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• The broadcast, which disrupted households, interrupted religious services, created traffic jams and clogged communications systems, was made by Orson Welles, who as the radio character, "The Shadow," used to give "the creeps" to countless child listeners. ...
• Welles and the Mercury Theatre on the Air over station WABC and the Columbia Broadcasting System's coast-to-coast network, from 8 to 9 o'clock. ...
• The radio listeners, apparently, missed or did not listen to the introduction, which was: "The Columbia Broadcasting System and its affiliated stations present Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre on the Air in 'The War of the Worlds' by H. ...
• Welles opened the program with a description of the series of which it is a part. ...
• Wells's novel which was broadcast "followed the original closely, but to make the imaginary details more interesting to American listeners the adapter, Orson Welles, substituted an American locale for the English scenes of the story. ...
• Welles said: "I don't think we will choose anything like this again. ...
• Orson Welles, who adapted "The War of the worlds," expressed his regrets. ...
• "I know that the Columbia Broadcasting system and those of us in radio have only the most profound regret that the composure of many of our fellow citizens was disturbed by the vivid Orson Welles broadcast. ...
• As for the 22 year old "man from Mars" himself, Orson Welles, youthful actor manager and theatrical prodigy, whose vivid dramatization of H. ...
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• Orson Welles and his CBS Mercury Theater group presented an adaptation of one of H. ... Welles's then lesser-known short stories, "The War of the Worlds," which described a nineteenth-century Martian invasion of England. ... Perhaps Welles's most consequential decision was to use an "open format" during the first half of the show. ... Welles's second most consequential decision was to use the names of actual New Jersey and New York towns, highways, streets, and buildings when describing the movements and attacks of the Martians. ...
• Welles's careful direction meticulously created all the character of a remote broadcast, including static and microphone feedback and background sounds of autos, sirens, and the voices of spectators and police. ...
• Houseman (1948) provides even more insight when he discusses the "technical brilliance" of the show that emerged under Orson Welles's direction. ... Rather, Orson Welles and his Mercury Theater staff of excellent writers and actors not so innocently conspired to "scare the hell out of people" for Halloween. ...

• It was simply the weekly broadcast of Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre, and that week, in honor of Halloween, they had decided to stage a highly dramatized and updated version of H. ...
• Younger listeners tended not to panic because they recognized Orson Welles's voice as the voice of the hero in the popular radio series, The Shadow.
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• Orson Welles in the CBS studios during the broadcast of the War of the Worlds.

• She was married six times, including to the actors Paul Valentine and Ted Jordan and the restaurateur Armando Orsini; she reportedly dated Orson Welles and Victor Mature. ...

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• "George Orson Welles" (May 6, 1915 - October 10, 1985) is commonly considered one of Hollywood's greatest directors, as well as a fine actor and screenwriter. ...
• Welles was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin. ... Dickie Welles was terribly unsuited to this role and became a homeless drunk. Orson inherited the role of wonder boy and seemed magically adept at it, though his personal relationships surely suffered because of it. ...
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• An arrogant man who showed little tact in dealing with film studios, Welles had trouble financing his films after ''Citizen Kane'' (1941). ... Since the film clearly ''was'' based on Hearst, any dismay on Welles's part would have been disingenuous. ...
• Studios often wrested control of the films from him, making drastic cuts or changing endings: Welles's original ending to ''The Magnificent Ambersons'' has been lost, apparently permanently. ''Touch of Evil'' was also butchered by the studio but has since been restored to something like what Welles intended. ...
• Welles starred in many of his films and wrote the scripts, often using the talents of the Mercury Theatre company, which he had founded in 1937. These included several stories from English literature, such as ''Macbeth'' (1948), ''Jane Eyre'' (in which he appeared opposite Joan Fontaine), and ''Chimes at Midnight'' (1965), an underrated classic in which Welles played Falstaff. ...
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• Then, nearly fifty years later, came the theatrical prodigy, Orson Welles, who took to the new medium of radio as no one ever had, and in no time was off to Hollywood to make a movie to carry him higher still, a movie inspired by the career of William Randolph Hearst. Welles would direct the film and play the leading role. ... The movie was Citizen Kane, the Orson Welles masterpiece that many present-day directors and critics consider the greatest film ever made.
• But our story is about what happened when the real-life Welles and the real-life Hearst collided head-on--''The Battle Over Citizen Kane,'' produced by Thomas Lennon and Michael Epstein.
• The talk of the town was twenty-four-year-old Orson Welles, the boy genius from New York, and his new contract at RKO. No studio had ever offered such control, not even to Hollywood's biggest names, but to Welles, they handed the keys to the kingdom, and he'd never even made a movie.
• NARRATOR: When Welles got to Hollywood, one of the most important centers of power wasn't even in the town, but north in the mountains where William Randolph Hearst had built his castle. ...
• NARRATOR: Less than a year after he'd gotten to Hollywood, Welles would turn his filmmaker's eye to that castle. Citizen Kane would be acclaimed as the greatest talking picture ever made, but it would scandalize the life of Hearst, plunge the film industry into crisis, and prove the undoing of the young Orson Welles.
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• NARRATOR: Welles was twenty-four when he set out to show the life of Hearst. ... Hearst was seventy-six--to Welles he must have looked like a relic--but anyone who looked at that old man in the castle and thought he was through, thought Hearst would quit, was missing the main point of that life.
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• Probably the two most famous radio dramas are Under Milk Wood, a 'Play for Voices' by Dylan Thomas, and (in the US) Orson Welles's version of The War of the Worlds, originally a book by H. ...
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• A clearly shaken Orson Welles explains the demise of the Martians by disease near the end of the dramatization. ...
• A clearly angry Orson Welles, while staring down New York City Policemen in the studio unbeknownst by the listening public, comments on how people can see further now, rather than believe life doesn't exist elswhere, as a result of the Martian Invasion. ...
• Immediately after the conclusion of the dramatization, Orson Welles steps out of character and makes a public disclaimer regarding the broadcast. ...

