Born on this day – Orson Welles:

Orson Welles

Director

Actor

Writer

Producer

May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985

Credits:

12 + 1 (1969); A Estrela Sobe (1974); A Final Cut for Orson: 40 Years in the Making (2018); A Horse Called Nijinsky (1970); A Huey P. Newton Story (2001); A King's Story (1965); A Man for All Seasons (1966); A Safe Place (1971); A Step Away (1980); A Vermelha Luz do Bandido (2009); A Woman Called Moses (1978); ABC 2000: The Millennium (1999); ABC Late Night (1975); Above San Francisco (1973); According to Occam's Razor (1999); Actors Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (2016); AFI Life Achievement Award (1975–1983); AFI Life Achievement Award (1988); Alan Yentob Remembers... Orson Welles (2024); Alfonso Sansone produttore per caso (2014); lien Autopsy: The Search for Answers (2021); Aliens Uncovered: Close Encounters (2024); Almonds and Raisins (1984); Amazon (1985); America at the Movies (1976); American Experience (1996–2013); American: An Odyssey to 1947 (2022); America's 60 Greatest Unsolved Mysteries and Crimes (2010); An Arabian Night (1960); An Evening with Orson Welles: Chesterton Speeches (1972); An Evening with Orson Welles: Clarence Darrow Speeches (1972); An Evening with Orson Welles: Socrates Speeches (1972); An Evening with Orson Welles: The Golden Honeymoon (1972); An Evening with Orson Welles: The Happy Prince (1972); An Evening with Orson Welles: Wodehouse Speeches (1972); Ancient Aliens (2010–2018); Angels of Mercy (1940); Apple Jack (2003); Arena (1982–1983); Arena (1995–2016); Around the World of Mike Todd (1967); Around the World with Orson Welles (1955); Arsenal (1986); As Long as He Lives (1998); Aux arts et cætera (2022); Barbed Water (1969); Baryshnikov in Hollywood (1982); Battle for Survival (1946); Beer and Board Games (2011 / 2018); Best of the Dean Martin Show (1979); Billie (2019); Biography (1963 / 1995); Black Magic (1949); Bloopers from 'Star Trek' and 'Laugh-In' (1983); Blow up: Le web magazine cinéma d'Arte (2015); Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters (2006); Brasil (1981); Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975); Brunnen (2005); Bugs Bunny Superstar (1975); Butterfly (1981); Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010); Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? (1983); Carrefour (1955); Casino Royale (1967); Catch-22 (1970); Cerné par le diable (2019); Chillerama / Zom-B-Movie (2011); Chimes at Midnight (1965); Cinéma cinémas / Welles déjeune avec la critique (1982); Cinema Komunisto (2010); Cinépanorama (1959); Cinq colonnes à la une (1960); Citizen Kane (1941); Citizen Kane Trailer (1940); Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV (2000); Citizen Vader (2014); Clint Eastwood, la dernière légende (2022); Colgate Theatre (1958); Compression (2023–2024); Compulsion (1959); Confidential Report (1955); Continental (1989); Crack in the Mirror (1960); Crónicas fantásticas (1974); Dahmer vs. Gacy (2010); Dai nostri inviati: La Rai e l'Istituto Luce raccontano la Mostra del cinema di Venezia 1932-1953 (2012); David and Goliath (1960); De 7 Dødssyndene (2007); Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Angie Dickinson (1977); Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Betty White (1978); Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Danny Thomas (1976); Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Dean Martin (1976); Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Gabe Kaplan (1977); Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Jimmy Stewart (1978); Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Joe Garagiola (1976); Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Joe Namath (1979); Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Peter Marshall (1977); Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Redd Foxx (1976); Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Ted Knight (1977); Der große Atlantik (1963); Désordre (1950); Dieter & Andreas (1989); Diminishing Returns Diminisodes (2021); Dinah! (1976–1978); Directed by John Ford (1971); Disorder Is 20 Years Old (1967); Dissent (2011); Dom DeLuise and Friends (1983–1985); Don Quixote (1992); Don't Say No Until I Finish Talking: The Story of Richard D. Zanuck (2013); Druga strana Wellesa (2005); Duel in the Sun (1946); E! Mysteries & Scandals (1999); Edge of Outside (2006); Eisenbahn-Romantik (2017); Embers & Dust (2016); Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (1991); Enquête sur les OVNIs (2004); E-penser (2015); Ésotérisme expérimental (1976); España, plató de cine (2009); F for Fake (1973); F for favor (2008); Fellini in città ovvero Frammenti di una conversazione su Federico Fellini (1968); Ferry to Hong Kong (1959); Film Önü / Arkasi (2019); FilmComicsExplained (2022); Filmfestspiele Cannes 1959 (1959); Filming 'Othello' (1978); Filming 'the Trial' (1981); Filmmakers vs. Tycoons (2005); Follow the Boys (1944); Ford Star Jubilee (1956); François Chalais, la vie comme un roman (1997); Franklin & Jefferson Proposal Film (1973); Freedom River (1971); Friedkin Uncut (2018); Future Shock (1972); Geheimnisvolle Stadt (2015); Genocide (1982); Get Shorty (1995); Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972); Great Romances of the 20th Century (1997); Halston in Halston (2019); Hangar 1: The UFO Files (2014); Heart of the Festival (2002); Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991); Here's Looking at You, Warner Bros. (1991); Hi-Fi (1999); High Journey (1959); History of the World: Part I (1981); History's Greatest Hoaxes (2016); Hollywood - Ein Vorort in vier Anekdoten (1959); Hollywood Couples (2000); Hollywood Insider (2021–2022); Hollywood Mavericks (1990); Hollywood Remembers (2000); Hollywood sul Tevere (2009); Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story (1987); Hopper/Welles (2020); Horror Business (2007); Hot Money (1986); Hot Tomorrows (1977); House of Cards (1968); I Love Lucy (1956); I Love Lucy's 50th Anniversary Special (2001); I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967); In Our Hands (1983); Incident at Barstow (2011); Is It Always Right to Be Right? (1970); Is It Real? (2007); Is Paris Burning? (1966); It Happened One Christmas (1977); It's All True (1943 / 1983); It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles (1993); It's pretty, but Is It Art? (2023); I've Got a Secret (1956); Jackie Gleason: The Great One (1988); Jane Eyre (1943); Jeanne M. - Côté cour, côté coeur (2008); Jeanne Moreau, l'affranchie (2018); Jeopardy! (2006); Journey Into Fear (1943); Jucy (2010); Just Henry (2011); Kampf um Rom II - Der Verrat (1969); Kelly Country (1973); Kermit: A Frog's Life (2005); King of Kings (1961); King Penguin: Stranded Beyond the Falklands (1983); La classe américaine (1993); La isla del tesoro (1965); La nuit des Césars (1982); La otra sala: Clásicos (2016); La ricotta (1963); Lafayette (1962); L'affaire Dominici par Orson Welles (2000); L'antre du Mea (2013); L'antre du Mea (2017); Late Show London (1966); Le Fossoyeur de Films (2015–2024); Léonard de Vinci: La manière moderne (2021); Les Chroniques du Mea (2023); Les Nuits de France Culture (2013); Leslie Caron: The Reluctant Star (2016); Let Poland Be Poland (1982); Locked in the Tower: The Men Behind 'Jane Eyre' (2007); Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces (2000); Los 10 magníficos (2008); Lost in La Mancha (2002); Lost in the Thinking (2005); Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues (2022); Lucifer et moi (2008); L'uomo la bestia e la virtù (1953); Macbeth - Power and Corruption (Polanski's the Tragedy of Macbeth) (1973); Macbeth (1948); Magic with the Stars (1982); Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014); Magnum, P.I. (1981–1984); Man in the Shadow (1957); Marco the Magnificent (1965); Margret Dünser, auf der Suche nach den Besonderen (1981); Martian Mania: The True Story of The War of the Worlds (1998); Masters of the Congo Jungle (1958); Meet the Stars #2: Baby Stars (1941); Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream (2005); Mob on the Run (1987); Moby Dick - Rehearsed (1965); Moby Dick (1956); Moby Dick (2000); Moby Dick Rehearsed (1955); Modern Marvels (1999); Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (2010); Monitor (1960–1963); Monsieur Verdoux (1947); Moonlighting (1985); Morceaux de Cannes (2021); Movie Night Extravaganza (2021–2022); Mystères d'archives (2011); Mysterious Castles of Clay (1978); Napoleon (1955); NASA's Unexplained Files (2019); Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady (1982); Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind (2020); National Endowment for the Arts: United States of Arts (2017); National Geographic Specials (1965–1966); NBC: The First Fifty Years - A Closer Look (1977); NBC: The First Fifty Years - A Closer Look, Part Two (1978); NBC: The First Fifty Years (1976); Necromancy (1972); Nella terra di Don Chisciotte (1964); Night Gallery / Silent Snow, Secret Snow (1971); Night of 100 Stars (1982); Nihon eiga no hyaku nen / Century of Cinema (1995); Ninja the Mission Force (2012); No Exit (1962); Northern Exposure (1990); Not Fade Away (2012); Notre Dame de la Croisette (1981); O.W. Kenosha (2009); Oedipus the King (1968); Omnibus (1953 / 1972); One Handshake Away: Peter Bogdanovich and the Icons of Cinema (2024); One Man Band (1999); Orson Welles - das vermarktete Genie (1975); Orson Welles (1975); Orson Welles and People (1956); Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth (2000); Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina (1958); Orson Welles en el país de Don Quijote (2000); Orson Welles' F for Fake Trailer (1976); Orson Welles' Great Mysteries (1973–1974); Orson Welles in Orson Welles à la cinémathèque (1983); Orson Welles in Spain (1966); Orson Welles in The Challenge... A Tribute to Modern Art (1975); Orson Welles' Magic Show (1985); Orson Welles' Sketch Book (1955); Orson Welles: Shadows and Light (2015); Orson Welles: The One-Man Band (1995); Orson Welles: The Paris Interview (1960); Orson Welles: What Went Wrong? (1992); Othello (1951); Out of Darkness (1956); Panorama (2020); Paradise Garden (1974); Pariser Journal (1962); Parkinson (1971–1973); Parkinson at 50 (2021); Parkinson: The Interviews (1995); Passage to Mars (2016); Paul Masson: Orson Welles, No Wine Before It's Time (1980); Person to Person (1955); Peter O'Toole: Along the Sky Road to Aqaba (2022); Phenomenon: The Lost Archives (1998); Plunder (1965 / 1991); Portrait of a Killer (1949); Portrait: Orson Welles (1968); Pour le plaisir (1965); Press Conference (1955); Prime Times (1983); Prince of Foxes (1949); Prodigal Sons (2008); Pulp Cinema (2001); Real Heroes (1981); Reflets de Cannes (1958–1966); René Clément, témoin et poète (2013); Return to Glennascaul (1952); Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (1975); Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1977); Rita (2003); Rita Hayworth: Dancing Into the Dream (1990); Ro.Go.Pa.G. / La ricotta (1963); Romy - Portrait eines Gesichts (1967); Rosabella: la storia italiana di Orson Welles (1993); Rotten (2019); Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1970); Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954); Scene of the Crime (1984–1985); Schwierigkeiten beim Zeigen der Wahrheit? (1966); Search for the Titanic (1981); Searching for Orson (2006); Sendung ohne Namen (2002); Sentinels of Silence (1971); Shadowing the Third Man (2004); Shakespeare Uncovered (2012–2015); Shindig! (1965); Shogun (1980); Show-Business at War (1943); Shut Up Little Man (2011); Shylock (2001); Sight & Sound & Time (2023); Sightings (1995); Silent Times (2018); Slapstick of Another Kind (1982); Soft Self-Portrait of Salvador Dali (1970); Someone to Love (1987); South Seas Adventure (1958); Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story (2007); Stan Lee in Stan Lee (2023); Stars and Stripes (1990); Start the Revolution Without Me (1970); Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (2021); Strictly Courtroom (2008); Survival (1975); Swiss Family Robinson (1940); Tales from the Territories (2022); Tales of the Klondike (1981); Talking Pictures (2013); Tanks (1942); Tempo (1961–1965); Ten Days That Shook the World (1967); Ten Days Wonder (1971); Ten Little Indians (1974); Tepepa (1969); The 20th Century: A Moving Visual History (1999); The 43rd Annual Academy Awards (1971); The 6th People's Choice Awards (1980); The 7th Los Angeles Film Critics Awards (1982); The ABC Comedy Hour (1972); The Battle of Austerlitz (1960); The Battle of Neretva (1969); The Battle of Sutjeska (1973); The Best of Film Noir (1999); The Best of the Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts (1998); The Bible in the Beginning... (1966); The Big Brass Ring (1997); The Biggest Battle (1978); The Black Rose (1950); The Brother Side of the Wake (2022); The Cave: a parable told by Orson Welles (1973); The ComicWeb: Old Time Radio Programs (2014); The Complete Citizen Kane (1991); The David Frost Show (1970); The Day That Panicked America (2005); The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Frank Sinatra (1978); The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: George Burns (1978); The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Michael Landon (1984); The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast: Muhammad Ali (1976); The Dean Martin Show (1967–1971); The Debridement of Rome (2012); The Deep (1970); The Dick Cavett Show (1970–1973); The Double McGuffin (1979); The Dreamers (1982); The Ed Sullivan Show (1955–1956); The Eleven Powers: The Festival of Eka Dasa Rudra (1979); The Enchanted Journey (1981); The Eyes of Orson Welles (2018); The Finest Hours (1964); The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies (1995); The First 40 Years (1980); The Force Beyond (1977); The Grand Illusion / Jean Renoir: Part Two - Hollywood and Beyond (1993); The Great Buster (2018); The Great Depression (1998); The Greatest Adventure--the Story of Man's Voyage to the Moon (1983); The Greatest Film on Earth: Volume 2 - Planet Mars (1988); The Greatest Show You Never Saw (1996); The Green Goddess (1939); The Greenstone Narrated by Orson Welles (1980); The Guardians of Justice (Will Save You!) (2022); The Hearts of Age (1934 / 1997); The Herb Shriner Show (1956); The Heroine (1967); The Hitch Hiker (2004); The Hitchhiker (2007); The Immortal Story (1968); The Jackie Gleason Show (1968); The Joey Bishop Show (1969); The Kremlin Letter (1970); The Lady from Shanghai (1947); The Lady with the Torch (1999); The Last of the Wild Mustangs (1972); The Last Roman (1968); The Last Sailors: The Final Days of Working Sail (1984); The Late Great Planet Earth (1978); The Legend of Doom House (1971); The Levin Interview (1967); The Lions of Capitalism (1977); The Little World of Don Camillo (1952); The Long, Hot Summer (1958); The Magic History of Cinema (2017); The Magic of David Copperfield (1978); The Magic of David Copperfield XIV: Flying - Live the Dream (1992); The Magnificent Ambersons (1942); The Magnificent Ambersons (2002); The Man Who Came to Dinner (1972); The Man Who Pursued Rosebud: William Alland on His Career in Theatre and Film (2012); The