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“ Orson Welles’ free-form documentary about fakery focusses on the notorious art forger Elmyr de Hory and Elmyr’s biographer, Clifford Irving, who also wrote the celebrated fraudulent Howard Hughes autobiography, then touches on the reclusive Hughes and Welles’ own career (which started with a faked resume and a phony Martian invasion). On the way, Welles plays a few tricks of his own on the audience. “(x)
F For Fake (Directed by: Orson Welles, 1973, France)
You were born to be murdered.
The Third Man (1949)
Ingrid Bergman at the AFI’s tribute to Orson Welles.
“He never believed in anything except Charlie Kane.”
Rita Hayworth played with her baby daughter Rebecca, while husband and dad Orson Welles snapped the shot. (c. 1945)
Movies I can watch over and over again | The Third Man (1949)
Don’t be so gloomy. After all it’s not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long Holly.
Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth in The Lady from Shanghai [1947]
Orson Welles in The Third Man [1949]
