When did the RKO movie studio come to an end?
The RKO movie studio come to an end in 1958, when it was sold to Desilu.
June Allyson took the role of madcap heiress Irene Bullock (played by Carole Lombard in the original 1936 version) in the remake of My Man Godfrey (1957). David Niven took the role of Godfrey Parke, the rich man posing as a butler (played by William Powell in the original).
Lois Maxwell played Miss Moneypenny in most of the older James Bond films. Bernard Lee played M until his death in 1979; Robert Brown since then. Desmond Llewelyn played Q.
Born in Vienna in 1890, the director Fritz Lang came to Hollywood in 1934. Fritz Lang’s first American film was Fury (1936), for MGM. His last was Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956), for RKO. After that, the director quit making films in the United States, fed up with the trials and tribulations of the studio…
Irene Dunne played Anna in Anna and the King of Siam and Rex Harrison played the king. It was Harrison’s Hollywood debut. In real life, Anna’s last name was Leonowens. In the movie, her name was Anna L. Owens.
No. “Letters of transit,” authorizing people to travel without question, were a fiction used in the movie Casablanca (1942).
The Time Machine (1960) opened on December 31, 1899.