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...Remember (RKO Radio). The idea that good pictures cost more than bad ones is so firmly rooted in the Hollywood subconscious that when a producer contrives to make a cheap picture which is also good, it occasions an almost panic confusion. Thus when, in A Man to Remember, Producer Robert Sisk and Director Garson Kanin turned out a film which, although budgeted for only $119,000 and made in 15 days, was unmistakably well above average A picture quality, RKO scarcely knew what to make of the situation. Finally the publicity department hit on a scheme. Instead of inviting critics...
Room Service (RKO) is John Murray's and Allen Boretz's outrageously funny farce about the exigencies of show business on a shoe string, redesigned as a vehicle for Harpo, Groucho and Chico Marx. Groucho is Producer Gordon Miller, whose schemes for wheedling board & lodging out of a weak-spined hotel manager to whom he already owes a small fortune are hideously complicated by the arrival of an irascible hotel supervisor (Donald McBride), then of the bewildered young author whose play he hopes to produce. Harpo and Chico are Miller's equally impecunious assistants. The tumultuous efforts...
Breaking the Ice (RKO). Bobby Breen, this time down on Uncle William's farm, runs away to the city, gets a job singing in an ice-skating palace, finds there a playmate in accomplished, Sonia-Henious little Irene Dare...
Douglas Gorce Corrigan signed a contract with RKO Radio Pictures to play himself in his own life story. For the story he will get $25,000, for appearing...
Breaking the Ice (RKO Radio). Soprano yodelings by nebby Bobby Breen and fancy skating by five-year-old Irene Dare accompany a mildly funny comedy about Pennsylvania Mennonites...