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Paola Mori (F)
b. 1931, d. 12 August 1986, #391055
b. 1931, d. 12 August 1986, #391055
Paola Mori was born in 1931. She married George Orson Welles, son of Richard Hodgdon Head Welles and Beatrice Ives, on 8 May 1955. Paola Mori died on 12 August 1986 at Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada; in a road accident.
Child of Paola Mori and George Orson Welles- Beatrice Welles b. 1955
Margarita Carmen Cansino (F)
b. 17 October 1918, d. 14 May 1987, #391056
b. 17 October 1918, d. 14 May 1987, #391056
Her name was legally changed to Rita Hayworth. Margarita Carmen Cansino was born on 17 October 1918 at Brooklyn, Kings County, New York. She married James Hill. Margarita Carmen Cansino married Edward C. Judson on 29 May 1937. Margarita Carmen Cansino and Edward C. Judson were divorced on 29 May 1943. Margarita Carmen Cansino married George Orson Welles, son of Richard Hodgdon Head Welles and Beatrice Ives, on 7 September 1943. Margarita Carmen Cansino and George Orson Welles were divorced on 1 December 1948. Margarita Carmen Cansino married Aly Solomone Khan on 27 May 1949. Margarita Carmen Cansino married Richard Benjamin Haymes on 24 September 1953. Margarita Carmen Cansino died on 14 May 1987 at New York City, New York County, New York, at age 68; Alzheimer's disease. She was buried at Holly Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Los Angeles County, California.
Child of Margarita Carmen Cansino and George Orson Welles- Rebecca Welles b. 17 Dec 1944
Virginia Nicholson (F)
#391057
#391057
Virginia Nicholson was also known as Anna Stafford. She married George Orson Welles, son of Richard Hodgdon Head Welles and Beatrice Ives, in 1934. Virginia Nicholson and George Orson Welles were divorced in 1939.
Child of Virginia Nicholson and George Orson Welles- Christopher Welles b. c 1937
John Palmer (M)
b. 13 November 1694, d. 28 July 1785, #391058
b. 13 November 1694, d. 28 July 1785, #391058
John Palmer was born on 13 November 1694 at Westerly, Washington County, Rhode Island. He married Alice Shaw. John Palmer died on 28 July 1785 at Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island, at age 90.
Child of John Palmer and Alice Shaw- Bathsheba Palmer+ b. 4 Jan 1717
Alice Shaw (F)
b. 17 November 1695, #391059
b. 17 November 1695, #391059
Alice Shaw was born on 17 November 1695 at Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island. She married John Palmer.
Child of Alice Shaw and John Palmer- Bathsheba Palmer+ b. 4 Jan 1717
Henry Head (M)
#391060
#391060
Child of Henry Head and Elizabeth Ketchum- Jonathan Head+ b. 1678, d. b 23 Nov 1748
Elizabeth Ketchum (F)
#391061
#391061
Child of Elizabeth Ketchum and Henry Head- Jonathan Head+ b. 1678, d. b 23 Nov 1748
Enoch Briggs (M)
#391062
#391062
Martha Pabodie (F)
b. 25 February 1650, d. 25 January 1712, #391063
b. 25 February 1650, d. 25 January 1712, #391063
Martha Pabodie was born on 25 February 1650 at Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. She married William Fobes, son of John Fobes and Constant Mitchell. Martha Pabodie died on 25 January 1712 at Little Compton, Newport County, Rhode Island, at age 61.
Child of Martha Pabodie and William Fobes- Constant Fobes+ b. 29 Jun 1686, d. 29 Jun 1771
Beatrice Welles (F)
b. 1955, #391066
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b. 1955, #391066
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Beatrice Welles was born in 1955. She is the daughter of George Orson Welles and Paola Mori. Orson Welles' daughter sues for copyright
- Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
Tuesday, February 4, 2003
The last word of "Citizen Kane" may not be "Rosebud," after all, but "lawsuit."
The youngest daughter of actor-director Orson Welles has sued two Hollywood studios in a federal court in San Francisco, saying she owns the copyright to the 1941 classic as her father's sole heiress.
Beatrice Welles' suit is based on a newly revealed document written in December 1944, around the time her father left RKO Radio Pictures. The document, according to the suit, was an agreement between Orson Welles and RKO to cancel a 1939 contract granting the studio the copyrights to "Citizen Kane" and another future film, "The Magnificent Ambersons."
Attorney Steven Ames Brown, who filed the suit Friday in U.S. District Court, said the document means one of two things: that the copyrights were transferred to Welles and are now owned by his daughter; or that the 1939 contract remains in effect, including an obligation to pay Welles 20 percent of the profits from "Kane" and 25 percent from "Ambersons."
