อาร์-เค-โอ RKO Radio Pictures (My list of films) (1930 to 1939)
Wow, RKO is one of my favorites like King Kong (1933), Top Hat (1935), Bringing Up Baby (1938) and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939; to enter the Cannes Festival). I never saw those opening logos on TCM, Criterion Channel, Max and a other HD streamings, Blu-ray, DVDs, VHS, Betamax, and a many more. Note: This doesn't include Walt Disney animated feature films such as Snow White (1937), Fantasia (1940) or Pinocchio (1940), etc.
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- DirectorLuther ReedStarsBebe DanielsEverett MarshallBert WheelerIn antebellum New Orleans, two men vie for the affections of a beautiful young girl during Mardi Gras.
- DirectorGeorge ArchainbaudStarsEvelyn BrentLouis WolheimJean ArthurA salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll.
- DirectorWesley RugglesStarsRichard DixIrene DunneEstelle TaylorA newspaper editor settles in an Oklahoma boom town with his reluctant wife at the end of the nineteenth century.My favorite Oscar-winner behind ''Grand Hotel'' (1932).
- DirectorAlbert S. RogellStarsEddie QuillanLew CodyJames GleasonA jockey is influenced to throw a race.In 1931 RKO-Pathe was born with Chas. R. Rogers as its production.
- DirectorPaul L. SteinStarsConstance BennettJoel McCreaLew CodyYoung Valerie models for an American painter who tries to make a future in Paris and they fall in love.
- DirectorVictor SchertzingerStarsLili DamitaLester VailO.P. HeggieReturning after a long absence, a man learns the woman he fell in love with on the ship going home is his stepmother.Originally, I'm not sure if is a lost film or a extant film.
- DirectorAlbert S. RogellStarsWilliam BoydRobert ArmstrongJames GleasonThree US sailors fight German U-boats in World War I aboard a decoy ship and try to win Ginger Rogers who works on the Coney Island midway.
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsBert WheelerRobert WoolseyDorothy LeeAfter a quarrel at their 25th wedding anniversary, Joe and Aggie Bruno decide to divorce each other, and both leave for Reno. So do their daughters Prudence and Pansy, but they want to get their parents back together. Joe and Aggie, accidentally, are becoming clients at the same law firm, Wattles and Swift, which is the biggest and most successful in town. But being on the opposite sides in the same case is not the only problem for Wattles and Swift, the concurring law firm Jackson, Jackson, Jackson and Jackson, has started a price war and one of its member has just been appointed judge, furthermore, there's Ace Crosby, whose ex-wife got her divorce with the help of Wattles and Swift, who vowed to shoot Wattles for this. Wattles disguises as widow Hanover, Joe's co-respondent. Crosby, waiting at the office-turned-casino, wins too much at the poker table, so Wattles tries to lure him away, after he and Joe have been seen by Aggie. Aggie, who has met Judge Jackson, who told her that she and her husband are clients at the same law firm, switches to Jackson, Jackson, Jackson and Jackson, after Wattles disguise fails. So does Crosby's attempt to murder him. The Bruno daughters meanwhile have fallen in love with the lawyers, and now they are trying to prevent the divorce. In a crazy court session they try all their tricks.
- DirectorLowell ShermanStarsEdna May OliverJill EsmondRoscoe AtesSociety matron Mrs. Crane (Edna May Oliver) is selected as a juror in the trial of ex-chorus girl Yvette Gordon (Jill Esmond), who's accused of murdering her rich elderly husband. In court, Mrs. Crane is your unorthodox, disruptive juror. During the first ballot, Mrs. Crane brings in the only "not-guilty" vote, in spite of Evelyn Snow's (Helene Millard) damning testimony. Mrs. Crane and the other jurors are sent back to the jury room. Mrs. Crane persuades the other juror to take a closer look at the case and re-enact the night of Mr. Gordon's (Leyland Hodgson) demise.David O. Selznick became the executive producer at RKO Studios until Merian Cooper of the ''King Kong'' fame enters as a executive producer in 1933, respectively.
