In Valley of the Dolls Parkins played Anne Welles, the naive small-town girl, described as " the good girl with a million dollar face and all the bad breaks " — a character based on author Susann.

One of his earliest acting breaks came when he was offered a role by Orson Welles in his play Chimes At Midnight.

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.

Orson Welles had notorious problems with financing, but his three film noirs were well budgeted: The Lady from Shanghai ( 1947 ) received top-level, " prestige " backing, while both The Stranger, his most conventional film, and Touch of Evil, an unmistakably personal work, were funded at levels lower but still commensurate with headlining releases.

* Orson Welles's Chimes at Midnight ( 1966 ) compiles the two Henry IV plays into a single, condensed storyline, while adding a handful of scenes from Richard II and Henry V. The movie, also known as Falstaff, features Welles himself in the title role.

In the interview, Wells admitted his surprise at the widespread panic that resulted from the broadcast, but acknowledged his debt to Welles for increasing sales of one of his " more obscure " titles.

Cotten had his first starring role in Welles's second production for the Federal Theatre Project — the farce Horse Eats Hat, adapted by Welles and Edwin Denby from Eugène Labiche's play, Un Chapeau de Paille d ' Italie.

By the time production wrapped, Welles had been dropped from RKO, and, as part of the settlement, was required to edit the film to suitable length.

McGoohan also stated that he was influenced by his experience from theater, including his work in Orson Welles ' 1955 play Moby Dick Rehearsed and the 1962 BBC teleplay The Prisoner by Bridget Boland.

Bogdanovich says he was told the story of the alleged Ince murder by Welles, who in turn said he heard it from writer Charles Lederer.

That source apparently was Konstantin Umansky, the Soviet ambassador to the US, who had deduced the leak based upon communications from Sumner Welles.

David Wilmot, a Democratic congressman from Pennsylvania, and a group of other Barnburner Democrats including Preston King of New York, Hannibal Hamlin of Maine, Gideon Welles of Connecticut, and Jacob Brinkerhoff of Ohio, had already been meeting in early August strategy meetings.

She appeared as Mistress Quickly in Orson Welles ' film Chimes at Midnight ( 1965 ) and was directed by Charlie Chaplin in A Countess from Hong Kong ( 1967 ), starring Marlon Brando and Sophia Loren, which was one of her final films.

In a significant departure from his earlier roles, Orson Welles was cast as Mr. Potter.

The first specific reference to commissioning located in naval records is a letter of November 6, 1863, from Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles to all navy yards and stations.

Welles liked Weaver as Chester on TV's Gunsmoke and worked closely with him on his part, which was shot on a three-day hiatus from the TV show.

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

While it did feature some vital Welles scenes that Universal cut from the release version, the preview version also featured more of Keller's material than the release version.

In 1998, Walter Murch, working from all available material, re-edited the film based on the Welles memo, with Bob O ' Neil, Universal's director of film restoration, and Bill Varney, Universal's Vice President of Sound Operations, participating in the restoration.

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 ).

* Tex ( t )- Mex, a new book from the University of Texas Press, features an article on Orson Welles and Touch of Evil entitled: ' Hallucinations of Miscegenation and Murder: Dancing along the Mestiza / o Borders of Proto-Chicana / o Cinema with Orson Welles's Touch of Evil.

O ' Brien went on to do some special effects work, re-using one of the mattes from Son of Kong, on Orson Welles ' American classic Citizen Kane ( 1941 ) and George Pal's Oscar-nominated animated short Tulips Shall Grow ( 1942 ), as well as developing his own project, Gwangi, about cowboys who encounter a prehistoric animal in a " lost " valley, which he failed to sell to the studio.

In Sideslip by Ted White and Dave van Arnam, a private detective from our New York finds himself in an alternate reality where Earth is under occupation by interstellar humanoids nicknamed " Angels ", who had landed in 1938, taking advantage of the confusion following Orson Welles ' War of the Worlds radio program, and had ruled Earth as a colony ever since.

They usually starred Welles in the leading role, along with celebrity guest stars such as Margaret Sullavan or Helen Hayes, in adaptations from literature, Broadway, and / or films.

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.

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.

The film, with a script featuring a contribution from Herman J. Mankiewicz ( who later co-wrote Citizen Kane with Orson Welles ), had Neagle performing her own high-wire acrobatics.

During an all night session at Perkins ' Restaurant, Welles and Houseman hashed out a script.

Welles telephoned Houseman asking him to return to Hollywood to " babysit " screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz while he completed the script, and keep him away from alcohol.

Mankiewicz ( center ,) with Orson Welles ( left ) and John Houseman working on script for Citizen Kane in the California Desert

The script for this film, the idea for it given by Orson Welles, was inspired by the case of serial killer Henri Désiré Landru.

) Instead, Chaplin bought the script from Welles and rewrote parts of it, crediting Welles only with the idea.

Welles later expressed regret at his only being credited with the idea, since he maintained that most of the final film was a verbatim copy of his script, with Chaplin's only major writing contribution being the gallows scenes.

Welles believed that a version directed by him would have been better, as he considered Chaplin a " genius " as an actor, but merely competent as a director ; however, Welles urgently needed money, and so signed away all rights to the script.

Another story suggests that although the script had yet to be written, Welles wanted Chaplin to play the lead role.

Chaplin, deciding that he didn't want to have to write the script with Welles, opted out, saying in effect " If it isn't written yet, I'm not interested.

It won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award for Welles ' screenplay, which she shared with Frank Whaley's script for Joe the King.

The recording begins with Welles reading the introduction to a script for a commercial for frozen peas.

A director apologizes because the script actually said " Every July " rather than " in July ", but Welles continues to complain that it was the other director who made the suggestion, and quips, " Too much directing around here.

Welles attempts to finish the script but gets tangled around the words " crumb-crisp coating.

" Welles ( as a head in a jar ) agrees to recreate his famous War of the Worlds broadcast for Lrrr and the Planet Express crew, but complains on-air about obvious plot holes in the script.

The film's script was rewritten from an earlier screenplay by Orson Welles and Oja Kodar by George Hickenlooper and F. X. Feeney ; Hickenlooper also directed the film.

In 1980, Kodar collaborated on a script for Welles ' film The Dreamers based on Karen Blixen's stories.

Variety magazine found the script wordy and noted that the " rambling style used by Orson Welles has occasional flashes of imagination, particularly in the tricky backgrounds he uses to unfold the yarn, but effects, while good on their own, are distracting to the murder plot.

A studio could gamble on a medium-budget feature with a good script and relatively unknown actors: Citizen Kane, directed by Orson Welles and often regarded as the greatest film of all time, fits that description.