Word: orson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mates sailed their flimsy jangada (sailing raft) Sao Pedro on a 61-day, 1,650-mile trip to Rio de Janeiro to tell President Vargas the fishermen's troubles. From Getulio Vargas they won full union rights-and pensions. Their story (TIME, Dec. 8) so kindled Cinema Director Orson Welles (Citizen Kane)that he flew Jacare and his mates to Rio again, to enact their feat for his camera...
...Radio Directors Guild was born last week in Manhattan with a charter membership of 37, including four of the biggest: Norman Corwin, Arch Oboler, Irving Reis, Orson Welles. Its avowed purposes: 1) to improve radio entertainment; 2) to lend more effective radio assistance to the Government's war effort; 3) to establish the professional prestige of those who call the tune and set the pace for the mass entertainment of Americans...
Because of the war, Orson Welles, who went to Rio de Janeiro to make a film, Journey Into Fear, is gnawing his nails awaiting the arrival of indispensable material from Hollywood: 25 rubber noses...
Dolores Del Rio, her divorce from Cedric Gibbons final, planned to make a film in Mexico City. Orson Welles is making a film in Brazil. Halfway between the two places, said she, they will meet and "I will have an announcement to make...
...Orson Welles, who produced, directed, wrote and starred in the most provocative picture of 1941, Citizen Kane, was conspicuously overlooked by Hollywood in its annual kudos-giving.* Upstart Welles, though he and his first picture had been nominated by the members for nine Academy Awards (far more than any other star or picture), was awarded half an Oscar (for the best original screen play; co-authored by Herman J. Mankiewicz...