Orson Welles news, related photos and videos, and reviews of Orson Welles performances. According to Wikipedia: George Orson Welles was an American theater and film producer and director, and a theater, radio and film actor. Welles first...
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Orson Welles news, related photos and videos, and reviews of Orson Welles performances. According to Wikipedia: George Orson Welles was an American theater and film producer and director, and a theater, radio and film actor. Welles first gained notoriety for his October 30, 1938 radio broadcast of H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds. Adapted to sound like a contemporary news broadcast, it panicked a large number of listeners. Welles and his biographers subsequently claimed he was exposing the gullibility of American audiences in the tense preamble to the Second World War. In the mid-Thirties his New York theater adaptations of a voodoo Macbeth and a contemporary Julius Caesar became legendary. Welles was also a practiced magician, starring in troop variety spectacles in the war years. During this period he became a serious political activist and commentator through journalism, radio and public appearances closely associated with Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1941, he co-wrote, directed, produced and starred in Citizen Kane, most often chosen in polls of film critics as one of the greatest films ever made.
A blast from the past: Something I originally posted in June 2008. The Internet never ceases to amaze me. Below is an excerpt from an interview with Orson Welles . I've never seen it before today, never even knew of its existence until I started bumping around the web. Two things about the interview. First, Welles reveals that the idea of 'home' is very important to him because as a child, his family moved multiple times, so he never really had what he would call a home. Second, he confesses... Read Full Story
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Me and Orson Welles movie is Directed By : Richard Linklater
Starring : Zac Efron, Christian McKay, Ben Chaplin... | Category: Romance , Foreign , Adaptation Read Full Story
Per FirstShowing.net : With our society's extensive use of the internet, viral marketing has become an invaluable tool for movie marketing. In recent years I think it's safe to say The Dark Knight is the reigning champion for best viral marketing campaign which inspired activity from people all over the world. However, the greatest publicity stunt ever achieved goes all the way back to 1938, when Orson Welles' radio broadcast of H.G. Wells novel War of the Worlds created unparalleled panic... Read Full Story
I know a thing or two about the legendary War of the Worlds broadcast of 1938. It served as the initial
inspiration for my master's thesis covering what was called "First Person Singular," the then-revolutionary narrative technique
Orson Welles employed in his radio dramas, and how his later film writing owed such a debt to those early days of radio. Before
Welles, only 23 at the time of War of the Worlds , almost all radio dramas employed a narrator separate from the story, but Orson... Read Full Story
There are probably more than 100 historical movies in various stages of production, and we're only talking about movies to be released this year and the next. The exact figure is probably much higher. Anyway, why do we love watching period movies? Aside from seeing famous figures come to life, we also learn important lessons from the past. Of course, some historical dramas attempt to portray events and people as accurately as possible, while others are very much fictionalized... Read Full Story
Director: Orson Welles, 1941. Almost 70 years-old, Citizen Kane remains a classic, a masterpiece of cinema. This is surprising considering it was the directorial debut for Welles, who was only 24 years-old at the time and a Broadway producer and radio personality in New York. It was a box-office flop due to a massive anti-Kane newspaper compaign. Still, it garnered nine Academy Award nominations, winning one Best Original Screenplay (Herman J. Mankiewicz and Orson Welles). Later, in 2007 it... Read Full Story
I've been waiting for this! Finally, the US trailer for Me and Orson Welles ! Featuring Zac Efron, Claire Daines and Christian McKay as Orson Welles.
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Zac Efron as a serious young dramatic actor? If you've only seen him in the High School Musical series or Hairspray or 17 Again, then you'll probably think I'm joking. But Efron (currently ranked # 23 at the Top 50 Hitlist ) is apparently trying to be just that. As one of the most popular young Hollywood stars, he... Read Full Story
The reason that the War of the Worlds hoax fooled so many is that it seemed so real. Contributor: Timothy Sexton Published: Oct 28, 2009 Read Full Story
Synopsis New York, 1937: RICHARD SAMUELS (17) is bored with school and dreams of treading the boards on Broadway. After a chance encounter with a theatre company outside a derelict theatre, The Mercury, Richard soon finds himself inside chatting with Orson Welles, the Director of Broadways first Shakespearean production, Julius Caesar. Welles is a bullish, competitive character who is having an affair with the leading lady, MURIEL BRASSLER, despite his wife VIRGINIAS pregnancy. Richard plays... Read Full Story
