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51. Classic Video Club - Macbeth (Orson Welles)
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- Macbeth (Orson Welles).
- Directed by Orson Welles.
- Starring Orson Welles. ...
- Here Orson Welles brought them a real change of pace - a serious, well-performed, if sometimes frenzied, version of "the Scottish play" as superstitious actors call it. ...
52. Orson Welles
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53. Orson Welles - anagrams
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54. Citizen Kane
- www.deutsches-filminstitut.de
- Regie: Orson Welles .
- Buch: Herman Mankiewicz, Orson Welles .
- Mit: Orson Welles, Harry Shannon, Agnes Moorehead, Joseph Cotten .
- Der damals 24jährige Orson Welles, der seinen Debütfilm als Autor, Regisseur und Hauptdarsteller frei gestalten konnte, entwirft ein geniales Charakter- und Gesellschaftsporträt, in dem der Mythos des Amerikanischen Traums zugleich beschworen und kritisch befragt wird. ... Welles nutzt virtuos die filmtechnischen Möglichkeiten seiner Zeit; die elliptischen Montagen, die ausdrucksstarken Bildkompositionen, die raschen Perspektivwechsel wirkten bahnbrechend und setzten neue Maßstäbe (siehe Filmclip); ein kommerzieller Erfolg blieb jedoch aus. ...
55. Images - Film Noir
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- Orson Welles' shoots were always Homeric adventures, as cast and crew struggled to meet his obscure, brilliant visions while Orson himself struggled to keep one step ahead of his creditors, and just out of reach of apoplectic studio heads. The Lady From Shanghai, one of Welles' most brilliant works and one of the great American surrealist works of art, was as ill-starred as any of his films. ...
- Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth in The Lady From Shanghai. ...
- Welles had to make the film because Columbia Studios' tyrannical production chief, Harry Cohn, had backed Welles' disastrous epic play Around the World in 80 Days, which closed with a whimper after 79 hugely expensive performances on Broadway. But if Cohn thought that merely having Orson's IOU's put him at an advantage, he was hopelessly mistaken. ...
- Cohn complained bitterly when Welles had Rita Hayworth's luxurious dark hair cut short and colored blonde; he had for years lusted after his star, and besides, such decisions were traditionally his prerogative. For his part, Welles actually liked the loutish Cohn, probably because he was so easy to bait. Cohn, who had once complained that he knew when a film was too long because his posterior began to ache (the writer who responded, "Imagine that -- the whole world wired to Harry Cohn's ass!" was summarily dismissed), became infuriated by Welles' constant tweaking. Said Welles of Cohn: "He snarled at you as you came in the door. ... " When a paranoid Cohn bugged Welles' office in order to document the director's various transgressions, Welles' used the bug as a broadcasting service, happily narrating a comic version of the day's events on the set. Welles must have been happy at Cohn's reaction to the complex narrative of The Lady from Shanghai: "I'll give a thousand dollars to anyone who can explain the story to me. " Cohn wanted the film reshot as a simple flashback drama, to uncoil Welles' labyrinthine narrative a bit. ...
- Welles stymied him on this, but Cohn won in other arenas. ... As a way of making the film's story more comprehensible, Roemheld was also ordered to "mickey mouse" his score, to underline key points of action, a literalism that enraged Welles. ...
- Meanwhile, Welles was designing expensive set pieces, the bills from which must have had Cohn fuming. The sequence in Central park in which muggers attack Elsa/Rita was the longest crane shot yet attempted in Hollywood; Welles' harried cinematographer was ordered to keep Welles/Michael and Rita/Elsa in focus for three-quarters of a mile in a horse-drawn carriage. ...
56. Teen Movie Critic
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- Download Netscape Now! Orson Welles.
- Orson Welles, one of the greatest actors and directors of all time, was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin on May 6, 1915. ... The first major success of the company was an all-black version of MacBeth, where Welles introduced a new style of theatric performance.
- In 1937, Welles and Houseman formed the Mercury Theatre, one of the most well-known independent Theatres in history. Welles directed many of the productions. ... In 1938, Mercury Theatre went on the radio and Welles caused a stir that same year on Halloween. ...