Man Who Saw Tomorrow (1981); The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine (1971–1972); The Merchant of Venice (1969); The Merv Griffin Show (1965–1985); The Miracle of St. Anne (1950); The Moviemakers (1984); The Movies (2019); The Movies That Made Us (2021); The Muppet Movie (1979); The Muppets: A Celebration of 30 Years (1986); The Name of the Game (1970); The New Deal for Artists (1976); The New Media Bible: Book of Genesis (1979); The Originals (2005); The Orson Welles Show (1979); The Other Side of the Wind (2018); The Paranormal Peter Sellers (2002); The Perfect Moment (1978); The Psychic Connection (1983); The Quest for Fire Adventure (1982); The Real Charlie Chaplin (2021); The Road to Bresson (1984); The Roots of Heaven (1958); The Sailor from Gibraltar (1967); The Secret Life of Nikola Tesla (1980); The Silent Years (1971); The Sixties (2014); The Sky Is Falling: Making 'the War of the Worlds' (2005); The South Bank Show (1988–2004); The Southern Star (1969); The Spanish Earth (1937); The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh (1984); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1957–1958); The Story of Samba (1943); The Stranger (1946); The Tartars (1961); The Third Man (1949); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar / The Jack Paar Program (1962); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1976–1992); The Touristic Revolution (2014); The Transformers: The Movie (1986); The Trial (1962); The UFO Conspiracy (2004); The Ultimate Film (2004); The Universal Story (1996); The Universe (2007); The V.I.P.s (1963); The Vikings (1958); The War of the Worlds: Great Books (1994); The War of the Worlds: Next Century (1981); The Way to Santiago (1998); The Welles Raft (2019); The World About Us (1968); Thèmes et variations du cinéma (1969); They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (2018); This Is Francis X. Bushman (2021); This Is Orson Welles (2015); This Is Your Life: 30th Anniversary Special (1981); Three Cases of Murder / Lord Mountdrago (1954); Tim May Presents Reptile (2014); Timeshift (2015); To Build a Fire (1969); To Try Again... and Succeed (1979); Today (1980–1985); Tomorrow Coast to Coast (1975 / 1979); Tomorrow Is Forever (1946); Too Much Johnson (1938); Touch of Evil (1958); Travel with Jack and Kitty: The Podcast (2023); Treasure Island (1965); Treasure Island (1972); Treasury of Children's Stories (1996); Trent's Last Case (1952); Trick or Treats (1982); Trouble in the Glen (1954); Tudo É Brasil (1997); Tut: The Boy King (1978); Twelfth Night (1933); Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years (1997); Two Wise Old Men: Socrates and Noah (1972); UFO Files (2005); UFO: Down to Earth (1997); UFOs: 50 Years of Denial? (1997); Underwelles (1975); Une légende, une vie (1974); Unexplained Mysteries / The Curse of a Hollywood Icon (2003); Upon This Rock (1970); V.I.P.-Schaukel (1972 / 1974); Val Lewton: The Man in the Shadows (2007); Valentines. A Bouquet of Letters and Poetry of Lovers (1994); Variations on a High School Romance (2010); Vienna (1968); Vive le cinéma! (1972); Voyage of the Damned (1976); Wagner e Venezia (1982); Warner Bros. 75th Anniversary: No Guts, No Glory (1998); Washes Whiter (1990); Waterloo (1970); Waxwork (1988); Welcome to the Basement (2013–2015); Welles and Hearst (1996); Welles Angels (2007); What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2018); What's My Line? (1958); Where Are All the UFO's? (1996); Where Is Parsifal? (1984); Who Is Henry Jaglom? (1995); Who's Out There? (1975); Wide World of Entertainment (1963); With Orson Welles: Stories of A Life in Film (1990); Wolfgang (2021); Working with Orson Welles (1993); World of Magic (1982); Your Name Here (2015); Zero Listillos: Leonardo Raya (2013); Zweig: A Morte em Cena (1995).

