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RKO Radio Pictures

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by Richard B. Jewell


  Famous Players-Lasky

  Fan magazines

  Fanny Foley Herself

  Father Takes a Wife

  Faulkner, William

  Faversham, William

  Faye, Alice

  Feldman, Charles

  Ferber, Edna

  Ferguson, Perry

  Fidler, Jimmy

  Fields, W. C.

  The Fight for Life

  Film Booking Offices of America, Incorporated (FBO)

  Film Daily

  Film palace. See “picture palaces” “Final production authority,”

  Fineman, B. P.

  First National

  The First Rebel. See Allegheny Uprising

  Fisher, Kenneth L.

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott

  Fitzmaurice, George

  Five Came Back

  Flight From Glory

  “Fly Away Home,”

  Flying Down to Rio

  Follow the Fleet

  Fonda, Henry

  Fontaine, Joan

  Forty-Second Street

  Four Daughters

  The Four Feathers

  The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

  Ford, John

  Foreign box office

  Foreign Power Company

  Fort, Garrett

  Foster, Norman

  Four Jacks and a Jill

  Fowler, Roy Alexander

  Fox Film Corporation. See Twentieth Century-Fox

  Fox Movietone News

  Frank Ross-Norman Krasna Productions

  Franklin-Blank Productions

  Franklin, Harold B.

  Freckles

  Frederick, Pauline

  Freeland, Thornton

  Friends and Lovers

  Gable, Clark

  Gahagan, Helen

  Gallup, George. See also Audience Research Institute

  The Gang's All Here

  Gangster genre

  Garbo, Greta

  Garnett, Tay

  The Gay Diplomat

  The Gay Divorce

  The Gay Divorcée

  General Electric Company

  Genre. See names of individual genres

  Gershwin, George

  Gershwin, Ira

  Gilbert, John

  Girl Crazy

  Girl From Mexico

  Girl of the Rio

  “give-away” nights

  Glade, Coe

  Gloria Productions, Incorporated

  Goetz, Harry

  Goetz, William

  Goldwyn, Samuel

  Gone With the Wind

  Good Housekeeping

  Gordon, Don

  Gordon, Max

  Gosden, Freeman. See Amos ‘n’ Andy

  Gower Street studio. See RKO Studio

  Graham, Martha

  Graham, Sheilah

  Grainger, Dorothy

  Grand Hotel

  Grand National Pictures

  Grant, Cary: Bringing Up Baby; Gunga Din; and Harry Edington; Holiday; nonexclusive contract; Once Upon a Honeymoon; Suspicion; Sylvia Scarlett

  Grass

  Grauman's Chinese Theater

  Grauman, Sid

  Green Hell

  Green, Lawrence

  Griffith, D. W.

  “grooming” talent

  Guiol, Fred

  Gunga Din

  Haggard, H. Rider

  Haight, George

  Haldane of the Secret Service

  Half Rogue

  Hall, John

  Hamilton, William

  Hamlet

  Hammerstein, Oscar

  Hanbury, Ralph

  Happy Days

  Harbach, Otto

  Harbin, Vernon

  Harding, Ann

  Hardwicke, Cedric

  Harris, Jed

  Harrison, Joan

  Hart, Moss

  Hart, William S.

  Hawks, Howard

  Hawks, William

  Hayakawa, Sessue

  Hays Office

  Hays, Will

  Hayward, Leland

  Hayward, Louis

  Head of Production; B. B. Kahane; B. P. Schulberg at Paramount; Charles Koerner; Charles Rogers at Pathe and Universal; Darryl Zanuck at Twentieth Century-Fox; David Selznick; Edwin King, FBO; Hal Wallis at Warner Bros.; Harry Edington; Irving Thalberg at MGM; Joseph Breen; Merian C. Cooper; Pandro Berman; Samuel Briskin; William LeBaron

  Hearst, William Randolph

  Heart of Darkness

  Hecht, Ben

  Hell and High Water

  Hempstead, David

  Hepburn, Katharine: Academy Award; Alice Adams; “box office poison,”; Bringing Up Baby; contract negotiations; contract termination; debut; disenchantment with RKO; and George Stevens; The Little Minister; Little Women; public disenchantment with; signing; Spitfire; Stage Door; Sylvia Scarlett; as top star; waning reputation; A Woman Rebels

  Herbert, A. P.

