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The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood

19871 Season60m episodes9.0

Documentary

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Runtime: 60m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Origin: GB

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Ed Asner tells the story of RKO Pictures from the 1920s to the 1960s.

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Status: Ended
First aired: Jul 3, 1987
Network: BBC Four

Time to finish

6 hrs

6 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

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Ed Asner

Self - Presenter

SERIES

The RKO Story: Tales From Hollywood

19871 Season60m episodes9.0

Documentary

TMDB9.0

Votes3

Your rating

Runtime: 60m episodes
Genre: Documentary
Origin: GB

About

Ed Asner tells the story of RKO Pictures from the 1920s to the 1960s.

Where to watch

Region

Not available to stream in United States yet.

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E1 · Airs Jul 3, 1987 · 1h 0m
Birth of a Titan
Ed Asner tells the story of RKO Pictures through the eyes of the people who worked there from its creation at the start of the talkies in the late 1920s.
E2 · Airs Jul 10, 1987 · 1h 0m
Let's Face the Music and Dance
He examines the musicals made in the mid 1930s with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Includes interviews with both stars, the producer Pando Berman and choreographer Hermes Pan.
E3 · Airs Jul 17, 1987 · 1h 0m
A Woman's Lot
The story of RKO Pictures, told through the eyes of the people who worked there, traces the films made at RKO for and by women, concentrating on the careers of Ginger Rogers and Katharine Hepburn.
E4 · Airs Jul 24, 1987 · 1h 0m
It's All True
Orson Welles spent a hectic few years at RKO, making Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons and the abandoned It's All True.
E5 · Airs Jul 31, 1987 · 1h 0m
Dark Victory
The 1950s were a time of mounting paranoia, reflected by the studio's ventures into film noir. Robert Mitchum makes his first screen appearance, Val Lewton creates Zombies and Cat People, and the House Un-American Activities Committee stalks its prey.
E6 · Airs Aug 7, 1987 · 1h 0m
Howard's End
Series concludes as Howard Hughes' purchase of RKO has a devastating effect on the studio.

Details

Status: Ended
First aired: Jul 3, 1987
Network: BBC Four

Time to finish

6 hrs

6 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.

View on IMDb ↗

Cast

Ed Asner

Self - Presenter

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