Archive for November, 2011

“I have heard the ‘Chimes at Midnight’ – Orson Welles plays Falstaff in his final theatrical performance on the Dublin stage in 1960

Friday, November 25th, 2011

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By LAWRENCE FRENCH

Orson Welles began his career as a stage actor at the Gate Theatre, in Dublin, Ireland on October 13, 1931.  At the time Herbert Hoover was the President of  The United States of  America.

Orson Welles ended his career as a stage actor at the Gaiety Theate, in Dublin, Ireland in March, 1960. At the time John Kennedy (an Irishman) was President of  The United States of America.
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Since I've always considered Orson Welles Falstaff (the movie) to be his greatest cinematic acheivement, I've often wondered why his ghost staging of Chimes at Midnight in Dublin in 1960 has been so ignored in most Welles biographies.  (more...)

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Bonhams to sell a Treasure Trove of Production Material on Orson Welles’s Masterpiece CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT

Sunday, November 6th, 2011

Chimes at Midnight is Welles's masterpiece, the fullest, most completely realized expression of everything he had been working toward since Citizen Kane, which itself was more an end than a beginning.

--Joseph McBride, ORSON WELLES.

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Bonham's Auction house will be selling an archive of rare production material on November 22 in London that belonged to the executive producer of Chimes at Midnight, Alessandro Tasca, who was a cousin of Guiseppe Lampedusa, the author of the classic Sicilian novel The Leopard.

The presale estimate for the collection is between £40,000 and 60,000 (British pounds).  Ideally, it would be wonderful if an archive could obtain the material, such as The University of Michigan or the Lilly Library, where it could be available for Welles scholars, but (more...)

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