  Herman, Al

  Hertz, John

  Herzbrun, Henry

  High Flyers

  Hit the Deck

  Hitchcock, Alfred

  Hitting a New High

  Hively, George

  Hodges, Douglas

  Hold ‘Em Jail

  Holden, Lancing C.

  Holiday

  Hollywood on the Air

  Hollywood Reporter

  Holmes, Phillips

  Holmes, Taylor

  Holt, Tim

  Hook, Line and Sinker

  Hoover, Herbert

  Hopkins, Miriam

  Hopper, DeWolf

  Hopper, Hedda

  Horror films

  Horton, Edward Everett

  Houdini, Harry

  Houdini Picture Corporation

  Howard, Leslie

  Howard, Sidney

  Howe, G. B.

  Hoyt, Harry

  Hughes, Howard

  Hugo, Victor

  Hull, Cordell

  The Hunchback of Notre Dame

  Hunt, J. Roy

  Hunt Stromberg Productions

  Hurst, Fannie

  Idiot's Delight

  I Dream Too Much

  Iles, Francis. See Cox, Anthony Berkeley

  Imperator-Radio Pictures

  Independent producers

  Independent Theatre Owners Association

  The Informer

  Institute of Public Opinion

  “intermediates,”

  Intermezzo

  International Pictures

  Irene

  Irving Trust Company

  Italian Superpower Corporation

  It's a Gift

  It's All True

  Ivanhoe

  Jaffe, Sam

  Jalna

  Jamaica Inn

  The Jazz Singer

  Joan of Arc

  Joan of Paris

  John, Graham

  Johnson, William

  Jolson, Al

  Jones, Robert Edmond

  Jordan, Dorothy

  Journal-American

  Joy of Living

  Julius Caesar

  Kahane, Benjamin Bertram (B. B.): at Columbia; and contract negotiations; cost-cutting; and David Selznick; and FBO; Flying Down to Rio; and Katharine Hepburn; and Lou Brock; and Merian Cooper; and Pandro Berman; as president of RKO Studios; as president of production; as production head; as RKO general counsel

  Kalmar, Bert

  Kalmus, Herbert

  Kanin, Garson

  Kaufman, Edward

  Kaufman, George S.

  Keene, Tom

  Keith, B. F.

  Keith-Albee-Orpheum

  Kennedy, Edgar

  Kennedy, Joseph P.: FBO; Pathe; and Queen Kelly; Robertson-Cole; rumored FBO merger; sound conversion

  Kennedy, Rose

  Kent, Sidney

  Kentucky Kernels

  Kern, Jerome

  King, Edwin

  King Kong

  King Solomon's Mines

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nbsp; Kingsberg, Malcolm

  Kipling, Rudyard

  Kismet

  Kitty Foyle

  Koerner, Charles

  Kramer, Stanley

  Krasna, Norman

  Kreutzberg, Harold

  Kyser, Kay

  Labor unions

  La Cava, Gregory

  La Cucaracha

  Laddie

  The Lady Consents

  A Lady to Love

  Laemmle, Carl

  Laemmle, Junior

  Lang, Fritz

  Lasky, Jesse

  The Last Days of Pompeii

  The Last of the Mohicans

  Latin American market

  Laughton, Charles

  Law of the Underworld

  LeBaron, William; and coming of sound; FBO; as head of production; at Paramount; playwright; Rio Rita

  Lederer, Francis

  Leeds, Andrea

  Legal Department

  Legion of Decency. See Catholic Legion of Decency

  Lehman Brothers

  Lessing, Gunther

  Lesser, Sol

  Let's Try Again

  Letty Lynton

  Levy, Jules

  Lewton, Val

  Liberty Films

  Lieber, Perry

  Life

  The Life of the Party

  The Lights of New York

  Lindi, Aroldo

  Literary properties

  Little Caesar

  The Little Foxes

  Little Men

  The Little Minister

  Little Women

  Lloyd, Harold

  Loew's, Inc.

