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Orson Welles: The Ultimate Collection
If you are a lover of old-time radio and a fan of Orson Welles, you won't want to miss this treasure chest of legendary Orson Welles radio broadcasts! With his flair for the sensational and innovative, Welles captured audiences' attention with his 1930s CBS weekly drama series The Mercury Theatre on the Air, later renamed The Campbell Playhouse, which featured hour-long dramatizations of classic books. His 1938 production, The War of the Worlds (an H. G. Wells adaptation) was especially memorable, as were many other productions, each featuring talented voices and actors.
Tune into the master of entertainment and enjoy this collection of original Orson Welles recordings, including more than 16 hours of radio drama!
Campbell Playhouse - A Christmas Carol - December 23, 1938 Campbell Playhouse - A Christmas Carol - December 24, 1939 Campbell Playhouse - Ah, Wilderness - September 17, 1939 Campbell Playhouse - Algiers - October 8, 1939 Campbell Playhouse - Arrowsmith - February 3, 1939 Campbell Playhouse - Beau Geste - March 17, 1939 Campbell Playhouse - Counselor-at-Law - January 6, 1939 Campbell Playhouse - Craig's Wife - March 10, 1940 Campbell Playhouse - Dinner at Eight - February 18, 1940 Campbell Playhouse - Dodsworth - November 26, 1939 Campbell Playhouse - Escape - October 15, 1939 Campbell Playhouse - Huckleberry Finn - March 17, 1940 Campbell Playhouse - I Lost My Girlish Laughter - January 27, 1939 Campbell Playhouse - It Happened One Night - January 28, 1940 and many more!
Tune into the master of entertainment and enjoy this collection of original Orson Welles recordings, including more than 16 hours of radio drama!
Campbell Playhouse - A Christmas Carol - December 23, 1938 Campbell Playhouse - A Christmas Carol - December 24, 1939 Campbell Playhouse - Ah, Wilderness - September 17, 1939 Campbell Playhouse - Algiers - October 8, 1939 Campbell Playhouse - Arrowsmith - February 3, 1939 Campbell Playhouse - Beau Geste - March 17, 1939 Campbell Playhouse - Counselor-at-Law - January 6, 1939 Campbell Playhouse - Craig's Wife - March 10, 1940 Campbell Playhouse - Dinner at Eight - February 18, 1940 Campbell Playhouse - Dodsworth - November 26, 1939 Campbell Playhouse - Escape - October 15, 1939 Campbell Playhouse - Huckleberry Finn - March 17, 1940 Campbell Playhouse - I Lost My Girlish Laughter - January 27, 1939 Campbell Playhouse - It Happened One Night - January 28, 1940 and many more!
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Published July 11, 2012
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Orson Welles
223 books211 followersGeorge Orson Welles, best known as Orson Welles, (May 06, 1915 - October 10, 1985) was an American film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio.
Noted for his innovative dramatic productions as well as his distinctive voice and personality, Welles is widely acknowledged as one of the most accomplished dramatic artists of the twentieth century, especially for his significant and influential early work—despite his notoriously contentious relationship with Hollywood.
His distinctive directorial style featured layered, nonlinear narrative forms, innovative uses of lighting such as chiaroscuro, unique camera angles, sound techniques borrowed from radio, deep focus shots, and long takes.
Welles's long career in film is noted for his struggle for artistic control in the face of pressure from studios. Many of his films were heavily edited and others left unreleased. He has been praised as a major creative force and as "the ultimate auteur."
After directing a number of high-profile theatrical productions in his early twenties, including an innovative adaptation of Macbeth and The Cradle Will Rock, Welles found national and international fame as the director and narrator of a 1938 radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds performed for the radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was reported to have caused widespread panic when listeners thought that an invasion by extraterrestrial beings was occurring. Although these reports of panic were mostly false and overstated, they rocketed Welles to instant notoriety.
Citizen Kane (1941), his first film with RKO, in which he starred in the role of Charles Foster Kane, is often considered the greatest film ever made. Several of his other films, including The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), The Lady from Shanghai (1947), Touch of Evil (1958), Chimes at Midnight (1965), and F for Fake (1974), are also widely considered to be masterpieces.
In 2002, he was voted the greatest film director of all time in two separate British Film Institute polls among directors and critics, and a wide survey of critical consensus, best-of lists, and historical retrospectives calls him the most acclaimed director of all time. Well known for his baritone voice, Welles was also an extremely well regarded actor and was voted number 16 in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars list of the greatest American film actors of all time. He was also a celebrated Shakespearean stage actor and an accomplished magician, starring in troop variety shows in the war years.
Noted for his innovative dramatic productions as well as his distinctive voice and personality, Welles is widely acknowledged as one of the most accomplished dramatic artists of the twentieth century, especially for his significant and influential early work—despite his notoriously contentious relationship with Hollywood.
His distinctive directorial style featured layered, nonlinear narrative forms, innovative uses of lighting such as chiaroscuro, unique camera angles, sound techniques borrowed from radio, deep focus shots, and long takes.
Welles's long career in film is noted for his struggle for artistic control in the face of pressure from studios. Many of his films were heavily edited and others left unreleased. He has been praised as a major creative force and as "the ultimate auteur."
After directing a number of high-profile theatrical productions in his early twenties, including an innovative adaptation of Macbeth and The Cradle Will Rock, Welles found national and international fame as the director and narrator of a 1938 radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds performed for the radio drama anthology series Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was reported to have caused widespread panic when listeners thought that an invasion by extraterrestrial beings was occurring. Although these reports of panic were mostly false and overstated, they rocketed Welles to instant notoriety.
Citizen Kane (1941), his first film with RKO, in which he starred in the role of Charles Foster Kane, is often considered the greatest film ever made. Several of his other films, including The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), The Lady from Shanghai (1947), Touch of Evil (1958), Chimes at Midnight (1965), and F for Fake (1974), are also widely considered to be masterpieces.
In 2002, he was voted the greatest film director of all time in two separate British Film Institute polls among directors and critics, and a wide survey of critical consensus, best-of lists, and historical retrospectives calls him the most acclaimed director of all time. Well known for his baritone voice, Welles was also an extremely well regarded actor and was voted number 16 in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars list of the greatest American film actors of all time. He was also a celebrated Shakespearean stage actor and an accomplished magician, starring in troop variety shows in the war years.
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