Orson Welles Was a Better Eulogist Than Newspaper Columnist
A special spring 1945 radio broadcast highlighted what was missing from the filmmaker's Post columns
Over the weekend, New York Post film critic Lou Lumenick shared a fun look at Orson Welles’ days as a columnist for the paper. From January to November 1945, the filmmaker was paid big bucks to write five weekday columns.
In the middle of Welles’ run as an increasingly distracted print journalist, he steered his weekly CBS Radio program This is My Best away from anthology material to anchor a magnificent half-hour tribute to President Roosevelt, who had passed away five days earlier in Warm Springs, Georgia after returning from the Yalta Conference.
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