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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"...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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) 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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    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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  • 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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    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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