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
Citizen Kane
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Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film directed, produced by, and starring Orson Welles and co-written by Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz, and was Welles's first feature film. The quasi-biographic
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…critics and historians. The studio produced two of the most famous films in motion picture history: King Kong and producer/director/star Orson Welles's Citizen Kane. RKO was also responsible for notable coproductions such as It's a Wonderful Life and Notorious, and it distributed many celebrated films by animation…
Theatrical release poster (Style B) by William Rose
Favored to win election as governor, Kane makes a campaign speech at Madison Square Garden.
The affair between Kane and Susan Alexander (Dorothy Comingore) is exposed by his political opponent, Boss Jim W. Gettys (Ray Collins).
Harry Shannon, George Coulouris and Agnes Moorehead