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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.
Beatrice Giuditta Welles (also known as Beatrice Mori di Gerfalco Welles) [4] was born in Manhattan on November 13, 1955, to Orson Welles and his third wife, Paola Mori. [5] [6]: 313 A countess from an Italian noble family with antecedents in the Middle Ages, [3] Welles is the half-sister of Chris Welles Feder [7] and Rebecca Welles Manning (1944–2004), [8] from her father's previous two ...
Princess Yasmin Aga Khan (born December 28, 1949) is a Swiss-born American philanthropist known for raising public awareness of Alzheimer's disease.. She is the youngest daughter of American movie actress and dancer Rita Hayworth, and the third child of Prince Aly Khan, Pakistan's representative to the United Nations from February 1958 until his death in 1960.
Paola Mori was born in 1928 to an Italian aristocratic family. During World War II, she spent eight months in a concentration camp. Her father, a colonel in the Italian army under King Victor Emmanuel III, was a member of the anti-Mussolini resistance.
In 1939, Welles moved the Mercury Theatre to Hollywood, where he started working for RKO Pictures. Several of his radio performers joined him, and Moorehead made her film debut as the mother of his own character, Charles Foster Kane, in Citizen Kane [ 8 ] (1941), considered by most film critics one of the best films ever made.
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Welles, a Kenosha native, was a radio host, actor and movie maker. His most famous work was in 1938 when he announced on his "War of the Worlds" Halloween radio show that a Martian invasion was ...
Orson Welles entered the Todd Seminary for Boys September 15, 1926, at age 11. [6]: 3 His older brother, Richard Ives Welles, had attended the school ten years before but was expelled for misbehavior. [13]: 48 At Todd Welles came under the influence of teacher, later headmaster, Roger Hill, who became his mentor and lifelong friend.