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Was bestfriends with Orson Welles until Orson`s death in 1985. Cotten starred in two of Orson`s most talked about films Citizen Kane, and the Magnificent Ambersons. He also acted alongside Welles in the Third Man. He absolutely enjoyed working with Bette Davis.[On making Citizen Kane with Orson Welles]"Orson must have been about 22 then and I still think he`s one of the greatest directors in the world. I don`t know why people regard him as a difficult man. He was the easiest, most inspiring man I`ve ever worked with. He was the only one who seemed to know what he was doing because we were all virgins on that picture."
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BiographyFriends and FamilyOrson Welles [Friend]Trivia and QuotesQuotes I was a so-called star because of my limitations and that was always the case. I couldn`t do any accents. So I had to pretend. Luckily I was tall, had curly hair and a good voice. I only had to stamp my foot and I`d play the lead -- because I couldn`t play character parts. My wife told me one of the sweetest things one could hear: "I am not jealous. But I am truly sad for all the actresses who embrace you and kiss you while acting, for with them, you are only pretending." [on Bette Davis] I loved working with her. [on making Citizen Kane (1941) with Orson Welles] Orson must have been about 22 then and I still think he`s one of the greatest directors in the world. I don`t know why people regard him as a difficult man. He was the easiest, most inspiring man I`ve ever worked with. He was the only one who seemed to know what he was doing because we were all virgins on that picture. I didn`t care about the movies really. I was tall. I could talk. It was easy to do. Orson Welles lists Citizen Kane (1941) as his best film, Alfred Hitchcock opts for Shadow of a Doubt (1943) and Sir Carol Reed chose The Third Man (1949) - and I`m in all of them. [on Orson Welles] I know a little about Orson`s childhood and seriously doubt if he ever was a child.Trivia Before his celebrated appearance as Chas. Foster Kane`s best friend, Leland, in Citizen Kane (1941), he appears as one of the reporters in the March of Time parody sequence early in the film. He is seated in the back of the projection room, in the last row at the far left, and is only clearly visible in one shot, but his voice along with that of Everett Sloane`s (who plays Bernstein) can often be heard in the darkness on the sound track. Despite their mercurial relationship, he and Orson Welles remained friends until Welles` death. Like Orson Welles, he has appeared in the top films of both the American Film Institute and the British Film Institute; for AFI it was Citizen Kane (1941) as Jedediah Leland and for BFI, its The Third Man (1949) as Holly Martins. Retired from acting in the early 1980s after a stroke and a laryngectomy. Was cast as C.K. Dexter Haven in the original 1939 Broadway production of Phillip Barry`s play "Philadelphia Story" with Katharine Hepburn, but when Hepburn, who owned the rights, sold the story to MGM, Cary Grant was cast in the part. | ||
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