RKO Pictures
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Van Beuren Studios...the production of the Aesop's Film Fables cartoon series. Van Beuren released Terry's first sound cartoon Dinner Time (1928) through Pathe Exchange which later became part of RKO. Terry ran the animation studio while Van Beuren focused on... In this article: Van Beuren Studios, RKO, Tom and Jerry, Paul Terry, Walt Disney, Felix the Cat, Dinner Time, and Terrytoons |
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Helen Twelvetrees
...lachrymose dramas, not all of which were critically acclaimed. When Pathe was absorbed by RKO Radio Pictures, she found herself at various times miscast in mediocre films. With the arrival of Katharine Hepburn at RKO, Twelvetrees left the...
In this article: Helen Twelvetrees, Ann Harding, Pathe, RKO Radio Pictures, Constance Bennett, Suicide, Melbourne Cup, and American Academy of Dramatic Arts
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Pathe
...became popular over the next few decades. In 1923, Pathe sold off its United States motion picture production arm, which was renamed "Pathe Exchange" and then later acquired by RKO Pictures in 1928. Pathe sold its British film studios to...
In this article: Charles Pathe, Bernard Natan, Pathe, Vivendi, Eastman Kodak, Revenue, DVD, and Paris
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Holiday (1930 film)
It stars Ann Harding, Mary Astor, Edward Everett Horton, Robert Ames and Hedda Hopper. It was produced by Pathe and released by RKO Radio Pictures. The movie was adapted by Horace Jackson from the play by Philip Barry. It was directed by...
In this article: Holiday, Ann Harding, Edward Everett Horton, Academy Awards, Philip Barry, Pathe, RKO Radio Pictures, Mary Astor, Cary Grant, and Hedda Hopper
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Edgar Kennedy
...comedies, Next Door Neighbors and Help Wanted, Female. Kennedy's characterization of a short-tempered householder was so effective that RKO built a series around it. The "Average Man" comedies starred Kennedy as a blustery, stubborn...
In this article: Edgar Livingston Kennedy, Hal Roach, RKO, Laurel and Hardy, Chopsticks, Keystone Cop, and Cancer
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Selznick International Pictures
...Pictures It was founded in 1935 by producer David O. Selznick and investor John Hay "Jock" Whitney after Selznick left Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and leased a section of the RKO Pictures lot in Culver City, California. The studio itself...
In this article: David O. Selznick, Jock Whitney, Vanguard, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, United Artists, Made for Each Other, Gone with the Wind, and Nothing Sacred
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Culver Studios
...purchased half interest in PDC and Radio Corp. of America bought in. Pathe Exchange Inc. merged with PDC/K-A-O/DeMille to become RKO in 1928, RKO-Pathe in 1930. Backlot area was added just south of the studio in 1931. Joseph Kennedy,...
In this article: Thomas Ince, Culver Studios, RKO, Howard Hughes, Laird, Desilu, Gannett Company, Sony, David O. Selznick, and MGM
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Ann Harding
...was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for ''Holiday ''. First under contract to Pathe, which was subsequently absorbed by RKO studio, Harding co-starred with Ronald Colman, Myrna Loy, Herbert Marshall, Leslie Howard , Richard...
In this article: Ann Harding, Werner Janssen, RKO, Fredric March, Helen Twelvetrees, Broadway, California, World War I, and Paris Bound
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News media
...supplanted its role. An example of a newsreel story is in the film Citizen Kane (which was prepared by RKO's actual newsreel staff), which includes a fictional newsreel that summarizes the life of the title character. Many news...
In this article: Allegation, World Wide Web, BBC Two, BBC One, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, News magazines, 2004 United States Presidential Election, Prudential Financial, and Twitter
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RKO Pictures
...from RKO and under his personal control. RCA owned the governing stock interest in RKO, 22 percent; in the early 1930s, RCA's share of stock in the company would rise as high as 60 percent. The company's production and distribution arm,...
In this article: Howard Hughes, General Tire, Pathe, Joseph P. Kennedy, RCA, Floyd Odlum, David Sarnoff, Hollywood, and David O. Selznick
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RKO (Radio-Keith-Orpheum) Pictures is an American film production and distribution company. As Radio Pictures Inc. and then RKO Radio Pictures Inc., it was one of the so-called Big Five studios of Hollywood's Golden Age. The business was formed after the Keith-Albee-Orpheum (KAO) theater chains and Joseph P. Kennedy's Film Booking Offices of America (FBO) studio were brought together under the control of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) in October 1928. RCA chief David Sarnoff engineered the merger in order to create a market for the company's sound-on-film technology, RCA Photophone. By the mid-1940s, the studio was under the control of investor Floyd Odlum.
RKO has long been celebrated for its cycle of musicals starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the mid- to late 1930s. Katharine Hepburn and, later, Robert Mitchum had their first major successes at the studio. Cary Grant was a mainstay for years. The work of producer Val Lewton's low-budget horror unit and RKO's many ventures into the field now known as film noir have been acclaimed, largely after the fact, by film critics and historians. The studio left its deepest mark with two of the most famous films in motion picture history: King Kong and Citizen Kane.
- Name:
- RKO Radio Pictures Inc.
- Type:
- Corporation
- Location:
- L.A. Office: 1875 Century Park East, Suite 2140, Los Angeles, CA 90067
- Founded:
- 1929 (as Radio Pictures Inc., subsidiary of Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp.)
- Industry:
- Motion pictures
- Key People:
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- Dina Merrill (Vice Chairman)
- Kevin Cornish (VP of Development)
- Aaron Ray (Chief Strategy Officer)
- Ted Hartley (Chairman and CEO)
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