‘Big Red’ novel: roundup of recent reviews
“Big Red,” a novel by writer Jerome Charyn looking at the lives of Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles, is chalking up some impressive reviews.
‘Big Red’: Novel reimagines Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles
Publishers Weekly is calling “Big Red” an “affecting and searing portrait of Silver Screen superstars… It’s a rewarding paean to some of cinema’s greats.”
Rebecca Welles: Unraveling the life of the daughter of Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles
She talked about her parents in a lost 1972 interview.
Review roundup: ‘The Lady From Shanghai’ on Blu-ray
Updated on June 4, 2014: TCM Shop has not only put out an improved version of The Lady from Shanghai on Blu-ray, there is also an exchange program for those who have already purchased the previous version. If interested, call the TCM Shop at (888) 982-6746 and tell them you want to exchange your copy. […]
‘The Lady from Shanghai’ undergoes 4K restoration; London showing set
UPDATE (October 10, 2013): Grover Crisp, executive vice-president of film restoration at Sony, told Britain’s The Guardian that the studio is “planning to record out to a new negative for preservation purposes and a few prints. The film will also finally be released on Blu-ray shortly.” __________ “The Lady from Shanghai,” Orson Welles’ 1947 thriller […]
For rent: Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth’s Hollywood home
For as little as $895 a night, you can live like Hollywood royalty in the home once shared by Orson Welles and his second wife, Rita Hayworth. The restored Orson Welles Luxury View Estate sits atop Sunset Boulevard. The 3,000 square-foot, four-bedroom Cape Cod style home was built in 1928 by Sidney Toller of the […]
Orson Welles Family Album added to Wellesnet
We are proud to welcome a new addition to Wellesnet: The Orson Welles Family Album. This new web page is a generous sampling of photographs of Welles throughout the years with his three wives: Virginia Nicolson, Rita Hayworth and Paola Mori; his three daughters, Christopher, Rebecca and Beatrice; collaborator-companion Oja Kodar; and assorted friends, lovers […]
Orson Welles to Rita Hayworth: “You are my life — my very life.”
On September 7, 1943, the 28-year old Orson Welles secretly whisked Rita Hayworth, 25, away from the Columbia studio lot after the day’s shooting on the Columbia musical, Cover Girl. At Santa Monica City Hall, Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth were married in the presence of best man, Joseph Cotten. The marriage between Welles and […]
ORSON WELLES promotes his wife Rita Hayworth as THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI in 1946
The novel that became the basis for the Orson Welles movie, The Lady From Shanghai was written by Sherwood King in 1938. Welles claimed he saw it in a drug store in Boston in 1946, and that he called Harry Cohn before the opening of AROUND THE WORLD and asked Cohn to send him $40,000. […]
Documentary on Marc Welles, his brother/sister and Orson
Just watching a strange documentary regarding Marc Welles and his sibling who changed gender; Oja makes an appearance as well. Prodigal Sons Sunday March 08, 2009 at 10 pm ET/PT on CBC Newsworld 1:01 min Marc has had a rough life. Adopted as an infant, he was held back in pre- school (putting him in […]
Marc Welles: The Prodigal Grandson of ORSON WELLES
This weekend a new documentary Prodigal Sons, about Orson Welles grandson, Marc McKerrow Welles, was screened at the Telluride Film Festival. I haven’t seen the film yet, but based on the synopsis from the press kit, it can probably be best described in the same terms as Orson Welles’s first movie: “It’s Sensational.” In fact, […]
How Orson Welles praise of William Castle’s WHEN STRANGERS MARRY led to THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI
In Orson Welles January 25th Almanac column he heaps praise on William Castle’s Monogram quickie, When Strangers Marry. So before posting that column, here is William Castle’s own entertaining version of how those glowing comments from Welles led to their collaboration on The Lady From Shanghai at Columbia Pictures, as taken from Castle’s autobiography, Step […]