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Enchantress of the Hills, Mistress of a Million Moods (April, 1934)

Posted in 1930-1939, Movie Ads with tags John Cromwell, Katharine Hepburn, Melodrama, Merian C. Cooper, Pandro S. Berman, Ralph Bellamy, RKO, Robert Young, Romance, Sidney Toler, Spitfire, Will Geer on June 22, 2014 by WB Kelso

Spitfire (1934) (A Pandro S. Berman Production :: RKO Radio Pictures / EP: Merian C. Cooper / P: Pandro S. Berman / D: John Cromwell / W: Jane Murfin, Lula Vollmer (play) / C: Edward Cronjager / E: William Morgan / M: Bernhard Kaun / S: Katharine Hepburn, Robert Young, Ralph Bellamy, Sidney Toler, Will Geer

A Man with a Gun and a Back-Street Beauty, Tangled in Trouble Outside the Law! (November, 1951)

Posted in 1950-1959, Movie Ads with tags Crime, Cry Danger, Dennis O'Keefe, Dick Powell, Fay Baker, Film Noir, Jane Greer, Jean Porter, John Cromwell, John Houseman, John Hoyt, Lizabeth Scott, Melodrama, Olympic Productions Inc., Revenge, Rhonda Fleming, Richard Erdman, RKO, Robert Parrish, Sam Wiesenthal, Sid Rogell, Social Commentary, The Company She Keeps, W.R. Frank, William Conrad on May 13, 2014 by WB Kelso

Cry Danger (1951) Olympic Productions Inc. :: Wiesenthal-Frank Productions :: RKO Radio Pictures / P: W.R. Frank, Sam Wiesenthal / D: Robert Parrish / W: William Bowers / C: Joseph F. Biroc / E: Bernard W. Burton / M: Paul Dunlap, Emil Newman / S: Dick Powell, Rhonda Fleming, William Conrad, Jean Porter, Richard Erdman

The Company She Keeps (1951) RKO Radio Pictures / EP: Sid Rogell / P: John Houseman / D: John Cromwell / W: Ketti Frings / C: Nicholas Musuraca / E: Robert Swink / M: Leigh Harline / S: Lizabeth Scott, Jane Greer, Dennis O’Keefe, John Hoyt, Fay Baker

Part Good When They Go In, All Bad When the Come Out! (September, 1950)

Posted in 1950-1959, Movie Ads with tags Agnes Moorehead, Betty Garde, Caged, Crime, Eleanor Parker, Ellen Corby, Film Noir, Hope Emerson, Jan Sterling, Jerry Wald, John Cromwell, Melodrama, Social Commentary, Virginia Kellogg, Warner Bros., Women in Prison on August 20, 2013 by WB Kelso

After inspiring the screenplay for James Cagney’s White Heat (1949), for her next project, screenwriter Virginia Kellogg clandestinely arranged for herself to be incarcerated for a spell to help expose the true dirt on life inside a women’s penitentiary, which served as a blueprint for our feature, Caged, ushering in the era of Women in Prison flicks that we all know and love today.

Caged (1950) Warner Bros. / P: Jerry Wald / D: John Cromwell / W: Virginia Kellogg, Bernard Schoenfeld / C: Carl Guthrie / E: Owen Marks / M: Max Steiner / S: Eleanor Parker, Hope Emerson, Agnes Moorehead, Ellen Corby, Jan Sterling, Betty Garde