Rapee, Erno
Raphaelson, Samson
Rathvon, N. Peter
Raymond, Gene
Rebecca
Rebound
Receivership
Ree, Max
Reed, Luther
Regent Theater
Reid, Cliff
Reisman, Phil
Reissue/Re-release
Reliance Pictures
Republic Pictures
Research Department
Reville, Alma
Rhodes, Erik
The Rialto Theater
Rice, Elmer
Rickaby, H. C.
Rin-Tin-Tin
Rio Rita
The River
Rivoli Theater
RKO
RKO Pathe News
RKO Pathe Pictures, Incorporated
RKO Radio Pictures: birthday; contract negotiations; “Hollywood's most mismanaged studio,”; improving product; improving reputation; lending stars; logo; “major” studio; pay cuts; poor quality; production schedule; profits; talent acquisition; weak male talent; widescreen. See also A pictures; B pictures; Head of Production
“RKO Radio's Little Theatre on the Lot,”
RKO “Ranch,”
RKO Roxy
RKO Studio: Colegrove; expansion; Gower Street; RKO PatheStudio
RKO Theatre of the Air
Roach, Hal
Roadhouse Murder
Roar of the Dragon
Roberta
Robertson-Cole (R-C)
Robertson, Harry.
Robinson, Edward G.
Robson, Mark
Robson, May
Rockabye
Rockefeller Center. See also Radio City Music Hall; RKO Roxy
Rockefeller family: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller; and George Schaefer; John D. Rockefeller, Jr.; Nelson Rockefeller; and Radio City Music Hall; and RKO Roxy; as RKO stockholders; unhappiness with Floyd Odlum
Rogell, Sid
Roger Tuohy, Gangster
Rogers, Charles R.
Rogers, Ginger: Astaire-Rogers decline in popularity; Astaire-Rogers formula; Bachelor Mother; The Barkleys of Broadway; Carefree; conflict with Mark Sandrich; contract expiration; A Damsel in Distress; emergence as a top star; end of Astaire-Rogers partnership at RKO; Flying Down to Rio; Follow the Fleet; The Gay Divorcée; Kitty Foyle; Once Upon a Honeymoon; Oscar; Radio City Revels; Roberta; Top Hat; Shall We Dance; Stage Door; The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle; Swing Time; teaming with Astaire; Tom, Dick and Harry
Rogers, Lela
Rogge, Florence
Room Service
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
“Roosevelt recession,”
Rose, Ruth
Rosenberg, Nathan
Ross, Frank
Rothafel, Samuel Lionel “Roxy,”
Rowland, Richard A.
Roxy Theater
Rubin, J. Robert
Ruby, Harry
Ruffo, Titta
Ruggles, Wesley
Ryskind, Morrie
Sacco and Vanzetti
The Saint in New York
Salary cuts
Sales conventions
Sanda Mala
Sanders, George
Sandrich, Mark
Santell, Al
Sarecky, Louis
Sarnoff, David: as chairman of the board; and David Selznick; and George Schaefer; and Joseph Kennedy; and J. R. McDonough; and Merian C. Cooper; renewed interest in RKO; Pathe purchase; radio-film symbiosis; RCA; RKO corporate profits; Rockefeller Center; sells RCA shares in RKO; takes control of RKO
Saturday Review of Literature
Sayre, Joel
Schaefer, George J.: acquiring “important” properties; “appointments from within the ranks,”; B films; block booking; and Charles Koerner; concerns about WWII; conflict with Lee Marcus; Coordinating Committee on National Defense; as corporate president; cutting costs; deal with Sam Goldwyn; and Ginger
Rogers; growing lack of confidence in; Gunga Din; interference with production decisions; and Joseph Breen; legacy; McDonough report; negotiations with Astaire; Orson Welles; and Pandro Berman; portrayal by Roy Scheider; precarious position; prestigious productions; production schedule; release of George Stevens; resignation; signing independent producers; and Sol Lesser; Suspicion; unfreezing foreign money; at United Artists; working with Harry Edington
Scheider, Roy
Schenck, Joseph
Schenck, Nicholas
Schnitzer, Joseph I.
