RKO Pedestals Used in TOP HAT, KANE Others |
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These may well be the most photographed set pieces in film history. Inventoried into the RKO Property Department by Tom Little on April 25, 1935, one of them had already appeared in the hotel lobby in FLYING DOWN TO RIO. As a pair, they are in the bridal suite in TOP HAT on either side of the bedroom door. One, painted white, is in Ginger's apartment in SHALL WE DANCE. The pair, seen in the mansion, also with Ginger, in FIFTH AVENUE GIRL. All three in CITIZEN KANE in various scenes. [See our CITIZEN KANE section] Also, in THE SAINT IN NEW YORK, THE FALCON IN SAN FRANCISCO, THE EX MRS BRADFORD, BEDLAM, BORN TO KILL, FALLEN SPARROW, and for the first time in color in THE FRENCH LINE and SLIGHTLY SCARLETT. Desilu, which purchased RKO in 1957, used them in THE UNTOUCHABLES ('The Rusty Heller Story' Season 2 Episode 1 10/13/60 in Elizabeth Montgomery's apartment) MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE, and all three of them in the STAR TREK episode REQUIEM FOR METHUSELAH. After the sale to PARAMOUNT, they are seen in multiple episodes of BONANZA ( Season 11) in the Palace Hotel suite in Virginia City. |
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