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The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood

The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood

★ 9.0/10•1987•1h 0m•Documentary
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Ed Asner tells the story of RKO Pictures from the 1920s to the 1960s.

StatusEnded
Runtime1h 0m
LanguageEN
First Air DateJul 3, 1987

Episodes

E160m

Birth of a Titan

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.

Jul 3, 1987

E260m

Let's Face the Music and Dance

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.

Jul 10, 1987

E360m

A Woman's Lot

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 Katharine Hepburn.

Jul 17, 1987

E460m

It's All True

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

Jul 24, 1987

E560m

Dark Victory

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 People, and the House Un-American Activities Committee stalks its prey.

Jul 31, 1987

E660m

Howard's End

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

Aug 7, 1987

Actors

Ed Asner

Ed Asner

Self - Presenter

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