* Conspiracy ( 1930 film ), RKO Radio Pictures film directed by Christy Cabanne

* Conspiracy ( 1939 film ), RKO Radio Pictures film directed by Lew Landers

1946 saw RKO Radio releasing It's a Wonderful Life directed by Frank Capra.

For RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., she starred in the film with which she is most identified, King Kong ( 1933 ).

However, her greatest known films were produced under her deal with RKO Radio Pictures, Inc ..

* 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 ).

* In 1947, the studio acquired Frank Capra's production company, Liberty Films, which produced only 2 films in the 1940s: It's a Wonderful Life, released originally by RKO Radio Pictures, and State of the Union, released originally by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( the latter made under Paramount ownership ).

Turner kept MGM's pre-May 1986 and pre-merger film and TV library, which included nearly all of MGM's material made before the merger, and a small portion of United Artists ' film and TV properties which included few UA pictures, the TV series Gilligan's Island, the U. S and Canadian distribution rights to RKO Radio Pictures library, and the pre-1950 Warner Bros. library and the Fleischer and Famous Studios Popeye cartoons that both were once the property of Associated Artists Productions, which merged with UA Television in 1958 ).

library, the U. S. rights to a majority of the RKO Radio Pictures library, and the television series Gilligan's Island.

* March 2 – The original film version of King Kong, starring Fay Wray, premieres at Radio City Music Hall and the RKO Roxy Theatre in New York City.

** Dewey Starkey ( RKO Radio )

** Edward Killy ( RKO Radio )

With Ben Oakland and Milton Drake, Berle wrote the title song for the RKO Radio Pictures release Li ' l Abner ( 1940 ), an adaptation of Al Capp's comic strip, featuring Buster Keaton as Lonesome Polecat.

The blue screen and traveling matte method were developed in the 1930s at RKO Radio Pictures and other studios, and were used to create special effects for The Thief of Bagdad ( 1940 film ).

Song of the South is a 1946 American musical film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures.

**** ( This film was originally announced as one of the nominees in this category, but before the final voting was done, this film was disqualified and was replaced by another RKO Radio short, Scratch-As-Catch-Can.

After more than 20 film roles, the role of the vicious and slatternly Mildred Rogers in the RKO Radio production of Of Human Bondage ( 1934 ), a film adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel, earned Davis her first major critical acclaim.

She filmed The Story of a Divorce ( released by RKO Radio Pictures in 1951 as Payment on Demand ) but had received no other offers.

She went on to make a series of films with Fox, Warner Bros. (" Gold Diggers of 1933 "), Universal, Paramount, and RKO Radio Pictures and, in her second RKO picture, Flying Down to Rio ( 1933 ), she worked for the first time with Fred Astaire.

According to Hollywood folklore, a screen test report on Astaire for RKO Radio Pictures, now lost along with the test, is reported to have read: " Can't sing.

Bringing Up Baby ( 1938 ) is an American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, and released by RKO Radio Pictures.

It was also a hit in such cities as Los Angeles, Portland, Denver, Cincinnati and Washington D. C. However it was a financial disappointment in the midwest and most other cities in the U. S. To the surprise of RKO, when it premiered in New York on March 3, 1938 at Radio City Music Hall it only made $ 70, 000 and was pulled after only 1 week to make way for Jezebel starring Bette Davis.

Hal Horne, a publicist for Disney's film distributor RKO Radio Pictures, wished for a different title, and gave the suggestion Filmharmonic Concert.

Walt Disney, who had previously been in the short cartoon business, stepped into feature films with the first English-speaking animated feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ; released by RKO Pictures in 1937.

In 1941, RKO Pictures released Citizen Kane made by Orson Welles.

In 1938 Hawks made the screwball comedy Bringing Up Baby for RKO Pictures.

Karloff appeared in three of producer Val Lewton's atmospheric B-pictures for RKO Pictures in the mid-1940s, including The Body Snatcher ( 1945 ), which also featured Lugosi.

After the success of Welles's War of the Worlds 1938 Halloween radio broadcast, Welles gained a unique contract with RKO Pictures.

He left RKO in 1936 and soon became the musical director of Selznick International Pictures.

Gulf + Western Industries also bought the neighboring Desilu television studio ( once the lot of RKO Pictures ) from Lucille Ball in 1967.

* Lionsgate now controls most rights to the 1987 Vietnam War film Hamburger Hill through an equity investment Vestron Video made with its production outfit RKO Pictures, though Paramount retains TV and Internet rights.

* RKO Pictures

* RKO Pictures, founded in part by RCA

It was produced by RKO Pictures and RKO / Nederlander Productions.

Category: RKO Pictures films

The book was adapted into a critically acclaimed film of the same name in 1931 through RKO Pictures.

In 1933, RKO released Merian C. Cooper's classic " giant monster " film King Kong.

The Informer is a 1935 dramatic film, released by RKO.

Due to the film's perceived failure, Hawks was released early from his two-film contract with RKO and Gunga Din was eventually directed by George Stevens.

Shortly after the film's release Hepburn was named " box office poison " by a group of US movie theater owners and was released from her RKO contract.

Saludos Amigos ( Hello, Friends in English, Olá, Amigos in Portuguese ) is a 1942 animated feature package film produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Radio Pictures.

This segment was later released theatrically as an independent short, on May 13, 1955 by RKO Pictures.

They released their first single, British Refugee 7 ", on 7 October 1977, on RKO Records.

In 1953, shortly after the switch from RKO to Buena Vista, Disney released its final Mickey Mouse short, The Simple Things.

Some of these movies, Badman's Territory, Return of the Badmen, Trail Street, and Rage At Dawn were released by RKO, while others, like Fighting Man of the Plains, Canadian Pacific, and The Cariboo Trail were released by Twentieth Century Fox.

He also did Rage at Dawn in 1955 for Nat Holt, which was released by RKO starring Scott and Forrest Tucker, and featuring Denver Pyle, Edgar Buchanan, and J. Carrol Naish.

Little Orphan Annie inspired a radio show in 1930, film adaptations by RKO in 1932 and Paramount in 1938 and a Broadway musical Annie in 1977 ( which itself was released as a film in 1982 ).

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

* The pre-1941 Samuel Goldwyn films released by UA ( as well as the films made during his tenure at RKO ) are owned by the Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. Family Trust.

( 5 August 1934 ), and RKO Pictures released the short La Cucaracha ( 31 August 1934 ).

Two Selznick International films, A Star Is Born and Nothing Sacred ( both 1937 ), were produced by Selznick, copyrighted by Pioneer Pictures, and released through United Artists rather than RKO.