Biographical Information on RKO Radio Pictures Personalities (1935)

Record Details:

Title:
Biographical Information on RKO Radio Pictures Personalities
Date:
1935
Volume:
Biographical Information on RKO Radio Pictures Personalities
Leaf #:
00079
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Books
Contributor:
The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 21, 2024
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Rutgers Neil eon RKO Radio Pictures Biographical Information RKO Building Radio City, New York ERIK RHODES (RKO Radio Pictures) (Erik Rhodes was born in El Reno, Okla. , Feb. 10. Height, 5 ft., 10 in. Weight, 160 lbs. Brown hair and eyes. Fond of music and "boxing. ) EARLY LIFE Erik Rhodes' public career has been one wherein everything started wrong and ended right. Educated at Oklahoma State University, Rhodes had romantic leading man aspirations, and wanted to sing in opera as well. He went to the stage immediately after his college days, having won The Marion Talley Dramatic Scholarship when he was 19. From that day to this, ambitions to the contrary, he has always been a comedian, using every dialect and language but his own. 8 TAGS CAREER Rhodes began hie career by touring 10,000 miles in Chautauqua. Coming to New York, he appeared on Broadway in "A Most Immoral Lady," starring Alice Brady, and in "The First Little show" with Libby Holman and Clifton Webb. He also did much radio work. The musical comedy, "The Gay Divorce," that great career-maker, did that for Rhodes. He played in it with Fred Astaire and Eric Blore for a year and a half six months of that in London. SCREEN CAREER Erik's work in the RKO Radio screen version, "The Gay Divorcee" as Tonetti, his original role, brought him a term contract at that studio. ****