Two groupings of “Ambersons” reels (14 and 10), as well as 10 reels of “Journey Into Fear,” were shipped to Welles in Brazil so he could edit the film. Filmmaker Josh Grossberg hopes the footage, if it has survived the past 80 years, is in the hands of private collectors.
“How to Think Like Marlowe: Orson Welles’s Detour from Shakespeare” is one of the free online monthly Research Conversations offered by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. While Welles’ fascination with Shakespeare is well-known, he had a deep appreciation for Marlowe dating back to his youth.
“The Great Lie: The Creation of Mary Astor” examines not only the Academy Award winning actress’ personal struggles, but her second career as an author.
Veteran British commercial producer and director Peter Shillingford says Orson Welles not drunk during the infamous Paul Masson “French champagne” shoot, rather he had taken a sleeping pill before filming.
The Orson Welles-directed “Caesar” was described by one critic as “the most exciting, the most imaginative, the most topical, the most awesome and the most absorbing of the season’s new productions.”
Orson Welles fans who were left cold by “Mank” will find some relief in “Voodoo Macbeth,” a USC School of Cinematic Arts production that delves into an important moment in American theater and race relations.
To mark our 20th anniversary, Wellesnet founder Jeff Wilson looks back to March 2001 and recalls the birth and early days of the Orson Welles Web Resource.
A trailer and four brief scenes from the forthcoming “Voodoo Macbeth” film have surfaced online.
What appears to be five and a half minutes of outtakes from Orson Welles’ 1947 film “The Lady from Shanghai” shot in San Francisco’s Chinatown and Acapulco can be found online.
When Matthew Asprey Gear, author of “At the End of the Street in the Shadow: Orson Welles and the City,” announced last fall that he would offer an online course for newbie and veteran Wellesians, we were intrigued. Apparently, we were not alone. The course was a success on both sides of the Atlantic and another is in the offing.
Gold Ninja Video is releasing a limited edition Blu-ray set of Gary Graver rarities, ranging from his first directorial effort in 1963 to footage from Orson Welles’ unfinished “Filming The Trial.”
Beatrice Welles — whose father, Orson Welles, produced, starred, directed and co-wrote “Citizen Kane” — sees Netflix’s “Mank” as a slap in the face of the late maverick filmmaker.
The French detective novel “The Assassination of Orson Welles” is set at the Cannes Film Festival in 1949. A film-loving private detective is hired by Welles to find the gunman who tried to kill him.
The Culver City Historical Society discovered some of the elaborate stained glass windows from “The Magnificent Ambersons” mansion set.
Maila Nurmi, who gained fame as Vampira in the 1950s, reportedly dated Orson Welles a decade earlier, but the jury is out as to whether he fathered her child.
Porchlight Music Theatre will utilize the only surviving recording of a portion of “Around the World.’ In addition, Porchlight Artistic Director Michael Weber will talk with Wellesnet administrator Ray Kelly about the Broadway production’s history.
Orson Welles’ groundbreaking all-Black stage production of Macbeth is the subject of an upcoming BBC Radio 4 play. “Voodoo Macbeth” will be broadcast on January 28.
One of the 20th century’s most celebrated writers and one of its finest filmmakers enjoyed what the latter described as “a very strange relationship.”
In 2020, fans saw the release of “Hopper/Welles” and Orson Welles’ radio work repurposed in a best-selling hip hop album.
Orson Welles’ days as a commercial pitchman did not end with his death in 1985. He is featured in a promotion for a new video game. BioWare and Electronic Arts licensed the use of Welles’ voice for a teaser trailer for the next installment in its sci-fi video game series “Mass Effect.”