- Welles first few projects ended up in the scrapheap (including an attempt to produce a film version of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness), but the young Welles was not distraught. ... With this film, Welles stretched the art of filmaking (script, dialogue, art direction, cinematography, etc. ... Because of this, Welles never gained complete control of any of his pictures ever again. His second film, The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), was severly cut by RKO, while Welles w as down in South America attempting to shoot a documentary (which was completed by others and became It's All True in 1993). ...
- Welles kept acting and performing, making film noirs like The Stranger (1946) and The Lady From Shanghai (1948). With these films, Welles proved he had a great eye for the technical aspects of films, but were still devoid of that special Welles magic. In 1948, the Mercury players and Welles put on a film production of MacBeth. Though it is regarded as one of Welles finest works, it did poorly on it's initial release and was dismissed at the Venice Film Festival. ...
- With the failure of Macbeth, Welles took on a self-imposed, decade long exile from the Hollywood system. ... This remains up there with Kane as one of Welles greatest achievements. ...
57. The Holloway Pages: Orson Welles's Shakespeare
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- Orson Welles's Shakespeare.
- Orson Welles in Macbeth (1948). ...
- Young Orson and his dog Caesar. ...
- Orson Welles (third from left) at the Todd School.
- Brutus and Cassius (Welles). ...
- Welles as Richard Plantaganet. ...
- Welles's sketch of himself standing before the Gate Theatre in Dublin (1931). ...
- Welles's sketch of himself as scene painter at the Peacock Theatre (1931). ...
- Welles as Malvolio. ...
- Welles's "storybook" set. ...
- Hamlet (Michael MacLiammoir), Gertrude (Lois Prussing), and Claudius (Welles). ...
- Orson Welles and John Houseman. ...
- Caesar (Joseph Holland) far right, Brutus (Welles) second from the right, Publius (Joseph Cotton) far left, and Cassius (Martin Gabel) third from the left. ...
- Cassius (Martin Gabel) and Brutus (Welles). ...
- Brutus (Welles) and Portia (Muriel Brassler). ...
- Brutus (Welles) confronts Marc Antony (George Coulouris). ...
58. Film Noir Directors: Orson Welles
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- Awesome Orson.
- Orson Welles wasn't playing a prank in 1938 when he broadcast on the radio that aliens had landed, he was actually telling the truth, deduces Goldblum. ...
- "Orson Welles?" asks one of Goldblum's compadres. ...
- Welles may have been best-known as a pitchman for Paul Masson jug wine near the end, but his tremendous influence on filmmakers is acknowledged through the movie's sly citation. ... Welles later ventured into noir territory with Lady From Shanghai, an ambitious film with a sophisticated use of voice over, and Touch of Evil, which has a stunning, one-of-a-kind opening shot. ...
- George Orson is born to the wealthy Welles family on May 6 in Kenosha, Wisconsin to mother Beatrice, pianist and singer, father Richard, inventor of carbide lamps. ...
- Maurice Bernstein proclaimed Orson a genius. Bernstein (also the name of Kane's lackey in Citizen Kane) stocked Orson with paints, a violin and a puppet theatre while trying to seduce Orson's mother. ...
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- Ten-year-old Orson earns his first rave review from the press. ...
- At 13, 6-foot, 180-pound Orson is sent to the Todd School. ...
- At 16, Welles takes a lone trip to Ireland and cons his way into a starring role at Dublin's Gate Theatre. ...
- At 18, Welles tours the US in a production of Romeo and Juliet, playing Mercutio. ...
- "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?" Welles knows. ...
- On October 30, Welles sends the nation into a panic by broadcasting the Martian "invasion" on radio. ...
- Though members of the audience, which rapidly swelled to 6 million, were assured four times by an announcer that they were listening to a work of fiction -- and though Welles stated in an epilogue that ''((This was)) the Mercury Theatre's own radio version of dressing up in a sheet and saying 'Boo!' '' -- about a million people missed the message. ...
