In 1946, Orson Welles vowed to solve a shocking crime on his radio show on ABC: the beating of a Black soldier who was returning from service after Word War 2. Radio Diaries recalls the story.

Welles called it a “rather poor picture,” but his grievances weren’t just about the quality of the filmmaking – he was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But the biggest news for Welles in 2020 was surely the 40th anniversary of the drunken outtakes from a Paul Masson champagne ...

One of the greatest American directors of the 20th century is known for only a few films. After Orson Welles made his masterpiece Citizen Kane in 1941, he fought bitterly with the studios that ...

Orson Welles is a renowned filmmaker, but he was unimpressed with another iconic director and one of his most acclaimed works - Rear Window. Welles cemented himself as a Hollywood legend when he wrote ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1941, Orson Welles co-wrote, directed, and starred in Citizen Kane, still regarded by many critics as the greatest movie of all ...

Hollywood has a peculiar neurosis on the subject of Orson Welles. Once or twice a decade, the industry attempts to conjure his flamboyant, chaotic personality onscreen, with results that have ranged ...

The only surviving copy of Orson Welles’ 1930 silent film Too Much Johnson was long thought irrecoverably lost after a fire devastated Welles’ home outside Madrid in 1970, yet yesterday the George ...

A few paragraphs on Orson Welles’ 1962 adaptation of “The Trial” can suggest only so much of the film’s special visual effect — not effects, plural, but a single, singular two-hour experience, as ...

Any discussion about the genius of Orson Welles' career inevitably turns to his complete mastery of the camera. He insisted on his films being truly cutting edge in his use of angles and deep focus, ...

“I don’t want any description of me to be accurate,” Orson Welles told critic Kenneth Tynan in 1967. “I want it to be flattering.” It’s a typical Welles bon mot, blustery and witty and egocentric. And ...