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Joan of Paris (RKO-Radio) is a U.S. coming-out party for an attractive pair of European refugees: France's green-eyed Michele Morgan and Austria's Paul Henreid. Both make graceful bows. Mile. Morgan is an arresting personality, whose role calls for only a minimum of acting...
Producer David Hempstead, 33, broad-browed and volatile, who broke the Hollywood ice with Kitty Foyle, quit his job as Utah's Corporation Commissioner to become an RKO script reader at $30 a week. Son of a well-fixed Salt Lake City attorney, Hempstead talked to Hollywood's elder statesmen from the start in the language they understood. "You're just exactly 150% wrong!" became his standard utterance...
Ball of Fire (Goldwyn; RKO Radio) is saturated with some of the juiciest, wackiest, solid American slang ever recorded on celluloid. The plot is not as fresh as its idea, but the picture will do until its producer, swivel-tongued Samuel ("Include Me Out") Goldwyn, wins his own lifelong race with the English language...
...Comment by a nameless observer on the regal bearing of RKO Actor-Producer-Writer-Director Orson Welles (Citizen Kane): "There, but for the grace of God goes...
...national networks and one quarter of U.S. radio outlets. FCC also pointed out that vast NBC was only a detail in Radio Corp. of America-whose activities included not only NBC but the manufacture of its equipment, the sale of radio sets, the management of artists, a share (through RKO) in the production of movies, the manufacture of movie sound equipment, phonograph records, etc. But FCC did not observe how nearly indispensable to RCA is NBC's earning power...