  Lombard, Carole

  Look Magazine

  Look Who's Laughing

  Lord, Robert

  Lorentz, Pare

  Los Angeles Times

  The Lost Patrol

  The Lost Squadron

  Love Affair

  The Love Parade

  Lubitsch, Ernst

  Lubitsch touch

  Luce, Claire

  Luce, Henry

  Lucky Partners

  Lusty, Lou

  MacArthur, Charles

  Macgowan, Kenneth

  Mackaill, Dorothy

  Mackenzie, Compton

  The Mad Miss Manton

  Madison Square Garden

  The Magnificent Ambersons

  Majestic Pictures

  Makeup and Hair Stylists Department

  Mallard, William

  Mamoulian, Rouben

  Man of Two Words

  A Man to Remember

  Man Without a World

  Management. See corporate president; executive producer for B films; head of production

  Mankiewicz, Herman

  March, Fredric

  March of Time

  Marcus, Lee: on Katharine Hepburn; liaison between studio and home office; as president of RKO Pathe Pictures; as producer at Twentieth Century Fox; quits RKO; supervision of B pictures; as vice president, FBO

  Markert, Russell

  Marx Brothers

  Mary of Scotland

  Mascot Pictures Corporation

  Massey, Raymond

  Maugham, Somerset

  Max Gordon Plays and Pictures

  Mayer, Louis B.

  Maynard, Ken

  The Mayor of 44th Street

  McCarey, Leo

  McCausland, A. H.

  McCrea, Joel

  McDonough, Joseph R. (Mac): appointment to board; and B. B. Kahane; B films; budgeting; conflicts with Pandro Berman; corporate president; forced resignation from RKO; as general manager RKO; and George Schaefer; and Ginger Rogers; and Howard Hawks; and Katharine Hepburn; management shake-up; and Merian C. Cooper; and Radio City Music Hall; resigns VP title; RKO studios; They Knew What They Wanted

  McGaffey, Elizabeth (Bessie)

  McLaglen, Victor

  McLaughlin, Irene Castle

  Meira, Manuel Olimpio

  Melodrama

  Melody Cruise

  Mercury Productions Company

  Meredith, Burgess

  Messinger, Lillie

  Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM): A picture budgets; Astaire-Rogers; borrowing George Fitzmaurice from; David Selznick; Depression-era profits; Ernst Lubitsch; Floyd Odlum; Fox merger rumors; George Cukor; Hunchback of Notre Dame rights; Katharine Hepburn; Lou Ostrow; as “major” studio; offer to buy Gunga Din; offer to buy King Kong; Pandro Berman; “Realife” process; Sam Wood; sound; and stars; theater acquisition; unit production; widescreen

  A Midsummer Night's Dream

  Miller, Earl

  Mitchell, Langdon

  Mitchell, Margaret

  Mitchell, Silberberg, and Knupp

  Monogram Pictures

  Monte Carlo

  Montgomery, Douglass

  Montgomery, Lucy Maud

  Moore, Grace

  Moorehead, Agnes

  Morley, Christopher

  Morley, Karen

  Morning Glory

  The Mortal Storm

  Moss, Jack

  Mother Carey's Chickens

  Motion Picture Herald

  Motion Picture News

  Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA). See also Hays Office Movie palace. See “picture palaces”

  Movietone

  Movietone sound newsreels

  Mr. and Mrs.

  Mr. and Mrs. Smith

  Mulhall, Jack

  Muni, Paul

  Murder on the Blackboard

  Murdock, J. P.

  Murfin, Jane

  Murray, John

  Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)

  Music Department

  Music for Madame

  Musicals

  Musuraca, Nicholas

  Mutiny on the Bounty

  My Favorite Wife

  My Man Godfrey

  National Board of Review

  National Broadcasting Company (NBC): David Sarnoff; Merlin Aylesworth; NBC studio; radio-movie symbiosis; “Red” and “Blue” networks; Rockefeller Center

  The NBC Revue of 1934. See Radio City Revels

  National Electric Light Association

  Neagle, Anna

  Neely bill

  Negri, Pola

  Nero Wolfe series

  The New Deal

  New Faces of 1937

  Newman, Alfred

  Newsreel

  Newsweek

  New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)

  The New York Times

  The New Yorker

  Nichols, Dudley

  Nicholls, Jr., George

  Ninotchka

  Niven, David

  Nizer, Louis

  Nolan, J. J.: assistant secretary of RKO; Citizen Kane; production schedule; rehiring; resignation; studio commitments; “VP in charge of RKO studios,”; waste prevention

  Nugent, Frank S.

