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In every Look Back, we examine a comic book issue from 10/25/50/75 years ago (plus a wild card every month with a fifth week in it). This time around, we head to November 1949 to see Superman save ...
“I don’t think about Orson Welles, he was old and fat ... a historical melodrama called Black Magic. Based on a novel by Alexander Dumas peres it tells the tale of a charlatan and a mountebank named ...
Superman's strange 1949 team-up with legendary writer/actor/director Orson Welles promoted the film Black Magic via War of the Worlds. Published Sun, 29 Jan 2023 07:52:10 -0600 by Mark Seifert ...
the best magic and makeup kits, and a wide array of face paints, mustaches, beards, and wigs.” Orson was 15 when Dick Welles died. Bernstein, who became Orson’s guardian, was, in McGilligan ...
Orson discusses prompting in film and television as well as Harry Houdini, magic and John Barrymore. Welles remembers Harry Houdini, under whom he studied magic and who at a command performance ...
Welles adapted Shakespeare’s text himself, significantly revising details, moving the setting from Scotland to Haiti and featuring an all-Black cast. In his staging, Welles also swapped medieval ...