EXCLUSIVE: In a major deal, Concord Originals has acquired RKO, the legendary film studio behind such classic properties as King Kong, Citizen Kane, The Best Years of Our Lives, It’s a Wonderful Life, ...

A scrapbook documenting Charles W. Koerner's career as head of RKO Pictures in the 1940s. The scrapbook contains letters, a telegram, photographs, programs, a menu, clippings, and ephemera. Some ...

Lucille Ball used 'I Love Lucy' profits to found Desilu Studios, greenlit 'Star Trek' and 'Mission: Impossible' and changed TV forever.

¶Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, who in their old movie days met and fell in love at the RKO Studios, were well on their way last week to owning a big memento of their pre-TV past: the RKO lot itself. As ...

AFTER much sleuthing and restoration, Turner Classic Movies is unveiling six “lost” films from the RKO library. Caught up in a legal tangle that involved “King Kong” creator Merian C. Cooper and then ...

For someone who began as a callow Hoosier lad of 19 running fresh film from the RKO studio lab to the editing room as a ” film porter ” in 1933, Robert Wise spliced together quite an amazing career.

Battered old movie posters still flapped in the Hollywood breezes on the high walls of the old RKO lot last week. But towering above the lot, in huge black letters on the freshly painted silver water ...