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Budget. $839,727 [2] Box office. $1.8 million (re-release) [3] [4] Citizen Kane is a 1941 American drama film directed by, produced by, and starring Orson Welles. Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz wrote the screenplay. The picture was Welles's first feature film . Citizen Kane is frequently cited as the greatest film ever made. [5]
Aug 30, 2021 · George Orson Welles was born on May 6, 1915, in Kenosha, Wisc. As documented by Barbara Leaming, author of Orson Welles, a Biography, Welles' father, Richard Head Welles, made a small fortune as the inventor of a popular carbide lamp used on automobiles and bicycles. When the industry shifted from carbide to electrical lamps, the elder Welles ...
Jun 12, 2015 · Orson Welles directing Touch of Evil (1958) Adding his by-now considerable physical weight to the role of corrupt border cop Hank Quinlan, Welles also conjures an electric sense of place and sweaty atmosphere through his use of canted angles, deep space and a roving camera. We also get a jaunty jazz-inflected score by Henry Mancini, a career ...
Nov 2, 2018 · They'll Love Me When I'm Dead: Directed by Morgan Neville. With Alan Cumming, Peter Bogdanovich, Oja Kodar, Orson Welles. In the final fifteen years of the life of legendary director Orson Welles, he pins his Hollywood comeback hopes on a film, The Other Side of the Wind (2018), in itself a film about an aging film director trying to finish his last great movie.
Below is the article summary. For the full article, see Orson Welles . Orson Welles, (born May 6, 1915, Kenosha, Wis., U.S.—died Oct. 10, 1985, Los Angeles, Calif.), U.S. film director, actor, and producer. He began acting on stage at 16 and made his Broadway debut in 1934. He directed an all-African American cast in Macbeth for the Federal ...
Aug 11, 2020 · In February of 1982, Orson Welles was sixty-six years old and hadn’t completed a dramatic feature since the docu-fiction “F for Fake,” from 1973.He was in France, to be decorated as a ...
Dec 30, 2017 · This Is Orson Welles: Directed by Clara Kuperberg, Julia Kuperberg. With Peter Bogdanovich, Henry Jaglom, Joseph McBride, Martin Scorsese. A portrait of the great ...
