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    RKO Radio Pictures Inc., commonly known as RKO Pictures or simply RKO, was an American film production and distribution company, one of the "Big Five"...
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  • RKO Pictures (also known as RKO Productions, Radio Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures, and RKO Teleradio Pictures) is an American film production and distribution...
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    modern-day Walt Disney Pictures. By 1953, the company ended their agreements with such third-party distributors as RKO Radio Pictures and United Artists and...
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  • RKO General Inc. (previously General Teleradio Inc. and RKO Teleradio Pictures Inc.) was an American broadcasting company that, from 1952 through 1991...
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  • 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...
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  • 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 Back...
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  • Annapurna Pictures is an American independent media company founded by Megan Ellison on April 2, 2011, and based in Los Angeles, California. It is active...
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    today's "Big Five," Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. were also part of the original "Big Five," along with RKO Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and 20th...
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    the neighboring Desilu Productions television studio (once the lot of RKO Pictures) from Lucille Ball in 1967. Using some of Desilu's established shows...
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  • Universal Pictures). DreamWorks became the first new major Hollywood motion picture studio since RKO Pictures was founded in 1928. Go Fish Pictures, a division...
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    for RKO Pictures. Laughton and O'Hara would work together again in Jamaica Inn (1939) for the British-based Mayflower Productions, and again at RKO for...
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  • studio. TriStar became the first new american major film studio since RKO Pictures, which was founded in 1928. During the 1990s, TriStar operated autonomously...
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    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 Communications...
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  • Val Lewton (section RKO)
    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 exhibition...
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    Born to Kill (1947 film) (category RKO Pictures films)
    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 Walter...
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    Out of the Past (category RKO Pictures films)
    Eels Theresa Harris as Eunice Leonard Out of the Past was produced by RKO Pictures, and the key personnel—director Jacques Tourneur, cinematographer Nicholas...
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    Guy Madison (category RKO Pictures contract players)
    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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    Tim Holt (category RKO Pictures contract players)
    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...
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  • Criminal Court (film) (category RKO Pictures films)
    Martha O'Driscoll and June Clayworth. It was produced and distributed by RKO Pictures. Hotshot lawyer Steve Barnes is a candidate to be district attorney....
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    Jane Russell (category RKO Pictures contract players)
    Fidelity Pictures in 1948, playing Belle Starr. The film was intended to be released by Republic Pictures, but the producer sold the film to RKO, who released...
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    Dorothy Malone (category RKO Pictures contract players)
    Star Walk: Dorothy Malone". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 19, 2017. RKO Pictures signed the then-brunette Maloney at 18, [sic] and she made her film debut...
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    Gunga Din (film) (category RKO Pictures films)
    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...
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    Jacqueline White (category RKO Pictures contract players)
    at the age of 17, signed on a film contract at MGM and subsequently with RKO, where she found her greatest success and is perhaps best remembered for...
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    Cat People (1942 film) (category RKO Pictures films)
    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...
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    Bedlam (1946 film) (category RKO Pictures films)
    in a series of stylish horror B films produced by Val Lewton for RKO Radio Pictures. The film was inspired by William Hogarth's 1732–1734 painting series...
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  • The Set-Up (1949 film) (category RKO Pictures films)
    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, as well as one of his...
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    Jean Brooks (category RKO Pictures contract players)
    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 Costa Rica...
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    The Body Snatcher (1945 film) (category RKO Pictures films)
    of three films that Boris Karloff made with producer Val Lewton at RKO Radio Pictures from 1945 to 1946, the other two being Isle of the Dead (1945) and...
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    Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. (commonly known as Sony Pictures or SPE, and formerly known as Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc.) is an American diversified...
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    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 quickly...
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