I will be returning to the Tribeca annex of the 92nd Street Y on November 15th, where I will be presenting a five week series, devoted to noteworthy films produced at RKO studios, in 1935. RKO was always a studio suffering from financial difficulties. I always ask this question in my lectures and classes devoted to Astaire and Rogers: what two couples saved RKO from bankruptcy in 1933. Ofcourse, those two couples were Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and Fay Wray and King Kong. 1935 saw many wonderful films produced at the studio that year. I will be discussing Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, in TOP HAT, John Ford’s The Informer,starring Victor McLagelen, with Max Steiner’s Academy Award winning score (his first of three), The Last Days of Pompeii, SHE, which was last for many years, and restored in the late 1980s, and George Stevens’ ALICE ADAMS, starring Katharine Hepburn. We will see in this series, how RKO was growing as a studio, with wonderful output that year. Dates for the films are Top Hat (November 13th), The Informer (November 20th), The Last Days of Pompeii (November 27th), She (Devember 4th), and Alice Adams (December 18th).