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...RKO has the recently acquired right to distribute Walt Disney's animated cartoons. Otherwise it is most noted for Ginger Rogers-Fred Astaire musicals, serious and thankless ventures like Winterset, The Informer. Now in the throes of reorganization, RKO has held no conventions, has announced only that it will make 54 features next season. For 1937, the corporation's net income totaled $1,821,166, a drop of over $600,000 from the previous year. On picture production it lost $236,909, made most of its profit from its theatre chain...
...Saint in New York (RKO Radio) is the first cinemogrification of an airy young crime-fiction character, Simon Templar, alias "The Saint." The Saint (Louis Hayward) invades Manhattan, flushes and exterminates a racketeer mob from punk to big shot, with invaluable fingerwork by a darkling moll (Kay Sutton...
...stars themselves had ready answers. Actress Hepburn last week terminated the RKO Radio contract that had brought her from $75,000 to $100,000 a picture and was considering five better offers "They say I'm a has-been," scoffed she. "If I weren't laughing so hard, I might cry. . . ." Joan Crawford had just signed a new five-year contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer at a figure reported to be $1,500,000. "Boxoffice poison?" chirruped Actress Crawford...
Vivacious Lady (RKO Radio) guffaws incontinently over the plight of a man (James Stewart) and a maid (Ginger Rogers) who are early to wed but late to bed. The man is a young biology professor, the maid a blonde, high-kicking cafe singer. Flimsy, bedroom-farcey, Vivacious Lady fetches predicaments from afar to eke out its plot to feature length...
Amidst flashing emeralds and pink chiffon in her dressing room at the RKO Theatre, Mae admitted she didn't go in much for purity, but what other people made out of her use of the English Language was more or less up to them...