released it in 1952.[citation needed] Howard Hughes bought RKO Pictures, and would be Russell's main employer...

the VFX team. Churchill explains that they took inspiration from the old RKO Pictures logo of a transmitting tower. To imitate this, they "made the rings...

York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-1-118-03902-1. Pitts, Michael R. (2015). RKO Radio Pictures Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Films, 1929–1956. Jefferson...

film producer, best known for making Westerns. He was under contract to RKO in the 1940s then produced a variety of Westerns that were released by other...

Judgment Day and McIntyre. Just as Orton was poised to hit Priest with an RKO, he turned his attention to Uso who, along with The Bloodline, was responsible...

Blonde Girl 1935 Top Hat Flower shop clerk RKO Radio Pictures (uncredited) I Dream Too Much Gwendolyn Dilley RKO Radio Pictures The Whole Town's Talking...

thrilling." The film earned RKO a profit of $100,000. The film was a box office disappointment for RKO. SULTAN TO VIEW FILM AT RKO. Los Angeles Times, May...

While it was the first film made by RKO Radio Pictures, its opening was delayed until after Syncopation, making it RKO's second release. It was very successful...

Vivien Leigh in Romeo and Juliet. RKO offered O'Brien a long-term contract. Harold Lloyd was then producing comedies for RKO, and co-starred O'Brien with Lucille...

executive for most of Hughes' enterprises, including Trans World Airlines (TWA), RKO Pictures and Hughes Aircraft. Dietrich became Hughes' most indispensable...

audiences for playing Carl Denham in the 1933 version of King Kong from RKO Pictures. He delivered the film's famous final line: "It wasn't the airplanes...

much acclaimed. Ferrer had a supporting role in Born to Be Bad (1950) at RKO, directed by Nicholas Ray. At that studio, he directed Claudette Colbert...

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Richmond, Michael G. Wilson Peter Pan (re-release) Walt Disney Pictures / RKO Radio Pictures Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske (directors);...

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were the last three remaining in the match. Orton eliminated Batista with a RKO and Triple H pinned Orton with Batista's help to win the title. Triple H...

Djalili, Serena Scott Thomas, Michael Kitchen, Claude-Oliver Rudolph 20 RKO 281 HBO Pictures / Scott Free Productions / BBC Films / WGBH Boston Benjamin...

Penta. Orton eliminated Je'Von Evans after countering a cutter with the RKO. Miscommunication between Orton and Rhodes allowed Drew McIntyre, who was...

8" major film studios: Columbia Pictures (twice), Paramount Pictures, and RKO Pictures. In the late 1950s, he was briefly on the board of directors of...

His best work often combines elements of all three." Bowers signed with RKO. His first credited screenplay was My Favorite Spy for Kay Kyser in 1942...

Alcott. The film, which broke box office records, is considered one of RKO's most-liked with audiences in 1933. It has received generally positive reviews...

Goldwyn Pictures, and Universal debuting their globe around the same time. RKO Radio Pictures used their rotating globe and radio transmission tower with...

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RKO on Tama, but Sikoa broke up the pinfall. Sikoa then attempted a Samoan Spike to Orton on the announce table, but Orton countered it into an RKO....

of 1945". Jewell, Richard B. (2016). Slow Fade to Black: The Decline of RKO Radio Pictures. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520289673. Till...

(1822–1872) of Cincinnati. The building survived in altered form until 1960 as an RKO movie theater, after which it was replaced by part of Penn South, an urban...

(Jack was born in Canada). With David Sarnoff, a Russian Jew who founded RKO, these were the five major studios of Hollywood's Golden Age. In addition...

the era. RKO Pictures used Hollywood Star Time as a way to promote the studio's stars and movies with the theme "What's going on at RKO?" An RKO executive...

attempted an RKO but Edge countered by pushing Orton into the ropes and attempted a Spear but Orton avoided the move. Orton attempted an RKO but Edge countered...

(1931), both times with Jackie Coogan playing Tom Sawyer. Under contract to RKO Radio Pictures, he was cast in a series of "B" films in comedy roles that...

merger between FBO and the Keith-Albee-Orpheum theater circuit that created RKO, one of the major studios of Hollywood's Golden Age. FBO's assets were folded...

of the B movie scale, Stranger on the Third Floor still lost its studio, RKO, US$56,000 (equivalent to $1,286,936 in 2025), almost a third of its total...

in Oman to perform air-sea rescue duties. The Reichskommissariat Ostland (RKO; lit. 'Reich Commissariat of Eastland')[a] was an administrative entity of...

