Word: orson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bernard Herrmann, for the best scoring of a dramatic picture in All That Money Can Buy. His only previous movie music was for Orson Welles's Citizen Kane...
Prize alumnus of the Todd School for Boys in Woodstock, Ill. is a chub-cheeked young precocity named Orson Welles. Silver-haired Headmaster Roger ("Skipper") Hill, watching Orson's progress, has hoped ever since to turn up a few more like him. Last week Orson Welles made the lightning stroke more possible by giving his alma mater a check for $10,000, enough for five two-year scholarships...
...Orson Welles has formed a sort of educational partnership with Headmaster Hill...
Their collaboration, when Orson was 17, on Everybody's Shakespeare, a simple adaptation of Shakespeare's plays for high schools, has sold over 100,000 copies; their collaboration on Todd has greatly stepped up its extracurricular activities...
...best gag writers in the business, Bergen follows two heavyweight (Charles Laugh ton, Orson Welles), one lightweight (Rudy Vallee) lecturer, imported by U.C.L.A. to add a touch of mundaneity to the English curriculum...