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...spoof was wholesome, human and hilarious. Bundle of Joy is wholesome. It is an energetic attempt to prove that what was done so deftly in the '30s, Hollywood's golden age of light comedy, can be done just as well in the '50s. Producer Edmund Grainger has lavished a sumptuous production on the slight yarn, and given the lead roles to Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, a celebrated young married couple in real life who recently produced a bundle of joy on their own. The film also has eight new tunes and Technicolor...
...Daniel T. O'Shea, 51, onetime movie-mogul turned CBS vice president, was picked by RKO Radio Pictures' new owners (TIME, Aug. 1) to be president, succeeding Howard Hughes's longtime friend James Grainger. Born in Manhattan, Dan O'Shea set out to be a doctor, switched to Law (Harvard, '30). With the help of New Dealer Tommy Corcoran, O'Shea got his first job with RKO, where he made such a hit with RKO Production Chief David 0. Selznick that he was called to Hollywood as resident counsel. There, O'Shea...
Split Second (Edmund Grainger; RKO Radio) seems to be a dramatic chip off Robert Sherwood's 1935 play, The Petrified Forest. It tells of a desperado who holds a group of strangers at gunpoint mercy, but it adds an up-to-date plot switch: the action takes place in a Nevada ghost town located in a restricted testing-ground area where an atom bomb is about...
Last week Hughes picked the man he thinks can do the job. Subject to his board's approval, Hughes named as RKO's new president James R. Grainger, a veteran Hollywood distributor who is sales manager of Republic Pictures. But what RKO needed most of all was someone who could get it back into making movies...
Blackbeard, the Pirate (Edmund Grainger; RKO Radio), an expensively Technicolored penny dreadful, casts Robert Newton as the infamous 18th century privateer Edward Teach, popularly known as Blackbeard. In this fanciful biography, Blackbeard is as blackhearted a buccaneer as ever sailed the Spanish Main. As one of his own crew puts it, he "would make the flesh crawl on a squid." His shaggy beard daintily decorated with red ribbons, Blackbeard goes about flogging, stabbing and stringing up his enemies with the greatest of gusto, laughing fiendishly all the while. He cuts his rivals' throats, runs them through the gizzards...