* Two Max Fleischer features, Gulliver's Travels ( 1939 ) and Hoppity Goes to Town ( 1941 ) were previously sold to NTA along with a few independent productions released by Paramount like One Third of a Nation ( 1939 ), as well as some features acquired by the studio after their theatrical release, including The Bells of St. Mary's ( 1945 ) and Good Sam ( 1947 ) ( both originally distributed by RKO Radio Pictures ).

* 1941 ( 14th ) Lend a Paw-Walt Disney Productions, RKO Radio-Walt Disney

William Wyler directed Davis for the third time in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes ( RKO, 1941 ), but they clashed over the character of Regina Giddens.

Wise began his movie career at RKO as a sound and music editor, but he soon grew to being nominated for the Academy Award for Film Editing for Citizen Kane in 1941.

" Howard Hughes bought RKO in 1941 and later sold it in 1959.

Upon acquiring the film's distribution rights April 1941, RKO initially continued the roadshow booking policy but presented the film in mono, which was easier to exhibit.

Once the show hit its stride, they had leading roles in the RKO Radio Pictures films Look Who's Laughing ( 1941 ), Here We Go Again ( 1942 ), and Heavenly Days ( 1944 ).

Dumbo is a 1941 American animated film produced by Walt Disney and released on October 23, 1941, by RKO Radio Pictures.

Completed in fall 1941, Disney's distributor RKO Radio Pictures initially balked at the film's 64-minute length and wanted Disney to either make it longer, edit it down to a short subject length, or allow them to release it as a B-movie.

* Most of the major pre-1948 Warner Bros ./ pre-1986 MGM / RKO Radio Pictures library, including: Gone with the Wind & The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ), Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), Singin ' in the Rain ( 1952 ), and Doctor Zhivago ( 1965 ), among others

* Most of the major pre-1948 Warner Bros ./ pre-1986 MGM / RKO Radio Pictures library, including: Gone with the Wind & The Wizard of Oz ( 1939 ), Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), Singin ' in the Rain ( 1952 ), and Doctor Zhivago ( 1965 ), among others

After joining Jim and Marion Jordan ( as Fibber McGee and Molly ) and fellow radio favorite Edgar Bergen in Look Who's Laughing ( 1941 ) and Here We Go Again ( 1942 ), Peary finally received top billing for a brief series of RKO films.

Throughout the 1930s, Goldwyn released all his films through United Artists, but beginning in 1941, and continuing almost through the end of his career, Goldwyn released his films through RKO Radio Pictures.

When RKO opened the movie on Broadway on May 1, 1941, followed by showings at theaters in other large cities, the publicity programs that were printed included photographs of Welles as " the one-man band, directing, acting, and writing.

In April 1941, RKO Radio Pictures acquired the distribution rights of Fantasia and replaced the Fantasound soundtrack with a mono soundtrack.

In 1941, he left university for a minor job at RKO Radio Pictures.

* Suspicion ( 1941 ) ( RKO ) ... Reggie Wetherby

After Tourneur was dropped by MGM in 1941, he was picked up by Lewton to film several acclaimed low-budget horror films for RKO Studios including Cat People and I Walked with a Zombie.

With the outbreak of World War II, she returned to Hollywood and worked for RKO Radio Pictures where she achieved her greatest successes in English language cinema with The Devil and Daniel Webster ( 1941 ), Cat People ( 1942 ) and The Curse of the Cat People ( 1944 ); the latter two formed part of the horror film series produced by Val Lewton.

The Falcon was quickly brought to the screen by RKO in 1941, in the film The Gay Falcon, in which he was redefined as a suave English gentleman-detective with a weakness for beautiful women.

Shortly after rough animation on Dumbo was complete in May 1941, The Legend of Happy Valley was put into production, using many of the same cast, although RKO doubted it would be a success.

The RKO Picture Citizen Kane had its world premiere at the theatre on May 1, 1941.

: Along with Gregg Toland's work on Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), Musuraca's cinematography for Stranger on the Third Floor ( 1940 ) defined the visual conventions for the film noir and codified the RKO look for the 1940s.

* Universal Pictures made two films titled The Black Cat, one in 1934, starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, and another in 1941, starring Lugosi and Basil Rathbone.