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• A radio drama series called The Third Man and centering on the adventures of Harry Lime (voiced by Welles) subsequent to his "death in Vienna" ran for a number of seasons. ...

• Moorehead was part of Orson Welles' Mercury Theater on the Air radio program in the 1930s and appeared in a Broadway production of Don Juan in Hell in 1950. ...

• Simon Philip Hugh Callow (born June 13, 1949) is a highly-regarded British actor of stage, film and television, and the biographer of Orson Welles and Charles Laughton. ...

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• He portrayed the young Orson Welles in the HBO original movie RKO 281, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award, and appeared as Laertes in the 2000 movie version of the William Shakespeare play Hamlet. ...

• He also wrote the scores for Citizen Kane, Cape Fear and Taxi Driver as well as for the original radio broadcast of Orson Welles' War of the Worlds. ...
• There he met Orson Welles, and wrote scores for his Mercury Theater broadcasts as well as for the famous adaptation of H. ... When Welles moved to movies, Herrmann went with him, writing the scores for Citizen Kane (1941) and The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), although the score for the latter, like the film itself, was heavily edited by the studio. ...

• The film also stars Robert Shaw as Henry VIII, Orson Welles as Wolsey, a young John Hurt as More's nemesis Richard Rich, and an older Wendy Hiller as More's second wife. ...

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• Orson Welles 1915–85, American actor, director, and producer, b. ... Wells's The War of the Worlds, done in the style of a news broadcast, panicked the listening public and brought Welles national attention. ... Welles brought technical brilliance, a precise sense of casting, and a complex narrative structure to bear on a teasingly ambiguous portrait of an American tycoon. ...
• Welles's other films include The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), Touch of Evil (1958; restored and reworked according to Welles's instructions, 1998), The Trial (1963), and Chimes at Midnight (1966). Welles's booming voice and air of authority made him a popular film actor and occasional off-screen narrator, appearing in films such as Jane Eyre (1943), The Third Man (1949), Catch-22 (1970), and Someone to Love (1987). ...
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• Citizen Kane, created by a twenty-six-year-old Orson Welles, is one of the most durable and praiseworthy films in the history of the medium. ... In much of the critical writing on Kane, Welles often receives the lion's share of credit, but I cannot imagine the film without the contributions of Toland, Mankiewicz, Herrmann, Cotten, Sloane, and so on. ...

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• When police prevented the show from opening, Welles staged a popular uprising, led a march up Broadway, and presented a single, impromptu performance in a rented auditorium. ...
• The city once more survived and Welles, at the end of the broadcast, reminded the traumatised mobs of listeners that they were the victims of a Halloween prank. Popular fury was not appeased when Welles appeared before the press looking, as he said, like an early martyr. ...
• The overawed announcer introduced Welles as a mythical being and told listeners to imagine a combination of Baron Munchausen and Alice in Wonderland: a man who was at once a vaunting fabulist and an ingenuous child. ...
• Thanks to the reverence of his elders, Welles was granted freedoms which he promptly misused. ... The providers of industrialised entertainment declared Welles to be unbankable. ...
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• In 1955, a character in Mr Arkadin calls the hero - a piratical tycoon played, of course, by Welles himself - "a phenomenon of an age of dissolution and crisis". It was hard, by then, not to see Welles as just such a phenomenon. ...
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• Welles played the role without makeup, as if confessionally. ...
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• Nevertheless, what remains is precious for its exposure of Welles's mad romanticism. ...
• It too was recut by the studio, which locked Welles out and ignored his desperate editorial memos. ...

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