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Books about The War of the Worlds and Mars, part 2. War of the ...  The War of the Worlds is just one of numerous novels to deal with Mars and ... and In 1938, C.S. Lewis, the creator of Narnia wrote the first of three novels in his ... director and actor Orson Welles presented as usual his regular weekly radio drama. ... Arthur C Clarke was one of the novelists of the 1950's who saw Mars as a...
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Orson Welles - Wikipedia  George Orson Welles was an American actor, director, writer, and producer who worked in theatre, radio, ... 1938 radio adaptation of H. G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds performed for his radio ... in radio and film, a Shakespearean stage actor, and a magician noted for presenting troop variety shows in the war years.
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The War of the Worlds | novel by Wells | Britannica.com  The novel helped launch the career of actor and director Orson Welles when he presented an adaptation of it on his radio program, The Mercury Theatre on the Air, on October 30, 1938. ... 13, 1946 London English novelist, journalist, sociologist, and historian best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine...
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The War of the Worlds panic was a myth - The Telegraph  The story that mass panic broke out because of an Orson Welles radio show became ... 30, 1938, when a 62-minute radio dramatisation of The War of the Worlds, ... Othello) and actor (The Third Man, Compulsion) knew what he was doing ... the opportunity presented by Welles's programme, perhaps to discredit radio as a...
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Once Upon a Time, When Radio Was KingOrson Welles ...  Jun 11, 2005 ... Orson Welles' Broadcast of War of the Worlds ... dramatization of H. G. Wells' famous fantasy, The War of the Worlds. ... The prospect of increasing federal control of broadcasts was discussed as an aftermath of a radio presentation of ... In 1938, radio was king; it would take at least another decade before...
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50's Sci-Fi Feature #1  The War of the Worlds (1953) | Sgt. Pepper's ...  Apr 4, 2016 ... H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds is one of the most famous science fiction stories of ... The classic novel led to Orson Welles' infamous panic-inducing radio ... We meet a scientist named Dr. Clayton Forrester (Gene Barry), just as a ... The iconic Martian spaceship design from 1953's The War of the Worlds.
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#BornThisDay: Actor, Alan Ladd - The WOW Report  Sep 3, 2016 ... He appears briefly as a reporter in Orson Welles' masterpiece Citizen Kane (1941), a sailor in Souls At Sea (1937) with Gary Cooper, and a...
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J! Archive - Show #2836, aired 1996-12-23  In 1938 actor Orson presented this novelist's "The War of the Worlds" on ... In his 1938 work "The Unvanquished", the Sartoris family copes with the Civil War...
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The War of the Worlds (radio drama) - Wikipedia  "The War of the Worlds" is an episode of the American radio drama anthology series The ... H. G. Wells's original novel tells the story of an alien invasion of Earth. ... Welles discussed his fake newscast idea with producer John Houseman and ..... As the Mercury's second theatre season began in 1938, Orson Welles and...
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H.G. Wells, USA introduction - HG Wells Society  His literary blockbusters The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, ... The phrase we still associate with the First World War, The War That Will End War, (often misquoted as "all war") was coined by him as the title of his 1914 ... University of Illinois Features Writer Andrea Lynn's new book Shadow Lovers...
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orson welles' intermedial versions of shakespeare in theatre, radio ...  CHAPTER 1: 1937-1939: THE FEDERAL THEATRE PROJECT AND FAUSTUS; ..... when he provided illustrations for Roger Hill's editions of Shakespeare plays for high- ... The stage version showed the actors in fascist-like .... 9 The series changed its name to The Mercury Shakespeare, taking advantage of the...
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The Infamous "War of the Worlds" Radio Broadcast Was a ...  May 6, 2015 ... On Halloween morning, 1938, Orson Welles awoke to find himself the most talked about man in America. The night before, Welles and his...
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The Lives Of Harry Lime - Old Time Radio Shows - OTR  Orson Welles reprized his role of Harry Lime from the celebrated 1949 film adaptation of Graham Greene's novel The Third Man. The radio series is a "prequel"...
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The Adventures of Harry Lime - Wikipedia  The Adventures of Harry Lime is an old-time radio programme produced in the United Kingdom during the 1951 to 1952 season. Orson Welles reprises his role of Harry Lime from the celebrated 1949 film The Third Man. The radio series is a prequel to the film, and depicts the many misadventures .... Ticket to Tangiers" episode of The Lives of Harry Lime series is available on...
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H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds: Behind the 1938 Radio Show Panic  Jun 17, 2005 ... Adapting a 40-year-old sci-fi novel, Orson Welles's 1938 radio broadcast of ... Henry Brylawski was on his way to pick up his girlfriend at her Adams ... Scores of adults reportedly required medical treatment for shock and hysteria. ... Sales | Stock Footage Sales | Travel With Us | About the Society | Educators.
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Remembering Orson Welles | by Gore Vidal | The New York Review ...  Jun 1, 1989 ... Although Orson Welles was only ten years my senior, he had been ... a booming voice, seen most often on talk shows and in commercials ... a boy's sled, which Mr. Stephen Spielberg recently bought for $55,000. ... Welles touched as a director has a degree of brilliance, here and ..... I prefer jigsaw puzzle.
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The War of the Worlds (radio drama) - Wikipedia  "The War of the Worlds" is an episode of the American radio drama anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was performed as a Halloween episode of the series on Sunday, October 30, 1938, and aired over the Columbia Broadcasting ... It became famous for allegedly causing mass panic, although the reality of...
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Pearls Before Swine  An Evening with Orson Welles. (Sydney ...  Oct 1, 2012 ... With a little help from his friends (Sarah Blackstone as Director, Neil ... Everybody denies I am a genius  but nobody ever called me one! ... innovative uses of lighting such as chiaroscuro, unusual camera ... Orson Welles simply said he met Hitler once and found him remarkably devoid of any personality.
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The Big O | Vanity Fair  Two new filmsCradle Will Rock, Tim Robbins's epic about Orson Welles's 1937 stage ... and RKO 281, HBO's movie on the making of Citizen Kaneare vibrant .... Angus MacFadyen plays Welles with buoyancy and aplomb, but he doesn't .... As Welles, Liev Schreiber has too much shy reserve to convey the lion cub in full...
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The War of the Worlds (1953) - Rotten Tomatoes  Critic Consensus: Though it's dated in spots, The War of the Worlds retains an unnerving power ... The War of the Worlds retains an unnerving power, updating H.G. Wells' classic sci-fi tale to the Cold ... A terrifying vision of an America under siege based on the novel by H.G. Wells starring Gene Barry, Ann Robinson and...
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Boris Karloff - Wikipedia  William Henry Pratt (23 November 1887  2 February 1969), better known by his stage name .... Because of his health, he did not fight in the First World War. ... His role as Frankenstein's monster in Frankenstein (1931) made Karloff a star. ... was the host and star of Starring Boris Karloff, a radio and television anthology series...