59. Guide to the Orson Welles Materials - Welles Mss. - Tapes
- www.iub.edu
- Lilly Library home · Collection guides home GUIDE TO THE ORSON WELLES MATERIALS IN THE LILLY LIBRARY.
- WELLES MSS.
- Orson Welles Almanac (Lady Esther). ...
- Robinson substituting for Welles). ...
- Orson Welles Almanac (Lady Esther). ...
- Orson Welles Almanac (Lady Esther). ...
- Orson Welles Almanac (Lady Esther). ...
- Orson Welles Almanac (Lady Esther). ...
- Orson Welles Almanac (Lady Esther). ...
- False Issues and the American Presidency (Welles' Herald Tribune Speech). ...
- Fred Waring (Welles' portion only) (A tribute to FDR). ...
- Orson Welles Almanac (Lady Esther). ...
- Orson Welles Almanac (Lady Esther). ...
- Orson Welles Almanac (Lady Esther). ...
- Hollywood Democratic Committee (Welles not on this program; Rita Hayworth is). ...
- Orson Welles Almanac (Lady Esther). ...
60. Self-Portrait: the story of Orson Welles' It's All True
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- Richard Wilson, Myron Meisel, Bill Krohn based on salvaged footage from the 1942 Orson Welles docu-drama It's All True original cine by Floyd Crosby & Joe Noreigo Bonito , Joseph Biroc, William Howard Greene, Harry J. ...
- Who are you, exactly? You're Orson Welles, magician, the man who saws beautiful women in half. ... Orson Welles, radio actor, the man who plays The Shadow. ... Orson Welles, director, the man who made the greatest Hollywood movie ever, Citizen Kane. ... Orson Welles, world famous at 27. ...
- or a documentary about a myth? The fascinating thing about the Wilson-Meisel-Krohn 1993 documentary about the infamous uncompleted Welles film is how it somehow becomes what Welles was aiming for all along. ... but in this case, he's Orson Welles, artist provocateur, a man well-schooled in the use of the new media to sell his personality. ...
- Like most artists, Welles was always at the centre of his work, whether he used a mask or not. ...
- Like the work of Sophocles or Homer or any number of ancients, the surviving sequences of Welles' Latin American film exist in myth, which in turn become the story, an interrupted history salvaged by legend. In a strange irony, there was never any need for Welles to complete It's All True, as the entire action is simply a background to his own story. Welles is a cult not because of his successes like The War of the Worlds or Citizen Kane, but because of his supposed failures, of which It's All True is the keystone. ...
- It isn't surprising that politics eroded the cultural agenda of the Welles good-will mission. ... Because the autocratic President Vargas had dismantled the Praza Onze -- the boulevard the Carnival traditionally used as its route -- and Welles decided to use the samba anthem "Farewell Praza Onze" as his soundtrack, his populist position was immediately anti-establishment. ...
- "He's just shootin' a bunch of jigaboos jumpin' up and down, y'know?" is how Welles himself describes the studio reaction. ...
- But of course Welles has another more romantic explanation for the failure. ... The needle had a piece of red thread, no doubt taken from the red suit that Welles wore as he filmed and danced in the Carnival procession. ...
61. Celebrity Rings Orson Welles links
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- Orson Welles.
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62. DVD > Actors & Actresses > ( W ) > Welles, Orson
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- DVD > Actors & Actresses > ( W ) > Welles, Orson.
- Orson Welles, Charlton Heston, et al. ...
- Considered by many to be the greatest B movie ever made, the original-release version of Orson Welles's film noir masterpiece Touch of Evil was, ironically, never intended as a B movie at all--it merely suffered that fate after it was taken away from writer-director Welles, then reedited. ...
- Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, et al. ...
- Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) is an alcoholic pulp writer come to visit his old friend Harry Lime (Orson Welles). ...
- Orson Welles's 1962 take on Franz Kafka's nightmare comedy stars Anthony Perkins as a twitchy K, a man accused of a crime that is never specified. The story has been filmed several times over the years, but not quite with the air of noir fable Welles brings to it. ...
