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Orson Welles dies at 70 in Hollywood tribute floods figures
Orson Weiles dies at seventy in Hollywood after a heart attack. The famed director of Citizen Kane and The Third Man left a legacy of landmark films and stage work. Tributes pour in from John Huston Janet Leigh and others as Welles’ life unfolds from Mercury Theatre to international cinema. Survivors include his wife Miss Mori and three daughters Beatrice Beatrice Welles and Rebecca Welles.
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LOS Angels
Orson Weiles
Hollywood
Enema Weiles
Mars
William Randolph Hearst
Welles
Aleksandar Devere
Thomas Dailey
John Huston
Orson
Hom
Burt Reynolds
Wesley
Janet Leigh
Yul Brynner
New York City
Nelson Riddle
Rot Hudson
Shanghai
Sir John Gielgud
London
Kang
Dailey
Eli Blumenfeld
Los Angeles
Mercury Theater of the Air
H.G. Wells
New York
Haiti
Scotland
Snanghar
Europe
United States
Countess di Girafalco
Paola Mori
Virginia Nicholson
Miss Hayworth
Miss Mori
Christopher Welles Feder
Beatrice ‘Welles
Scottsdale, Ariz
Rebecca Welles
Tacoma
Wash