Ref. A P R I L 4 Are We Done Yet? Columbia Pictures / Revolution Studios / RKO Pictures / Cubevision Steve Carr (director); Hank Nelken (screenplay); Ice...

screenplay by Graham John and directed by Wesley Ruggles (his last film with RKO), starred C. Aubrey Smith, Ivan Simpson, and Louise Carter. The film was...

as Fritz Weinermann Otto Reichow as Max It was Dmytryk's first film for RKO. The movie was originally meant to be directed by Al Rogell. Filming took...

Sanders, and Debra Paget. Production of the film originated at RKO Pictures, but when RKO went into bankruptcy, the film was acquired and released by Warner...

animated shorts produced by Van Beuren Studios and distributed to theaters by RKO between 1934 and 1936. This was the only color cartoon series produced by...

same name by James Ramsey Ullman. The film was produced and released by RKO Pictures. Carla Alten is determined to conquer the White Tower, a difficult...

suffragette drama Adventure in Baltimore (1949), also for RKO, which was a huge flop. RKO used him in The Woman on Pier 13 (1950), an anti-communist...

prospects picked up in the latter half of 1935 when he was loaned out to RKO Pictures. Producer Pandro Berman agreed to take him on in the face of failure...

"a calm, quizzical gaze and an enigmatic expression that would later lead RKO to promote her as 'The Woman with the Mona Lisa Smile'." She claimed that...

purchased by RKO Pictures and remodeled and reconstructed again; this time with the purpose of changing the theatre into a movie palace to showcase RKO's films...

impacts both on Godzilla (1954) and the Gamera franchise. The distribution of the 1933 RKO film was the first post-war release of monster films in Japan....

Stroheim. It was produced by Samuel Goldwyn Productions and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. It was directed by Lewis Milestone, written by Lillian Hellman...

(healthcare-focused consulting firm) Mokeen Oil Company Old Colony Realty Associates RKO Pictures Somerset Imports Sumner Savings Bank Wolf Point East Tower Salesforce...

unsuccessful, it was among the films that helped to close the already struggling RKO Pictures. Future western stars Clint Eastwood and James Arness have supporting...

produced by Amadee Van Beuren, is a series of short cartoons released by RKO Radio Pictures between 1931 and 1933. Each cartoon placed them in a new situation...

the RKO to McIntyre. Orton encouraged Rhodes to hit the Cross Rhodes on McIntyre; as Rhodes complied, Orton immediately struck Rhodes with the RKO to secure...

Norman Gimbel, Michel Legrand 2:31 3. "If You Are But a Dream" (From the RKO Pictures: The House I Live In) Nathan J. Bonx, Jack Fulton, Moe Jaffe 2:30...

the film and book have distinct endings. Half Moon Street was the first RKO Pictures solo feature film produced in almost a quarter-century. The previous...

Craig P. Herring Sony Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Revolution Studios, Cube Vision Inc., RKO Radio Pictures, Revolution Dream Productions 1 hr 32 mins...

Willis H. O'Brien and music by Max Steiner. Produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, King Kong is the first film in the self-titled franchise...

it was absorbed by Film Booking Offices of America, which evolved into RKO Pictures. Mutual's predecessor film businesses began with the partnership...

warpath, Parsons then demanded a private screening of the film and threatened RKO chief George J. Schaefer on Hearst's behalf, first with a lawsuit and then...

film was made and first released in the UK, and distributed in the US by RKO Radio Pictures in 1952. When chorus girl Janet Jones is late for rehearsal...

stating that the legend of Orton was dead; Orton responded by performing an RKO on McIntyre. On the following episode while country singer Jelly Roll was...

remembered for his portrayal of the feverish-eyed Long John Silver in the 1950 RKO-Disney British adaptation of Treasure Island, the film that became the standard...

as Geo. Stallings), with synchronization by Gene Rodemich, distributed by RKO Radio Pictures and released through Library Films. The opening credits are...

earned good reviews. " Best notices I ever got," he said. Krasna went to RKO where he wrote The Richest Girl in the World (1934), which earned him an...

Studios in 1936, then to RKO in 1938. She and second husband Don Caldwell divorced in 1939. Sometime after starting work at RKO, Wray became involved in...

when he fell ill with pneumonia. He appeared in I Remember Mama (1948) at RKO, then did The Fighting Kentuckian (1949) with John Wayne at Republic. He...

