RKO Pictures

...cannot be overestimated. They still use the same techniques," he said. Kong was created by the specialeffects pioneer Willis O'Brien at RKO Studios to fulfil the vision of the director Merian C. Cooper, who declared: "I want to put a pure...

In this article: Merian C. Cooper, Willis O'Brien, King Kong, RKO Studios, Fay Wray, Manhattan, Empire State Building, and King Kong

...(the majority printed recently) concerning the provenance of this armature, the design and manufacture of the miniature models at RKO Studios in the 1930s; and the history of the production of this groundbreaking film King Kong, 1933,...

In this article: King Kong, King Kong, Willis O'Brien, RKO Studios, Ann Darrow, Empire State Building, Katy Perry, and Us Weekly

Principal photography is scheduled for early next year in Alicante, Spain. Zanne Devinne and Kevin Cornish are producing for RKO Pictures, Jesus Martinez is producing for Galavis Film in Spain, and Kevin Mann is producing for Picture...

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...best picture to "The Godfather" after winning best director (Bob Fosse) and actress (Liza Minnelli), but it didn't win the adapted screenplay prize. That also went to "The Godfather." Photo credits: Focus Features, Fox, Allied Artists, RKO

In this article: Oscars, Cabaret, Allied Artists, Focus Features, RKO, Bob Fosse, Chicago, Liza Minnelli, and Wings

...plays and attracting the attention of Hollywood talent scouts. Edward Dmytryk, destined to direct two of Ryan's breakthrough movies at RKO in the 1940s, "Tender Comrade" and "Crossfire," recalled testing him for a 1940 B-movie about boxing,...

In this article: Robert Ryan, The Iceman Cometh, Academy Awards, American Film Theatre, Crossfire, Richard Brooks, Edward Dmytryk, Hollywood, The Professionals, and Billy Budd

The answer is more complicated than you might imagine, and the problems seem to stem from how the young Welles was marketed by the RKO publicity machine in advance of the release of his extraordinary debut film. Orson Welles arrived in...

In this article: Orson Welles, Herman J Mankiewicz, Pauline Kael, Citizen Kane, William Randolph Hearst, RKO, John Dillinger, Hollywood, and Macbeth

...it was a partnership that wouldn t have happened if Astaire had had his way. Following their debut performance in The Gay Divorcee for RKO Studios, he wrote to his agent Leland Howard to try to prevent it happening again. What s all this...

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...the top stars." RKO Orpheum: "The Orpheum in its day did a nice business, and got some very, very impressive movies. It got all the RKO pictures. Generally, those pictures were good, but they weren't as strong as the Paramount or 20th...

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...Universal marks USHE's first foray into the manufactured-on-demand (MOD) arena. TCM began offering MOD featuring lost titles from the RKO library. TCM and USHE are working to remaster a number of great titles never before available on DVD,...

In this article: TCM, Universal Studios, Universal Studios Home Entertainment, DVD, Turner Classic Movies, Cary Grant, Remember the Night, Fred MacMurray, Robert Osborne, and The Eagle and the Hawk

...Daily, President of Liberty Cable, and President of Television USA. He is currently Chairman of The Avenue Association, a director of RKO Pictures and USFR Media, a Commissioner of the Latin Entertainment and Media Commission and President...

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