Autograph note signed

[circa 1947].
3 lines on 1 page (70 x 54 mm), signed in ink, with a photographic reproduction from Citizen Kane.

Signed note on plain paper: “for Siska, all good wishes, Orson Welles”.

Attached :
Roy Alexander Fowler. Orson Welles
London, Pendulum Publications Limited, 1946.
1 vol. Paperback.

First edition of the first biography devoted to Orson Welles, published in London. It appeared a few weeks after the release of Citizen Kane in Paris, in July 1946.

We apologize for the imperfect translation generated by Deepl for the purposes of the show.

Attached is a typewritten letter addressed to Orson Welles: a request from a professor at the Sorbonne who asks the director to meet with his students, on the occasion of Welles’ visit to Paris in 1947. The filmmaker had just finished shooting Macbeth in the United States and, following the method perfected with The Magnificent Ambersons, he chose to edit the film abroad – in Paris in this case. The escapade is also fiscal and political: Welles flees the American IRS and the McCarthyite witch-hunters who are determined to make him pay for his strong support of left-wing causes. He will not come back to the United States for almost 20 years.