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Most noticeable current trend in the cinema is toward musicomedies. This type, instead of subsiding as most producers expected after the release of Forty-Second Street, has grown until 16 are now scheduled for next season. RKO will make six starting with Flying Down to Rio, in which Dolores del Rio will play opposite Fred Astaire...
Paramount 65 Fox 54 RKO 52 Columbia 48 MGM 46 Universal...
Melody Cruise, RKO's first musical production, is built around Charles Ruggles- an expert comedian but no singer-in the character of a gentle bon vivant with a perpetual case of jitters. He embarks from Manhattan to San Francisco, has his trip made hideous by two chorus girls whom he discovers in his room after the ship has sailed. The main liabilities of Melody Cruise are the performers technically called "juveniles"-Phil Harris, who sings well but looks like Harry Richman with curvature of the nose, and Helen Mack. There are two pleasing songs...
Goldie Gets Along (RKO-Radio) tells the familiar tale of the girl who tries to get to Hollywood by means of a beauty contest. In this case the girl is flaxen-haired Lili Damita and she enters more than one beauty contest. She enters a series of them promoted by one Muldoon (Sam Hardy) in various cities, always under a different name and always subsequent to having won over the local judges by her undeniable charm. It is then unscrupulous Muldoon's cue to offer her as the prize $1,000 or a non-existent ticket to Hollywood. Until...
...make as good pictures of real people as it does of cartoons, whether it will be sufficiently appealing to make up for its expense, are two of the questions which Hollywood will be glad to have answered by the Whitney investment. First Pioneer Picture will be made at RKO's Hollywood studios by Merian C. Cooper, distributed through RKO...