RKO Pictures Corporation
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CompanyRKO Pictures Corporation
Certificate Type
Common Stock
Date Issued
February 19, 1954
Canceled
No
Printer
American Bank Note Company
Signatures
Machine printed
Approximate Size
12" (w) by 8" (h)
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Guaranteed Authentic
Yes
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Historical Context
RKO Pictures made some notable films in the 1930s and ’40s. Radio-Keith-Orpheum originated in 1928 from the merger of the Radio Corporation of America, the Keith-Albee-Orpheum theatre chain, and the American Pathé production firm. Though it was one of the major studios in Hollywood, RKO spent much of its 25 years’ existence struggling for financial stability.
During the 1930s RKO produced the well-known Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers series of musicals and the early films of Katharine Hepburn, including Bringing Up Baby (1938). Among RKO’s other better-known films were Cimarron (1931), from the novel by Edna Ferber; King Kong (1933), one of the first monster films; John Ford’s The Informer (1935); and Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane (1941), now considered a masterpiece in cinema techniques. Jacques Tourneur and Alfred Hitchcock directed several well-known psychological thrillers for the studio in the 1940s.
In 1948 the businessman and producer Howard Hughes bought RKO, but his inattention and growing reclusiveness doomed the company. After years of decline under his control, the studio was acquired by the General Tire and Rubber Company in 1955. The original RKO Pictures ceased production in 1957 and was effectively dissolved two years later, though the studio retained the copyrights to all their films and assets.
In 1981, broadcaster RKO General, the corporate heir, revived it as a production subsidiary, RKO Pictures Inc. In 1989, this business with its few remaining assets, the trademarks and remake rights to many classic RKO films, was sold to new owners, who now operate the small independent company RKO Pictures LLC.
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