Of the many films dealing with the life and career of
Annie Oakley, one of the best is Annie Oakley, starring Barbara
Stanwyck and released by RKO in 1935.
Like most Hollywood bio-pics, it blends fact with fiction in order to
tell a good story.
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Saturday, May 31, 2014
Annie Oakley #1 (From Eric Beheim)
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RKO Radio pictures to me did the best job on this film on buffalo Bills Wild West Show and no other film ever came close to this one.
Real Indians and the tents looked like the real deal.
RKO was the Wal-Mart of the movie studios turning them out.
And to this day Radio pictures turned King Kong and Citizen Kane that will live for ever as great motion pictures.
Harry in Texas
ANNIE OAKLEY was the first western directed by George Stevens who would later direct SHANE, one of the greatest westerns ever made.
Once twenty years ago someone called in and asked Larry King what RKO stood for. He said he had once known but had forgotten. Are Chic and I the only ones left who know the story?
This is a VERY abbreviated version but vaude came to be dominated by Martin Beck's Orpheum circuit in the west and B F Keith's "Keith Time" in the east. Read the history of the Palace Theater to get the full and complicated explanation of how Keith-Orpheum came into being. Then Joe Kennedy of the Radio Corporation of America got into the picture and merged with Keith-Orpheum to form Radio-Keith-Orpheum.
You beat me to it Dave thanks
Although I held Al Hirshfeld in
the highest regard I only wish
they put his name on some other
theater than THE MARTIN BECK
Beck lived in sumptuous quarters
now part of the upper lobby
There are several houses that
have more generic names although
somewhat historic as well
We have only 34 full legit houses
left & some of these are recent
Some of us ol crusties wish that
the older ones had names restored
The August Wilson had been three
different names before
How about the origin of "Odeon"
A good bar bet Dave
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