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2 unusual facts about Orson


Culture Vultures

Culture Vultures is a 2007 indie rock album by American band Orson.

Orson's Shadow

The play received a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for Outstanding Play and won the Drama League Award for Distinguished Performance.


An Evening with Orson Welles

An Evening with Orson Welles is a series of six short films created in 1970 by Orson Welles, for the exclusive use of Sears, Roebuck & Co. Welles produced the recitations of popular stories for Sears's Avco Cartrivision machines, a pioneering home video system.

Charles Foster

Charles Foster Kane, fictional character from Orson Welles' film Citizen Kane

Clinton, Louisiana

The Long, Hot Summer, a 1958 film directed by Martin Ritt, starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, and Orson Welles, was filmed in and around Clinton.

Empire series

The Empire Duet or Empire series, two novels by Orson Scott Card

Filming The Trial

After Orson Welles' death in 1985, all of his unfinished films were bequeathed to his long-term companion and mistress Oja Kodar, and she in turn donated many of them (including Filming 'The Trial) to the Munich Film Museum for preservation and restoration.

In July

"Frozen Peas", alternatively titled "In July", a blooper audio recording of Orson Welles

InterGalactic Medicine Show

IGMS has featured original stories by such award-winning authors as Peter S. Beagle, David Farland, Tim Pratt, Eugie Foster, Bud Sparhawk, Mary Robinette Kowal, James Maxey, Mette Ivie Harrison, Sharon Shinn, Eric James Stone and Orson Scott Card.

James Naremore

He has recorded a commentary track with fellow film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum for the Criterion Collection release of Orson Welles's "Mr. Arkadin" (1955) and for the Universal 50th anniversary DVD of "Touch of Evil" (1958).

Lennie Weinrib

H.R. Pufnstuf - Voices of H.R. Pufnstuf, Bela Lugosi Tree, Dr. Blinky's Talking Book, Orson Vulture, Polka Dotted Horse, Stupid Bat, Pop Lolly, West Wind

Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show

Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show (2008) is an anthology edited by Edmund R. Schubert and Orson Scott Card.

Orson Welles' Magic Show

After Orson Welles' death in 1985, all of his unfinished films were bequeathed to his long-term companion and mistress Oja Kodar, and she in turn donated many of them (including Orson Welles' Magic Show) to the Munich Film Museum for preservation and restoration.

Paul Masson

The Paul Masson brand is best remembered for its 1970s marketing association with Orson Welles, who promised for Masson: "We will sell no wine before its time." An infamous outtake for one commercial from the Orson Welles campaign features Welles attempting to deliver his lines while very severely inebriated.

Portrait of Gina

It was intended to be the pilot for a television series called "Around the World with Orson Welles", which is also the name of a series Welles made for the BBC in 1955.

Richard Lockridge

Richard Orson Lockridge (September, 26, 1898 in St. Joseph, Missouri - June 19, 1982 in Tryon, North Carolina) was an American writer of detective fiction.

Sarah Pratt

Sarah Marinda Bates Pratt (1817–1888), first wife of Orson Pratt; later a critic of Mormon polygamy

The Mercury Wonder Show

A section of the stage show — in which "Orson the Magnificent" performs tricks like sawing Marlene Dietrich in half — was filmed and included in the 1944 variety film Follow the Boys.

The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh

After Orson Welles' death in 1985, all of his unfinished films were bequeathed to his long-term companion and mistress Oja Kodar, and she in turn donated many of them (including The Spirit of Charles Lindbergh) to the Munich Film Museum for preservation and restoration.

TWA Flight 3

In the book My Lunches with Orson, Orson Welles claims that he had been told by a security agent that the aircraft was shot down by Nazi agents who knew of the route in advance.

U.S. Acres

Mort, Gort, & Wart (voiced by Frank Welker, Thom Huge, and Howard Morris, respectively): Orson's three larger, meaner brothers who played a much bigger role in the cartoon than they ever did in the comic strip, where they were unnamed.


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