STEFANO BOSCUTTI

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Public, personal and private insights, thoughts, reminders, scenes, ideas, sketches and more. Along with an admonishment or two every now and then.

Photo of Orson Welles rehearsing the dancing girls scene in “Citizen Kane”.

Orson Welles: The underage girl

Photo of Orson Welles smoking while he shoots a shot on location.

Orson Welles: What drives Orson Welles?

Photo of Orson Welles looking young and handsome.

Orson Welles: Little Orphan Orson

Photo of Orson Welles in the film “The Lady from Shanghai”.

Orson Welles: Lost brother

Photo of RKO Radio Pictures studio in Hollywood.

Orson Welles: RKO contract

Write it

Photo of Orson Welles on the set of “Citizen Kane” checking the viewfinder with cinematographer Gregg Toland.

Orson Welles: Preparing for “Citizen Kane”

Photo of Orson Welles getting hair and makeup on “Citizen Kane”.

Orson Welles: “Citizen Kane” make-up

Photo of Orson Welles with composer Bernard Herrmann.

Orson Welles: The real function of music

Photo of “Citizen Kane” premiere at the RKO Palace on Broadway in New York.

Orson Welles: “Citizen Kane” premiere

John Fowles on the fate of the novel in the age of the cinema

It isn’t a premonition