RKO Pictures
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RKO Pictures is a notable American film production and distribution company. - AsNotedIn
| Notable Position | Person | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Owner | Howard Hughes | 1948 | 1955 |
RKO Pictures is a notable American film production and distribution company. - AsNotedIn
| Notable Position | Person | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Owner | Howard Hughes | 1948 | 1955 |
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1929/01/25 | Radio Corporation of America creates RKO Radio Pictures Inc after the merging Keith-Albee-Orpheum theater chain and Joseph P Kennedy's Film Booking Offices of America studio. The globe on top of Stage 21 originally supported a radio tower with RKO in neon | Studio | RKO Pictures Studio | Los Angeles | |||
| 1934/00/00 | "The Lost Patrol " is released. | Studio | The Lost Patrol (film) | ||||
| 1935/00/00 | The "Top Hat" Venice canal set is filmed on RKO stages 11, 12 and 14 on the Gower Street Hollywood lot. Interconnected to form a single area and the 300 ft long set is 135 ft wide. The stages are now Paramount Studios 19, 20 and 21. | Studio | Top Hat | Paramount Studios | Los Angeles | ||
| 1935/00/00 | "The Informer " is released. | Studio | The Informer | ||||
| 1935/03/08 | RKO Pictures releases their film version of "Roberta" starring Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Randolph Scott. | Studio | Roberta (1935 film) | ||||
| 1936/00/00 | "Mary of Scotland " is released. | Studio | Mary of Scotland | ||||
| 1936/00/00 | "The Plough and the Stars " is released. | Studio | The Plough and the Stars | ||||
| 1940/06/29 | On a Saturday morning with few RKO studio executives watching, Orson Welles begins filming Citizen Kane. "The first day I ever walked onto a set was my first day as a director." OW | Studio | Citizen Kane | RKO Pictures Studio | Los Angeles | ||
| 1941/05/08 | "Kane" opening night in LA sells out, luminaries who attend include Bob Hope, John Barrymore, Gloria Swanson, King Vidor, Busby Berkeley, Mickey Rooney, Olivia De Havilland, Charles Laughton and gossip columnist Hedda Hopper. | Studio | Citizen Kane | El Capitan Theatre | Los Angeles | ||
| 1942/08/13 | Disney's 5th full-length animated feature, Bambi, has its US debut at the Radio City Music Hall in New York City. | Distributor | Bambi | Radio City Music Hall | New York City | ||
| 1943/08/21 | Directed by Mark Robson, "The Seventh Victim" is released through RKO Radio Pictures. | Distributor | The Seventh Victim | ||||
| 1947/00/00 | "The Fugitive " is released. | Studio | The Fugitive | ||||
| 1947/09/27 | "Fun and Fancy Free" is released by RKO Radio Pictures. Walt Disney includes "Bongo", read by Dinah Shore, and "Mickey and the Beanstalk" in the feature film. | Studio | Little Bear Bongo | ||||
| 1948/00/00 | Hughes acquires RKO. The globe on top of Stage 21 at Gower St and Melrose Ave originally supported a radio tower with RKO in neon lettering beaming out a Morse code signal "An RKO Radio Picture" (or in the studio's earliest releases, A Radio Picture). | Owner | RKO Pictures Studio | Los Angeles | |||
| 1948/00/00 | "Fort Apache " is released. | Studio | Fort Apache | ||||
| 1949/00/00 | "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon " is released. | Studio | She Wore a Yellow Ribbon | ||||
| 1950/00/00 | "Wagon Master " is released. | Studio | Wagon Master | ||||
| 1950/12/27 | In US District Court W D Oklahoma, Griffith Amusement Companies and hollywood film distributors are charged with monopolizing the exhibition of feature pictures and the operation of first and second run theatres in violation of the Sherman Act. | Defendant | United States v. Griffith Amusement Co | ||||
| 1951/04/27 | "The Thing from Another World" is released in the United States. | Studio | The Thing from Another World | ||||
| 1955/00/00 | Hughes sells RKO to General Tire's broadcasting subsidiary, General Teleradio (which would be renamed RKO General). General Tire aired RKO films on the company's TV stations. | Owner | |||||
| 1974/09/17 | RKO closes the Albee Theatre. The last film is "Big Bad Mama". Directed by Steve Carver, the feature stars Angie Dickinson, William Shatner, Tom Skerritt and Susan Sennett. | Owners | Albee Theatre Facade, Cincinnati | Cincinnati, OH |
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