Library of America and Penguin Random House will mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Pulitzer Prize winner Booth Tarkington with a new edition of The Magnificent Ambersons. Orson Welles adapted Tarkington’s acclaimed 1918 novel for his second film in 1942. Later, Welles said that his father, Richard, an inventor of bicycle lamps, had been friends […]
Beatrice Welles’ long-promised collection of her father’s artwork is heading to bookstores in the new year. Orson Welles Portfolio: Sketches and Drawings from the Welles Estate will be published by Titan Books on February 19. The 192-page tome, available in the U.S. and U.K., will be 12-by-9 inches in size. It includes amusing self-portraits and sketches […]
A new book out of Croatia looks at the filming of Orson Welles’ unfinished The Deep in Hvar. Orson Welles in Hvar is bilingual (Croatian and English) and written by Dusko Kovacic and Daniel Rafaelic with additional writings by Nenad Polimac, Tonko Maroevic, and Slavko Kovacic. Aside from known photos, the book has never before […]
By RAY KELLY A previously unknown English-language novel credited to Orson Welles has been discovered in the archives of the National Museum of Cinema in Turin. The bound hardcover typescript of V.I.P. ― mistakenly cataloged at one point by the museum as a treatment for the movie The V.I.P.’s or V.I.P ― is an English version of Welles’ […]
The upcoming The Other Side of the Wind, directed by Orson Welles and co-starring Peter Bogdanovich, is not first project pairing of the two filmmakers. Their relationship dates back to 1961 when Bogdanovich organized a Welles film retrospective, the first in the United States, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Welles, […]
Dorian Bond, who worked as a personal assistant for Orson Welles during a year-long stint 50 years ago, has written a book recounting those days, Me and Mr. Welles. Bond was a 22-year-old film school student when he was hired by Welles’ longtime private secretary, Ann Rogers, to deliver ten 400-foot rolls of 35mm film, and […]
Editors Sidney Gottlieb and James N. Gilmore introduce a collection of Wellesian essays.
The fourth volume will cover the final 20 years of Orson Welles’ life.
“How Did Lubitsch Do It?” will be published in June 2018.
The book spans films from “The Hearts of Age” to “Someone to Love.”
Harry Lime was first depicted by Orson Welles in “The Third Man.”
“Two Cheers for Hollywood: Joseph McBride on Movies” is available exclusively through Amazon.