- Orson Welles, Rita Hayworth, et al. ...
- Legend has it that Orson Welles more or less conned studio boss Harry Cohn over the phone into making this movie by grabbing the title from a nearby paperback. In any case, The Lady from Shanghai is one of Welles's most fascinating works, a bizarre tale of an Irish sailor (Welles) who accompanies a. ...
- Orson Welles, et al. ...
- Something of a remake of Citizen Kane, Orson Welles's 1955 Mr. Arkadin is a knowing and self-reflective variation on one of Welles's pet themes: the search for a defining secret of a powerful man. Welles plays an important financier who tries to discover his own past by hiring a man (Robert. ...
- The Stranger / Orson Welles on Film (1946).
- Orson Welles, Edward G. ...
63. Orson Welles
- emphasisentertainment.com
- Citizen Welles .
- •Orson Welles' first film, 1934's Hearts of Age.
- and Emphasis Entertainment Group, narrated by noted Welles historian Richard France, which provides insight into the making of The Stranger & The Trial, including a behind-the-scenes look at the DVD restoration process.
- Orson Welles would have loved seeing it. ...
- Orson Welles.
64. 1000 Posters - Orson Welles
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66. Orson Welles
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- Welles, Orson.
- Pourtant, Orson Welles n'a réalisé que douze films depuis Citizen Kane (si l'on excepte les inédits, les projets inachevés, les collaborations aux uvres d'autres réalisateurs). ...
- Peut-être faudrait-il accueillir chaque film de Welles comme il le définit lui-même : une expérimentation. Orson Welles serait alors le premier essayiste du cinéma. L'essai, pour Welles, échappe au vieillissement. ...
- Comment oublier le très gros plan de la bouche de Kane-Orson Welles qui murmure le fameux "Rosebud" avant de se fermer pour toujours ? Un jeune homme de vingt-cinq ans (Welles est né en 1915) se projette au terme d'une vie, se déguise en vieillard, joue ses derniers instants. Truffaut nous rappelle que Welles a débuté au théâtre en 1932, également par un rôle de vieillard, dans Le Juif Süss. ...
- On sait par ailleurs qu' Orson Welles perdit sa mère à huit ans, au cours d'un voyage.
- Représenter une vie à l'ombre de la mort et, à partir d'elle, la comprendre, la dérouler depuis le point où tout se joue une dernière fois, c'est là l'ambition de Welles, homme de théâtre, acteur, cinéaste et moraliste.
- Un mot revient souvent dans les entretiens avec Welles, c'est le "caractère". ... Welles précise à propos du second sens : "C'est surtout la façon dont vous vous comportez vis-à-vis de la mort, car je crois qu'on ne peut juger les gens que sur le comportement face à la mort. ... " Et Welles de conclure : "Qui sait comment les gens mourraient ou se feraient fusiller s'ils ne l'avaient jamais vu dans un film ?".
- De la même manière, Orson Welles se sert du cinéma pour nier l'espace. ...
- Parler de "crise d'identité", c'est sans doute définir un peu vite l'univers de Welles. ...
- Ainsi, les films de Welles empruntent plus ou moins la forme de l'enquête pour découvrir, démasquer un personnage. ...
- Si tout film de Welles est un procès, ce n'est donc pas au sens moderne du mot recherche de culpabilité, dénonciation du mal mais au sens étymologique, originel, d' "épreuve" : traversée d'un labyrinthe, itinéraire initiatique.
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67. Orson Welles
- www.editionsmontparnasse.fr
- | Citizen | DVD | Welles | Bonus | AFI | RKO |.
- Brillant, séduisant, Orson est ce qu'on appelle un " Wonder boy ".
- Liste des films auxquels Orson Welles a participé en tant que réalisateur ou bien en tant qu'acteur.
- Liens vers les sites consacrés à Orson Welles et à ses différents films.
68. Orson Welles
- antroposmoderno.com
- Orson Welles (1915 - 1985). ...
