Linwood Dunn: Celebrating a Visual Effects Pioneer – CITIZEN KANE Screening

"Linwood Dunn: Celebrating a Visual Effects Pioneer," will explore the work of special effects artist Linwood Dunn (above, lower photo), including the techniques he used in creating optical effects for Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, on Friday, October 9, at 8 p.m. at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ appropriately named Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. A newly struck print of Citizen Kane from the Academy Film Archive will be screened. This event is sold out, but standby tickets may become available.
Presented by the Academy’s Science and Technology Council, "Linwood Dunn" will be hosted by Oscar-winning visual effects artist and Academy governor Craig Barron. The evening will also [...]

by Andre Soares | October 2, 2009   
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Ruth Warrick

Ruth Warrick, Charles Foster Kane’s wife in Orson Welles‘ 1941 classic Citizen Kane, died today of complications from pneumonia. She was 89.
Also in 1941, Warrick was Douglas Fairbanks, Jr’s leading lady in the period adventure The Corsican Brothers, but despite an auspicious beginning her film career didn’t go very far.
In the following years, Warrick (born in St. Joseph, Missouri, on June 29, 1915) was cast in supporting roles in major productions or in leads in B fare, usually playing the hero’s or the second male lead’s wife. Among the most important of those were Norman Foster and (an uncredited) Orson Welles’ Journey into Fear (1942), in which she plays hero Joseph Cotten’s wife — though the chief female role [...]

by Andre Soares | January 15, 2005   
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