Best-selling author was Orson Welles’ housekeeper
Crime novelist Peter James, author of Britain’s popular Roy Grace series, has penned 44 books, which have been translated into 30 languages and sold more than 21 million copies.
Crime novelist Peter James, author of Britain’s popular Roy Grace series, has penned 44 books, which have been translated into 30 languages and sold more than 21 million copies.
“Jangadeiros da São Pedro” (“Rafters of Saint Pedro”) will tell the story of the four fishermen who traveled on a raft to Rio de Janeiro in 1941.
“The Lady From Shanghai,” the classic film noir written by, directed by, and starring Orson Welles, will be released on 4K Ultra HD on July 23 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
Gudrun Ure, who starred opposite Orson Welles in his London stage production of “Othello” in 1951, also dubbed Suzanne Cloutier’s performance as Desdemona in the film version.
“Wells and Welles” will be directed by Amber Mandley, who recently earned critical acclaim for her direction of “Shakespeare’s R&J,” which was performed with an all-female cast at PrideArts.
Oja Kodar collaborated with Welles on “The Other Side of the Wind” and “F for Fake”, as well as several unrealized projects including “The Dreamers.”
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival will feature Orson Welles’ adaptation of Kafka’s “The Trial” as part of a retrospective honoring the Prague-born writer on the 100th anniversary of his death.
Following a poorly received “King Lear” at City Center in New York, Orson Welles journeyed to Las Vegas for a three-week run at the Riviera Hotel, where he was paid $45,000.
The upcoming Blu-ray release of “Macbeth” utilizes 2022 high definition masters made by Paramount Pictures from 4K scans of the 1948 and 1950 releases.
Joseph McBride discussed “The Other Side of the Wind” on the YouTube podcast “Robert Bellissimo At The Movies”, now in its fourth year.
“It’s All True: Orson Welles’s Pan-American Odyssey” by Catherine Benamou was first published by University of California Press in 2007.
It has been two and a half years since cinematic treasure hunters first embarked on an expedition to Brazil to find the fabled lost, longer cut of Orson Welles’ “The Magnificent Ambersons.”
Footage of the dress rehearsal of Orson Welles and Roger “Skipper” Hill’s award-winning production of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” at the Todd School for Boys in 1933.
The latest Cineversary podcast looks at “The Third Man,” director Carol Reed’s post-war classic starring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles.
A detailed celebrity news account of the wedding of Orson Welles and Paola Mori appeared in Australia’s Women’s Weekly on May 25, 1955.
The upcoming performances of “Orson’s Shadow” mark the first time Austin Pendleton has directed his play.
“Orson Welles as Family Man: Son, Husband, Father” is showcased in an exhibit through April 29 at the Hatcher Gallery at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
In a conversation taped before Peter Bogdanovich’s death in 2022, “The Last Picture Show” filmmaker talked with Rian Johnson about Welles’ career.
A Peter Bogdanovich podcast produced by Audacy and dedicated to filmmakers and their legacy will be released two years after his death.
The Jerusalem Cinematheque series showcases nine Orson Welles movies in February beginning with his landmark “Citizen Kane” on February 5.