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The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood

The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood

1987 - 1987

Birth of a Titan

3rd July 1987
Episode 1
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.

Let's Face the Music and Dance

10th July 1987
Episode 2
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.

A Woman's Lot

17th July 1987
Episode 3
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.

It's All True

24th July 1987
Episode 4
Orson Welles spent a hectic few years at RKO, making Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons and the abandoned It's All True.

Dark Victory

31st July 1987
Episode 5
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.

Howard's End

7th August 1987
Episode 6
Series concludes as Howard Hughes' purchase of RKO has a devastating effect on the studio.
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Ed Asner tells the story of RKO Pictures from the 1920s to the 1960s.

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