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Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story
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Howard's Way

  • L’episodio è andato in onda il 7 ago 1987
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Howard Hughes in Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story (1987)
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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaHoward Hughes' purchase of RKO has a devastating effect on the studio.Howard Hughes' purchase of RKO has a devastating effect on the studio.Howard Hughes' purchase of RKO has a devastating effect on the studio.

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    • Edward Asner
    • Richard Fleischer
    • Robert Mitchum
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      • Richard Fleischer
      • Robert Mitchum
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    Edward Asner
    Edward Asner
    • Self - Host…
    Richard Fleischer
    Richard Fleischer
    • Self - Director
    Robert Mitchum
    Robert Mitchum
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    Mario Zamparelli
    • Self - Hughes Graphic Artist
    Jane Russell
    Jane Russell
    • Self
    Michael Woulfe
    Michael Woulfe
    • Self - Hughes Costume Designer
    William Fadiman
    • Self - Executive Assistant to Howard Hughes
    Jane Greer
    Jane Greer
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    Ruth Warrick
    Ruth Warrick
    • Self
    Joan Fontaine
    Joan Fontaine
    • Self
    William Dozier
    William Dozier
    • Self
    Janet Leigh
    Janet Leigh
    • Self - Under Contract to Hughes 1949-51
    Jean Simmons
    Jean Simmons
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    Stewart Granger
    Stewart Granger
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    Linwood G. Dunn
    Linwood G. Dunn
    • Self - Optical Effects
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    Perry Lieber
    • Self - Head of Publicity
    John Springer
    • Self - Publicity Department (New York)
    Tom O'Neil
    • Self - President, General Teleradio
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    9planktonrules

    The final years of RKO....and how Howard Hughes nailed the last nails into the coffin!

    This episode, the final episode of the series, is about Howard Hughes' ownership of RKO and how his mental illness resulted in the destruction of the studio. His obsessive attention to meaningless details, his weird relationships with female actresses (acting as if by owning their contracts he owned them) and bad choices did a lot to ruining the once-proud lot. Now, bad and mediocre films were the norm and the studio struggled through his ownership to a slow, inexorable end. A few of the weird things you learn about him was that he never once visited the studio, destroyed womens' careers because they refused to sleep with him and seemed to enjoy the most artless and awful films...sometimes watching a film a hundred times or more!

    A fascinating episode...not just because it is the history of Hollywood but because it's an interesting portrait of a crazy man who got away with so much because he was so incredibly rich and spoiled. And, my favorite part was when Stewart Granger talked about seriously considering killing Hughes because of all the unwelcomed advances he made on Granger's wife, Jean Simmons!
    8AlsExGal

    Death of a Titan

    This story is in two parts. The first and largest part is how Howard Hughes bought a controlling interest in RKO in 1948 and allowed his weird obsessions, that would spiral into outright insanity in his later years, destroy RKO.

    It wasn't like Hughes didn't know how to make a motion picture, even if he was weirdly obsessive about it even from the beginning. In the 20s "Two Arabian Nights" won the first Oscar for Best Director. There was also "The Racket", a great crime picture, the early sound "Hell's Angels" with some great aerial photography, "The Front Page", and "Scarface" one of the trilogy of the original sound gangster films.

    But this success did not translate into what happened at RKO. He thought all of the actresses he had under contract belonged to him. That he could just order them to leave their children and husbands. When that didn't happen he either didn't let them work at all or he gave them bad assignments. Jean Simmons and her then husband Stewart Granger have much to say on the subject. Although I have to disagree with her on one point. "Angel Face" is one of her best films. He obsessed over costumes. He obsessed over advertising. He obsessed over everything but turning out a quality product.

    So by 1955 RKO was a sinking ship and Hughes was tired of the play toy he had broken. He ended up selling to General Tire and Rubber who, opposite of Hughes, completely neglected it. They simply did not care that their product was a laughing stock because they were planning to use it as a tax write-off, which was very important in the days of 90% taxation.

    So who bought RKO from them at a loss? Lucille Ball, one time contract player and now an international star due to TV and a successful businesswoman because of her Desilu TV production company. She has some humorous remarks about the whole incident, but says she was also depressed at what a rusted out hull of a place RKO's sound stages had become.

    At the conclusion, Ed Asner does have an uplifting thing to say about RKO, years before Turner Classic Movies would regularly show the studio's product. He said that even though TV ended RKO Radio Pictures, we can still see the best of what they made on TV. He then makes a classy exit equal to his classy presentation during the entire six part documentary.

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      "Angel Face" is described as the second of Jean Simmons's films under contract to Howard Hughes. In fact, it was the fourth (and last); it was made in a hurry because Ms. Simmons had a stop-date on her contract and made it known that she would not work after that date.
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      Jean Simmons: I came over to get married - to Stewart Granger - and I woke up one morning and I suddenly found I had been sold, by J Arthur Rank, to Howard Hughes.

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      • 7 agosto 1987 (Regno Unito)
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