Charlton Heston recalled that Welles was originally hired to act in the film only, not to direct or write.

Houseman immediately hired Welles and assigned him to direct Macbeth for the FTP's Negro Theater Unit, a production that became known as the " Voodoo Macbeth ", as it was set in the Haitian court of King Henri Christophe ( and with voodoo witch doctors for the three Weird Sisters ) and starred Jack Carter in the title role.

The show's producers hired Orson Welles to deliver the introduction, which aired a few days after the actor's death.

His time on The Critic also afforded LaMarche the opportunity to once again parody Orson Welles, this time after a video reading of a will ( the Sherman family was so wealthy, they had hired Welles to narrate it ) dissolves into a commercial for Mrs. Pells Fishsticks ( as well as another for Rosebud Frozen Peas, and another for Blotto Bros. wine ).

When the engineer attempts to give Welles some pointers, the actor reveals his frustration of being a performer, a " hired hand " on the commercial being given conflicting advice from different people in the booth.

Another parody of the tape appeared in a skit on the Canadian sketch comedy show SCTV, where Welles, played by John Candy, is hired by Liberace, played by Dave Thomas, for a Christmas storytelling.

Warrick began her career in the 1940s as a radio singer where she met her first husband Eric Rolf, but her first big break was being hired by a young Orson Welles for Citizen Kane, where she played Emily Monroe Norton.

Encouraged by positive reviews of her comedic performances, Tate chose the comedy The Thirteen Chairs as her next project, as she later explained, largely for the opportunity to co-star with Orson Welles.

The Queen rarely visited her, although Elizabeth's daughter Viscountess Welles is known to have done so more often.

With the exception of the Queen, who was awaiting the birth of her fourth child, and Cecily ( Viscountess Welles ), her daughters attended the funeral at Windsor Castle: Anne ( the future Countess of Surrey ), Catherine ( the future Countess of Devon ) and Bridget ( a sister at Dartford Priory ).

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.

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 ).

While Dietrich arguably never fully regained her former screen glory, she continued performing in the movies, including appearances for such distinguished directors as Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles, in films that included A Foreign Affair ( 1948 ), Stage Fright ( 1950 ), Rancho Notorious ( 1952 ), Witness for the Prosecution ( 1957 ), and Touch of Evil ( 1958 ).

When Sabrina Lloyd ( Wade Welles ) left at the end of season three a spokesperson for her agency said " no comment at this time " and stated that it was her decision not to return.

In a thriller starring Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth titled The Lady From Shanghai ( 1948 ), a woman, her crippled lawyer / husband and his partner, and an Irish sailor ended up involved in a murder scheme.

A year later, Hayworth's performance in The Lady from Shanghai ( 1947 ), directed by her husband Orson Welles, was critically acclaimed.

Because she was still legally married to second husband Orson Welles, Hayworth also received some negative backlash for her courtship with the prince, causing some American fans to boycott her pictures.

Hayworth also brought Aly a stepdaughter, Rebecca Welles ( 1944 – 2004 ), by her previous marriage to Orson Welles.

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.

Helen Hayes reprised her role as Leora in an hour long adaptation on The Campbell Playhouse radio program along with Orson Welles as Arrowsmith.

Orson Welles once called her the " most exciting woman in the world.

In 1950, Orson Welles gave Kitt her first starring role, as Helen of Troy in his staging of Dr. Faustus.

Though it is often alleged that Welles and Kitt had an affair during her 1957 run in Shinbone Alley, Kitt categorically denied this in a June 2001 interview with George Wayne of Vanity Fair.

One of her few English roles was Kate Percy in Orson Welles ' Chimes at Midnight.

The character Rachel Welles, portrayed by Leigh Taylor-Young, was written into the show as her replacement.

After a decade in Europe during which he completed only a few films, Welles was eager to direct for Hollywood again, so he agreed to take only an acting fee for the role of Quinlan.

