Orson Wells was an artist and in Hollywood artists were and are subjected to starvation.

Could Orson Wells act like a politician though, and fool a whole state?

Orson Wells was doing the Forrest Gump thing long ago.

Orson Wells said: "There are over fifty million talented actors in Italy, with the only bad ones to be found in stage and in films," and my early days in the country confirmed this.

Among the 400 copies of celebrity wills he owns are those of Marilyn Monroe, Liberace, Orson Wells, Calvin Coolidge and Groucho Marx.

Orson Wells at his most saturnine.

Orson Wells' first film, Citzen Kane, is widely regarded as the finest motion picture ever made.

Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Orson Wells - you name it!

His name was misspelled on the latter album, as he was credited as "Orson Wells".

In response to Orson Wells' The War Of The Worlds radio broadcast, Lamarr and Ruby dove underneath the makeup trailer, "with our kissers in the dirt for six hours."