Is this from Fountain of Youth (1958)?

[purplepines]

Orson levitates Lucy

I've heard about the rare Fountain of Youth show, but I'm unsure if this is from it.

[Harvey Chartrand]

No, this YouTube clip is taken from a 1956 episode of "I Love Lucy" – Lucy Meets Orson Welles. The Great Orson was quite the porky pachyderm only seven years after playing the slim and handsome black marketeer Harry Lime in Carol Reed's THE THIRD MAN. By '56, Orson was frittering away his talent to pay the bills on crap like "I Love Lucy". He had become a monument to excess with an ever-present cigar that was slowly wrecking his voice of God.
By contrast, that same year, Welles's former editor and protégée Robert Wise directed three excellent pictures: HELEN OF TROY with Rossana Podestà and Stanley Baker; TRIBUTE TO A BAD MAN featuring James Cagney; and SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME starring Paul Newman. A peplum, a western and a boxer biopic. In '56, Wise demonstrated an astonishing eclecticism and range worthy of John Huston.
Of course, Orson's future wasn't all used up quite yet. He was gearing up to direct his final studio masterpiece TOUCH OF EVIL as well as his best TV work – THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH.

[Jeff Wilson]

Honestly Harvey, enough with the "while fatso Welles pissed away his talent doing X, former Welles associate Y was making GREAT work doing Z" posts. You've done this many times, and it's already led to bad feelings from other people once, and it's only going to continue to do so. We get the idea: you think Welles wasted his talent while people he worked with used their time and talent wisely. Fine.

[ToddBaesen]

Actually, thanks to Lucy, we have a filmed record of the levitation magic act Welles was doing in Las Vegas, and as we all know, Welles liked doing magic tricks. He even did his very own TV show (THE MAGIC SHOW), plus he liked Lucy personally, so why shouldn't he do a guess spot on her TV program? Just because it's not Shakespeare?

By that same logic, Welles shouldn't have wasted his talents on making thrillers like TOUCH OF EVIL or THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI, either.

Of course, the comparison with Robert Wise has some validity, since in the sixties Welles was directing crappy films like THE TRIAL and FALSTAFF, and Robert Wise was making such musical masterpieces as STAR and THE SOUND OF MUSIC.

[purplepines]

> Welles was directing crappy films like THE TRIAL and FALSTAFF

heehee, irony or iron-clad?

Prince of Foxes, out Tuesday in the U.S. We only saw him young a handful of times, I am thus happy there'll be another DVD to hold when the ship comes in.