In 1937, Orson Welles had a strange run-in with Ernest Hemingway. The future director of “Citizen Kane,” who was then twenty-two, was recording voice-over for the documentary “The Spanish Earth,” a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Orson was born in 1915 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, to Richard Welles, an inventor, and Beatrice Ives, a concert pianist, who both ...

George Orson Welles, born on May 6, 1915, was a man of innumerable talents and unquenchable drive, whose creative stamp was left on stage, on radio and in film. An enfant terrible up to his death in ...

70 years ago this month, Orson Welles (pictured in a scene from "Citizen Kane") began writing for this very paper. But his boring subject matter - a wealth of personal problems - led to a perfect ...

It begins with a death — a car accident that takes the life of a legendary director on his 70th birthday — and ends with a giant phallic symbol toppling over. In between those two moments, you get ...

David Fincher’s new movie, Mank, is about many things, but it all started with an article written by legendary film critic Pauline Kael in The New Yorker in early 1971. “Raising Kane” purported to ...

One of the greatest American directors of the 20th century is known for only a few films. After Orson Welles made his masterpiece Citizen Kane in 1941, he fought bitterly with the studios that ...

If you asked me to name my favorite movie scene, I'd choose the one in Citizen Kane when newspaper owner Charles Foster Kane steals his rivals' best reporters, then throws a party in his own honor. As ...

Orson Welles is one of the most inscrutable figures in Hollywood history. His precocious early days as a filmmaker produced some of the most frequently cited moments of genius in American cinema, but ...

Orson Bean, 91, died on Feb. 7 after sadly being stuck and killed by a vehicle in Venice, CA, authorities confirmed to ABC7. The Los Angeles County Coroner’s office said the actor’s death is being ...