Serious 1941 films involving training for war included U. S. Cavalry in MGM's The Bugle Sounds, RKO's Parachute Battalion, Paramount Pictures I Wanted Wings and Warner Brothers ' Dive Bomber.

* 1941 Coin Pictures

The popular story was first filmed in 1922 by First National Pictures, and was later remade twice by MGM, in 1932 and 1941.

Put under contract by Universal Pictures Co. Inc., Chaney was cast in Man Made Monster ( 1941 ), a science-fiction horror thriller originally written with Karloff in mind.

His career revived when from 1941 to 1949 he played the character Boston Blackie in 14 low-budget movies produced by Columbia Pictures, starting with Meet Boston Blackie, and one season of radio shows.

The Face Behind the Mask is a crime-drama film released by Columbia Pictures in 1941.

He attended the University of Illinois as a pre-med student, and played in stock companies for a few years before signing a movie contract with Columbia Pictures in 1941.

In 1941, he became the Executive Producer at Paramount Pictures, a position he would hold until 1944.

In 1941, he joined the stock company at Columbia Pictures, where he played small roles in features and short subjects.

She returned in triumph to Columbia Pictures and was cast in the musical You'll Never Get Rich ( 1941 ) opposite Fred Astaire, in one of the highest-budgeted films Columbia had ever made.

In 1941 she was signed to a long-term contract with Paramount Pictures.

The following year, Miller signed with Columbia Pictures, where, starting with “ Time Out for Rhythm ,” she starred in 11 B movie musicals from 1941 to 1945, ending her contract in 1946 with one “ A ,” “ The Thrill of Brazil.

They were reluctant to commit themselves to another major project at the time when they were approached by their distributor, and owner since May 1941, Paramount Pictures.

By the end of 1941, the brothers were no longer able to cooperate with each other, and the studio's co-owner Dave Fleischer had left Florida for California, where he would eventually become the new head of Columbia Pictures ' Screen Gems studio.

Hawks completed initial shooting of the film in early 1941, but due to perfectionism and battles with the Hollywood Production Code, Hughes continued to re-shoot and re-edit the film until it was finally released in 1943, with Hawks uncredited as director.

" After most of the 1941 season, however, he was honorably discharged when the United States Congress released men aged 28 years and older from service, being released on December 5, 1941, two days before Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.

When released on May 1, 1941, Citizen Kane — based in part on the life of William Randolph Hearst — did not do much business at theaters ; Hearst owned numerous major newspapers, and forbade them to carry advertisements for the film.

In 1941, Cotten took control of the Nazi-related thriller Journey into Fear ( released in 1943 ).

Because of poor health ( he claimed that his poor eyesight and exotropia affected his balance ) Sartre was released in April 1941.

After intervention from Alexander Dorner, Rhode Island School of Design, Schwitters was finally released on 21 November 1941.

He was wounded in combat during the Battle of Bryansk in October 1941, and got released for six months recuperation due to illness.

After the outbreak of war with Germany in 1941, Nevsky was released into wide distribution and earned international success.

The Walt Disney Studios released the animated feature films Pinocchio ( 1940 ), Dumbo ( 1941 ), Fantasia ( 1941 ), and Bambi ( 1942 ).

* Rohan Rivett, originally a member of the second AIF ( released 1941 ) and then M. B. C.

Lorre also branched out ( without Greenstreet ) into comedy with the role of Dr. Einstein in Arsenic and Old Lace, filmed by director Frank Capra in 1941, released in 1944, and starring Cary Grant and Raymond Massey.

One of the more interesting of Strauss's recordings is perhaps the first complete performance of his An Alpine Symphony, made in 1941 and later released by EMI, because Strauss used the full complement of percussion instruments required in this spectacular symphony.

The film was released in December 1941, but the New York City opening was not until 28 January 1942.

" was originally released in a 1941 film of the same name, starring Jorge Negrete.

" was written by Dorival Caymmi and was originally released in 1941.

" Os Quindins de Yayá " was written by Ary Barroso and first released in 1941.

On 16 February 1941, after Chaim Weizmann's intervention in London, they were all released.

In May 1940, he was interned by the British authorities as an enemy alien, before being shipped to Quebec, Canada and continued to be interned until October 1941, when he was released on parole from internment to study architecture at the University of Manitoba.

The team's breakout picture, however, was Buck Privates, released early in 1941.