A ribbon of dream…
What’s ORSON WELLES doing in this illustration from a 14th century alchemical text?
(He’s wearing one of his false noses, but we still recognise him!)
What’s ORSON WELLES doing in this illustration from a 14th century alchemical text?
(He’s wearing one of his false noses, but we still recognise him!)
February 7, 2008 at 3:17 pm
He’s refusing to go in that little archway to shoot the sewer scenes from The Third Man.
February 7, 2008 at 4:03 pm
Zoolander dialogue springs to mind. “This is much too small! The whole thing has to be at least…three times bigger!”
February 7, 2008 at 5:10 pm
I always loved his Arkadin nose.
February 7, 2008 at 5:31 pm
I think Falstaff has my favourite of all the noses. Of course, I might not like it as much on somebody else.
I saw Welles’ TV Lear recently and took a real dislike to his nose in that one, alas. It kind of coloured my response to the whole piece. I just couldn’t see past the nose.
But his noses as the young Kane, and as Lime, are impressive. You wouldn’t guess they were anything but the Real McSchnozz.
February 7, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Young Kane? Lime? Am I missing something here?!!
February 7, 2008 at 7:58 pm
Both have straight, aquilline noses, whereas Welles’ own was a little snub affair. “My own nose is a… nothing,” he would say. He claimed that he wore more make-up as young Kane than he did as the old one, which may be an exaggeration, but it’s probably not as untrue as it sounds.
The first episode of An Orson Welles Scrapbook, his BBC monologue show from the 50s, features a discourse on prosthetic noses. “If I look at all strange to you tonight, it’s probably because you see my nose… as it really is.”
February 7, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Wow! I’ve seen Kane and The Third Man a million times and never noticed…..thanks.
February 7, 2008 at 11:05 pm
False noses tagged. It’s a service I provide here, free of charge,
February 9, 2008 at 4:30 pm
Trying to flog sherry even back in those days, was he? And that tabard is so not a good look….
February 9, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Welles’ sherry advice: you have to drink it very cold.
But the Martini appears to be the best drink for the imagination, as Busby Berkeley and Luis Bunuel would attest.
May 3, 2008 at 7:42 am
Haha!
That’s cunning one.
Here is something from his grandchildren
http://www.kinopravda.net/tv