RKO Pictures
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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
Carole Lombard
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Carole Lombard was an American actress, particularly noted for her energetic, often off-beat roles in screwball comedies. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Lombard 23rd on its list of the gr
Lombard in 1940
Lombard, aged 12, with Monte Blue in her film debut, A Perfect Crime (1921)
Lombard in a publicity still from 1927, during her time as a "Mack Sennett girl"
Lombard in a picture taken by William E. Thomas, 1929