  Nurse Edith Cavell

  Oakie, Jack

  Obliging Young Lady

  O'Brien, Edmund

  O'Brien, George

  O'Brien, Willis

  O'Connor, John J.

  O'Day, Dawn. See Shirley, Anne Odlum, Floyd B.: Atlas investment trust; declines purchase of RCA stock; and George Schaefer; and Joseph Breen; postpones purchase of RCA stock; RKO management shake-up; RKO performance; underwriting RKO shares; willingness to sell interest in RKO

  Office of Inter-American Affairs

  O'Flaherty, Liam

  Ogilvy, David

  Of Human Bondage

  O'Hara, Maureen

  Oliver, Edna May

  Olivier, Lawrence

  Once Upon a Honeymoon

  One Hour With You

  One Man's Journey

  One Night of Love

  Orpheum theaters

  Oscar. See also Academy Award

  O'Shea, Daniel T.

  Ostrow, Lou

  The Other Man

  Ouspenskaya, Maria

  Pan, Hermes

  Pantages Theaterr />
  Parachute Battalion

  Paramount: David Selznick; Depression-era profits; Ernst Lubitsch; Floyd Odlum investment; George Cukor; George Schaefer; Jesse Lasky; Leo Spitz; “major” studio; Merian C. Cooper; Radio-Keith-Orpheum (Canada) Ltd.; receivership; reorganization; sound conversion; studio lot; theateracquisition; upper management; widescreen; William LeBaron

  Parker, Jean

  Parkyakarkus

  Parsons, Louella

  Pascal, Gabriel

  Passage from Bordeaux

  Pathe Film Company: facilities; Joseph Kennedy; Pathe News; RKO merger; RKO Pathe Pictures, Incorporated

  Penner, Joe

  The Perfect Crime

  Perkins, Grace

  Perry Mason series

  The Peter B. Kyne Story

  Peterson, Edgar

  The Petrified Forest

  The Phantom of Crestwood

  Photophone

  Piazza, Ben

  Pichel, Irving

  Pickford, Mary

  “picture palaces,”

  Pin-Up Girl

  Pioneer Pictures

  Pitts, Zasu

  Pittsburgh Calcium Light & Film Company

  The Play's The Thing Productions

  The Plow That Broke the Plains

  Plunkett, Walter

  Polglase, Van Nest

  Pommer, Erich

  Pons, Lily

  Porter, Cole

  Portrait of a Rebel

  Potter, H. C.

  Poverty row

  Powell, Eleanor

  Powell, William

  Power, Tyrone

  Powers, Pat

  Pre-editing

  Preminger, Otto

  Prison pictures

  The Prisoner of Zenda

  Proctor theaters

  Producers Department

  Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC)

  Production Code Administration (PCA)

  Production Department

  Production head/Production chief. See Head of Production

  Profit participation

  “programmers,”

  Property Department

  The Public Enemy

  Publicity Department

  Pyramid Pictures Corporations

  Quality Street

  Queen Kelly

  Quigley, Martin

  Radio

  Radio City Music Hall

  Radio City Revels

  Radio Corporation of America (RCA): antitrust suit; David Sarnoff; Depression-era losses; J. R. McDonough; merger; Photophone; profits; radio-film symbiosis; RKO reorganization; RKO stock buyout; Rockefeller Center; sound on film; television; underwriting RKO

  The Radio Flash

  Radio-Keith- Orpheum Corporation: bankruptcy relief; birthday; board of directors; corporate profits; cost-cutting; creditors; financing; “great purge,”; management instability; merger rumors; net losses; Pathe merger; recapitalization; reorganization; stockholders; subsidiary merger; theater acquisition. See also corporate president; Radio City Music Hall; RKO Pathe Pictures, Incorporated; RKO Radio Pictures; Rockefeller Center; receivership

  Radio-Keith-Orpheum (Canada) Ltd.

  Rainbow on the River

  Rainbow Parade

  Ramsaye, Terry

  Ranger the dog

 

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