ORSON WELLES One Night Lecture "NATURE OF THE ENEMY" 1945 City Center Program

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This is a rare program from the Monday evening, January 22nd, 1945 appearance of ORSON WELLES presenting a lecture and audience follow-up questions on "THE NATURE OF THE ENEMY" at the New York City Center of Music and Drama in New York City ..... Biography: ORSON WELLES (
May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985
) was gifted in many arts (magic, piano, painting) as a child. When his mother died (he was seven), he traveled the world with his father. When his father died (he was fifteen), he became the ward of Chicago's Dr. Maurice Bernstein. In 1931, he graduated from the Todd School in Woodstock, Illinois; he turned down college offers for a sketching tour of Ireland. He tried unsuccessfully to enter the London and Broadway stages, traveling some more in Morocco and Spain. Recommendations from Thornton Wilder and Alexander Woollcott got him into Katharine Cornell's road company, with which he made his New York debut in 1934 as "Tybalt" in William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet". The same year, he married, directed his first short, and appeared on radio for the first time. He began working with John Houseman and formed the Mercury Theatre with him in 1937. In 1938, they produced "The Mercury Theatre on the Air", famous for its broadcast version of "The War of the Worlds" (intended as a Halloween prank). His first film to be seen by the public was "Citizen Kane" (1941), a commercial failure losing RKO 0,000, but regarded by many as the best film ever made. Many of his next films were commercial failures and he exiled himself to Europe in 1948. In 1956, he directed "Touch of Evil" (1958); it failed in the United States, but won a prize at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair. In 1975, in spite of all his box-office failures, he received the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 1984, the Directors Guild of America awarded him its highest honor, the D. W. Griffith Award. His reputation as a filmmaker has climbed steadily ever since. (Reprinted in part from the IMDb website) ..... DETAILS: The 32 page program measures 6 3/4" X 9 7/8" inches and includes a bio of ORSON WELLES as well as credits for the New York Opera Company production of Jacques Offenbach's "La Vie Parisienne" ..... CONDITION: With the exception of a corner crease at the top right and light edge wear, this rare playbill is in excellent condition and will make a wonderful addition to the collection of any theatre aficionado or historian. This item will be carefully packaged in a protective, carded sleeve and backed by stiff cardboard
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