OW Celebration links and info of interest

Gordon · Post by **Gordon** » Mon Nov 14, 2005 9:17 pm

Does any one know the procedure to apply to be the host site for the 2008 Welles triennial?

These events seem to pop up suddenly out of nowhere.

and I agree that the next one should be in the United States

Terry · Post by **Terry** » Tue Nov 15, 2005 2:35 am

I think Kenosha Wisconsin should be the place. Or the grounds of the Todd School, unless some sky scraper now stands there.

tony · Post by **tony** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 6:52 pm

Here's a bit of esoterica: the complete list of Peabody Awards for Television and Radio Excellence for 1958: quite the company for Welles's little TV film to be keeping:

1958
ABC Radio and UNESCO, “Easy as ABC.”
ABC Television, “College News Conference.”
CBS Radio, “The Hidden Revolution.”
CBS Television, “Playhouse 90.”
CBS Television, Television Public Service with Special Recognition Given to Dr. Frank Stanton.
CBS Television, “Lincoln Presents Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic.”
NBC News, “The Huntley-Brinkley Report.”
NBC Television, “The Steve Allen Show.”
NBC Television, “Continental Classroom.”
NBC Television, “M.D. International.”
NBC Television, “An Evening with Fred Astaire.”
NBC Television, Orson Welles, and “Fountain of Youth” (Colgate Theatre).
NBC Television, James Costigan, and “Little Moon of Alban” (Hallmark Hall of Fame).
Standard Oil Company of California, Standard School Broadcast.
WGN-TV, Chicago, IL, “The Blue Fairy.”
WNEW Radio, New York, NY, Radio News.

Terry · Post by **Terry** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:03 pm

What were the categories?

tony · Post by **tony** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 11:40 pm

Sorry, but that's all the info I have; 2 other sites listed abbreviated lists, but no categories; this is the most complete one I found. The amazing thing to me is that his work was often appreciated; for instance,Ambersons, even in it's butchered state, still was nominated for 4 Academy awards, including Best Picture of 1942!

"In spite of controversies surrounding the film, it was still nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress (Agnes Moorehead), Best Black and White Cinematography (Stanley Cortez), and Best Black and White Interior Decoration."

And Touch of Evil got the award in Brussels, Stranger got an award at the Venice film Festival, Fountain of Youth got the Peabody, Immortal Story got nominated at the Berlin Festival, Kane got all those Academy nominations and the Best screenplay award, Othello and Chimes (And Welles for his performance in Compulsion) got the awards at Cannes, Welles got lifetime achievements from the Academy, the AFI, the Los Angeles Film Critics, the National Board of Review,the Venice film Festival, etc.
And here's an odd one: Welles got a Golden Globe nomination in 1983 for his performance in Butterfly!

Actually, he did better than Hitchcock, who never won anything!

colwood · Post by **colwood** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 12:28 am

Got this off of the Peabody official site at www.peabody.uga.edu,

"Television Special Award: To Orson Welles, for the wit, originality, and insouciance of “The Fountain Of Youth,” NBC, one of the merriest, most irreverent half-hours of the year 1958, this special Peabody Award is given."

catbuglah · Post by **catbuglah** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 10:54 pm

He topped everything in the last Sight and Sound poll, one might add.

Number one with a bullet

tony · Post by **tony** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 1:25 am

thanks for that Peabody site URL Colwood!

tony · Post by **tony** » Sun Jul 09, 2006 7:23 pm

Do you remember the "I Love Lucy" episode with Welles, which ends so suddenly? Well here's a possible explanation as to why:

From the Shakespeare Conference: SHK 9.1192 Friday, 27 November 1998:

"Lucy Meets Orson Welles" (org. airdate, Oct. 15, 1956) from
Bart Andrews, The "I Love Lucy" Book (NY: Doubleday, 1976), p. 186:

This episode featured the multi-faceted Orson Welles, who received a record amount for his guest run: fifteen thousand dollars. Two months earlier, in April, Welles and Arnaz had teamed up to produce a one-hour television series, in which the Academy Award-winner would also star.This arrangement never resulted in a series, but Welles did manage to complete a half-hour pilot titled "The Fountain of youth" that is still shown at film festivals. The Welles "Lucy" show also featured "The Waltons'" Ellen Corby as Lucy Ricardo's high school drama teacher. The show originally contained scenes of Vivian Vance playing Cleopatra to Welles's Julius Caesar, and Lucy sparring with the Shakespearean master as Juliet and Lady Macbeth, but for some unknown reason these sequences did not make their way into the final print of "Lucy Meets Orson Welles" that was shot the evening of June 14, 1956.

Here's Lucy: http://hollowaypages.com/welles.htm

Roger Ryan · Post by **Roger Ryan** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 8:55 am

Thanks for the link! That collection of photos is quite stunning; I was especially impressed with how Welles' Falstaff make-up for "Five Kings" in '39 made him look exactly like he did in "Chime At Midnight" 25 years later.

Jeff Wilson · Post by **Jeff Wilson** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:08 am

One of the things I wanted to add to the site was a list of all the various Welles and Welles-related archival holdings around the US and the world. The purpose of this thread is to gather any further info I can about them. Feel free to email as well. Here are the ones I know of off the top of my head:

Welles:
- Lilly collection
- Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
- various film materials at UCLA
- Library of Congress (film prints, radio recordings)
- Munich Filmmuseum materials

Welles-related
- Agnes Moorehead collection (Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research )
- Joseph Cotten scrapbooks (U of Southern CA)
- A Weissberger papers (Lilly)
- Bogdanovich papers (Lilly)
- Howard Koch papers (Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research)

Roger Ryan · Post by **Roger Ryan** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:44 am

The Charles K. Feldman Collection at the Louis B. Mayer Library on the American Film Institute campus in Los Angeles would be another resource.

Here's a link:
Louis B. Mayer Library

The collection contains correspondence between Richard Wilson and Welles regarding the post-production of "Macbeth" along with various contracts and scripts (including an early draft of "Lady From Shanghai").

NoFake · Post by **NoFake** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 7:03 pm

What a great idea! And I like the link, Roger. Jeff, do you have the links for your resources readily at hand? It would be like having a one-stop "corner grocery store" :;): for Wellesians...

Jeff Wilson · Post by **Jeff Wilson** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 7:44 pm

The finished page will have all the links, yes.

Christopher · Post by **Christopher** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 10:41 pm

Hi Jeff,

Ann Arbor University in Michigan has acquired two important collections of Welles's papers from Oja Kodar and from Richard Wilson's son. Catherine Benamou, an Associate Professor there and one of the leading authorities on "It's All True," is in the process of cataloging these papers which will eventually be available to the public. The working title for the archive is "Everybody's Orson Welles."