Schoedsack, Ernest B.
Schulberg, B. P.
Schwarz, Vera
Scollard, Pat
Scott, Alan
Scott, Randolph
Screen tests
Screwball comedy
Scripps-Howard
The Searchers
The Secret Hour
Seiter, William
Selznick, David O.: and B. B. Kahane; borrowing Joan Fontaine from; contract renegotiation; Gone With the Wind; as head of production; as independent producer; and Merian C. Cooper; at MGM; report card; resignation; Selznick International Pictures; talent acquisition
Selznick, Lewis J.
Serials
Set design
Shall We Dance
Shapiro, Victor
Shaw, George Bernard
She
She Done Him Wrong
Shelley, George
Shelton, John
Sheridan, Ann
Sherman Antitrust Act
Sherman, Lowell
Sherwood, Robert
Shirley, Anne
Shores, Lynn
Short films
Shorts division
Show Boat
Shurlock, Geoffrey
Sidewalks of London
The Sign of the Cross
Silberberg, Mendel
Silent films
Silly Symphonies
Silvera, Darrell
Sing Your Worries Away
The Singing Fool
Sino-Japanese War
Sisk, Robert
Sister Carrie
Sisters of the Skillet
Sistrom, Joseph
Sky Giant
Sloane, Paul
Small, Edward
The Smartest Girl in Town
Smashing the Rackets
The Smiler With a Knife
Smith, Courtland
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
So Red the Rose
Sobel, Robert
The Soldier and the Lady
Son of Kong
The Son of the Sheik
Sothern, Ann
Sound revolution
Sound Department
Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Main
Sparks, Robert
Special effects
Special effects department
Spitfire
Spitz, Leo: B films; as chairman of the board; as corporate president; exit from RKO; and exploitation films; and Orson Welles; and Pandro Berman; Room Service; series pictures; Stage Door; stars; “substandard productions,”; Universal International
Spoor, George K.
St. Clair, Mal
Stage Door
Stanley theater circuit
Stanwyck, Barbara
A Star is Born
Star system
Steen, Mike
Stein, Paul
Steiner, Max
Step-deals
Stevens, George: Alice Adams; A Damsel in Distress; directors department; Gunga Din, ; Liberty Films; promotion to A features; rift with RKO
Stevenson, Bob
Stevenson, Edward
Still Department
Stingaree
Stirn, Ernest
Stock market crash
Stokowski, Leopold
Story Department
The Story of Louis Pasteur
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
The Strand theater
Strip Te
ase
Studio manager
Sturges, John
Sullivan, Charlie
Suspicion
Sutton, Grady
Swamp Water
Swanson, Gloria. See also Gloria Productions, Incorporated
Swanson, H. N.
Swing Time
Swiss Family Robinson
Sylvia Scarlett
Syncopation
Syrett, Netta
A Tale of Two Cities
Talent Department
Talent scouts
Talking motion pictures (“Talkies”)
Tarkington, Booth
Taylor, Dwight
Technicolor; three-strip; two-color process
Television
Temple, Shirley
Tevlin, C. J.
Thalberg, Irving
That's Right, You're Wrong
Theater division
They Came to Blow Up America
They Knew What They Wanted
They Met in Argentina
Thompson, Major L. E.
