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Included:

– The first edition of the first biography devoted to Orson Welles, by Roy Alexander Fowler, published in London by Pendulum a few weeks after the release of Citizen Kane in Paris in July 1946, with a photographic reproduction from the film.

– A typed letter addressed to Orson Welles by a Sorbonne professor requesting a meeting between the director and his students on the occasion of the filmmaker’s visit to Paris in 1947. Welles had just finished shooting Macbeth in the United States and, following the method he had used with The Magnificent Ambersons, chose to edit the film abroad — in this case in Paris. The escape was also fiscal and political: Welles was fleeing the American IRS and the McCarthyist witch hunters determined to make him pay for his outspoken support of left-wing causes. He would not return to the United States for twenty years.