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(2 of 4) We know all this about his radio work because, unlike the theatrical productions that vanished on closing night, nearly all of his important radio shows are preserved and available. Some of the best "Mercury" epi-sodes can be ordered from Radio Spirits; so can Welles? splendid 3...
All three events have inspired feature films: the 1999 Tim Robbins film "The Cradle Will Rock," the 1975 ABC TV movie "The Night That Panicked America" and the 1999 HBO docudrama "RKO 281." From his first flush as a prodigy to his long maturity, when he ballooned or diminished into...
That?s a shame, because it?s a huge (some 200 hours over 20 years) and impressive body of work, and it?s the overwhelming extant evidence of the Wellesian preoccupations and attitudes that gave birth to "Kane" and its kin. Nearly every actor who appeared in "Kane" - Joseph Cotten...
BIG VOICE By July of 1938, Welles was already a radio veteran, and a kind of star. His supple, authoritative baritone virtually destined him to some higher form of public speaking. "With a vocal instrument of abnormal resonance and flexibility," writes Houseman in his autobiography "Run-Through," which is largely...
At this party, the A-list of guests comprised those actors who could confect drama out of their voices and a script they may have read only minutes before air time. Like star surgeons, they would scurry from one operation to another (Welles supposedly traveled from studio to studio in...