The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood
The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood
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The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood

8.0 / 10
1987
1 season
6 episodes
Documentary

Ed Asner tells the story of RKO Pictures from the 1920s to the 1960s.

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  • Ep 1

    1.Birth of a Titan

    03-07-198760m

    Ed Asner tells the story of RKO Pictures through the eyes of the people who worked there from its creation at the start of the talkies in the late 1920s.

  • Ep 2

    2.Let's Face the Music and Dance

    10-07-198760m

    He examines the musicals made in the mid 1930s with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Includes interviews with both stars, the producer Pando Berman and choreographer Hermes Pan.

  • Ep 3

    3.A Woman's Lot

    17-07-198760m

    The story of RKO Pictures, told through the eyes of the people who worked there, traces the films made at RKO for and by women, concentrating on the careers of Ginger Rogers and Ka...

  • Ep 4

    4.It's All True

    24-07-198760m

    Orson Welles spent a hectic few years at RKO, making Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons and the abandoned It's All True.

  • Ep 5

    5.Dark Victory

    31-07-198760m

    The 1950s were a time of mounting paranoia, reflected by the studio's ventures into film noir. Robert Mitchum makes his first screen appearance, Val Lewton creates Zombies and Cat...

  • Ep 6

    6.Howard's End

    07-08-198760m

    Series concludes as Howard Hughes' purchase of RKO has a devastating effect on the studio.

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