John Cromwell was an American film and stage director and actor. His films spanned the early days of sound to film noir in the early 1950s, by which time his directing career was almost terminated by
Cromwell (seated) as John Brooke with Alice Brady as Meg in the Broadway production of Little Women (1912)
RKO Pictures, commonly known as simply RKO, is an American film, television and stage production company owned by Concord. In its original incarnation, as RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., it was one of the "
David Sarnoff (1929), by Samuel Johnson Woolf, National Portrait Gallery
Radio-Keith-Orpheum logo, 1929
Rio Rita (1929), first smash hit for RKO (then releasing films under the "Radio Pictures" banner)
King Kong (1933), one of Hollywood's great spectacles