Charles W. Koerner RKO Studios Scrapbook
name: label: Creator
content: Koerner, Charles W., 1896-1946
label: Names
content: RKO Pictures.
label: Actor
content: Brunoy, Blanchette, 1915-2005
topic: label: Topic
content: Motion picture industry
label: Topic
content: Motion pictures
label: Topic
content: Motion picture studios -- California -- Hollywood
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated by Rebecca Renish, 2017
creator: label: Creator
content: Koerner, Charles W., 1896-1946
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content: Charles W. Koerner RKO Studios Scrapbook
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Koerner (1896-1946) was born in New Orleans to Louis Novinsky and Doris Juanita Jennie Warren. He attended Shattuck Military Academy in Faribault, Minnesota. He enlisted in the Army in Havre Hill, Montana (1917-1918).  In 1920 he married his first wife Doris Clark (1897-1926) in Great Falls, Montana. In 1931 he married his second wife, Vivian L. Calvin (b. 1905). 

After the war he was a projectionist in Montana and worked as a branch manager for Jensen and Von Herbery, owners of a Pacific Northwest chain of theatres. In 1925 became part owner and general manager of the George Mann circuit of theatres in Northern California. After the sale of the George Man cicrit, Korner became a personal representative to Harold B. Franklin, president of Radio Keith Orpheum Corporation (RKO). 
Koerner eventuall y served in positions fro RKO in the SOuthwest, up state New York, and New England and West Coast divisions. In 1931 be became associated with RKO Theatres and was their New England division manager. In 1939, he became general manager of RKO Theatres with offices in New York. 

Koerner died in 1946 in Los Angles of acute leukemia. 

Sources

Montana, Military Records, 1904-1918. Salt Lake City, UT, USA: FamilySearch, 2019.

"C.W. Koerner, Head of RKO Theatre Circuit Ex-Manager Dies," New York Times (1923-); New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]. 04 Feb 1946: 22
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.25 Cubic feet (1 box)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1923-1953
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1432
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Correspondence
label: Type
content: Menus
label: Type
content: Photographs
label: Type
content: Programs
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
label: Type
content: Telegrams
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged into one series.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Correspondence -- 1940-1950
label: Genre/Form
content: Menus -- 1940-1950
label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs -- Black-and-white photoprints -- 1940-1950
label: Genre/Form
content: Programs -- 1940-1950
label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks -- 1940-1950
label: Genre/Form
content: Telegrams
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: A scrapbook documenting Charles W. Koerner's career as head of RKO Pictures in the 1940s. The scrapbook contains letters, a telegram, photographs, programs, a menu, clippings, and ephemera. Some portions of the scrapbook date from before Koerner's time with RKO, including his high school years, and portions are from after his death, possibly compiled by his wife, Vivian.