- Vea tambien nuestra galería de fotos de Orson Welles.
- El influyente cine de Orson Welles era pionero, ambicioso y técnicamente audaz. ... Antes de su dramática llegada a Hollywood, Welles se había cimentado una reputación en el teatro y la radio. ... El primer gran éxito fue la escenografía de Welles de un Macbeth-vudú con un repertorio enteramente negro, que demostró el gusto de Welles por ampliar las formas existentes más allá de los límites establecidos. Welles y Houseman acabaron formando su propia compañía de repertorio, el Teatro Mercury, disfrutando el éxito en su producción de Julio César de 1937, que Welles.
- Pronto Welles estuvo dirigiendo a los actores del Mercury en dramas radiofónicos semanales de una hora de duración para la CBS. ...
- Buscando capitalizar la notoriedad de Welles, la RKO le llevó a Hollywood para producir, dirigir, escribir y actuar en dos películas por 225. ...
- Después de que varios proyectos (entre ellos una adaptación de Corazón de Tinieblas de Joseph Conrad, más tarde adaptado en Apocalypse Now) llegaran a nada, el joven de 25 años Welles hizo el que generalmente es descrito como el más impresionante debú en la historia del cine. Inicialmente llamado AMERICAN y luego retitulado CIUDADANO KANE, el primer film de Welles era un valiente, impetuoso e inspirado tour de force que contaba su historia desde varias perspectivas diferentes, relatando el ascenso y corrupción de un magnate Americano, Charles Foster Kane (creado a semejanza del empresario editorial William Randolph Hearst). Con la audacia de alguien nuevo en Hollywood, Welles forzó las técnicas cinematográficas existentes tan lejos como pudieran llegar, creando una nueva y distintiva estética fílmica.
- Entre los elemento innovativos que el estilo de Welles exhibió en CIUDADANO KANE estaban: 1. ...
- La segunda película de Welles para la RKO, EL CUARTO MANDAMIENTO (1942), una adaptación de la novela homónima de Booth Tarkington, era un film más convencional, menos espectacular que utilizó muchas de las mismas técnicas que Welles había desarrollado para KANE con el fin de evocar las ricas texturas de una América de fin de siglo. Pero con Welles en Sudamérica filmando un semi-documental (IT'S ALL TRUE, que nunca fue completado por Welles en persona) conjuntamente patrocinado por la RKO y el gobierno de Estados Unidos, el estudio editó el film severamente, destruyendo 43 minutos. ... Antes de que partiera a Sudamérica, Welles supervisó el rodaje de ESTAMBUL (1942), del cual se acredita la dirección a Norman Foster. Welles coprotagonizó y co-escribió el guión con Joseph Cotten, el resultado fue un intrigante pero irregular thriller. Cuando EL CUARTO MANDAMIENTO se convirtió en un fracaso comercial, fue un golpe del cual la re- putación de Welles jamás se recobraría. Welles y los actores del Mercury fueron despedidos de la RKO. EL EXTRAñO (1946) producido por el independiente Sam Spiegel, tuvo a Welles dirigiéndose a sí mismo como un criminal de guerra Nazi escondiéndose en un pequeño pueblo, pero estaba falto del toque característico de Welles. Recobró su sagacidad cinematográfica con LA DAMA DE SHANGHAI (1948), una impresionante muestra del cine negro protagonizada por Welles y su esposa Rita Hayworth. ... ) El final de la sala de los espejos es un soberbio ejemplo del don de Welles para la audacia visual en la imagen.
69. CITIZEN KANE - Orson Welles Joseph Cotten Good Orson Welles Drama Classic 1941 -
- www.movies2go.net
- Produced by Orson Welles; RKO / Radio .
- Mankiewicz and Orson Welles .
- Commentary by Orson Welles biographer Peter Bogdanovich .
- between Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst .
- Interviews with Welles, the stars of Citizen Kane .
- and associates of Welles and Hearst .
- and Welles's historic The War of the Worlds broadcast .
- Biographical profiles of Welles and Hearst .
