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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Artists and RKO Radio Pictures, and are now distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Some films produced by Walt Disney Pictures are also released...
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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...
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Navy fighter pilot, investment banker, actor, film producer, and CEO of RKO Pictures. He was married to heiress, actress and philanthropist Dina Merrill until...
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Tender Comrade (category RKO Pictures films)
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...
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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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The Spiral Staircase (1946 film) (category RKO Pictures films)
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 in Los...
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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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King Kong (redirect from Universal City Studios, Inc. v. RKO General, Inc.)
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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Searchlight Pictures, Inc. is an American independent film production and distribution arm of The Walt Disney Studios, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney...
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They Live by Night (category RKO Pictures films)
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 received...
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Swing Time (film) (category RKO Pictures films)
starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Directed by George Stevens for RKO, it features Helen Broderick, Victor Moore, Betty Furness, Eric Blore and...
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Universal City Studios LLC, doing business as Universal Pictures (informally as Universal Studios or also known simply as Universal) is an American film...
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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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Suspicion (1941 film) (category RKO Pictures films)
In November 1939, Nathanael West was hired as a screenwriter by RKO Radio Pictures, where he collaborated with Boris Ingster on a film adaptation of...
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Carbon Copy (film) (category RKO Pictures films)
directed by Michael Schultz, produced by RKO Pictures and Hemdale Film Corporation, and released by Avco Embassy Pictures. The film stars George Segal, Susan...
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Stromboli (1950 film) (category RKO Pictures films)
1950. Jewell, Richard B. (2016). Slow Fade to Black: The Decline of RKO Radio Pictures. University of California. p. 98. ISBN 9780520289673. Stromboli at...
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