The Immortal Story archives • Page 2 of 2 • Wellesnet

Orson Welles to Joseph Cotten: THE IMMORTAL STORY is a film “I’d fondly hoped is worth making.”

Here’s a letter Orson Welles wrote to his good friend Joseph Cotten asking him to consider appearing in his forthcoming production of The Immortal Story, that Welles was scheduled to start shooing in September of 1966. Cotten, was at the time, apparently staying near Welles’s house outside of Madrid while filming his role in Sergio […]

July 13, 2008

Willy Kurant on working with Orson Welles

Just a note that I’ve posted (in the Film section) a summary of some fascinating facts, as well as some rare stills from an article by Willy Kurant, a terrific DP who worked with Welles on The Immortal Story (1966), The Heroine (1969), and The Deep (1969), and was also asked to work on The […]

May 28, 2006