Welles, Orson

A twentieth-century American actor and filmmaker. His masterpiece is Citizen Kane , the story of a newspaper tycoon (widely thought to be based on William Randolph Hearst ), which he directed and in which he played the title role.

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For Halloween of 1938, Welles wrote a famous radio dramatization of The War of the Worlds , by H. G. Wells , the story of an invasion of the Earth by warriors from Mars . Welles's play included several fictional radio news reports about the invasion. Many listeners who missed the beginning of the play thought that they were hearing about an actual Martian attack and panicked.

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As FDR once told Orson Welles, “You and I are the two best actors in America.”

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Orson Welles (1965) His Chimes at Midnight was a mash-up of the Shakespeare plays in which Sir John Falstaff appears.

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In appearance John was a cross between Mama Cass and Orson Welles.

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That old Orson Welles commercial for Paul Masson went, “We will serve no wine before its time.”

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Few people knew better than Orson Welles how to spook an entire country.

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Maybe an even better thing; it had been only sixty-odd years since the Orson Welles invasion-scare.

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