Photos
Families, friends and memorials
Virginia Welles – (mother of Chris Welles Feder)
Orson Welles and Virginia Nicolson Welles with their daughter Christopher Welles in 1938
Orson Welles and first wife, Virginia Nicolson, in November 1938
Orson Welles and first wife, Virginia Nicolson, in November 1938
Orson and daughter Christopher, 1939
Orson Welles with daughter Christopher
Chris Welles and Peggy Webber (Macbeth)
Chris Welles with her father in 1952.
Chris Welles-Feder with actor Zac Efron
Chris Welles Feder (Workman Publishing photo)
Chris Welles Feder at a screening of Magician in New York in November 2014. (Cohen Media Group)
Chris Welles Feder with Joseph McBride at the New York Film Forum “Orson Welles 100” series in January 16, 2015
Rita Hayworth – (mother of Rebecca Welles)
The first known photo of Orson and Rita on Dec. 5, 1941 before the There Are Frenchmen broadcast
Left to right are: Dr. Nayruce D. Bernstein, Orson Welles, childhood guardian and adviser, Rita Hayworth, and Orson Welles on Sept. 8, 1943. (AP Photo)
Joseph Cotten, Rita and Orson
Rita, Chris Welles and Orson
Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth with Rebecca
Rebecca, Orson, Chris and Rita
Rebecca Welles and Rita, circa 1950
Rebecca, Orson and Chris
Rita Hayworth holidaying with her daughter Rebecca in Gstaad, Switzerland, 1950.
Rebecca Welles, 12, and her father in Pisa, Italy.
Rita Hayworth (center) leaves London Airport with her children Yasmin, 6 , and Rebecca, 13. Yasmin and Rebecca had flown in from Nice after spending the summer with Yasmin’s father, the Prince Aly Khan, at the Aga Khan’s Chateau de l’horizon on the Riviera. Rebecca is the daughter of Rita and her second husband, Orson Welles. (07/12/56)(AP PHOTO)
Thirteen-year-old Rebecca Welles, left, and eight-year-old Princess Yasmin, daughters of American screen actress Rita Hayworth, arrive in New York on Sept. 2, 1958, on board the liner “United States”. They are on their way to Beverly Hills, California, where they return to school. Princess Yasmin spent the summer with her father, Prince Aly Khan in France. Rebecca was with her father, Orson Welles in Italy. The girls said they saw their mother at Southampton, England, before sailing home. (AP Photo)
Rebecca Welles in a screen capture from 1964’s “Hollywood and the Stars.”
Rebecca Welles and her father, circa 1971
Paola Welles – (mother of Beatrice Welles)
Paola Mori on July 12, 1954
Orson Welles with Paola in August 1953
Orson Welles at his wedding to Paola Mori, 1955
Orson Welles, his wife, Paola, and their 9-month old daughter, Beatrice, pose by their swimming pool at their home in Bell Air, California, August 24, 1956. The pool is situated among overhanging vines, ferns and large trees, with a huge trellis over one end of the pool. It is located at the back of their house. Mrs. Welles maiden name was Paola Mori Weller Coutessea di Gerfalco. (AP Photo)
Orson Welles, who says he will try a wheelchair “King Lear” performance, Jan. 14, 1956, jokes backstage with Geraldine Fitzgerald, his leading lady in the Shakespearian play, after the January 13 performance was cancelled. Mrs. Welles stands behind the actor. Welles broke an ankle a week ago and sprained the other one after the opening night performance on January 12. On January 13 he substituted an “Evening With Orson Welles”, reading excerpts from the play, with most of the audience remaining instead of exchanging tickets. (AP Photo)
Actor Orson Welles, his wife, the former countess Di Girfalco, and daughter, Beatrice, are aboard the liner Exochodra prior to departure from New York City, Dec. 27, 1957 for Genoa, Italy. Family pet, Colombina, is making trip, too. Welles’ wife is known in Italy as actress Paola Mori. (AP Photo)
Paola, Beatrice and Orson, October 1958
Orson Welles with daughter Beatrice and wife Paola; Klosters Switzerland, Christmas 1962.
Orson Welles and his wife Paola Mori on Oct. 29, 1963
Orson and daughter Beatrice
Beatrice in “Chimes at Midnight.”
Paola, Orson and Beatrice Welles at the AFI tribute in 1975.
Beatrice Welles
Beatrice Welles waves to photographers while posing with actress Suzanne Cloutier in Cannes, before a special screening of Orson Welles’s “Othello” film during the 45th International film festival, May 12, 1992.
Orson Welles’ daughter Beatrice puts bullring sand down a dry well on a ranch in Ronda, southern Spain, Thursday, May 7, 1987, on top of Welles’ ashes. His friend, ex-bullfighter Antonio Ordonez, holds a bucket with more sand.
Friends
Orson with Dolores Del Rio and Charlie Chaplin
Geraldine Fitzgerald, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, believed to be Orson’s son
With Lea Padovani in 1948
Eartha Kitt and Orson
Orson with longtime friend Roger Hill
Orson Welles and John Houseman
Orson and cameraman Gary Graver
John Huston, Orson, Peter Bogdanovich
Oja Kodar
Orson and Oja Kodar
Orson with Kiki
Memorials
Marker for Orson Welles’ birthplace in Kensoha, Wisconsin
Orson Welles sculpture in Woodstock,Illinois. (Courtesy Jim Mulvaney \ CBS Radio)
The Orson Welles Stage at the Woodstock Opera House in Illinois.
Statue of Orson Welles in Split, Croatia
Christian McKay and Zac Efron at the unveiling of a plaque on the spot of
the Mercury Theater in New York City.
Monument to the 1938 “Martian invasion” of Grovers Mills, N.J.
Neglected memorial in Mogador, Morocco, site of Othello.
Hollywood Walk of Fame stars – radio and film.
Memorial is unveiled in Ronda, Spain,on Sept. 5, 2015.
A memorial to Orson Welles is unveiled in Ronda, Spain,on Sept. 5, 2015.
The well in Ronda, Spain where Orson Welles’ ashes were buried.
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