The novel that became the basis for the Orson Welles movie, The Lady From Shanghai was written by Sherwood King in 1938. Welles claimed he saw it in a drug store in Boston in 1946, and that he called Harry Cohn before the opening of AROUND THE WORLD and asked Cohn to send him $40,000. … Continue reading ORSON WELLES promotes his wife Rita Hayworth as THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI in 1946