On this day in movie history - Citizen Kane (1941):

Citizen Kane

directed by Orson Welles,

written by Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles,

John Houseman, Roger Q. Denny and Mollie Kent,

was released in the United States on May 1, 1941.
Music by Bernard Herrmann.

Cast:

Orson Welles, Joseph Cotton, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Everett Sloane, William Alland, Paul Stewart, George Coulouris, Fortunio Bonanova, Gus Schilling, Philip Van Zandt, Georgia Backus, Harry Shannon, Sonny Bupp, Buddy Swan, Don Ackerman, Loretta Agar, John Alban, Demetrius Alexis, Peter Allen, William Alston, Baudelio Alva, T. Lockwood Arbright, Sam Ash, Michael Audley, Walter Bacon, Harry A. Bailey, Richard Barr, Alva Baudena, Brandon Beach, Charles Bennett, Joan Blair, William A. Boardway, Danny Borzage, Robert Brent, James Brought, Morgan Brown, Harry Burkhardt, William Calkins, Porter Chase, Gene Chervow, J.J. Clark, Dorothy Cleveland, Edmund Cobb, Eddie Coke, Nat 'King' Cole, Tom Coleman, Gene Coogan, Sally Corner, Gino Corrado, Herbert Corthell, Maurice Costello, Irene Crosby, Charles Cross, Thomas A. Curran, Louise Currie, Jack Curtis, Ed Dahlen, Ernie Daniels, Coy Danz, Margaret Davis, Tim Davis, Dona Dax, Marie Day, Petra R. de Silva, Gayle DeCamp, Frances Deets, Carl Deloro, George DeNormand, Eddie Dew, John Dilson, Robert Dudley, Lou Duello, Suzanne Dulier, Art Dupuis, Pauline Easterday, Al Eben, Johnny Eckert, Jack Egan, Carl Ekberg, Richard Elmore, Edith Evanson, Carl Faulkner, Juanita Fields, Bess Flowers, Jack Floyd, Ray Flynn, Monty Ford, Jean Forward, Olin Francis, Louise Franklin, Al Frazier, Guy Gada, Gloria Gale, Captain Garcia, Jack Gargan, Bud Geary, Rudy Germane, Bob Gladman, Renee Godfrey, Jerry Gordon, Peter Gowland, Jimmy Grant, Jesse Graves, Ernest Grooney, Jack Gwynne, Robert Haines, Frank Haney, Harry Harris, Sam Harris, Lew Harvey, Henry Hebert, Edward L. Hemmer, Cliff Herd, Bryan 'Slim' Hightower, Harlan Hoagland, John Huettner, Mitchell Ingraham, Jack Itay, Jack Jahries, Walter James, George W. Jimenez, CeePee Johnson, Clayton Jones, Edna Mae Jones, Harry Jones, Alexander Julian, William Kane, Arthur Kay, Ivy Keene, Kenneth Kendall, E. Kerry, Milton Kibbee, Laura Knight, Alan Ladd, Mike Lally, Carmen Laroux, Perc Launders, Walter Lawrence, Robert Lawson, Bert LeBaron, David Ledner, Adam Linke, J.D. Lockhart, Mary Lorraine, Ellen Lowe, Ludwig Lowry, Buck Mack, James T. Mack, Evelyn Mackert, Teddy Mangean, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Jack Manolas, Joe Manz, Loretta Marsh, Mickey Martin, Clyde McAtee, Major McBride, Lee McCluskey, John McCormack, Frank McLure, Charles Meakin, Hercules Mendez, Jim Merritt, Buddy Messinger, E.G. Miller, Irving Mitchell, Bert Moorhouse, Philip Morris, Jack Morton, Louis Natheaux, Frances E. Neal, Lillian Nicholson, Leda Nicova, George Noisom, Joseph North, John Northpole, Field Norton, William H. O'Brien, Arthur O'Connell, Frank O'Connor, Paddy O'Flynn, Lillian O'Malley, Edward Peil Jr., Gerald Pierce, Thomas Pogue, Russ Powell, J.R. Ralston, Terrance Ray, Jack Raymond, Alton Redd, William Reed, Guy Repp, Jolane Reynolds, Sam Rice, Verne Richards, Suzanne Ridgway, Cyril Ring, Myrtle Rishell, Jack Robbins, Don Roberts, George Rogers, Victor Romito, Benny Rubin, Shimen Ruskin, Edward Ryan, Jack Ryan, Robert Samven, Walter Sande, Jack Santoro, Francis Sayles, Dick Scott, Ruth Seeley, George Sherwood, Brent Shugar, Bruce Sidney, Guy Smith, Roy Smith, Vince Speaker, George Sperry, Sam Steele, Tom Steele, Ralph Stein, Bert Stevens, Landers Stevens, Dimas Sutteno, Jack Taylor, Norman Taylor, Bob Terry, Karl Thomas, Robert B. Tobin, Gregg Toland, Kathryn Trosper, Fred Trowbridge, Glen Turnbull, Gohr Van Vleck, Harry J. Vejar, Tim Wallace, Ken Weaver, Charles West, Larry Wheat, Patrick Whitney, Jan Wiley, Bill Wilkens, Larry Williams, Tudor Williams, Richard Wilson, Vivian Wilson, Roland Winters, Vera Winters, Arthur Yeoman, Louis Young.

Recommended reading - Citizen Kane, by Orson Welles & Herman J. Mankiewicz (2002):

Citizen Kane

By Orson Welles & Herman J. Mankiewicz.

Published by Methuen Drama.

Published 2002.

Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0413771873

ISBN-13: 978-0413771872

Description:

"A definitive chronicle of the making of the film" – Sheridan Morley, Films & Filming.

"Citizen Kane revolutionised film-making, and the question of its authorship is as important to the cinema as that of Hamlet to the theatre ... Pauline Kael explains how the picture came to be made and concludes that the man most responsible for its creation was not Welles but Herman J. Mankiewicz" – Kenneth Tynan, Observer.

