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  • Inside ‘The War of the Worlds’ Radio Broadcast

    10/29/2023 6:23:23 PM PDT · by DallasBiff · 9 replies
    History.com ^ | 6/1/23 | Christopher Klein
    As the clock struck 8 p.m. in New York City on the night of October 30, 1938, Orson Welles stood on a podium inside a Madison Avenue radio studio. The baby-faced, 23-year-old theatrical star, who had graced the cover of Time magazine months earlier, prepared to direct 10 actors and a 27-piece orchestra for the Columbia Broadcasting System’s weekly “Mercury Theatre on the Air” program
  • Orson Welles roasts James Stewart (the greatest Roast of all time)

    12/20/2020 10:06:13 AM PST · by ealgeone · 17 replies
    youtube ^ | 05/10/1978 | Orson Wells
    Jimmy, to use a metaphor, the movie industry is a -- well it's sometimes called a jungle, but I think it's a forest, a forest made up of a million different plants and trees and shrubs. And some of these plants have a brief day in the sun -- they flower quickly, but they can't seem to sustain, so they wither away. Hollywood has seen a lot of these.But a career like yours, Jimmy, is an evergreen. Rain or shine it keeps growing. Because is had a kind of beauty and purpose it will never die. That's what we've always...
  • Video, Quote and Word of the Day

    09/23/2009 9:27:41 PM PDT · by fiscon1 · 193+ views
    The Provocateur ^ | 09/23/2009 | Mike Volpe
    Orson Wells, The Third Man, ferris wheel scene...