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Other RKO films, 1940 to 1956
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The other RKO films sub-series (approximately 1940-1955) contains material related to the development, production, and post-production of RKO films produced while Howard R. Hughes, Jr. owned the company. The films primarily included are Where Danger Lives (1950) and His Kind of Woman (1951); additional film-related records include Double Dynamite (1951), The French Line (1953), Hansel and Gretel (1954), His Kind of Woman (1951), The Las Vegas Story (1952), Macao (1952), Montana Belle (1952), Son of Sinbad (1955), and Underwater! (1955). Records include advertising and publicity, censorship, production and direction, and story development, as well as film soundtracks. Also included are newspaper and magazine clippings, posters, correspondence, editing notes, contracts, agreements, screenplays, and continuities.
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Collection Name: Howard Hughes Film Production Records
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Title change information for Double Dynamite (originally It's Only Money); production costs; and Groucho Marx magazine clipping, 1948 July 30 to 1951 October 06
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Collection Name: Howard Hughes Film Production Records
Box/Folder: Box 407 (Restrictions apply)
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Advertising posters for The French Line, featuring Jane Russell and Gilbert Roland, approximately 1952 to 1954
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Film Production Records
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 414 (Restrictions apply)
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Jane Russell posed with Gilbert Roland, publicity stills, The French Line: photographic prints, 1953
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Collection Name: Howard Hughes Film Production Records
Box/Folder: Box 407 (Restrictions apply)
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Nadine Henley and J. R. Grainger correspondence regarding distribution and censorship for The French Line, 1953 June 30 to 1954 July 26
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Collection Name: Howard Hughes Film Production Records
Box/Folder: Box 407 (Restrictions apply)
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Noah Dietrich, J. R. Grainger, and Howard Hughes on the distribution of Disney-produced films for Hansel and Gretel, 1954 April 01 to 1954 October 20
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Collection Name: Howard Hughes Film Production Records
Box/Folder: Box 409 (Restrictions apply)
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Collage of newspaper articles of reviews and reactions, and photographs of the theatrical premiere of Hansel and Gretel, 1954 October
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Film Production Records
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 408 (Restrictions apply)
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Costume dress concept art for an unidentified film, approximately 1940 to 1949
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Archival Collection
Collection Name: Howard Hughes Film Production Records
Box/Folder: Oversized Box 414 (Restrictions apply)
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His Kind of Woman
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Collection Name: Howard Hughes Film Production Records
Box/Folder: N/A
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Advertising and publicity records for His Kind of Woman
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Collection Name: Howard Hughes Film Production Records
Box/Folder: N/A
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