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Book review: Orson Welles: Hello America: The rose that failed to bud
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ORSON WELLES: HELLO AMERICA BY SIMON CALLOW
Jonathan Cape, 529pp, GBP 25
ORSON WELLES WAS A MAN TOO SMART for his own good. He would have
been twice the film-maker he turned out to be, if he had been only
half as clever. He tried to do too much and so achieved too little.
While there is no doubt that Citizen Kane (1941) is a masterpiece,
and the most audacious cinematic debut in history, it was to be the
pinnacle of Welles's career, the only one of his films to receive a
traditional Hollywood premiere. He was 25 years old and what lay
ahead was a half-century of abandoned projects, promising ...
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