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RKO
(Radio-Keith-Orpheum)
An
American film company Common
clue: "Citizen
Kane" studio; “King Kong” studio; Old MGM rival;
“Bringing Up Baby” studio; “It's a Wonderful
Life” studio; Howard Hughes' studio Crossword
puzzle frequency:
3 times a year Frequency
in English language:
75845 / 86800 Video: Citizen
Kane - How to run a newspaper
The
company was formed in 1929 from the merger of the
Keith-Albee-Orpheum (KAO) theater company, Joe Kennedy's Film
Booking Office (FBO), Pathé, and the Radio Corporation of
America (RCA).
In
the 1930s RKO churned out movies at the rate of forty per year as
RKO Radio Pictures, and signed a distribution deal with The Walt
Disney Company in 1930 that would last into the 1940s. The studio
produced movies with Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Orson Welles,
Johnny Weissmuller, Robert Mitchum, Bette Davis, Mary Pickford,
John Ford, George Cukor, Douglas Fairbanks and Alfred Hitchcock.
Titles
produced include King
Kong,
Citizen
Kane,
It's
a Wonderful Life,
Gunga
Din,
Suspicion,
The
Hunchback of Notre Dame,
Hitler's
Children,
The
Bells of St. Mary's,
The
Best Years of Our Lives,
The
Magnificent Ambersons
and a lot of Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musicals.
At
RKO [one of the original big five Hollywood studios] lack of
continuity in management proved a constant problem. RKO changed
heads almost yearly. Producer Pandro Berman claimed that he
worked for seventeen different administrations there in as many
years. Not coincidentally, RKO was frequently in and out of
receivership and bankruptcy, depending on whoever was taking
over. Howard Hughes finally bought the studio in 1948, but his
leadership was always on the ethereal side. Everybody on the lot
talked about him, yet few ever saw him. Right after Hughes
acquired the studio, it was claimed, he went there in the middle
of the night to look it over. He was driven over the lot, got out
and walked around, and finally gave signs that he was ready to
leave. A lesser executive said to him, 'Well, you've seen it now.
What do you have to say?' Hughes replied, 'Paint it.'
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