One of Hollywood's most versatile actors, Joseph Cotten is chiefly associated with the films of Orson Welles. Cotten was a latecomer to Hollywood, arriving at age thirty-six after acting on Broadway in Welles's Mercury Theatre. In 1940,...

Joseph Cheshire Cotten (May 15, 1905 – February 6, 1994) was an American stage and screen actor. He is perhaps best known for his collaborations with Orson Welles, which included Citizen Kane, The Third Man, and Journey Into Fear, which Cotten wrote,...

Selected home-video releases:"Letters From Iwo Jima," "Flags of Our Fathers"Clint Eastwood delivers an unparalleled film achievement with these bookend films that came out just two months apart last year, "Flags" telling the story of Iwo Jima from the side of U.S. troops invading the island,...

Orson Welles is the one that got away, the director with the greatest gifts and the strangest career, a man whose run of programmed bad luck eventually engulfed a bevy of biographers. Books about Welles generally fall into three categories: It was all his fault...

Orson Welles is the one that got away, the director with the greatest gifts and the strangest career, a man whose run of programmed bad luck eventually engulfed a bevy of biographers. Books about Welles generally fall into three categories: It was all his...