Word: orson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Among them: Joan Bennett, first to be presented; Marlene Dietrich, who hovered long at the Madame's side; Gary Cooper, who chewed gum and stood with his hands in his pockets; Fred Astaire, who blushed when she spoke to him; Producer David Selznick's wife Irene and Orson Welles, who gazed gravely and long (see cut). In Hollywood Mme. Chiang spoke to an overflow crowd at the Hollywood Bowl, held what may be her last press conference in the U.S., then headed back east...
...reason for all these typographical fireworks could only be conjectured by Angelenos. But definitely not in the realm of conjecture were these facts: 1) two years ago Scenarist Mankiewicz had collaborated with Actor-Producer Orson Welles on the script for Citizen Kane, a picture which irresistibly reminded many of the career of William Randolph Hearst; 2) the film reportedly made Publisher Hearst seethe...
Already reclassified by his draft board (4-F to 1-A) was veteran Boy Wonder Orson Welles, 27. Asthmatic, arthritic, flatfooted, weak-backed, he asked for an immediate Army physical examination so that he could do a little civilian planning, was pronounced fit for limited service...
...young U.S. engineer (Joseph Gotten) when he is stalked by a group of Nazi trigger men in Turkey. The Nazis want to eliminate Gotten, who is a technical adviser to the Turkish Navy. To get him out of harm's way Turkey's secret service chief (Orson Welles) puts Gotten on a ship. His journey is made hideous by the fact that the Nazis get aboard the same ship...
...picture never attains the excitement of the Eric Ambler novel on which it is based. Orson Welles overacts; Dolores Del Rio, as a dancer who tries to take the engineer's mind off his fears, has a superfluous part, and Joseph Gotten does not match his excellent performance in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (TIME...