Michel Ney, now under the allegiance of the restored Bourbon king ( Welles ) is asked to capture him at Grenoble.

Zugsmith offered him a pile of scripts, of which Welles asked for the worst to prove he could make a great film out of a bad script.

Janet Leigh recalled how Welles asked for input from the actors in the cast:

Later, while still in high school, she was asked to make a screen test opposite Orson Welles.

in 1935, soon after Denby's return to New York, Orson Welles and John Houseman asked him to adapt Eugène Labiche's Un Chapeau de Paille d ' Italie for the stage.

About two weeks before he died in 1985, Welles asked filmmaker Henry Jaglom, " Don't let Ted Turner deface my movie with his crayons.

However, according to the daughter of William Castle, it was her father who had purchased the film adaptation rights for the novel and who then asked Welles to pitch it to Cohn, with Castle hoping to receive the directoral assignment himself.

Perhaps Welles ' most public detraction from the subject matter of the film occurred during a guest appearance on an early 1980s episode of The Merv Griffin Show ; " One might as well make predictions based on random passages from the phone book ", he offered when asked about the film, before moving on to discuss other projects more interesting to him personally.

Welles had never performed in the musical and was happy to be asked to do the role, which he described as a " mitzvah " for Scotts Valley Performing Arts.

On 1 March 1940, Ribbentrop received Sumner Welles, the American Under-Secretary of State, who was on a peace mission for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and did his best to abuse his American guest.

Ribbentrop told Welles that only a total German victory " could give us the peace we want ".

Welles reported to Roosevelt that Ribbentrop had a " completely closed and very stupid mind ".

Welles screened the new cut and wrote a 58-page memo to Universal's head of production, Edward Muhl, detailing what he thought needed to be done to make the film work.

In 1938, in what has become one of the most famous American radio plays of all time, Orson Welles acted out his The War of the Worlds invasion.

Welles did not speak the signature line of " Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men ?".

He advocated the use of deep focus ( Orson Welles ), wide shots ( Jean Renoir ) and the " shot-in-depth ", and preferred what he referred to as " true continuity " through mise en scène over experiments in editing and visual effects.

Mankiewicz is best known for his collaboration with Orson Welles on the screenplay of Citizen Kane, for which they both won an Academy Award and later became a source of controversy over who wrote what.

In 1938 a radio broadcast version of War of the Worlds by Orson Welles, using a contemporary setting for H. G. Wells ’ Martian invasion, created some public panic in the U. S. This would later figure into some commentary on what was happening in 1947 when “ flying saucers ” finally hit the U. S.

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.

Welles intuited that that Cortez's mastery of studio space was exactly what this film – having a house as its main setting – demanded.

In his column for The New York Post, Welles wrote that this documentary footage ' must be seen ' as an index of the ' putrefaction of the soul, a perfect spiritual garbage ' associated with what ' we have been calling [...] Fascism.

Roosevelt told Wallace that Bullitt ought to " burn in hell " for what he was saying about Welles.

Schmidlin worked on reconstructing the Erich von Stroheim film Greed, to give a sense of what the original lost version of the film might have been like, and re-edited Orson Welles ' film Touch of Evil.

In 1940, Orson Welles ( Schreiber ), RKO studio head George Schaefer ( Scheider ), and screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz ( Malkovich ) struggle in making what will be considered as the greatest American film of all time, Citizen Kane.

However, in the introduction to Davies ' autobiography The Time We Had: Life With William Randolph Hearst, Orson Welles wrote " And what of Susan Alexander?

In an effort to end the fighting, the United States government dispatched Sumner Welles to the port of Amapala ; he had instructions to try to produce a settlement that would bring to power a government eligible for recognition under the terms of the 1923 treaty.

Orson Welles explained to Peter Bogdanovich in their interview book This is Orson Welles that, as Raft's career accelerated, the actor was particularly an idol and role model for actual gangsters of the period in terms of dress and attitude.

* 1937: Orson Welles ' famous production at the Mercury Theatre drew fervoured comment as the director dressed his protagonists in uniforms reminiscent of those common at the time in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, as well as drawing a specific analogy between Caesar and Benito Mussolini.

* The Trial ( Le Procès ), directed by and starring Orson Welles with Anthony Perkins and Jeanne Moreau-( France / Italy / West Germany )

In February and March 1940 Welles visited Italy, Germany, and England to discuss peacemaking proposals.

Breaking with the Federal Theatre Project in 1937, Welles and Houseman founded the Mercury Theatre and began with a groundbreaking adaption of Julius Caesar that evoked comparison to contemporary Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany.

