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Fifty years ago last week, Hollywood was the home of the avant garde. RKO released an 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...
Alas, a career full of lost skirmishes with the moguls proved that even Welles couldn't shake Hollywood free of its romantic realism. It held then; it holds today. Except that now the old glamour has atrophied into formula: boy's adventures and ghost stories and lady-in-distress thrillers...
In Two-Faced Woman, Garbo exits a cocktail party and 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...
"I was 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."