Thomson, Fred
The Three Musketeers
Tiffany Productions
Tim Holt Westerns
Time Magazine
The Toast of New York
Tom, Dick and Harry
Tom Brown's School Days
Tone, Franchot
Too Many Girls
Too Many Wives
Topaze
Top Hat
Towne, Gene
Tracy, Lee
Tracy, Spencer
Trade papers
Trevor, Claire
Trigger
Tristan and Isolde
Tunney, Gene
Turnbull, Burton
Tuskegee Choir
The Tuttles of Tahiti
Twelvetrees, Helen
Twentieth Century
Twentieth Century-Fox: Depression-era losses; Depression-era profits; Floyd Odlum investments; Ginger Rogers; “major” studio; management; merger rumors; newsreels; sound conversion; theater acquisition; uncertain future; widescreen; WWII profits; Young Mr. Lincoln
Twist, John
Two on an Island
Two Thoroughbreds
Tyler, Tom
The Unbreakable Miss Doll
Underworld
Unexpected Uncle
Unit production
United Artists
United Fruit Company
United Producers Corporation
United Studios
U.S. Department of Justice
Universal: Bachelor Mother; B Pictures; Charles Rogers; Depression-era losses; George Cukor; Howard Benedict; The Hunchback of Notre Dame; International Pictures merger; John Wayne; Joseph Schnitzer; as “major” studio; Ned Depinet; profits; war years
Upperworld
Vagabond Lover
Valentino, Rudolph
Vallee, Rudy
Valley of the Sun
Van Beuren Corporation
Van Doren, Carl
Van Schmus, W. G.
Van Wagner, Garrett
Vanity Fair
Variety
Vaudeville: performance; in RKO theaters; theaters
Veiller, Anthony
Vertical integration
Vidor, King
Vigil in the Night
Village Tale
Vivacious Lady
Voco Productions
Vogue Pictures, Ltd.
Vollmer, Lula
Von Stroheim, Erich
Vorkapich, Slavko
Votion, Jack
Waldorf Astoria Hotel
Wall Street
Wallis, Hal
Walker, Vernon
Walking on Air
Walt Disney Pictures
Wanger, Walter
War Activities Committee
War of the Worlds
“War of the Worlds” radio broadcast
Wardrobe Department
Warner Bros.: anti-Nazi films; borrowing Bette Davis from; borrowing William Dieterle; cost cutting measures; Depression-era profits; Floyd Odlum; Fox merger rumors; Hal Wallis; as a"major” studio; Max Steiner; net corporate losses; Sid Rogell; sound; theater acquisition; “Vitascope” process; widescreen
Warner, Jack
Warsaw Incident
Wasserman, Lew
Water Gypsies
Way Back Home
Way Down East
Wayne, John
Weaver, William R.
Weber & Fields
Wednesday's Child
Weekend for Three
Weisl, Ed
Weissmuller, Johnny
Welles, Orson: Citizen Kane; deal with RKO; Heart of Darkness; It's All True; The Magnificent Ambersons; Smiler With a Knife
Wellman, William
Wells, H. G.
We're Rich Again
West, Mae
Western Costume
Western Electric
Westerns
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
Westward Passage
Wheeler and Woolsey
Wheeler, Bert
Whelan, Tim
Where Sinners Meet
Whitney, Cornelius Vanderbilt (Sonny)
Whitney, John Hay (Jock)
White, Thelma
Whittaker, Charles
Widescreen
Wilcox, Herbert
Wilde, Hagar
Wilkinson, Jim
Withers, Hildegarde
Wilson, Richard
Winchell, Walter
Winkler, Dan
Winterset
Wise Girl
Wise, Robert
Without Orders
The Witness Chair
Woit, C. F.
The Wolf Man
Wolfson, P. G.
The Woman Between
The Woman I Love
A Woman Rebels
The Women
Wood, Sam
Woodruff, Frank
Woolsey, Robert
Work, Cliff
World Film Company
World War II
Wray, Ardel
Wray, Fay
Wright, Alfred
Writing Department
Wyler, William
Yellow Dust
Yost, Dorothy
You Can't Take It with You
You Only Live Once
You'll Find Out
Youmans, Vincent
Young April
Young Bride
Young, Collier
Young Mr. Lincoln
Zanuck, Darryl F.
Ziegfeld, Florenz
Zohbel, Herman
Zoning
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