The complete screenplay of one of the world's most famous and controversial films.

This is the complete companion to Citizen Kane - the film that was "designed to shock" (Kenneth Tynan) - one of the best-loved and best-known movies in the history of Hollywood and still the most staggering film debut ever. Not only was this Orson Welles's first film as actor and director but most of the cast were also new to the cinema. Yet so controversial was the subject matter that an $842,000 bribe and the concentrated wrath of the Hearst newspaper empire combined in an attempt to strangle its distribution. And the authorship of the film is still a subject of conflict.

Pauline Kael's long essay, "Raising Kane", dissects a maze of Hollywood lore to re-evaluate these and many other fascinating stories about the making of this remarkable film. Her account is followed by the original screenplay, illustrated with stills and frame enlargements.

On this day in movie history - Touch of Evil (1958):

Touch of Evil

directed by Orson Welles,

based on the novel Badge of Evil by Whit Masterson,

was released in the United States on January 31, 1958.

Music by Henry Mancini.

Cast:

Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Orson Welles, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff, Joanna Cook Moore, Ray Collins, Dennis Weaver, Val de Vargas, Mort Mills, Victor Millan, Lalo Rios, Phil Harvey, Joi Lansing, Harry Shannon, Rusty Wescoatt, Wayne Taylor, Ken Miller, Raymond Rodriguez, Arlene McQuade, Dan White, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Marlene Dietrich, Mercedes McCambridge, William Tannen, Joseph Cotton.

On this day in movie history - Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991):

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

directed by Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper and Eleanor Coppola,

written by Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper,

was released in the United States on November 27, 1991.
Music by Todd Boekelheide.
Documentary on the making of Apocalypse Now (1979), directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

Cast:

Francis Ford Coppola, Eleanor Coppola, Orson Welles, John Milius, George Lucas, Tom Sternberg, Sam Bottoms, Albert Hall, Frederic Forrest, Laurence Fishburne, Gian-Carlo Coppola, Roman Coppola, Sofia Coppola, Dean Tavoularis, Fred Roos, Martin Sheen, Vittorio Storaro, Robert Duvall, Rona Barrett, Tom Snyder, Monty Cox, Doug Claybourne, Dennis Hopper, Marlon Brando, Randy Carter, Robert De Niro, J. David Jones.

On this day in radio history - The War of the Worlds (1938 radio broadcast & book):

The War of the Worlds

directed by Orson Welles,

originally broadcast on CBS Radio, on October 30, 1938.
A one-hour dramatization, based on the novel by H. G. Wells.
Written by Howard Koch.
Produced by Orson Welles and John Houseman.
Broadcast from 8 – 9 p.m. (ET)
Announced by Dan Seymour.
Hosted by the radio series: The Mercury Theatre on the Air.
Narrated by Orson Welles.
Cast: Orson Welles, Frank Readick, Kenny Delmar, Ray Collins.

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Recommended reading:

Dead Air: The Night That Orson Welles Terrified America

By William Elliott Hazelgrove.

Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Published 2024.

Hardcover.

ISBN-10: 1538187167

ISBN-13: 978-1538187166

Description:

A "granular history" (Wall Street Journal) of the greatest hoax in radio history and the panic that followed, which Publishers Weekly calls "a rollicking portrait of a director on the cusp of greatness" and Booklist, in a starred review, says, "Hazelgrove’s feverishly focused retelling of the broadcast as well as the fallout makes for a propulsive read as a study of both a cultural moment of mass hysteria and the singular voice at its root.”

On a warm Halloween Eve, October 30, 1938, during a broadcast of H G. Wells’ War of the Worlds, a twenty-three-year-old Orson Welles held his hands up for radio silence in the CBS studio in New York City while millions of people ran out into the night screaming, grabbed shotguns, drove off in cars, and hid in basements, attics, or anywhere they could find to get away from Martians intent on exterminating the human race. As Welles held up his hands to his fellow actors, musicians, and sound technicians, he turned six seconds of radio silence – dead air – into absolute horror, changing the way the world would view media forever, and making himself one of the most famous men in America.

