1949 French radio portrait of Welles by Cocteau, Bessy

[Wellesnet]

Most of this is in French, but there is an English interview with Welles at the end of the show.

In the "Kings of the Night" on November 27th, 1949, devoted to Orson Welles, one could listen to a biography of the filmmaker told in the form of a newspaper set to music. Jean Cocteau and Maurice Bessy were talking about the filmmaker who also spoke at the end of the show.

The show "The Kings of the Night" was dedicated on November 27, 1949 to the filmmaker Orson Welles. After a long and fascinating biography told by Pierre Larquey, in the form of a newspaper set to music, listeners could hear two testimonies of friendship on Orson Welles by Jean Cocteau and Maurice Bessy. Then at the very end of the show, it was the filmmaker himself who had already directed Citizen Kane and La Splendeur des Amberson who answered Maurice Bessy's questions in English. Orson Welles first evoked Othello, a film realistic about Macbeth, more abstract, then his project to jointly produce, in order to save costs, an adaptation of Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare and The Odyssey of Homer.

https://www.franceculture.fr/emissions/ ... ee-dhomere

[DrG]

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