It's Zac Efron's face on the poster for "Me and Orson Welles," him being the "it" boy in the cast and declared by many observers to be just one breakout role from becoming a bona-fide, mainstream star ...

When I tell you the feel-good, comedic, coming of age flick for the holiday season takes place in New York during the 1930s you might incredulously think, “Yeah, right.” So brace yourself for this ...

Shortly after scaring radio audiences with his “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast — but before filming “Citizen Kane” — actor-director Orson Welles packed what is now Symphony Hall for a lecture and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1941, Orson Welles co-wrote, directed, and starred in Citizen Kane, still regarded by many critics as the greatest movie of all ...

TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) - At the heart of "Me and Orson Welles" is an uncanny impersonation of the young Orson Welles by English actor Christian McKay. Sign up here. He does resemble the "boy ...

In 1957, arguably the biggest star in Hollywood got together with cinema's most revered director to make a movie called Touch of Evil. Upon its release the following year, the movie would become one ...

Before becoming one of Hollywood's most influential filmmakers, Orson Welles was a man of the theater who, in 1937, co-founded the repertory company, The Mercury Theatre, with producer John Houseman.

With his unmistakable and sonorous baritone voice, legendary director Orson Welles was a natural choice as an advertising spokesperson – a role the erstwhile Hollywood wunderkind happily played in his ...

When the work of a late filmmaker is examined in a book, it is hoped the author is either an associate with a keen insight into the artist’s process or a respected film historian with a scholarly ...

For some theater fans, the 1936 production of the “Voodoo Macbeth” (as it became commonly known) is the stuff of legend. Funded by the Federal Theater Project, which gave financial aid to the ...