In Dead Air: The Night that Orson Welles Terrified America, Willliam Elliot Hazelgrove illustrates for the first time how Orson Welles’ broadcast caused massive panic in the United States, convincing listeners across the nation that the end of the World had arrived and even leading military and government officials to become involved. Using newspaper accounts of the broadcast, Hazelgrove shows the true, staggering effect that Welles’ opera of panic had on the nation. Beginning with Welles’ incredible rise from a young man who lost his parents early to a child prodigy of the stage, Dead Air introduces a Welles who threw his Hail Mary with War of the Worlds, knowing full well that obscurity and fame are two sides of the same coin. Hazelgrove demonstrates that Welles’ knew he had one shot to grab the limelight before it forever passed him by – and he made it count.

In this fine-grained account, historian Hazelgrove (Writing Gatsby) chronicles the mass hysteria that accompanied Orson Welles's infamous 1938 radio adaptation of H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds. Hazelgrove presents Welles as an actor of immense ambition and preternatural talent, noting that by age 22, he had put on headline-grabbing plays (the government shut down his 1937 production of The Cradle Will Rock, fearing its pro-labor themes would be incendiary) and traveled around New York City in a faux ambulance to move more quickly between his numerous radio and theatrical commitments. The author recounts the rushed scriptwriting process for War of the Worlds and offers a play-by-play of the broadcast, but he lavishes the most attention on the havoc Welles wreaked. Contemporaneous news accounts reported college students fighting to telephone their parents, diners rushing out of restaurants without paying their bills, families fleeing to nearby mountains to escape the aliens' poisonous gas, and even one woman's attempted suicide. Hazelgrove largely brushes aside contemporary scholarship questioning whether the hysteria's scope matched the sensational news reports, but he persuasively shows how the incident reignited elitist fears that "Americans were essentially gullible morons" and earned Welles the national recognition he'd yearned for. It's a rollicking portrait of a director on the cusp of greatness. – Publishers Weekly.

Orson Welles may be best known for his film Citizen Kane, but a much earlier outing in his career led to the opportunity to make such an artistically ambitious undertaking. Hazelgrove charts Welles' rise from a hectic childhood to the anointed genius of stage, radio, and, eventually, film. But it was the night before Halloween in 1938 when Welles' bombastic radioplay rendition of H.G Wells' War of the Worlds, styled as a breaking-news report, caused an uproar. Arriving at a nexus point when Americans began not only to rely on the relatively new invention of radio for entertainment but also as a trusted news source, the radioplay brought many who were listening to the brink of madness, wholly believing that aliens had actually touched down in a New Jersey town. Suicides, car accidents, and general unrest swept the country, and, at show's end, Welles could only wonder if his career (and even freedom) was over too. Hazelgrove's feverishly focused retelling of the broadcast as well as the fallout makes for a propulsive read as a study of both a cultural moment of mass hysteria and the singular voice at its root. – Booklist, Starred Review.

William Elliott Hazelgrove's richly anecdotal "Dead Air" is the story of Welles's landmark October 1938 radio broadcast and the nationwide panic that resulted. Welles's "you are there" adaptation, crafted to imitate a breaking-news bulletin, sent a tremor of panic into listeners across the country who believed it to be a real report of a flying-saucer invasion. Mr. Hazelgrove has scoured regional newspapers of the time to provide a ground-level view of the hysteria that Welles's radio drama instilled—on the night before Halloween, no less. – Wall Street Journal.

"A fantastical tale about Martians coming to earth and incinerating humans with heat ray guns - up to 12 million people tuned in and were convinced aliens were exterminating the human race." – Daily Mail UK.

"The book highlights what made Welles' production particularly powerful, airing at a time when millions remained unemployed from the Great Depression and the nation was on edge about the threat of Nazi Germany. He details how Welles took advantage of those fears, including using an actor who sounded like Franklin D. Roosevelt for a part in his broadcast.

"A bottled-up sense of panic was in the air and people could almost smell the fear," he writes. "Orson Welles would open that bottle and let the fear run wild." – Associated Press.

"A convincing portrait of the artist as a young man—defiant, reckless, ruthless, and teeming with talent and ambition—Dead Air packs delights worthy of its subject." – New York Journal of Books.