Limehouse (1933, Short, aka Lady Esmeralda's Predicament) (RKO) .... Dr. Jackson If I Were Free (1933) (RKO) .... Sharpshooter (uncredited) The House of Rothschild...

had a respectable film career as a solo performer, apart from the band. RKO Radio Pictures signed her to a one-year contract in 1936, and she appeared...

Wheeler & Woolsey, including Half Shot at Sunrise, her first film under her RKO Radio Pictures contract in 1930. Usually in featured parts, she starred in...

July 5, 1969) was an American novelist and a screenwriter of movies for RKO Studios, Columbia Pictures, Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, and others...

noir classic Out of the Past (1947) with Robert Mitchum and Kirk Douglas at RKO. Fleming's first leading role came in Adventure Island (1947), a low-budget...

The shorts were produced by Walt Disney Productions, and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures (the shorts were later distributed by Buena Vista Distribution...

appeared in many 1940s and 1950s film noir and adventure films. Signing with RKO in 1945, her first film was opposite George Raft in Nocturne (1946). Her...

Five Came Back is a 1939 American black-and-white melodrama from RKO Radio Pictures produced by Robert Sisk, directed by John Farrow, written by Jerry...

Paramount, who had been Desilu's next door neighbor since the closure of RKO Pictures. The sale resulted in Paramount Television assuming production of...

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support roles in Ebb Tide (1937) at Paramount, Bringing Up Baby (1938) at RKO, Four Men and a Prayer (1938) directed by John Ford for 20th Century-Fox...

after more flirting, Brooke got in their car and was unaware Orton would RKO Hulk. Orton would later appear on WWE Raw with a fake Hogan family and kissed...

coverage of live Raw – Cena vs. Rollins for U.S. Title, SSlam hype, Owens vs. RKO, two Divas matches, more". Pro Wrestling Torch. Retrieved July 27, 2015....

right to choose a stipulation. Rollins chose to ban Orton's finisher, the RKO, while Orton made the match a Steel Cage match. On the April 20 episode of...

1936). She returned to Los Angeles the following year, where she signed with RKO for the Wheeler & Woolsey comedy High Flyers (1937, featuring some of her...

regulations. Sarnoff negotiated successful contracts to form Radio-Keith-Orpheum (RKO), a film production and distribution company. Essential elements in that...

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Tracy in the second installment of the Dick Tracy film series released by RKO Radio Pictures. Lester Abbott is carrying stolen diamonds he intends to sell...

Blore, Erik Rhodes and Harry Jans. It was released on November 27, 1936, by RKO Pictures. Model "Cookie" Cooke (Ann Sothern) is urged by her unsatisfactorily...

the first of four installments of the Dick Tracy film series, released by RKO Radio Pictures. Dick Tracy, a supremely intelligent police detective, must...

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Lonesome Ghosts is a 1937 Disney animated cartoon, released through RKO Radio Pictures on Christmas Eve. It was directed by Burt Gillett and animated...

crew during a film shoot downtown. After she started acting as a child, RKO executives David Lewis and William Goetz changed her surname to "Wood" to...

for her education. Hale moved to Hollywood in 1943, and under contract to RKO Radio Pictures, made her first screen appearance (uncredited) in Gildersleeve's...

Fox; under this deal, Selznick would share McGuire's contract with Fox. RKO reunited McGuire with Young in The Enchanted Cottage (1945), which was a...

In 1930, he was hired as a film editor at RKO Radio Pictures, then became an assistant producer. When RKO supervising producer Henry Hobart walked out...

of filming her 20,000 Years in Sing Sing. After reading it and learning RKO held the screen rights, she implored Jack L. Warner to lend her to the rival...

animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures, being shown in theaters with Fugitives for a Night. It is...

The choreography is by Gower Champion. This was the last film produced by RKO Radio Pictures and was distributed by Universal Pictures. It was also the...

Wot a Night is a 1931 animated film. It is the first film in Van Beuren's Tom and Jerry series, later re-issued as "Dick and Larry". In their first film...

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short films were produced by Walt Disney Productions, and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures (later shorts being distributed by Buena Vista Distribution...

and on Broadway in the early 1930s, Arden's first major role was in the RKO Radio Pictures drama Stage Door (1937) opposite Katharine Hepburn, followed...

comedy-drama fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It is based upon the storyline written by Helen Aberson and...

family, working for different studios as a freelancer. She mainly worked for RKO Pictures. Leslie was selected to play a small role in Men with Wings (1938)...

four hit serials, and some exhibitors petitioned RKO to make more Tracy features, but with Byrd. RKO made the substitution and two more features followed:...

