The studio declined after Howard Hughes acquired ownership in 1948, and it was sold to the General Tire and Rubber Company in 1955. Among the studio's most notable films are Cimarron (winner of the 1931 Academy Award for Best Picture), Bringing Up Baby (1938), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946-the studio's only other Academy Award for Best Picture), and what some people consider the greatest film of all time, 1941's Citizen Kane.
Its lineup of acting talent during this period included Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, and Robert Mitchum. In the 1930s and 1940s, Hollywood's Golden Age, RKO was one of the Big Five studios. Within two years, the company added Pathé Exchange to the organization, which included the new company's studios in Culver City, its film laboratories in New Jersey, Pathé News, and the company's distribution networks in Europe and the United States. RKO is an acronym for "Radio-Keith-Orpheum", created when RCA orchestrated a merger between Film Booking Offices of America and Keith-Albee-Orpheum, and was officially announced on October 23, 1928.
The original company produced films from 1929, the year after its inception, through its dissolution in 1959.
RKO (Radio-Keith-Orpheum) Pictures (also known as RKO Productions, Radio Pictures, RKO Radio Pictures, RKO Teleradio Pictures and, for a short time, RKO Pathé) is an American film production and distribution company. Lobby card for Rio Rita (1929), RKO's first hit
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