The films were financial flops for decades, despite their artistic success, but have become moneymakers through videos and DVDs, Brown said Monday. He said neither RKO nor Turner Entertainment Co., which holds the distribution rights, has paid royalties.
"We just need a judge to determine where the rights are," Brown said.
His client, a Nevada resident, is Welles' daughter by his third wife, actress Paola Mori.
RKO spokesman Jonathan Marshall said the studio has not seen the lawsuit but maintains that its copyrights are valid.
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URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/02/04/BA169461.DTL on 4 February 2003. Orson Welles' award withdrawn from auction
Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles
Wednesday July 23, 2003
Guardian
They are only 13 inches tall and look, as Bette Davis once put it, like her ex-husband's backside, but those who will never win one would pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to own one. However, Oscar is not for sale.
Christie's in New York has withdrawn from auction the Oscar won by Orson Welles in 1941 for co-writing Citizen Kane. It had been expected to fetch up to $400,000 (£250,000) in Friday's sale.
Oscars are awarded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles, whose regulation 10 states: "Award winners shall not sell or otherwise dispose of the Oscar statuette nor permit it to be sold or disposed of by operation of law without first offering to sell it to the academy for $1."
The rule applies to heirs of winners and those given one by a recipient. Everyone nominated has to agree to this, and the academy polices the rule vigilantly.
Welles won his Oscar not for directing the film that made him world famous (that year's award went to John Ford for How Green Was My Valley), but for the screenplay he co-wrote with Herman J Mankiewicz. Welles was still only 26 at the time. On his death in 1985, he left the Oscar to his third wife, Paola Mori, who died the next year. It passed to Beatrice Welles, their youngest daughter, and she offered it for sale at Christie's.
Despite the academy ban, Ms Welles apparently believed she did have the right to sell her father's Oscar. The rule was introduced in 1950, so he would never have had to agree to the $1 buy-back.
However, an academy spokesman, John Pavlik, said yesterday that Ms Welles had been provided with a replacement Oscar in the 1980s when the original went missing, and had then signed an agreement not to sell it or the original, should it turn up. It did turn up in London a few years ago, in the hands of an old colleague of Welles. Ms Welles regained it after legal action.
"We found out that there was a dispute so it has been withdrawn," said a Christie's spokeswoman yesterday.
Mr Pavlik admitted Oscars had been sold in the past - Ronald Colman's 1947 best actor prize for A Double Life went at Christie's last year for $175,000. But usually, he said, auction houses agreed to withdraw them.
Some winners gave their Oscar to a museum or their former school, he said, which was fine. The academy objected only to a sale.
Many felt Welles should have won the best director prize for his portrait of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst; the latter was so incensed he banned any mention of the film in his papers and tried to buy all the negatives and destroy them. There was also controversy as to authorship of the screenplay, which Welles initially claimed for himself. He shared the credit with Mankiewicz only after the Writers' Guild stepped in.
The origins of the Oscar name are clouded in myth. According to Oscar Fever, by Emanuel Levy, Bette Davis claimed it was her remark on the likeness of the statue to the backside of her then husband, Harman Oscar Nelson, that led to it being given his name. Another version is that the academy's former executive secretary, Margaret Herrick, remarked on her first day at work in 1931 that it resembled her uncle Oscar. The academy favours the Herrick account.
Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2005 on 23 July 2003.
- Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
Tuesday, February 4, 2003
The last word of "Citizen Kane" may not be "Rosebud," after all, but "lawsuit."
The youngest daughter of actor-director Orson Welles has sued two Hollywood studios in a federal court in San Francisco, saying she owns the copyright to the 1941 classic as her father's sole heiress.
Beatrice Welles' suit is based on a newly revealed document written in December 1944, around the time her father left RKO Radio Pictures. The document, according to the suit, was an agreement between Orson Welles and RKO to cancel a 1939 contract granting the studio the copyrights to "Citizen Kane" and another future film, "The Magnificent Ambersons."
Attorney Steven Ames Brown, who filed the suit Friday in U.S. District Court, said the document means one of two things: that the copyrights were transferred to Welles and are now owned by his daughter; or that the 1939 contract remains in effect, including an obligation to pay Welles 20 percent of the profits from "Kane" and 25 percent from "Ambersons."
The films were financial flops for decades, despite their artistic success, but have become moneymakers through videos and DVDs, Brown said Monday. He said neither RKO nor Turner Entertainment Co., which holds the distribution rights, has paid royalties.