George Beck, starring Farley Granger and Shelley Winters and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Mild mannered young CPA Bill Denny forgets about his and...

was uncredited for the film. The animated short was first distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, and was shown with Love Affair. An earlier Silly Symphony...

Walter Slezak and Binnie Barnes, and directed by Frank Borzage. It was RKO's first all-Technicolor film since Becky Sharp ten years before. Cinematographer...

married. Gates entered acting at a young age, receiving a contract with RKO at the age of 15, which required court approval because of her status as...

by Walt Disney and directed by Jack King for Walt Disney Productions and RKO Radio Pictures. The short opens late at night in front of the "Hold-Up Motel"...

a career that spanned nearly 70 years, Bumstead began as a draftsman in RKO Pictures' art department and later served as an art director or production...

the General Teleradio banner in 1952; the division became RKO Teleradio Pictures in 1955 and RKO General by December 1959. In May 1953, General Teleradio...

Garson Kanin. In 1939 he was signed to a screenwriting contract at RKO. He married RKO co-worker Fay Mitchell in 1940 and collaborated with her on many...

American, West German and Austrian theatrical distribution only; produced by RKO Pictures and Edward R. Pressman Film Corporation October 4, 1985 The Doctor...

Wayne, Laraine Day and Cedric Hardwicke. It was produced and distributed by RKO Pictures. It is based on the 1934 novel of the same name by Charles Elbert...

for the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy. In a promotion for the film, RKO built 73 replica houses around the US, such as Spokane in Washington; Hartford...

right) Bijou Opera House Bijou Dream Theatre B.F. Keith's Bijou Theatre RKO Bijou Theatre Intown Theatre Boston Almanac and Business Directory. 1887...

the Pressure Zone) (1989) The Spitfire Boys; "British Refugee/Mein Kampf" RKO Records, 7th of October, 1977 "Get Real" (1988) - UK #47 "I Want Your Love"...

alliance with Edge. The two formed the tag team Rated-RKO. At Cyber Sunday on November 5, Rated-RKO defeated DX with Eric Bischoff as the special guest...

1957, the company bought the RKO Pictures production facilities for $6 million from General Tire and Rubber, including RKO's main facilities on Gower Street...

1944 novel of the same name by Cornell Woolrich (as William Irish). The RKO Pictures film release was the only cinematic collaboration between Clurman...

Henreid. This was an attempt to repeat the success of Casablanca (1943), and RKO borrowed her for a melodrama Experiment Perilous (1944). Back at MGM Lamarr...

Monroe's father was likely Charles Stanley Gifford, Gladys's superior at RKO Studios, with whom she had an affair in 1925. This was confirmed by a comparison...

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television broadcaster since 1977, dating back to when the station was the RKO General-owned KHJ-TV, the longest relationship between an NBA team and a...

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that it had not yet been released. The same weekend, Paul Drew, who ran the RKO General stations in the U.S., heard the track on Everett's show in London...

Terry Ramsey, after which Terry became her stage name. Moore was borrowed by RKO to star in Mighty Joe Young (1949), a film about a giant gorilla that won...

unit of RKO Pictures and released the same year, but was not distributed until 1943 in America. This was to be the last of the eight films in RKO's film...

Artists library (including the a.a.p. library and North American rights to the RKO Radio Pictures library) while spinning off the rest of MGM. In 1989, Warner...

live-action/animated musical anthology film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The film premiered in Mexico City on December 21, 1944, and...

thereafter because she "lacked talent". Shortly afterwards, she won lead roles at RKO Pictures in several George O'Brien Westerns, in which she was billed as Laraine...

Welles's The Stranger is their newest HD release, made feasible because the RKO picture has fallen into public domain. American Film, Volume 11, Issues 1-10...

film produced by Walt Disney Productions and originally released in 1949 by RKO Radio Pictures in Technicolor. Donald Duck is the sole-proprietor of a roadside...

horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur and produced by Val Lewton for RKO Pictures. It stars James Ellison, Frances Dee, and Tom Conway, and follows...

Sanders, Wendy Barrie and Allen Jenkins. A B film produced and distributed by RKO Pictures, it the first in a series of sixteen films about a suave detective...

Citizen Kane was the only film made under Welles's original contract with RKO Pictures, which gave him complete creative control. Welles's new business...

