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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Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., commonly known as Columbia Pictures (stylized as C O L U M B I A condensed), is an American film production and distribution...
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Paramount Pictures Corporation, commonly known as Paramount Pictures or simply Paramount, is an American film production and distribution company and...
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Paramount Pictures and portrayed Princess Alice of France in her father's epic The Crusades (1935) and also starred in The Sky Parade (1936). DeMille continued...
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, RKO Pictures, and Warner Bros. Then came three smaller companies, Columbia Pictures, United Artists, and Universal...
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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 to...
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Welles's 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...
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Citizen Kane (category RKO Pictures films)
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 given...
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new life into their old films" (pp. 168–69). The first official releases from RKO, which produced only all-talking pictures, appeared still later in...
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B movie (redirect from B pictures)
Film Corporation (20th Century Fox as of 1935), Warner Bros., and RKO Radio Pictures (descendant of FBO), also belonged to companies with sizable theater...
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American animated adventure fantasy film produced in 1952 by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on J. M. Barrie's 1904 play...
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Wise undertook a project for RKO Radio Pictures titled Mademoiselle Fifi, based on two of Maupassant's short stories, "Boule de Suif" and the 1882 "Mademoiselle...
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American International Pictures LLC (AIP or American International Productions) is an American film production company owned by Amazon MGM Studios. In...
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Orson Welles (category RKO Pictures contract players)
Sunday broadcasts of The Campbell Playhouse after signing a film contract with RKO Pictures in August 1939. In November 1939, production of the show moved...
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Claudette Colbert (category Paramount Pictures contract players)
the late 1920s and progressed to films with the advent of talking pictures. Initially contracted to Paramount Pictures, Colbert became one of the few major...
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1937 American animated musical fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by RKO Radio Pictures. Based on the 1812 German fairy tale...
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the roadshow presentations. Since 1942, the film has been reissued multiple times by RKO Radio Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution with its original...
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (category Paramount Pictures contract players)
return to Hollywood for Success at Any Price (1934) at RKO, then returned to London for Mimi (1935). The latter starred Gertrude Lawrence, who became romantically...
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (redirect from MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures))
found success at running RKO Pictures. Lavish musicals were Schary's focus, and hits like Easter Parade (1948) and the popular films of Mario Lanza (including...
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Lupe Vélez (category American film actresses)
in other musical and comedy features for RKO, Universal Pictures, and Columbia Pictures. Some of these films were Six Lessons from Madame La Zonga (with...
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Marx Brothers (redirect from Marx Brothers film)
the Races (1937), released by MGM Room Service (1938), released by RKO Radio Pictures; based on a 1937 Broadway play that did not star the Marx Brothers...
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Maureen O'Hara (category RKO Pictures contract players)
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...
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Song of the South (redirect from Song of The South (1946 film))
musical comedy-drama film directed by Harve Foster and Wilfred Jackson, produced by Walt Disney, and released by RKO Radio Pictures. It is based on the...
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They were even required to expand to RKO sound studios for filming. Post-production lasted a year, and the film premiered in Salt Lake City. Nominated...
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Katharine Hepburn (category RKO Pictures contract players)
with RKO Radio Pictures and acquiring the film rights to The Philadelphia Story, which she sold on the condition that she be the star. That comedy film was...
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Mae West (category Paramount Pictures contract players)
Becoming Mae West. Da Capo Press. p. 402. ISBN 978-0-306-80951-4. Louvish 2006, p. 308. Jewell, Richard B. (2012). "7". RKO Radio Pictures: A Titan Is Born...
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Patric Knowles (category RKO Pictures contract players)
20th Century-Fox for The Honeymoon's Over (1939). He was back at RKO for two more films with John Farrow: Married and in Love (1940) and a remake of A Bill...
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Clark Gable (category American male film actors)
Wonderland (1985), Gene Daily in The Rocketeer (1991), Bobby Valentino in RKO 281 (1999), Bruce Hughes and Shayne Greenman in Blonde (2001), and Charles...
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Barry Fitzgerald (category Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe (film) winners)
and The Dawn Patrol (1938) at Warner Bros. Fitzgerald made a series of films at RKO: Pacific Liner (1939) with Victor McLaglen, and two directed by John...
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