Misc. OW links of interest

[Wellesnet]

Orson Welles paintings included in Sedona exhibit:
http://www.wellesnet.com/orson-welles-paintings-sedona/

“A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.”
― Orson Welles

[Wellesnet]

‘Orson’ perfume makes it debut:
http://www.wellesnet.com/orson-welles-perfume/

Only $285 per bottle

[NoFake]

Much to chew on here:

https://wtop.com/entertainment/2019/05/national-cathedral-presents-beyond-psycho-tribute-to-bernard-herrmann/

[Le Chiffre]

Thanks to Terry Wilson for the great idea of illuminating the original stories by Welles written for radio. These include:

FOR STAGE

1935
Marching Song

1936
Bright Lucifer

1951
The Blessed and the Damned (The Unthinking Lobster and Time Runs)

1953
Fair Warning

FOR RADIO

1939
The Campbell Playhouse - Things We Have (with Cornelia Otis Skinner) [original script]

1941
The Free Company - His Honor, the Mayor [original script]

1942
Cavalcade of America - Admiral of the Ocean Sea (with Robert Meltzer and Norris Houghton)
Ceiling Unlimited - The Navigator (with Milton Geiger) [original script]
Hello Americans - The Alphabet: Slavery (Abednego) to End of Alphabet (with John Tucker Battle) [original script]

1944
Fifth War Loan Drive - Texarkana [original script]

1945
Orson Welles Commentaries - [original scripts]

1946
The Mercury Summer Theatre of the Air - Abednego the Slave (with John Tucker Battle) [original script]

1951
The Lives of Harry Lime - Too Many Crooks [original script]
The Lives of Harry Lime - A Ticket to Tangier [original script]
The Lives of Harry Lime - Two Is Company [original script]
The Lives of Harry Lime - Operation Music Box [original script]
The Lives of Harry Lime - The Golden Fleece [original script]
The Lives of Harry Lime - The Dead Candidate [original script]
The Lives of Harry Lime - Man of Mystery [original script]
The Lives of Harry Lime - It's in the Bag [original script]

To these could be added the original works for stage and screen, which would include

FOR SCREEN

1941
Citizen Kane (with Herman Mankiewicz)

1953
Operation Cinderella

1954
Two by Two (Noah's Ark)

1955
Mr. Arkadin (aka Confidential Report)

1967
Santo Spirito

1971-75
The Other Side of the Wind (with Oja Kodar)

1982
The Big Brass Ring (with Oja Kodar)

1984
The Cradle Will Rock

If anyone knows of any others, feel free to post them here.

[NoFake]

Reading this passage in the July 1 (2019) issue of the New Yorker, I found myself thinking back to a similar reminiscence by Welles: "A Brief Career as a Musical Prodigy," for the French Vogue magazine. This one, however, deals with not a mother-son relationship, but that of a grandmother-grandson; specifically, French (interesting, that) President Emmanuel Macron and his maternal grandmother. And yet, the relationship -- and the emotions it aroused in both boy and man, in both cases -- evoked similar reactions in this reader:

"At a young age, Macron relegated his parents to supporting roles in the great drama of his early life, his relationship with his maternal grandmother, Germaine Noguès. Born in a village in the Pyrenees in 1916, Noguès, nicknamed Manette, was the only member of her family to pursue an education beyond middle school. She became a geography teacher and then a school principal. For decades, she presided over a cult of learning, hosting students in her apartment for after-school sessions of hot chocolate and Chopin. She seems to have been an exacting character: Macron has recalled that she “taught me how to work” from the age of five. He spent entire days reading aloud to her. Eventually, he asked his parents if he could live with her, a request that they denied.

“We were average parents,” Jean-Michel told Anne Fulda for her biography of Macron, “Such a Perfect Young Man,” from 2017. He recalled the family’s “banal life.” (He and Françoise, who divorced in 2010, appeared at their son’s inauguration but remain extremely discreet.) Emmanuel’s parents made his meals and washed his clothes, but Manette owned his imagination. In the early mornings, “I would go into her bedroom, and she would recount anecdotes of war and friendships,” Macron recalled. “I love only you,” she would tell him, instilling in her grandson-disciple a sense of confidence—of license, even—that remained with him for life. Well into adulthood, Macron spoke to Manette nearly every day. In 2013, she died in his arms. On the campaign trail, he invoked her constantly. Asked to bring to a television show an object that he would put in his office at the Élysée, he chose his childhood grammar book, “in which my grandmother taught me my first great texts.”"

[tadao]

A friend sent me this link to a forthcoming Netflix special mockumentary, about an auteur who, from the evidence of the trailer, bears a more than coincidental visual and vocal resemblance to the Welles of the late 70s - early 80s. Apparently it launches July 16th. It'll be a while before I get to see it but thought it might arouse some interest here!

https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/stranger-things-david-harbour-gets-weirder-for-new-mockumentary/

[Wellesnet]

Nice biographical sketch on Welles's life and career includes a brief look at his hometowns of Kenosha and Woodstock:
https://hometownstohollywood.com/wiscon ... RR1Zxz2jDE

[NoFake]

While the fellow in this photo (which I couldn't copy and paste by itself, so the article it's in follows) couldn't be more Welles's polar opposite politically if he tried, from the looks of him, if he ever looks to supplement his day job, he could probably make a few extra euros posing as Orson:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/30-years-after-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall-children-of-a-united-germany-remain-divided/2019/11/07/08840a18-ff89-11e9-8341-cc3dce52e7de_story.html

[Wich2]

Folks -

Came across this in researching Orson's 1938 pinch-hit for Lionel...



To put it in plain Anglo-Saxon: what a LOAD the BBC story is!

Have a safe Thanksgiving,

- Craig

[Steve Paradis]

https://archive.org/search.php?query=su ... d+Sound%22
Not sure how complete, but that article you had to run down in the stacks of a university library may be more accessible now.
For instance:
https://archive.org/details/Sight_and_S ... 0/mode/2up

[Al Schwartz]

Hello all, I am a new member here. First of all I'd like to thank everyone here and especially the people who maintain this site, because I have found it to be an excellent resource for my research about Welles.

To begin with, I have a very specific question or interest. Welles of course handled firearms in many of the movies he appeared in, most notably in Lady From Shanghai and The Third Man. I am trying to learn just how proficient he was with firearms in real life, and whether he ever owned any. Please understand that this is strictly a technical or biographical research question, and absolutely NOT a political question. I know there is a thread here about his opinions on firearms, but that is a different matter. Thanks in advance, I am very grateful for any information.