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This 5 page paper discusses Orson Welles and his contributions to radio broadcasting. The paper mentions the film "Citizen Kane" very briefly. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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of people to death but also demonstrated the power of the medium, as well as the richness of Welles imagination. This paper discusses his early radio work with the Mercury
Theater and the influence of his amazing film Citizen Kane. Discussion George Orson Welles was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 1915; his parents were Richard Head Welles and Beatrice
Ives Welles.1 Welles was considered a child prodigy, reading and reciting Shakespeare by the time he was three years of age.2 By five, he was doing walk-ons with the Chicago
Opera and his mother, "an accomplished pianist, encouraged his precocious behavior and included him in adult conversations at a young age, which only served to alienate him from his peers."3
The family moved to Chicago in 1918; in May, 1924, when Welles was nine, his mother died of hepatitis.4 "Following his mothers death, Orsons father took him on several long
and extravagant journeys to Africa, Europe and Asia."5 His father died in 1930, leaving Welles an orphan at 15.6 Welles appears to have been unable to settle down to anything;
he enrolled at the Todd School for Boys in Woodstock, Illinois, but was a mediocre student; he wanted to work in theater but couldnt find any jobs so he "half-heartedly"
enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago.7 He traveled to Ireland in 1931, painting the countryside until he wound up in Dublin, where he joined the Gate Players and remained
for a year.8 When he returned to America, he still found it hard to get theater work, so he went abroad again, this time to Morocco.9 In 1932, Welles
was hired as an actor for a touring company, where he remained for two years; in 1934, he married Virginia Nicholson and began looking for radio work to support her.10
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