Word: orson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood stayed right in its groove. Rita Hay worth took steps to have her two-year-old daughter (by Orson Welles) made a corporation director in mother's new producing firm. Actor Wallace Ford beat a drunken driving rap by explaining that he drove the way he did because his whiskers kept blowing in his face. Ex-Ziegfeld Beauty Boots Mallory, arrested for drunken driving, was freed to await trial. Actor Lionel Stander & wife filed petitions in bankruptcy, listing assets of $3,150, liabilities of $33,772.77. Actor Lawrence (Dillinger) Tierney, who had been spending his weekends in jail...
Behind Fledgling Fletcher are seven years of variegated experience, and-more significantly-two of radio's most influential ex-Boy Wonders: Orson Welles and Norman Corwin. At 18, Markle left school and began acting, directing, and writing stories he'd much rather forget today (the kind of "terribly sophisticated stuff you do when you're 20, when you know everything that goes on in hotel bedrooms"). At 19, he settled on radio, wrote 250 dramas for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., ! became a smash hit with Dominion listeners...
Welles.put up more resistance. He first ignored, then rudely rebuffed the young man. After a month of persistent trying, however, Markle finally broke down the Welles defenses, persuaded his target to listen to a recorded parody of Welles in action. Impressed, Orson let the youngster repeat the parody on his Mercury Sum mer Theater program and invited Markle to Hollywood to do a screen version of Oscar Wilde's Salome. The production fell through, but Markle is disgusted with movies, anyway, and with "that terrible place" (Hollywood). If movies could be made in "civilized" New York, he thinks...
After the lunch, the Colonel had only one major hurdle left-Hedda's command cocktail party. Columnist Hopper had worked swiftly and with care. She had screened out Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles and others politically repulsive to the Colonel. Walter Wanger had declined the invitation. But the 130 names circling the glass-enclosed room overlooking Hedda's swimming pool were as glittering as any ever mobilized by Hollywood on such short notice-Olivia de Havilland, Deborah Kerr, Gary Grant, Irene Dunne, Frank Sinatra, Lana Turner, Tyrone Power...
Rita Hayworth, through work at last in a picture written, produced and directed by husband Orson Welles (co-star), said she was also through with Orson. Explained Rita: "I just can't take his genius any more...