Walter Plunkett was a prolific costume designer who worked on more than 150 projects throughout his career in the Hollywood film industry.
Costume designed by Plunkett
Flying Down to Rio (1933), designs for Dolores del Río and Fred Astaire
Little Women (1933), designs for Katharine Hepburn and others
Gone with the Wind (1939), design for Vivien Leigh
RKO Radio Pictures Inc., commonly known as RKO Pictures or simply RKO, was an American film production and distribution company, one of the "Big Five" film studios of Hollywood's Golden Age. The business was formed after the Keith-Albee-Orpheum theater chain and Joseph P. Kennedy's Film Booking Offices of America studio were brought together under the control of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) in October 1928. RCA executive David Sarnoff engineered the merger to create a market for the company's sound-on-film technology, RCA Photophone, and in early 1929 production began under the RKO name. Two years later, another Kennedy concern, the Pathé studio, was folded into the operation. By the mid-1940s, RKO was controlled by investor Floyd Odlum.
Opening logo
RKO Pictures
David Sarnoff (1929), by Samuel Johnson Woolf, National Portrait Gallery
Radio-Keith-Orpheum logo, 1929