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The RKO Story - Tales from Hollywood

on BBC Two England

1: Birth of a Titan
The first of the six-part award-winning series telling the life story of RKO Radio Pictures, the studio that made over 1,000 films, including the classic King Kong, nine Astaire/Rogers musicals and Orson Welles 's masterpiece Citizen Kane.
Tonight, meet some of RKO's first stars, including crooner Rudy Vallee ,
Katharine Hepburn , and Fay Wray , who tells of being cast opposite 'the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood'...
Guide to the studio, and investigator of its private files, is Edward Asner.
... one of the best documentary series ever made by the Corporation
DAILY EXPRESS
Producers CHARLES CHABOT ROSEMARY WILTON (R)

Contributors

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Orson Welles
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Rudy Vallee
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Katharine Hepburn
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Fay Wray
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Edward Asner.
Producers:
Charles Chabot
Producers:
Rosemary Wilton

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