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Welles sought to direct the film with Chaplin as star, but Chaplin backed out at the last minute, on the grounds that he'd never been directed by somebody else in a full length feature film before and wasn't willing to start ( which was not technically correct since he was directed in one feature film during his Keystone days.
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After the making of first sound film in 1927, he specialized in his fat man roles and was widely sought out by directors, such as Frank Capra and Orson Welles for bit parts ; exemplified by the Match King one of Mae West's suitors in 1935's Goin ' to Town.
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Charlton Heston recalled that Welles was originally hired to act in the film only, not to direct or write.
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.
The original story was written by Orson Welles, who originally wanted to direct the film with Chaplin in the title role.
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.
In the spring of 1939, Welles began preliminary discussions with RKO's head of production, George Schaefer, with Welles and his Mercury players being given a two picture deal, in which Welles would produce, direct, perform, and have full creative control of his projects.
After he and Welles went their separate ways, Houseman would go on to direct The Devil and Daniel Webster ( 1939 ) and Liberty Jones and produced the Welles stage version of Native Son ( 1941 ) on Broadway.
According to Mel Welles, Corman was not impressed by the box office performance of A Bucket of Blood, and had to be persuaded to direct another comedy.
As a direct result of the front-page headlines Orson Welles generated with his 1938 Halloween production The War of the Worlds, Campbell's Soup signed on as sponsor.
When he ran out of money and urgently needed $ 55, 000 to release costumes which were being held, he convinced Columbia Pictures president Harry Cohn to send him the money to continue the show and in exchange Welles promised to write, produce, direct and star in a film for Cohn for no further fee.
Welles and film
In the 1960 film David and Goliath, Abner ( Massimo Serato ) tries to murder David ( Ivica Pajer ) when he returns in triumph after killing Goliath ; however, Abner is slain by King Saul ( Orson Welles ).
Among those films not themselves considered film noirs, perhaps none had a greater effect on the development of the genre than America's own Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), the landmark motion picture directed by Orson Welles.
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.
* In the 1962 Orson Welles film adaptation of The Trial, Josef K. is played by Anthony Perkins.
The incident later galvanizes the Civil Rights Movement and partially inspires Orson Welles ' film Touch of Evil.
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.
The issues of veracity and forgery are explored in the film, while at the same time, Welles tricks the audience by incorporating fake bits of narrative alongside the documentary footage.
Highlighting the music of Nino Rota, the film was selected at Cannes ( among the films in competition was Orson Welles ’ s Othello ) and then retracted.
Justinian was portrayed by Orson Welles in the 1968 German film Kampf um Rom I, directed by Robert Siodmak.
Shooting had still not begun on a Welles film after a year, but after a meeting with writer Herman J. Mankiewicz Welles had a suitable project.
Nominated for nine Academy Awards in 1942, the film won only for Best Screenplay, for Mankiewicz and Welles.
He wrote the screenplay with the help of Welles ( who produced the film ), and starred in the film with Dolores del Río.
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.
He was portrayed in the 2009 film Me and Orson Welles by James Tupper.
Welles later directed and played the starring role in a 1948 film adaptation of the play Macbeth.
Cross of Iron was reportedly a favorite of Orson Welles who said that after All Quiet on the Western Front it was the finest anti-war film he had ever seen.
** Orson Welles ' film Citizen Kane premieres in New York City.
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 resulting film included candid interviews with the likes of John Wayne, James Stewart, Henry Fonda, and was narrated by Orson Welles.
( The 1960 Italian film David and Goliath starring Orson Welles was not one of these, since that movie was a straightforward adaptation of the Biblical story ).
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Orson Welles in an interview with Peter Bogdanovich said of Howard Hawks in comparison to John Ford " Hawks is great prose ; Ford is poetry ".
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 made his Broadway debut in 1930, and soon became friends with Orson Welles.
After the success of Welles's War of the Worlds 1938 Halloween radio broadcast, Welles gained a unique contract with RKO Pictures.
The films were directed by J. Farrell MacDonald, with casts that included Violet MacMillan, Vivian Reed, Mildred Harris, Juanita Hansen, Pierre Couderc, Mai Welles, Louise Emmons, J. Charles Haydon, and early appearances by Harold Lloyd and Hal Roach.
Orson Welles, in his first stage production, directed Jack Carter and Edna Thomas, with Canada Lee playing Banquo, in an all African American production.
* Footage of Orson Welles ' landmark " Voodoo Macbeth " – with informative annotations
It stars Rod Steiger ( portraying Napoleon Bonaparte ) and Christopher Plummer ( portraying the Duke of Wellington ) with a cameo by Orson Welles ( Louis XVIII of France ).
* September 26 – Street and Smith Publications launches a half-hour radio program, The Shadow, with Orson Welles in the title role.
Orson Welles, in an interview with Dick Cavett, called Marshall "... the greatest human being who was also a great man ...
Several years later Williams turned down work with Orson Welles in America because he did not like the country and had no desire to work there.
Native Son opened on Broadway, with Orson Welles as director, to generally favorable reviews in March 1941.
Returning to journalism, Bogdanovich struck up a lifelong friendship with Orson Welles while interviewing him on the set of Mike Nichols's Catch-22 ( 1970 ).
Bogdanovich played a major role in elucidating Welles and his career with his writings on the actor-director, most notably his book This is Orson Welles ( 1992 ).
In an interview with Robert K. Elder, author of The Film That Changed My Life, Bogdanovich explains his appreciation of Orson Welles ' work:
* Othello, with Orson Welles scholar Myron Meisel
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.
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