Young Orson Welles, handsome?
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foton — 16 years ago(April 12, 2009 11:41 AM)
So what if he was made up , I don't think you can "make up "the captivating voice , the height and the strong built and this face with touch of child like innocence . Nowadays, actors are almost always heavily made-up or either airbrushed stilll they are no match to welles and other classic actors ..!
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praisedivinemercy — 16 years ago(June 28, 2009 04:23 AM)
I had a crush on him just for his voice after listening to him as The Shadow and Gabriel Syne in The Man Who Was Thursday. Pity he aged so poorly. How hard it must have been to go from playing dashing leading men to villains!
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ayed — 16 years ago(May 20, 2009 06:09 AM)
well, that's just silly I suppose he wore make up for his radio work in the 30's too, right? no make up here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Orson_Welles_1937.jpg
and he didn't wear a girdle in "Kane," he wore a back brace (so he would walk stiffly as an old Kane).
I think he was very handsome in the 30's & 40's (and he was definitely considered so by many young ladies, and others, at the time). -
trinity-destler — 16 years ago(November 05, 2009 11:34 AM)
Considering
he's
the one that said that, I don't really believe him. Neither did his good friend Peter Bogdanovich who was doing the interview. Plenty of contemporary candid photographs exist that bear this out; he was just being self-deprecating.
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whisper-24 — 16 years ago(April 12, 2009 07:59 AM)
Oh my goodness, yes. If you haven't seen it yet, get hold of a copy of "Prince of Foxes." He plays Cesare Borgia. Actually, I don't think he was ever unattractive. If a person was really unsure, all they had to do was stick around until Mr. Welles began to speak.
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trinity-destler — 16 years ago(November 05, 2009 11:27 AM)
I dunno. He looked pretty much the same until about the mid-fifties, which would make him forty. Most people start to go down hill after that.
Though he
always
had beautiful hands, even after he started gaining weight like crazy.
"It's that kind of idiocy that I empathize with." ~David Bowie
Or maybe I'm being unfair, considering it's really the adaptation as such that I have an issue with.