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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 ...
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.
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 ...
[242] [243] This plot is also shared by the very first Othello-influenced film: the 18-minute Danish 1911 Desdemona. [244] [245] All Night Long reframes the story in a jazz milieu. [246] And Richard Eyre's Stage Beauty depicts a restoration performance of the play. [247] The filming of Orson Welles' Othello was plagued by chaos. A pattern ...
Othello (1951 film) The Other Side of the Wind; S. The Stranger (1946 film) T. Too Much Johnson (1938 film) Touch of Evil; The Trial (1962 film) Twelfth Night (1933 film)
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During this time, Welles was channeling his money from acting jobs into a self-financed film version of Shakespeare's Othello. From 1949 to 1951, Welles worked on Othello, filming on location in Italy and Morocco. The film featured Welles's friends Micheál Mac Liammóir as Iago and Hilton Edwards as Desdemona's father Brabantio.
Cotten in 1943. Joseph Cotten was an American actor known for his roles on stage and screen. Cotten's most notable projects include his collaborations with Orson Welles.He portrayed Jed Leland in Citizen Kane (1941), Eugene Morgan in The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), and Howard Graham in Journey into Fear (1943).