Orson Welles as Brigadier General Dreedle lobby card Catch 22 1970 is a photograph by David Lee Guss which was uploaded on September 18th, 2016.
Orson Welles as Brigadier General Dreedle lobby card Catch 22 1970
Others include Martin Balsam on the left, Buck Henry, Susanne Benton and Austin Pendelton on the right.... more
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Orson Welles as Brigadier General Dreedle lobby card Catch 22 1970
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David Lee Guss
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Others include Martin Balsam on the left, Buck Henry, Susanne Benton and Austin Pendelton on the right.
"Catch-22 is a 1970 American satirical black comedy-drama war film adapted from the novel of the same name by Joseph Heller. In creating a black comedy revolving around the 'lunatic characters' of Heller's satirical anti-war novel set at a fictional World War II Mediterranean base, director Mike Nichols and screenwriter Buck Henry (also in the cast) worked on the film script for two years, converting Heller's complex novel to the medium of film."
In 2000 Austin Pendleton's play "Orson's Shadow" had its premiere.
"The play, based on true events, is set in 1960 London. In his declining years, Orson Welles is directing a production of Eugene Ionesco's Rhinoceros, starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Plowright. Olivier is fresh from his triumphant theatrical portrayal of vaudevillian Archie Rice and is about to reprise the role in the film adaptation of John Osborne's The Entertainer. He and Plowright are in the early stages of a romantic liaison; Olivier's tumultuous marriage to Vivien Leigh is all but ended. Critic Kenneth Tynan also figures in the plot, which debates the merits of stage versus screen, the internal struggle that theatrical performers endure when contemplating a leap to films, and the ways that the studio system frustrated the careers of individual artists.
It is a study of theatrical egos, each of the protagonists living more on the stage than in real life, each one feeling insecure while jockeying for power."
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