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Ribbon (1949) RKO John Wayne Armored Car Robbery (1950) RKO Charles MacGraw Flying Leathernecks (1951) RKO John Wayne Double Dynamite (1951) RKO "It's Only...

Thomas F. O'Neil (1915–1998) was the chairman of RKO General studios who brought movies to television and experimented with an early coin-operated pay...

1948 by RKO. When the film was shortened for its general release on September 2, 1950 with 45 minutes being cut out; it was distributed, not by RKO, but...

her third Academy Award nomination for "Best Actress" in Sudden Fear for RKO Radio Pictures. Crawford worked in the radio series The Screen Guild Theater...

one of the most expensive Westerns made up to that time. A major hit for RKO, it received its name from "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon", a song popular with...

affair. Miller first trained and worked as the protege of Stanley Borden (RKO, Artia, After Hours Unique). Borden, the original backer of Island Records...

after Selznick left Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and leased a section of RKO Pictures' secondary RKO-Pathé studio lot in Culver City, California. The studio itself...

Technicolor by Walt Disney Productions and released September 22, 1939 by RKO Radio Pictures. This cartoon marked the first appearance of Pete in a Donald...

(1940). She became a contract player of 20th Century-Fox and was loaned to RKO Pictures for the role of Lucy Morgan in Orson Welles's The Magnificent Ambersons...

visual artist. He was the first Chinese-American contract player signed by RKO, Universal Pictures, 20th Century-Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; a founding...

the match, Rhodes performed a Cross Rhodes on Orton and Orton performed an RKO on Rhodes, both of which resulted in nearfalls. Orton attempted the Punt...

Blood on the Moon is a 1948 RKO black-and-white "psychological" Western film noir starring Robert Mitchum, Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Preston and Walter...

Richard W. Farrell Music by Rudy Schrager Production company RKO Radio Pictures Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures Release dates December 2, 1948 (1948-12-02)...

1948, the first six produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the final six from RKO. The beauteous and scantily clad O'Sullivan was a major factor in the early...

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Walt Disney Productions; distributed by RKO Radio Pictures Walt Disney Studios' first feature-length film Academy Honorary...

Notes February 12, 1982 The Border co-production with Efer Productions and RKO Pictures February 19, 1982 Barbarosa North American theatrical distribution...

Under vs. Street Profits for the WWE Tag Titles, AOP vs. New Catch Republic, RKO Show". Pro Wrestling Dot Net. Archived from the original on May 9, 2024....

three moved to Flushing, Long Island. The father became a talent scout for RKO, one of the five big movie studios of its time. It was there in 1946 they...

United States (1945) Hartford-Empire Co. v. United States (1945) Bigelow v. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. (1946) United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. (1948)...

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Broadway Musical: Very Warm for May) Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II 3:27 6. "Cheek to Cheek" (From the RKO Radio Pictures: Top Hat) Irving Berlin 2:28...

novel The Adventures of Pinocchio, produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The production was supervised by Ben Sharpsteen and Hamilton...

Edge of Doom is a 1950 RKO Pictures film noir directed by Mark Robson and starring Dana Andrews, Farley Granger and Joan Evans. Edge of Doom is a rare...

script had been tailored to fit the talents of Constance Bennett, then RKO's biggest attraction. However, when newcomer Katharine Hepburn read the script...

attention of RKO Pictures producer David Hempstead, who showed it to actor Cary Grant. Grant became interested in playing the lead role. RKO purchased the...

to the West. That same year, he signed a contract with the RKO Pictures in Hollywood. RKO dropped the "von" from his name to make it sound less Germanic...

158 West 58th Street in New York City. It was produced and distributed by RKO Pictures. Eve Arden and Ann Miller, who became notable in later films, play...

Wonderful Crime Bathing beauty Robert Fellows RKO Comedy No Apr 12, 1945 1945 Wonder Man Goldwyn Girl Samuel Goldwyn RKO Musical No Jun 8, 1945 1946 Cinderella...

loanouts by her new studio employer, RKO Pictures, Comingore fell ill, was ordered to go on bed rest, was suspended by RKO, and found no suitable work on her...

& Minnie: 10 Classic Shorts" (Blu-ray) First Disney short distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. Mickey Mouse Clock Cleaners Ben Sharpsteen Oliver Wallace...

Fox, Two O'Clock Courage (1945) with RKO Radio Pictures, and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947), also with RKO. In 1950, Rutherford retired from films...

