List of the films I've seen ... Favorite genres: Comedy, Golden Age Hollywood, Biographies, Documentaries , family films and Movie Shorts.

Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, and Penny Singleton in Blondie (1938)

John Wayne and Janet Leigh in Jet Pilot (1957)

RKO Pictures (also known as RKO Productions, Radio Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures, and RKO Teleradio Pictures) is an American film production and distribution company. The original company produced films from 1929 through 1957, with releases extending until its dissolution in 1959. On October 23, 1928, RCA announced that it had acquired control of the Film Booking Offices of America studio and Keith-Albee-Orpheum theater chain and was merging them under a holding company, Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp. Its new production arm was incorporated as RKO Productions Inc. on January 25, 1929. While RKO Distributing Corp. was originally organized as a distinct business entity, by July 1930 the studio was transitioning into the new, unified RKO Radio Pictures Inc. In December, RKO announced that it would be acquiring Pathé Exchange, including its studio and backlot in Culver City, film laboratories in New Jersey, distribution exchanges in the United States and Great Britain, and the Pathé News operation. In 1931–32, RKO Pathé operated as a semiautonomous division of RKO Pictures.

In the 1930s and 1940s, Hollywood's Golden Age, RKO was one of the Big Five studios. Its lineup of acting talent during this period included Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and Robert Mitchum. Among the studio's most notable films are Cimarron (winner of the 1931 Academy Award for Best Picture), King Kong (1933), Bringing Up Baby (1938), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946—the studio's only other Academy Award for Best Picture), and what some people consider the greatest film of all time, 1941's Citizen Kane.

The studio declined after Howard Hughes acquired ownership in 1948, and it was sold to the General Tire and Rubber Company in 1955. After several years of attempting to save the company, in January 1957, General Tire reached an agreement with Universal Pictures, where Universal would distribute the remaining RKO product, but the agreement effectively ended all film production at RKO. In 1959 General Tire put all of its non-core operations in a holding company, RKO General, which in 1978 reconstituted RKO Pictures Inc. as a production subsidiary, although the new company did not release its first film until 1981. General Tire sold RKO Pictures in 1989, at which point it began operating under new management as a small independent film company, RKO Pictures LLC.

All release dates are from the AFI Database, except as follows: those designated with an (*) are from imdb.com, and those designated with a (**) are from Theiapolis.com; other sources are noted with footnotes. The date listed is the earliest date, whether that be the premiere or the general release date. The order is according to release dates in the United States.

Note: All films released by the original incarnation of RKO are now owned by Warner Bros. through Turner Entertainment Co. (in North America, the United Kingdom and France at the least) unless otherwise noted.

Year titles: 1929 (13) 1930 (29) 1931 (50) 1932 (46) 1933 (49) 1934 (45) 1935 (42) 1936 (39) 1937 (56) 1938 (42) 1939 (49) 1940 (55) 1941 (44) 1942 (38) 1943 (43) 1944 (36) 1945 (34) 1946 (38) 1947 (35) 1948 (32) 1949 (34) 1950 (30) 1951 (39) 1952 (30) 1953 (24) 1954 (14) 1955 (14) 1956 (20) 1957 (11) 1958 (6) 1959 (5) 1960 (1)

<AND MORE INFORMATION> First National Pictures: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls566680323/ Warner Bros. (1950s): https://www.imdb.com/list/ls590386098/ Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (1940s): https://www.imdb.com/list/ls590631557/ Warner Bros. (1940s): https://www.imdb.com/list/ls540813009/

List for a typical binder: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls007035631/?sort=release_date,asc&mode=simple&release_date=1931 or the ATS version (https://www.imdb.com/search/title?release_date=1955&lists=ls007035631&view=simple&sort=release_date,asc&count=100)

Link for estimated #discs (1937): https://www.imdb.com/search/title?release_date=1937&lists=ls007035631,!ls058183489,!ls060663034,!ls066133047,!ls022193935&view=simple&sort=release_date,asc&count=100

Link for unrated non-music/als: https://www.imdb.com/search/title?my_ratings=exclude&lists=ls007035631,!ls020853190&view=simple&sort=release_date,asc&count=250

Donna Reed and Hurd Hatfield in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

includes mainstream movies with scenes easily cut for jim crow

1940s Jazz, R&B, Gospel and Black music and dance performances in Film or TV

Jess Lee Brooks, Monte Hawley, CeePee Johnson, Tommie Moore, and Marguerite Whitten in Mystery in Swing (1940)

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Ronald Colman, Dudley Digges, Ann Harding, and Wilhelm von Brincken in Condemned! (1929)

List of best films from 1940 to 1949 of USA. Excluding Disney films and films with mixed/negative/panned reception. --Night Plane from Chungking

Gordon Jones and Keye Luke in The Green Hornet (1940)

Includes Music films, but not singing Westerns. Starting with 1998, added requirement for 500+ votes and 4+ rating. Expanded to include TV movies and specials.

The search (excludes what's already on my lists):  [https://www.imdb.com/search/title?release_date=1927,&genres=musical&title_type=feature&runtime=45,&countries=us&sort=release_date,asc&count=100&view=simple&user_rating=4.0,&num_votes=500,&lists=!ls021062047,!ls021564702] and again for genre Music, and for title_types Video, tv_movie, tv_special (8 searches total).

Companion list: American omitted Musical Feature Films (http://www.imdb.com/list/ls021564702/) 

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls021062047/?release_date=1974&mode=simple&sort=release_date,asc

Crate-Digger Film Canon: All Films of the 40s

Alan Hale, Priscilla Lane, Thomas Mitchell, and Dennis Morgan in 3 Cheers for the Irish (1940)

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