- Best Original Screenplay Original - Herman Mankiewicz and Orson Welles .
- Best Picture - Orson Welles .
- Best Director - Orson Welles .
- Best Actor - Orson Welles .
- Trivia: Listed as one of Roger Ebert's top ten movies of all time, this was Orson Welles' first feature film. ...
- Orson Welles depicts the the fame and fortune of a newspaper publisher, closely resembling the life of William Randolph Hearst. ...
70. Seeing Ear Theatre: Original Playhouse
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- Orson The Alien! The Untold Story Behind The War of the Worlds .
- starring Walter Koenig On October 30th, 1938 Orson Welles shocked the world with his faux "news" broadcast of an Alien invasion from mars; thousands of people believed the reports and streamed into the streets, panicked and screaming for their lives. Now, 60 years later, Seeing Ear Theatre asks the question, "What if two real aliens were listening to Welles' historic broadcast? And what if they, too, believed the reports to be authentic and felt obliged to travel to Earth to help save us from the dreaded Martians? What then, Orson? .
71. obits.com, The Internet Obituary Network, Obituary for Orson Welles
- www.obits.com
- Orson Welles, 1915-1985.
- Hollywood's "Boy Genius", Orson Welles acclaim in cinema circles may be surpassed only by that of Alfred Hitchcock- though Welles had become a giant in his industry before the age of 30. ... Credited with over 140 films, Orson Welles died October 10th, 1985 at the age of 70.
- The private life of Orson Welles was one obscured by gossip, legend, myth, media hype and frequently by Welles's own fabrications. ... Welles may have opted to aggrandize an unsettled early life in an unhappy family, creating an image more befitting a boy touted as a prodigy in Shakespeare before he was 12 years old. ...
- Born George Orson Welles on May 6th, 1915, he was a native of Kenosha, Wisconsin, the son of Richard Head Welles and his wife, Beatrice Ives. Welles' father had been a carriage manufacturer who dabbled in hotels and patents, his mother a reputedly beautiful amateur musician. Welles was the younger of their two sons, his older brother Richard Ives Wells suffered from a mild learning disability that led his parents to commit him to a mental institution for most of his life. By the time Welles was born, his parents marriage was already in decay, his father an alcoholic, and his mother under the Rasputin-like influence of the family doctor, Maurice Bernstein.
- Welles that young Orson was a prodigy when he was an otherwise unremarkable 18-month old toddler, and she put her full energies and attention into his development. Welles was drilled in Shakespeare, repeating it first and reading it later, and studying piano and violin with his mother, who hired Vaudevillians to teach him magic routines. In 1921, Beatrice Welles divorced her husband and on the advice of Dr. ... Bernstein tipped off his friends in the Chicago newspapers to the "Welles Prodigy", who was, with the encouragement of his mother and doctor, performing and organizing plays for himself and his elementary school peers. Welles early celebrity and contentment ended abruptly the week of his 9th birthday, when his mother died in May, 1924 of jaundice. Her will left Welles remanded to the custody of his alcoholic father (who he had not seen in years) and Dr. ...
- Welles way at Todd had been paved by Dr. ... Welles received such biased suffrage that he was allowed run of the drama department and excused from his classes, where he demonstrated only mediocre performance. Welles skipped classes to produce and perform in plays, spending many of his holidays at the school, and on December 28th, 1930 found himself very wealthy as well as indulged after his father died from complications of long term alcohol abuse. ... Welles later reduced his age at his orphaning to 10 or 12, spinning an Oliver Twist -like tale for himself.
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73. Orson Welles: A potted history ,
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- Orson Welles: A potted history .
- Orson Welles was born on 6th May 1915 in Wisconsin, far smaller than the 6’1” overweight man he would become. His parents were both successful in two very different careers: his father Richard Welles was an inventor and his mother Beatrice Welles was an accomplished concert pianist. However, their relationship did not mimic this success and when he was just six Orson’s parents separated. If not distressing enough to a child so young, Orson lost his (reportedly very beautiful) mother to hepatitis aged nine. Then only three years later at twelve his father also died after taking Orson on a world trip. ...