In his Post columns, Welles wrote that the social reforms in post-war Germany would not eradicate Fascism ; Nazi believers were ' laying the fuel for another conflagration ...' In one of the film ’ s strongest scenes, Mr. Wilson and Kindler / Rankin join the Longstreets for dinner.

One might argue that a pioneer of this style in television was Orson Welles in his 1955 program for British television, Around the World with Orson Welles.

Had Universal not wrangled Touch of Evil away from Welles, it might very well be the first film to follow this practice.

Longdale says that he told Velvet that Welles might come looking for them.

In 1946, Mr. Wilson ( Edward G. Robinson ) of the United Nations War Crimes Commission is hunting for Nazi fugitive Franz Kindler ( Orson Welles ), a war criminal who has erased all evidence which might identify him.

The Man Who Saw Tomorrow is narrated ( one might say " hosted ") by Orson Welles.

Tales of Mystery and Imagination was first remixed in 1987 for release on CD, and included narration by Orson Welles which had been recorded in 1975, but arrived too late to be included on the original album.

Citizen Kane ( 1941 ) was said by Orson Welles to not be a biography of William Randolph Hearst, but a composite of many people from that era.

Critic Leonard Maltin labeled Hawks " the greatest American director who is not a household name ," noting that, while his work may not be as well known as Ford, Welles, or DeMille, he is no less a talented filmmaker.

Cagney was among Stanley Kubrick's and Marlon Brando's favorite actors, and was considered by Orson Welles to be " maybe the greatest actor to ever appear in front of a camera.

It has been suggested that Welles knew the schedule of a popular program on another channel, and scheduled the first report of the invasion to coincide with a commercial break in the other program so that people switching stations would be tricked.

For the movie Welles intercut footage of Elmyr de Hory, an art forger, and Clifford Irving, who wrote an " authorized " autobiography of Howard Hughes that had been revealed to be a hoax.

Originally scheduled to be premiered at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival with Janet Leigh, Walter Murch and Rick Schmidlin attending, the screening was canceled in the eleventh-hour after threats of litigation from Welles ' daughter, Beatrice Welles, who has in the past issued similar threats against some parties who try to show or alter her father's work ( such as the Touch of Evil restoration or the completion of Welles ' last film The Other Side of the Wind ).

In classic motion pictures such as Orson Welles ' Citizen Kane and Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest, the director created storyboards that were initially thought by cinematographers as to be impossible to film.

Despite Punky's efforts to escape from Fenster, a trick pulled by Margaux in which she dressed up and pretended to be Punky, and advocacy from Mike Fulton, Chillings ended up placing Punky with a new foster family, the fabulously wealthy Jules and Tiffany Buckworth ( Robert Casper and Joan Welles ), the latter of whom did not take to Punky's playful, more working-class ways well at all.

" The name itself was originally inspired by Margot Stevenson, the Broadway ingénue who would later be chosen to voice Lane opposite Welles ' Shadow during " the 1938 Goodrich summer season of the radio drama.

Jonathan Shields is thought to be a blending of David O. Selznick, Orson Welles and Val Lewton.

However, since Chaplin did not like to be directed by anyone but himself, Chaplin bought the story from Welles.

Nick Austin, who was editorial director of Sphere Books when Watkins ' adaptation was commissioned and published, writes that the book was the " best chance I ’ d ever be likely to get to participate in a hoax of truly Guy Grand proportions — the best thing of its kind since Orson Welles ' War of the Worlds radio broadcast.

") The second passage Welles reads ( which comes before Fall of the House of Usher ( Prelude ), seems to be a partial paraphrase or composite from nonfiction by Poe, chiefly from a collection of poems titled " Poems of Youth " by Poe ( contained in " Introduction to Poems – 1831 " in a section titled " Letter to Mr. B -----------"; the " Shadows of shadows passing " part of the quote comes from the Marginalia.

The film was reportedly left largely unedited when Welles died in 1985 ; Selwart as well as other cast and crew members had to be dismissed because of lack of funds.

Welles appointed a commission, which came to be known as the Ironclad Board, of three senior naval officers to choose among the designs that were submitted for consideration.

A month later Weizmann, in a letter to Sumner Welles wrote: " It is conceived on big lines, large enough to satisfy the legitimate aspirations of both Arabs and Jews, and the strategic and economic interests of the United States ;... properly managed, Mr. Philby's scheme offers an approach which should not be abandoned ".

Her husband Orson Welles issued a public statement at the time, saying they would be pleased only if this were the last bomb test ever.

Hayworth said that Welles did not want to be tied down:

Mark-Lee Kirk's set designs for the 1942 Orson Welles film The Magnificent Ambersons seem to be based on Furness's ornate Neo-Grec interiors of the 1870s.

Their first production would be Christopher Marlowe's Tragical History of Dr. Faustus which Welles directed and played the title role.