Word: orson
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Other recordings inducted into the registry include the radio broadcast of the Hindenburg crash from 1937, Orson Welles’ infamous 1938 radio production of “War of the Worlds” and Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech from...
...player to coach. In the silent era, pioneer director D.W. Griffith had entered movies as an actor; Charlie Chaplin directed all his own features. But from the start of the Academy Awards in 1928 through the '70s, only two actors turned directors won even an Oscar nomination for directing: Orson Welles for Citizen Kane and Laurence Olivier for Hamlet. And they were so mammoth, so legendary, that few actors dared imitate them. The auteur corps was replenished by craftsmen who made their names as writers, cameramen and editors and by directors imported from the stage...
It’s June 16th, 1937, and director Orson Welles is phoning furiously, trying to find a theater to house his politically charged and abruptly banned epic musical, The Cradle Will Rock. His stage manager is circling around town with a piano in her rented truck, waiting until Welles chances upon a vacant theater where he will lead cast, crew and bewildered audience. The actors, forbidden by their unions to perform that evening, are prodded on by Welles, as they rise from their seats, recite their lines and bring an astounded audience to their feet...
...child born to a pair of brilliant astrophysicists gets lost in the woods. Raised by a pack of wild dogs, he finds his way back to civilization years later and goes on to graduate with honors from M.I.T. But a year after that, he gets killed chasing a car. ORSON BEAN Venice, Calif...
...with magazine art directors, always aware of himself as an artist denied his due. The LSD therapy he began in 1966 apparently did not do much to make him more congenial. It's no surprise that at his death he had posted in his apartment an old obituary of Orson Welles, the patron saint of misspent genius...