Aware that there was a growing audience of cineastes with a strong interest in Welles ' work, the studio released this version to cinemas in 1976 and later issued it on video, billing it as " complete, uncut and restored.

The writing was taut, and the casting, which had always been a strong point of the series ( featuring such film stars as Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, Judy Garland, Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, Eve McVeagh, Lena Horne, and Cary Grant ), took an unexpected turn when Lewis expanded the repertory to include many of radio's famous drama and comedy stars — often playing against type — such as Jack Benny.

Mainly because of his strong anti-slavery views, Welles shifted allegiance in 1854 to the newly-established Republican Party, and founded a newspaper in 1856 ( the Hartford Evening Press ) that would espouse Republican ideals for decades thereafter.

She sued Orson Welles for back payment of child support which she claimed had never been paid.

While Welles dutifully supported James K. Polk in the 1844 election, he would abandon the Democrats in 1848 to support Van Buren's Freesoil campaign.

Unable to influence Machado, Welles negotiated an end to his presidency, with support from General Herrera, Colonels Castillo and Delgado, and Enrique Ros.

Despite the " personal fondness " of the President and his wife for Welles, he continued, the President sided with Hull because supporting a subordinate would promote revolts in other government agencies, Hull was politically connected and popular with Congress, and the Senate, he was told, would not support Welles for Secretary of State or any other office.

Author Robert Anton Wilson, a great fan of the film, argued in Cosmic Trigger III: My Life After Death that the film was itself largely an intentional effort at fakery by Welles in support of the film's themes.

The next day, Jane shows her latest tape recording to her husband Dr. Lodge ( Laurence Welles ), who has agreed to support their open-marriage.

The partial print had been saved by an associate of Welles who had provided financial support to the Mercury Theatre.

The Running MachineAn 1864 cartoon featuring Welles, William P. Fessenden, Edwin M. Stanton, Abraham Lincoln and William H. Seward takes a swing at the Lincoln administration.

The Running MachineAn 1864 cartoon featuring Stanton, William P. Fessenden | William Fessenden, Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward | William Seward and Gideon Welles takes a swing at the Lincoln administration.

The Running MachineAn 1864 cartoon featuring Fessenden, Edwin M. Stanton | Edwin Stanton, Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward | William Seward and Gideon Welles takes a swing at the Lincoln administration.

L-R: Edwin M. Stanton, Salmon P. Chase, Abraham Lincoln, Gideon Welles, Caleb B. Smith, William H. Seward, Montgomery Blair and Edward Bates.

" Running the ' Machine ' ": An 1864 political cartoon takes a swing at Lincoln's administration — featuring William Fessenden, Edwin Stanton, William H. Seward | William Seward, Gideon Welles, Lincoln and others.

Running The " Machine " An 1864 cartoon mocking Lincoln's cabinet depicts Seward, William P. Fessenden | William Fessenden, Lincoln, Edwin M. Stanton | Edwin Stanton, Gideon Welles and other members.

Several weeks later, when Secretary of State William H. Seward argued for a blockade of Southern ports, Welles argued vociferously against the action but was eventually overruled by Lincoln.

Lincoln nicknamed Welles his " Neptune ".

After leaving politics, Welles returned to Connecticut and to writing, editing his journals and authoring several books before his death, including a biography, Lincoln and Seward, published in 1874.

Welles ' three-volume diary, documenting his Cabinet service from 1861 – 1869, is an invaluable archive for Civil War scholars and students of Lincoln alike, allowing readers rare insight into the complex struggles, machinations and inter-relational strife within the President's War Cabinet.

* Lincoln and Seward: by Gideon Welles, New York: Publisher, Sheldon and Company, 1874.

Goldsborough continued to hold back his fleet, forcing Lincoln to accept a recommendation by Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles to detach ships under Goldsborough's command and place them under Commodore Charles Wilkes, who as a lieutenant had relieved Goldsborough at the Depot of Charts and Instruments ( see above ), and who would report directly to Welles.

