Word: orsones
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CITIZEN KANE. Orson Welles' masterpiece, a detective thriller about a missing sled, is 50 years old and back in movie theaters, its freshness, wit, breadth and daring intact. What Cecilia Ager said on its release still applies: "It's as if you'd never seen a movie before...
...experimental film made by a 25-year-old novice who didn't know the rules, didn't care when his studio elders said, "You can't do that!" Outrageous, iconoclastic, with warning shadows and baroque camera angles, Citizen Kane told future moviemakers that anything was possible. If you were Orson Welles...
...says brightly, "I look forward to my return." She never did return; this amiable 1941 comedy was her last film. For years she was reported to be mulling beguiling projects (on the lives of St. Teresa of Avila, Eleanora Duse, Dorian Gray) from eminent auteurs (Max Ophuls, Salvador Dali, Orson Welles). Eventually, the vacation became permanent, and Garbo's only pictures were those snapped on the fly by avid paparazzi. Now the camera was not a lover but a predator. Still, her withdrawal was a good and gracious career move. By refusing to make a comeback film, or star...
...always hearing about someone called Orson Welles. He was 16 years old but was six foot four," Fitzgerald said. "He had great success because he had such a beautiful voice... Everyone was intrigued because Orson Welles at age 16 knew every dirty trick of scene stealing...
There, she said, "One day I got a call to say that Orson Welles, star of the town at that time, heard I was there and wanted to audition me for Heartbreak House...