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THE FIRST IMAGE OF THE TRAGEDY of Othello, the Moor of Venice -- the beautiful and delirious Orson Welles movie now spiffed up for its first U.S. engagement in 36 years -- shows Welles in blackface, upside down and dead. Even when he was a young man, a 25-year-old making...
How right he was. More than any other great director, Welles suffered a career of fits and starts: he would start a film, and then his niggly investors would give him fits. (The ill feeling was mutual.) In Hollywood, Welles was effectively banished by his early 30s. RKO Radio Pictures...
Alas, Welles' first independent production gave him, for his pains, a world of sighs. Backers kept promising funds, then withdrawing them. Suzanne Cloutier, who played Desdemona, would act as seductress to Welles' potential patrons. "He would dress me in full costume," she recalls, "and we'd visit the King of...
For three years and more, the star-director and his ragtag band of actors hopscotched the Mediterranean, shooting a sequence whenever a few Eurodollars turned up. Notes Welles biographer Frank Brady: "A Tuscan stairway and a Moorish battlement are in the film, both appearing as parts of a single room...
Othello shared the top prize at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival, but another three years elapsed before it opened in the U.S. Welles had a lingering fondness for the movie; in 1978 he directed a documentary about its making, Filming Othello. It was his last picture. "He always talked about...