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A reporter pieces together the extravagant and mysterious life of newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane in the feature directing debut of 26-year-old wunderkind Orson Welles. Having inherited a mining ...

This cover image released by Rowman & Littlefield shows "Dead Air: The Night That Orson Welles Terrified America" by William Elliott Hazelgrove. (Rowman & Littlefield via AP) Long before Donald ...

Long before Donald Trump used the term “fake news” to complain about coverage he didn't like, Orson Welles mastered the art of actual fake news. Welles' 1938 radio adaptation of H.G. Wells ...

Producer Sam Spiegel (The African Queen, Lawrence of Arabia) hired Orson Welles to both direct and star in this suspense thriller, written by Anthony Veiller and an uncredited John Huston. In one of ...

Johnny Carson knew how to stand outside of a joke in case it tanked. He sparkled in conversation and didn’t pretend to be ...