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Realizing I missed Orson Welles' birthday

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2022-05-08



Necromancy / Horror Attack (1972)

Original German VHS release artwork by Enzo Sciotti

From my collection.

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2022-05-07

Orson Welles was born on this day in 1915.
These are love letters he wrote to Rita Hayworth.
They were found in a secret compartment in her makeup case.

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2022-05-07

The HandleBards: Twelfth Night 🚲 Wellesley Woodlands, 8 June. Cycling theatre company return to Aldershot with a riotous outdoor production of Shakespeare's famous comedy! https://t.co/qlTbceZKuw

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2022-05-04

"A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet."
~ Orson Welles

[Welles’s letters often used artwork: this heartsore blue demon was doodled on the back of one to his second wife, Rita Hayworth, 1943]

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2022-05-01

"A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet."
~ Orson Welles

[Welles’s letters often used artwork: this heartsore blue demon was doodled on the back of one to his second wife, Rita Hayworth, 1943]

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2022-04-30

In the 40s my grandmother worked for a famous Swedish director & his family looking after their children. Through them she met Orson Welles who fell in love with her and wanted to make her a star in Hollywood. Just like I fear success, so did she. We carry these stories with us.

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2022-04-28

The 'Voodoo Macbeth' is a nickname for the Federal Theatre Project's 1936 New York production of William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth.' Orson Welles adapted and directed the production, and moved the play's setting from Scotland to a fictional Caribbean island https://t.co/5gMEc2x23n

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2022-04-18

Final ratings for the 1943 Jane Eyre. Tomorrow our episode new episode is another pallet cleanser - North & South 2004 with &
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2022-04-04

02. NEWEST OC
iCrunch, the Mac OS virtual computer. He speaks in one of those cartoon Orson Welles impersonations and I'm kind of scared of him :)

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2022-03-13

Maurice Ellis as Macduff (L) and Wardell Saunders as Malcolm, with the design for Malcolm's costume. The Federal Theatre Project Macbeth (the 'Voodoo Macbeth'), 1936, dir. Orson Welles, des. Nat Karson. The production design referenced a fantasy version of C19 Haiti.

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2022-02-25

kubrick. welles. lynch. cassavetes.

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2022-01-22

It is understood that the new Irish Viceroy (Lord Lieutenant), Marquess Wellesley (pictured) offered William Saurin the role of chief justice for common pleas, heading one of Dublin's 'four courts'. When Mr Saurin turned down the role, he was dismissed from the government.

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2022-01-17

Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun - Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland, marchioness Wellesley, (formerly Count.of Mornington), 1791.

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2022-01-12

The 29th (Worcestershire) Regiment of Foot standing firm against the French attack at the Battle of Vimeiro on 21 August 1808, during the 1st invasion of Portugal.

At Vimerio Wellesley chose ridges near the coast to successfully defend.

By Richard Simkin.

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2022-01-05