- This was a big turnaround for Welles who up until now, like most children, had disliked school. ... Welles made his stage debut in New York playing Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet. ... Welles was after all first and foremost an actor, playing close to a hundred roles in his on-screen career compared to the 16 films he directed (two of which, Don Quixote and The Other Side of the World were never completed). ...
- Welles is best known however for the film Citizen Kane (1941) still today quoted as the “best film ever made” in which he proved his brilliance behind the camera as well as in front of it. Taking on the job of writing, producing, directing and starring in the film certainly paid off for Welles in what was only his third film to direct. ... In reality Welles actually chose to depict Rosebud as something quite different to what was supposedly Hearst’s reference to his sweetheart’s clitoris. ...
- This one body of work led to Welles being considered an autuer as Truffaut, a founder of the autuer theory, gave testement to, calling Welles: “A capricious genius”. ... However, Welles was comical about his success, as he put it: “I started at the top and worked my way down”. ...
- Welles always had a steady flow of acting jobs taking good roles such as Mr Rochester in Jane Eyre (1944) which saw him through the difficult periods. ... Welles received many impressive awards throughout his career including an Oscar (for Citizen Kane in 1941) Grand Prize of the Festival (Tragedy of Othello,1952), Best Actor (Compulsion 1959) and a Lifetime Achievement Award at Cannes (1984), as well as an AFI Lifetime Achievement award and nominations at the Berlin Festival and the Batfts. ...
74. Orson Welles: Stories
- www.hollywoodreporter.com
- 02, 2003 Orson Welles: Stories By Gregory McNamee .
- Bottom line: Film scholar Peter Conrad untangles the stories the raconteur and filmmaker Orson Welles told about himself -- some true, some not true, but all fascinating. ...
- By Peter ConradFaber and Faber; 384 pages; $25 Orson Welles insisted that he was a genius throughout his long life -- and he may have been too modest, suggests film scholar Peter Conrad in "Orson Welles: Stories. " Does anyone doubt that Orson Welles was a genius? Certainly Welles insisted so throughout his long life, in Hollywood and in exile from it. For the benefit of any doubters, Welles enumerated his many accomplishments, introducing himself on a German lecture tour in the 1980s as "author, composer, actor, designer, producer, director, scholar, financier, gourmet, ventriloquist, poet. " Welles was too modest, suggests film scholar Peter Conrad. Although he considered himself a writer and "man of ideas" above all else, Welles left out many entries on that already long list. ... Beyond the stage, Welles published books, painted and drew, wrote a newspaper column and lectured on many subjects. ... Conrad's book explores the stories Welles told about himself, stories that accumulated into a body of legend that has since been hard to separate out from the strict truth. ... ) The strict truth is this: Welles prided himself on perfectionism yet left behind many a flawed, unfinished and imperfect piece of work. ... Who, after all, can quibble too much about the artist who made "Citizen Kane" and "The Third Man"? Welles had a unique vision, a precise understanding of the complex technology that goes into making films. ... " Conrad's book teases out truths from tales, catches Orson Welles in a few whoppers and celebrates him in a narrative peppered with interesting asides (on, for one, the debt Gus Van Sant's "My Own Private Idaho" owes to "Chimes"). For admirers of Welles' life and work, there is much to ponder here.
75. War of the Worlds: How Orson Welles Drew the Nation into a Shared IIlusion
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- War of the Worlds, Orson Welles,.
- 30, 1938, when millions of Americans tuned in to a popular radio program that featured plays directed by, and often starring, Orson Welles. ... But in adapting the book for a radio play, Welles made an important change: under his direction the play was written and performed so it would sound like a news broadcast about an invasion from Mars, a technique that, presumably, was intended to heighten the dramatic effect. ...
- Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater of the Air have made one of the most fascinating and important demonstrations of all time," she wrote. ...
- Welles scared thousands into demoralization with nothing at all. ...
- And, as happened with the Orson Welles broadcast, an effort was made to ensure that such manipulations wouldn't recur. ...
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