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George Orson Welles was born May 6, 1915, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, a son of Richard Head Welles [13]: 26 [14] [a] and Beatrice Ives Welles (née Beatrice Lucy Ives). [14] [15]: 9 [b] He was named after one of his great-grandfathers, influential Kenosha attorney Orson S. Head, and his brother George Head.
Orson Welles at work on The Magnificent Ambersons (1942). Orson Welles (1915–1985) was an American director, actor, writer, and producer who is best remembered for his innovative work in radio, theatre and film.
In 1934, Cotten met and became friends with Orson Welles, a fellow cast member on CBS Radio's The American School of the Air. [4]: 30–31 Welles regarded Cotten as a brilliant comic actor, [13]: 166 and gave him the starring role in his Federal Theatre Project farce, Horse Eats Hat [4]: 34 [14] (September 26 – December 5, 1936).
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Shortly after midnight, one of the cast, a late arrival, told Welles that news about "The War of the Worlds" was being flashed in Times Square. They immediately left the theatre, and standing on the corner of Broadway and 42nd Street, they read the lighted bulletin that circled the New York Times building: ORSON WELLES CAUSES PANIC.
(In an appearance on The Dick Cavett Show on February 19, 1973, she revealed that, in 1922, she had by chance met Welles (15 years her junior) when he was a mere seven years old at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.) [11] She performed in his The Mercury Theatre on the Air radio adaptations, and had a regular role opposite Welles in ...
Rebecca Welles died on October 17, 2004—the birthday of her mother, Rita Hayworth—at the age of 59. Marc McKerrow requested, through the courts, that his adoption file be opened. Through the adoption agency Marc discovered his true lineage and contacted his biological mother, Rebecca Welles, shortly before her death.
In the book My Lunches with Orson, Orson Welles claims that he had been told by a security agent that Flight 3 was shot down by Nazi agents who knew of the route in advance. [7] He also claimed that news of the shooting was kept quiet to prevent vigilante action against Americans of German ancestry. [7] Neither claim was confirmed. [8]