
Films and Filming. September 1967.

John Huston directs Juliette Gréco in The Roots of Heaven with Errol Flynn watching. 1958.
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Orson and Micheál Mac Liammóir in Othello. 1952.
Had he by some miracle made it this far, today would have been the Boy Wonder’s 100th birthday. So let’s celebrate Orson a little bit. As Marlene Dietrich put it, “he was a great, great man and a genius. People should cross themselves before they speak his name.”
I hate embedding video on this site so go to the 29-minute mark here to see Orson’s Mentalism Spot on David Copperfield’s first TV special. 1978.
And check out these magazine covers and the rest of the Orson archive.






Orson. 1979.
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Michael Sarne and Raquel Welch on the set of Myra Breckinridge. 1970.
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Spanish Harlem. Ben E. King, who for Christ sake must have been all of 22 years old when he recorded this perfect song, died yesterday at age 76. 1960.
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