Sentence examples for rko from inspiring English sources

BACK in 1933 RKO studios shot the original version of King Kong for $670,000 roughly $10m in today's money.

Almost as soon as his screen acting career commenced, Pichel also began to direct at RKO.

The Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corporation (RKO) was created in 1928 to showcase the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) Photophone system of variable area recording.

After Women in the Wind (1939), in which Francis portrayed an airplane pilot competing in a transcontinental race, Farrow moved to RKO.

During the 1930s RKO produced the well-known Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers series of musicals and the early films of Katharine Hepburn, including Bringing Up Baby (1938).

The box-office hit was Fleischer's final film for RKO.

By the time Wayne succumbed to stomach cancer in 1979, The Conqueror had been dubbed an RKO Radioactive Picture.

Howard Hughes, the eccentric head of RKO Pictures, lavished money on what he envisaged as a stirring tale of romance and epic battles on Asia's steppes.

She escaped from Hughes and his RKO Pictures to make both "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes"—in which she danced fabulously with Marilyn in tight red lamé and feathers and "The Paleface" (1948) with Bob Hope, in which she played Calamity Jane.

Soon hired as a filing clerk in the wardrobe department of RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., she rose to head of the department within a year, meanwhile writing stories, plays, and film scenarios in her spare time.

Major studios such as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. (MGM), and RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., had separate operations called B-units to produce their B-units to