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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" film studios of Hollywood's Golden Age. The business was formed after the Keith-Albee-Orpheum theater chain and Joseph P. Kennedy's Film Booking Offices of America studio were brought together ...
In 1931–32, RKO Pathé operated as a semiautonomous division of RKO Pictures. [5] [6] In the 1930s and 1940s, Hollywood's Golden Age, RKO was one of the Big Five studios. Its lineup of acting talent during this period included Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and Robert Mitchum.
Films made by RKO Pictures (1929−1959) — a major film studio based in Hollywood; Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. ...
Pages in category "RKO Pictures contract players" The following 142 pages are in this category, out of 142 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
In 1920, the Keith-Albee organization formed Fables Pictures for the production of the Aesop's Film Fables cartoon series with Paul Terry, who himself owned 10 percent of the studio. [2] Producer Amedee J. Van Beuren bought out the studio in 1928, retaining Terry and renaming the business after its new owner. [ 2 ]
O'Neil changed the studio's name to RKO Teleradio Pictures at first, then eventually to RKO General. [4] The studio library's hundreds of titles solved O'Neil's movie programming problems, and he began diversifying his company into regional airlines as well as resort hotels and Pepsi-Cola bottling franchises. O'Neil retired from RKO General in ...
RKO Pictures animated short films (70 P) S. Silly Symphonies (77 P) Pages in category "RKO Pictures short films" The following 111 pages are in this category, out of ...
The animated short was first distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, [1] and was shown with Love Affair. An earlier Silly Symphony animated short based on this fairy tale had been produced in black and white in 1931 .