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 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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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 281 is a 1999 American historical drama television film directed by Benjamin Ross, written by John Logan, and starring Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell...
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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...
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Randy Orton (redirect from R.K.O.)
with Edge in a tag team known as Rated-RKO. Together, they held the World Tag Team Championship. After Rated-RKO disbanded in mid-2007, Orton gained two...
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Rated-RKO was a professional wrestling tag team in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) consisting of Edge and Randy Orton, with Lita as their manager...
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RKO Keith's Theater may refer to: RKO Keith's Theater (Richmond Hill, Queens), est. 1929 RKO Keith's Theater (Flushing, Queens), est. 1928 Boston Opera...
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RKO Records and Unique Jazz are two record labels which began in 1955 as Unique Records, a New York City pop music record label. After several small pop...
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as RKO Teleradio Pictures; production and distribution halted in 1957; movie business dissolved in 1959 and RKO Teleradio renamed RKO General; RKO General...
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Walt Disney Pictures (redirect from RKO-Walt Disney British Productions)
the company ended their agreements with such third-party distributors as RKO Radio Pictures and United Artists and formed their own distribution company...
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RKO Forty Acres was a film studio backlot in the United States, owned by RKO Pictures (and later Desilu Productions), located in Culver City, California...
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Palace Theatre (New York City) (redirect from RKO Palace Theatre)
vaudeville house in the 1910s and 1920s. Under RKO Theatres, it became a movie palace called the RKO Palace Theatre in the 1930s, though it continued...
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Born to Kill (1947 film) (category RKO Pictures films)
as Lady of Deceit and in Australia as Deadlier Than the Male) is a 1947 RKO Pictures American film noir starring Lawrence Tierney, Claire Trevor and...
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Boston Opera House (redirect from RKO-Keith's Theatre (Boston))
chain became part of RKO when it was established just before the theater opened on October 29, 1928, and it was also known as the RKO Keith's Theater. After...
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Culver Studios (redirect from RKO-Pathé studios)
Studio (1918-1925), De Mille Studios (1925–1928), Pathé Studios (1928–1931), RKO-Pathé Studios (1931–1935), Selznick International Pictures (1935–1956), Desilu-Culver...
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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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Val Lewton (section RKO)
screenwriter best known for a string of low-budget horror films he produced for RKO Pictures in the 1940s. His son, also named Val Lewton, was a painter and...
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The Saint (film series) (redirect from The Saint (RKO series))
The Saint (film series) refers to eight B movies made by RKO Pictures between 1938 and 1941, based on some of the books in British author Leslie Charteris'...
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Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (section Career at RKO)
1995) were dance partners in a total of 10 films, nine of them released by RKO Radio Pictures from 1933 to 1939, and one, The Barkleys of Broadway, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
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Keith-Albee-Orpheum (redirect from RKO circuit)
motion picture studio Radio Keith Orpheum (RKO Pictures).[citation needed] After the establishment of RKO, motion pictures became the primary focus of...
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The RKO Keith's Theater was an RKO Pictures movie theater at 135-35 Northern Boulevard in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens in New York City. It was...
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Robert Ryan (category RKO Pictures contract players)
was high-profile and led to him being signed to a long-term contract by RKO. Ryan appeared in Bombardier (1943), starring Pat O'Brien, and was fourth-billed...
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Howard Hughes (section RKO)
(1928), Hell's Angels (1930), and Scarface (1932). He later acquired the RKO Pictures film studio in 1948, recognized then as one of the Big Five studios...
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Proctor's Theatre, also known as Proctor's Twenty-Third Street Theatre, RKO Proctor's Twenty-Third Street Theatre and Keith & Proctor's Twenty-Third Street...
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Citizen Kane (category RKO Pictures films)
Theatre on 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...
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Victor Mature (section RKO)
made a handful of movies every year, he loaned out Mature's services to RKO, who used him as a leading man in the Anna Neagle–Herbert Wilcox musical...
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1932—when all the companies but MGM lost money, and RKO lost somewhat less than its competitors—RKO was next to last or (usually) last every year of the...
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Randolph Scott (section RKO and "A" Films)
RKO Radio Pictures to support Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Irene Dunne in Roberta (1935), a hugely popular adaptation of the Broadway musical. RKO...
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The RKO Radio Network was commercial radio network that operated in the USA from 1979 to 1985. The network was a subsidiary of the RKO General broadcasting...
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