A political cartoon appeared in Harper's Weekly on September 1, 1864 depicting Lincoln on a tightrope, pushing a wheelbarrow and carrying two men on his back-Navy Secretary Gideon Welles and War Secretary Edwin Stanton-while John Bull, Napoleon III, Jefferson Davis, and Generals Grant, Lee and Sherman, among others, looked on.

Ford's circle at the time included Carl Van Vechten, Glenway Wescott, George Platt Lynes, Lincoln Kirstein, Orson Welles, George Balanchine, and E. E. Cummings.

In 1941, RKO Pictures released Citizen Kane made by Orson Welles.

Cotten made his Broadway debut in 1930, and soon became friends with Orson Welles.

Orson Welles stated that Keaton's The General is " the greatest comedy ever made, the greatest Civil War film ever made, and perhaps the greatest film ever made.

The archive of networked programmes made by Southern Television, for example, is now owned by the Australian media company Southern Star Group ( no connection ) – but Southern's regional output is in the hands of ITV plc, whilst the few surviving tapes of Associated-Rediffusion belong to many different organisations ( the majority of Associated-Rediffusion's tapes were recorded in monochrome and therefore deemed of no use upon the arrival of colour broadcasting ; as such they were disposed of by their successor Thames Television ), although in recent years there have been occasional discoveries such as a 1959 episode of Double Your Money and the remaining missing episode of Around the World with Orson Welles, found by Ray Langstone in 2011.

In 1820 the construction of the Welles Mill along the Wyalusing Creek made Wyalusing a prime area for people to farm and raise crops.

Between two movies made by Orson Welles ( see below ), he wrote the score for William Dieterle's The Devil and Daniel Webster ( 1941 ), for which he won his only Oscar.

When RKO threatened to eliminate the payment of salaries by December 31 if no progress had been made, Welles announced that he would pay his cast out of his own pocket.

According to film historian Otto Friedrich, it made Mankiewicz " unhappy to hear Welles quoted in Louella Parsons's column, before the question of screen credits was officially settled, as saying, ' So I wrote Citizen Kane.

They praised movies by Jean Renoir and Jean Vigo, and made then-radical cases for the artistic distinction and greatness of Hollywood studio directors such as Orson Welles, John Ford, Alfred Hitchcock and Nicholas Ray.

FDR made Welles the key person and Welles had " a dominance over UN planning " that was " starting to embitter Hull.

Roosevelt was always close to Welles and made him the central figure in the State Department, much to the chagrin of secretary Cordell Hull, who could not be removed because he had a powerful political base.

" Welles ' letter of resignation was not made public as was customary and, one report concluded, " The facts of this situation remained obscure tonight.

The U. S. still awaits a clarification of its foreign policy and the forced resignation of Sumner Welles made an already murky issue even more obscure ".

Welles made his first public appearance following his resignation in October 1943.

Winston Churchill, who made the phase " No comment " famous, cited Welles as his source for the cryptic response.

When Orson Welles ' radio production of The War of the Worlds from The Mercury Theatre on the Air for Halloween in 1938 shocked many Americans and made news, Universal Pictures edited their serial Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars into a short feature called Mars Attacks the World for release in November of that year.

) Though Citizen Kane is often considered one of the best films ever made, Hearst was allegedly not amused by how he — or his mistress Marion Davies, widely considered the inspiration for Susan Alexander — were depicted, and he attempted to destroy both the film and Welles ' career.

The series made its debut with Welles ' adaptation of Rebecca, with guest stars Margaret Sullavan and Mildred Natwick.

In Welles ' film, de Hory questioned what it was that made his forgeries inferior to the actual paintings created by the artists he imitated, particularly since they had fooled so many experts, and were always appreciated when it was believed that they were genuine.

The first season also touches upon a government conspiracy as demonstrated in the discovery of a whitewash of the alien reconnaissance mission that took place in Grover's Mill in 1938 that was forgotten because of the infamous radio broadcast made by Orson Welles.