* While being a U. S. protectorate from 1905 to 1941, the Dominican Republic had first various native regimes, then US military Governors 29 November 1916 – 24 July 1922, and just before it again had the first of its own Presidents on 21 October 1922, a single U. S. High Commissioner, Sumner Welles, who served from 1922 – 1924.

* Yet again, as an Orson Welles soundalike narrator in the 1967 film The St. Valentine's Day Massacre.

In the closing: " Now until we meet again in the same place and I tell you another tale of the Black Museum ", Welles would conclude with his signature radio phrase, " I remain, as always, obediently yours ".

Since Futurama LaMarche has continued to work steadily in television, including guest roles on The Simpsons ( where he once again parodied Orson Welles ).

Roger Ebert, noted critic of the Chicago Sun-Times, gave the film a glowing four star review, drawing comparisons to the works of Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock, stating, " Dead Again is Kenneth Branagh once again demonstrating that he has a natural flair for bold theatrical gesture.

Some of her most notable screen performances include the cult favorite Lord Love a Duck ( 1966 ) with Roddy McDowall, Ruth Gordon and Harvey Korman ; Pretty Poison ( 1968 ), co-starring Anthony Perkins and Beverly Garland ; A Safe Place ( 1971 ), co-starring Jack Nicholson and Orson Welles ; I Walk the Line ( 1970 ), opposite Gregory Peck ; and Play It As It Lays ( 1972 ), again with Perkins, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award.

Welles had previously staged the so-called Voodoo Macbeth in 1936 in New York City with an all-black cast, and again in 1947 in Salt Lake City as part of the Utah Centennial Festival.

Actually Welles, with Mr. Arkadin ( 1955 ), in fact a French-Spanish-Swiss co-production, was one of the first American filmmakers to devise Spain as location for his shootings, and he did it again for Chimes at Midnight ( 1966 ), this time a Spanish-Swiss co-production.

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.

In 1970, De Palma left New York for Hollywood at age thirty to make Get To Know Your Rabbit, starring Orson Welles and Tommy Smothers.

Orson Welles ' F for Fake is a prime example of a film which is both about falsification ( art forgery and the journalism surrounding art forgery ) as well as having falsified moments within the film.

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.

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.

He first gained worldwide fame in the Orson Welles films Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), The Magnificent Ambersons ( 1942 ), and Journey into Fear ( 1943 ), for which Cotten was also credited with the screenplay.

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.

The two-picture deal promised full creative control for the young director below an agreed budget limit, and Welles intention was to feature the Mercury Players in his productions.

Nominated for nine Academy Awards in 1942, the film won only for Best Screenplay, for Mankiewicz and Welles.

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.

Designed by William Welles Bosworth, these imposing buildings were built of reinforced concrete, a first for a non-industrial – much less university – building in the US.

Welles, for his part, summarized the episode as " the Mercury Theater's own radio version of dressing up in a sheet and jumping out of a bush and saying ' Boo!

An obsessive cinema-goer, seeing up to 400 movies a year in his youth, Bogdanovich showcased the work of American directors such as Orson Welles and John Ford -- whom he later wrote a book about, based on the notes he had produced for the MoMA retrospective of the director -- and Howard Hawks.

In the early 1970s, when Welles was having financial problems, Bogdanovich let him stay at his Bel Air mansion for a couple of years.

One early showcase for Dunn was Orson Welles ' Citizen Kane, where such locations as Xanadu ( and some of Gregg Toland's famous ' deep focus ' shots ) were essentially created by Dunn's optical printer.

It was then used as a set for several films, such as Kafka's The Trial adapted by Orson Welles, and as a haven for the Renaud – Barrault Theatre Company and for auctioneers, while the Hôtel Drouot was being rebuilt.

Finally, three lost both nominations: Beatty ( for Heaven Can Wait ), Branagh, and Welles ( though he did win a Screenplay Oscar for Citizen Kane ).

* The Orson Welles documentary F for Fake concerns both art and literary forgery.

The other story is that Welles had recently worked with producer Albert Zugsmith, known as the " King of the Bs ", on a film called Man in the Shadow and was interested in directing something for him.