Walt Disney Productions and released to theaters on December 10, 1937, by RKO Radio Pictures. It was the first film in the Donald Duck series of short...

in early 1941, The Devil and Daniel Webster was theatrically released by RKO Radio Pictures on October 16, 1941, under the title All That Money Can Buy...

pre-Code drama film starring Ann Harding and Robert Young and released by RKO Radio Pictures. A successful plastic surgeon meets a local playboy and impulsively...

writer Casey Robinson, who in early January 1943 had been contracted by RKO Radio Pictures to write and produce the film under the working title This...

her in four films. After two minor features (a Roy Rogers western and an RKO comedy), she found a home at Universal, appearing in 11 films as a featured...

whodunit short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The cartoon parodies radio crime stories and film noir dramas...

British film distribution only; produced by Hammer Film Productions for RKO Pictures May 4, 1957 Shoot-Out at Medicine Bend May 10, 1957 Untamed Youth...

and shot at Twickenham Studios in London as a quota quickie for release by RKO Pictures. When a wealthy old man dies suddenly, a local priest suspects something...

film produced and directed by John Farrow at RKO Radio Pictures, but released by Universal Pictures as RKO was in the process of ceasing its film activities...

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caused Phoenix to slap and kick Orton, who retaliated by hitting her with an RKO. At WWE Day 1, Phoenix returned to help her husband Edge win a match against...

United States (1945) Hartford-Empire Co. v. United States (1945) Bigelow v. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. (1946) United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. (1948)...

process Black and white Production company Van Beuren Studios Distributed by RKO Pictures Release date May 14, 1932 (1932-05-14) Running time 6 minutes Country...

afternoons to avoid the most intense heat of each day. Under pressure from RKO to speed up filming, producer Cliff Reid insisted that the midday break be...

RKO series was stopped at 17 movies when O'Brien re-enlisted in the Navy; he was replaced by RKO with Tim Holt who had a longer association with RKO than...

Ann Miller and Frank Albertson. It was produced and distributed by RKO Pictures; RKO paid $255,000 for filming rights, which was then a record for a sound...

(1948). The terms of Rossellini's contract with RKO stated that all footage had to be turned over to RKO, which would edit an American version of the film...

known as Darren Styles), British musician Unique Records, a former name of RKO/Unique Records Unique Recording Studios, a recording studio in New York City...

surprise hit, becoming one of four top-grossing films RKO made that year as noted in The R.K.O. Story, published by Arlington House. A sequel, Anne of...

War II veteran and double amputee Harold Russell. O'Donnell was loaned to RKO for They Live by Night (1948). Farley Granger played her love interest. The...

the title. Ryan was cast in December 1950 after renewing a contract with RKO Radio Pictures, but in an unspecified role. Burt Lancaster was rumored to...

for RKO Pictures. This amount, $30,000, went towards the salary for Dean Jagger. Nonetheless, the American distribution deal between Hammer and RKO fell...

with RKO. The music, written by Max Steiner, includes an early version of Ann Darrow's theme in King Kong (1933). Because the film was horror, RKO decided...

hired by RKO as a feature film producer in 1943. When Howard Hughes took over, Parsons was one of the only producers he kept on. She worked at RKO for 12...

an American film actress. She was best known for playing Jane Porter in RKO's Tarzan films from 1945 to 1949. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Grafton Leabo...

in RKO's The Las Vegas Story (1951), starring Victor Mature and Jane Russell. RKO cast him in a similar part in Macao (1952), also with Russell. RKO signed...

he felt Africa wasn't as mysterious of a location anymore. In July 1934, RKO announced they would make the film the following year as one of the studio's...

song was featured and performed by Ellington and his orchestra in the 1929 RKO short film Black and Tan. The copyright was registered on July 16, 1927,...

Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming and Coleen Gray. The film was released by RKO Radio Pictures, which was then owned by industrialist Howard Hughes. While...

series of 12 Toby the Pup cartoons for the 1930-1931 season distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. The series would be cancelled and replaced by a series of...

Risdon, and Florence Bates. The film was released on March 13, 1942, by RKO Radio Pictures. Carmelita Lindsay believes she's finally going away on a...

United States (1945) Hartford-Empire Co. v. United States (1945) Bigelow v. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. (1946) United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. (1948)...

and organized crime. These stories followed news that Howard Hughes sold RKO Pictures to Empire Mail Order. Circulation of the Journal continued increasing...

United States (1945) Hartford-Empire Co. v. United States (1945) Bigelow v. RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. (1946) United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. (1948)...

Artists while the remake was directed by Riley Thomson and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. At a local theater, Mickey Mouse holds a benefit performance...