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Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story

Season 1 Episode 4: It's All True

Orson Welles spent a hectic few years at RKO, making Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons and the abandoned It's All True.

Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 1 Birth of a Titan

1. Birth of a Titan

Aired: Jul 3, 1987

Ed Asner tells the story of RKO Pictures through the eyes of the people who w...

Episode 2 Let's Face the Music and Dance

2. Let's Face the Music and Dance

Aired: Jul 10, 1987

He examines the musicals made in the mid 1930s with Fred Astaire and Ginger R...

Episode 3 A Woman's Lot

3. A Woman's Lot

Aired: Jul 17, 1987

The story of RKO Pictures, told through the eyes of the people who worked the...

Episode 4 It's All True

4. It's All True

Aired: Jul 24, 1987

Orson Welles spent a hectic few years at RKO, making Citizen Kane, The Magnif...

Episode 5 Dark Victory

5. Dark Victory

Aired: Jul 31, 1987

The 1950s were a time of mounting paranoia, reflected by the studio's venture...

Episode 6 Howard's End

6. Howard's End

Aired: Aug 7, 1987

Series concludes as Howard Hughes' purchase of RKO has a devastating effect o...

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Info about Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story

Network: BBC Four

Production Country: United Kingdom

Genres:Documentary, History