Geraldine Fitzgerald is dead

[Eve_h]

"Our special guest tonight and for us a very special guest indeed is Miss Geraldine Fitzgerald. You'll know her as a movie star. Perhaps you don't know her as a veteran of the Mercury. You don't if you're not a New Yorker'.
Altogether it's not at all difficult for me to say nice things about her, but I want to make it clear that my critical opinion isn't influenced in the slightest way by any feelings of friendship or loyalty. It's quite possible, you know, for once good friends to be bad actors. Having said this I want to add at once that my good friend Geraldine is a very fine actress indeed and we're fortunate and happy to have her with us tonight to play in Galsworthys' 'The Apple Tree'.
Orson Welles, 1942

(quoted from memory, please excuse)

[Glenn Anders]

Beautiful memory, Eve. Beautiful, heartbreaking story, one of the best of the Summer Mercury Theater on the Air season.

Reading between the lines, Welles warm introduction, even his choice of the story, carries a suggested irony. It was rumored that Geraldine Fitzgerald had a child by Welles either in Britain or after she came to the United States in the 1930's. If so, Miss Fitzgerald remained on good terms with him all their lives. I shall always remember the warmth with which she lamented the breakup of Welles and Houseman's artistic partnership, saying:

"Orson was like a busted water main [of talent], and John ran around with buckets catching all of it he could." -- also, with apologies, from memory.

She was another of Welles' finds who decided to be an actress rather than just a Star.

Great actress, and I gather, a great woman.

Glenn

[Christopher]

Glenn, I believe the remark Geraldine Fitzgerald made about Welles and Houseman happened at the New York Museum of Broadcasting's seminar on Welles's work in radio that took place in October of 1988. I was in the audience that afternoon and remember Fitzgerald saying "Orson was like a sieve..." If you recall, Fitzgerald was on the stage with Howard Koch, Arlene Francis, Richard Wilson and Andrew Sarris, most of whom were being negative about Welles's film career after "Citizen Kane." After Arlene Francis said Orson "was a poor custodian of his talent. He just let it go," Geraldine made her remark about Orson being "a sieve," which in context was not very complimentary. At the time, I remember disagreeing with all the panelists and especially Andrew Saris who took the position that Welles did nothing of value after "Citizen Kane."

[GM]

Orson Welles's son?

[Orson&Jazz]

A rather Wellesian photo of Micheal with a cigar in one hand while chatting with some one. Maybe he adopted his so-called "rumoured" father's taste for a good cigar?


I am rather curious of these rumours of Micheal being a Welles-Fitzgerald "love child". I wouldn't doubt it if Welles attempted to seduce Miss Fitzgerald at one time in their "professional" relationship. She was a beautiful lady, and he had a taste for beauty. And I wouldn't blame her if she was a tiny bit tempted.


http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0512327/

^^ - I find it interesting that he was born a day before Welles' 25th birthday.