At the age of twenty-five, Orson Welles (1915-1985) directed, co-wrote,
and starred in Citizen Kane, widely regarded as the greatest film ever
made. But Welles was such a revolutionary filmmaker that he found
himself at odds with the Hollywood studio system. His work was so far
ahead of its time that he never regained the wide popular following he
had once enjoyed as a young actor-director on the radio. What Ever
Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of an Independent Career
challenges the conve