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And then, on July 11, 1938, like Martians taking over New Jersey, Orson Welles invaded radio.
Less than two weeks before, Welles and his producing partner John Houseman had been told they were hired to put on "The Mercury Theatre on the Air" (also known as "First Person Singular") as a nine-week summer re-placement in the Lux slot, Monday nights from 9 to 10...
It?s hard to think of someone so young who made such in impact so quickly, with such distinction, and in so many media as Awesome Welles (the nickname that was applied to him as much in honor as in derision). Large, fleshy and handsome, with unslakable ambition and infectious...
Stage, radio and film: all were canap?s for the voracious man-child. Consider these three triumphs. In 1937, at 22, Welles and his Mer-cury Theatre had vitalized the New York stage with a "voodoo" " Macbeth," a "fascist" "Julius Caesar" and the agit-prop musical "The Cradle With Rock" - the...
"Whatever happened to Anne Welles?" asks Rae Lawrence in the opening line of Shadow of the Dolls, a sequel to Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann's classic 1966 paean to babes, booze and barbiturates. Susann had her own ideas about the fate of Anne, the well-bred supermodel, and...