Saturday, September 6, 2025

Orson Welles: Genius and Ornery Cuss - Role Model

 Funny, hard-thinking, modest, a bloody creative genius, and one of the world's greatest talkers.




Out takes proving him either a genius with the English language, or a major PITA:

 

Orson Welles interviewed on "Tomorrow with Tom Snyder" 1975 April 8:


 (Tim Robbins did a movie based on "The Cradle Rock" story.)

Othello, Touch of Evil, The Lady from Shanghai, and The Trial | This is Orson Welles


 Orson Welles - Interview with Michael Parkinson (BBC 1974):


 Lost films of Orson Welles - a documentary that includes Welles doing a reading as Shylock and from Melville that are worth the hour-long film.

 

 

Simon Callow: "Orson Welles: The Genius Who Failed"


 For all of his troubles and travails, he did not become miserable or self-pitying, but persevered to be creative.

sch 8/26

 I found an entire YouTube channel devoted to Welles: Citizen Welles.

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