"We just need a judge to determine where the rights are," Brown said.
His client, a Nevada resident, is Welles' daughter by his third wife, actress Paola Mori.
RKO spokesman Jonathan Marshall said the studio has not seen the lawsuit but maintains that its copyrights are valid.
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URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/02/04/BA169461.DTL on 4 February 2003. Orson Welles' award withdrawn from auction
Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles
Wednesday July 23, 2003
Guardian
They are only 13 inches tall and look, as Bette Davis once put it, like her ex-husband's backside, but those who will never win one would pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to own one. However, Oscar is not for sale.
Christie's in New York has withdrawn from auction the Oscar won by Orson Welles in 1941 for co-writing Citizen Kane. It had been expected to fetch up to $400,000 (£250,000) in Friday's sale.
Oscars are awarded by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles, whose regulation 10 states: "Award winners shall not sell or otherwise dispose of the Oscar statuette nor permit it to be sold or disposed of by operation of law without first offering to sell it to the academy for $1."
The rule applies to heirs of winners and those given one by a recipient. Everyone nominated has to agree to this, and the academy polices the rule vigilantly.
Welles won his Oscar not for directing the film that made him world famous (that year's award went to John Ford for How Green Was My Valley), but for the screenplay he co-wrote with Herman J Mankiewicz. Welles was still only 26 at the time. On his death in 1985, he left the Oscar to his third wife, Paola Mori, who died the next year. It passed to Beatrice Welles, their youngest daughter, and she offered it for sale at Christie's.
Despite the academy ban, Ms Welles apparently believed she did have the right to sell her father's Oscar. The rule was introduced in 1950, so he would never have had to agree to the $1 buy-back.
However, an academy spokesman, John Pavlik, said yesterday that Ms Welles had been provided with a replacement Oscar in the 1980s when the original went missing, and had then signed an agreement not to sell it or the original, should it turn up. It did turn up in London a few years ago, in the hands of an old colleague of Welles. Ms Welles regained it after legal action.
"We found out that there was a dispute so it has been withdrawn," said a Christie's spokeswoman yesterday.
Mr Pavlik admitted Oscars had been sold in the past - Ronald Colman's 1947 best actor prize for A Double Life went at Christie's last year for $175,000. But usually, he said, auction houses agreed to withdraw them.
Some winners gave their Oscar to a museum or their former school, he said, which was fine. The academy objected only to a sale.
Many felt Welles should have won the best director prize for his portrait of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst; the latter was so incensed he banned any mention of the film in his papers and tried to buy all the negatives and destroy them. There was also controversy as to authorship of the screenplay, which Welles initially claimed for himself. He shared the credit with Mankiewicz only after the Writers' Guild stepped in.
The origins of the Oscar name are clouded in myth. According to Oscar Fever, by Emanuel Levy, Bette Davis claimed it was her remark on the likeness of the statue to the backside of her then husband, Harman Oscar Nelson, that led to it being given his name. Another version is that the academy's former executive secretary, Margaret Herrick, remarked on her first day at work in 1931 that it resembled her uncle Oscar. The academy favours the Herrick account.
Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2005 on 23 July 2003.
Rebecca Welles (F)
b. 17 December 1944, #391067
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b. 17 December 1944, #391067
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Rebecca Welles was born on 17 December 1944 at Los Angeles County, California. She is the daughter of George Orson Welles and Margarita Carmen Cansino.
Christopher Welles (F)
b. circa 1937, #391068
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b. circa 1937, #391068
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Christopher Welles was born circa 1937. She is the daughter of George Orson Welles and Virginia Nicholson.
Aly Solomone Khan (M)
b. 13 June 1911, d. 12 May 1960, #391071
b. 13 June 1911, d. 12 May 1960, #391071
Aly Solomone Khan was born on 13 June 1911 at Italy. He married Margarita Carmen Cansino on 27 May 1949. Aly Solomone Khan died on 12 May 1960 at France at age 48.
Edward C. Judson (M)
#391072
#391072
Edward C. Judson married Margarita Carmen Cansino on 29 May 1937. Edward C. Judson and Margarita Carmen Cansino were divorced on 29 May 1943.
Richard Benjamin Haymes (M)
b. 13 September 1916, d. 28 March 1980, #391074
b. 13 September 1916, d. 28 March 1980, #391074
Richard Benjamin Haymes was born on 13 September 1916 at Argetina. He married Margarita Carmen Cansino on 24 September 1953. Richard Benjamin Haymes died on 28 March 1980 at Los Angeles County, California, at age 63.
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