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsConstance BennettLowell ShermanNeil HamiltonThe career of a waitress takes off when she meets an amiable drunken Hollywood director.Since Selznick became a executive producer, this was possibly RKO-Pathe's final film and the company was abandoned for now; originally, the film was directed by "women's director" George Cukor. In 1937, Warners' director William A. Wellman (best known for ''The Public Enemy'' (1931)) give a suit for the inspiration of this film that stars Janet Gaynor and Fredric March in their first Technicolor film together, ''A Star Is Born''. In 1954, the same director of aforementioned film released a CinemaScopic, Technicolored musical film version with Judy Garland and James Mason in ''A Star Is Born'' and became a critical and commercial success.
- DirectorsIrving PichelErnest B. SchoedsackStarsJoel McCreaFay WrayLeslie BanksA psychotic big game hunter deliberately strands a luxury yacht on a remote island, where he begins to hunt its passengers for sport.Fun fact: The same set were copied from ''King Kong'' released that next year.
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsJohn BarrymoreKatharine HepburnBillie BurkeA man, Hilary Fairfield returns home after fifteen years in a mental asylum. However, he finds things are not the way they were when he left.
- DirectorHarry d'Abbadie d'ArrastStarsJohn BarrymoreMyrna LoyReginald MasonAn honest and naive schoolteacher gets a lesson in how the world works outside the classroom, when a rich Baron and his mistress use the teacher's name and outstanding reputation in a crooked business scheme.
- DirectorDorothy ArznerStarsKatharine HepburnColin CliveBillie BurkeA famous female flier and a member of Parliament drift into a potentially disastrous affair.
- DirectorsMerian C. CooperErnest B. SchoedsackStarsFay WrayRobert ArmstrongBruce CabotA film crew goes to a tropical island for a location shoot, where they capture a colossal ape who takes a shine to their blonde starlet, and bring him back to New York City.One of the greatest film of all time and the non-Godzilla. Inducted into National Film Registry in 1991.
One of the last line where the deaths scenes in film is: "Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes, it was Beauty killed the beast." - DirectorJohn CromwellStarsLionel BarrymoreEric LindenWilliam GarganStarting over with almost nothing after the great Chicago Fire, Daniel Pardway builds the biggest department store in town. He wants to pass on the business to his daughter and three sons, but he is forced to deal with their lack of interest or aptitude.Notably, this was final film under Selznick executive producer.
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsBert WheelerRobert WoolseyMarjorie WhiteBarbers Nilly and Glub reluctantly become ambassadors for an Indian nation at a peace conference in Geneva. Facing sabotage from an ammunition executive, they persevere through romantic entanglements and setbacks to represent their people.First film under executive production of Merian C. Cooper.
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsGinger RogersNorman FosterZasu PittsA vice-free radio singer wants to experience the dark side of life, so a press agent convinces her sponsor to choose a "professional sweetheart" from her fans.
- DirectorLowell ShermanStarsKatharine HepburnDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Adolphe MenjouWhen a naively innocent, aspiring actress arrives on the Broadway scene, she is taken under the wing of several theater veterans who mentor her to ultimate success.
- DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsGinger RogersNorman FosterGeorge SidneyA man and a woman share an apartment on a shift basis, never seeing each other; she dislikes him until they actually meet.
- DirectorGeorge CukorStarsKatharine HepburnJoan BennettPaul LukasA chronicle of the lives of sisters growing up in 19th-century New England.According to Wikipedia: "''Although David O. Selznick received no screen credit, he returned to RKO from MGM to supervise the production as the last film left in his contract with the studio.''"
Nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture - DirectorThornton FreelandStarsDolores Del RíoGene RaymondRaul RoulienA bandleader woos a Latin flame who is already engaged to his employer.First film teaming the Astaire-Rogers
- DirectorErnest B. SchoedsackStarsRobert ArmstrongHelen MackFrank ReicherThe showman who brought Kong to New York returns to Skull Island and finds Kong's son, a spunky 12-footer with a winning personality and his dad's awesome strength.Sequel to King Kong released nine months earlier
- DirectorJohn FordStarsVictor McLaglenBoris KarloffWallace FordA dozen British soldiers, lost in a Mesopotamian desert during World War I, are menaced by unseen Arab enemies.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsIrene DunneRichard DixMary BolandA young woman is seduced by a charismatic highwayman who offers her promises of fame as a singer in exchange for romance.