Lengkepan kalimah di handap ieu: Dina taun 1930-an jeung 1940-an, Jaman Emas Hollywood, RKO mangrupa salah sahiji studio Big Five. Lineup bakat akting na salila periode ieu kaasup Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, sarta Robert Mitchum. Diantara pilem anu paling kasohor di studio nyaéta "Cimarron" (pemenang Academy Award 1931 pikeun Gambar Pangalusna), "Bringing Up Baby" (1938), "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1939), "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946 <unk> hiji-hijina pilem sanés studio
Academy Award for Best Picture), jeung nu dianggap ku sababaraha jalma minangka film panghadéna salila ieu, "Citizen Kane" taun 1941.