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Othello (also known as The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice) is a 1951 tragedy directed and produced by Orson Welles, who also adapted the Shakespearean play and played the title role. Recipient of the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film (precursory name for the Palme d'Or [ 3 ] ) at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival , the film was ...
He then directed and starred in the film-noir The Lady from Shanghai (1947), appearing opposite his estranged wife Rita Hayworth. [8] His 1951 film Othello won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film festival. [9] In 1958, Universal-International released the Welles-directed Touch of Evil, in which he also starred alongside Charlton Heston and Janet ...
In 1951, Welles had completed principal photography, but was still trying to raise money to finish editing the film. He was thus delighted to receive an offer from Laurence Olivier, then operating the St James's Theatre, to come and perform Othello on the London stage. Olivier's offer was not met with universal approval.
The UK's National Film and Television Archive holds over 25 20th-Century films containing performances, adaptations or extracts from Othello including Anson Dyer's 1920 animated Othello, 1921's Carnival and its 1932 remake, the 1922 German film Othello, the 1936 Men Are Not Gods, 1941's East of Piccadilly, George Cukor's 1947 A Double Life ...
After his last Hungarian film Money Talks in 1940 he emigrated to Britain and worked in several other countries. [1] He worked on the 1951 Orson Welles film Othello as editor under the name John Shepridge. [2] His brother Béla Csepreghy was also a filmmaker.
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Micheál Mac Liammóir, who worked with the 16-year-old Welles on the stage in Dublin and later played Iago in his film Othello (1951), wrote that "Orson's courage, like everything else about him, imagination, egotism, generosity, ruthlessness, forbearance, impatience, sensitivity, grossness and vision is magnificently out of proportion."
Rod Hamilton, a wealthy jazz aficionado, throws a big one-year wedding anniversary party for Aurelius Rex, a bandleader and pianist, and Delia Lane, a retired singer, in a Thames-side warehouse in London that he remodeled to create a space for all-night parties and jam sessions, which he cannot hold at his house in upscale Mayfair.