His clean-cut ugliness has created a new standard of masculine attractiveness.
--1938 newspaper articleI've been threatening to do this for awhile, and as my current obsession shows no signs of abating, I feel the time has come to inflict it upon you. It's not that Welles' appearance is, by itself, the focus of my interest; but the fact he was a ( Read more... )

After Citizen Kane failed to reach audiences (for various reasons) in 1941, Orson Welles set out to make an even better film. Thus began the tortured pattern of Welles’ relationship with Hollywood, as he negotiated away final cut, had forty minutes removed without his consent, and was in South America on another project as an upbeat ending was ( Read more... )