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King Kong (RKO 1933)
Considered by many to be the greatest adventure movie ever made, King Kong had anything but a straightforward beginning, almost never seeing the light […]
Merian C Cooper
Born in Jacksonville, Florida on the 24th of October, 1893, Merian Caldwell Cooper decided at an early age that he wanted to be an […]
Max Steiner
Maximilian Raoul “Max” Steiner was born on the 10th of May, 1888 in Austria-Hungary. A child prodigy, he conducted his first operetta when he […]
Ruth Rose
Writer, researcher and filmmaker Ruth Rose, famous for her role as the screenwriter for King Kong (1933), was born on the 16th of January, […]
King Kong vs Godzilla [...]
King Kong vs Godzilla was released in the USA on the 26th of June, 1963, some ten months after its release in Japan as […]
