Orson Welles watched John Wayne film over 40 instances to organize for Citizen Kane

Orson Welles was simply 25 years outdated when he co-wrote, directed and starred in Citizen Kane. 

That’s an unbelievable feat on condition that the 1941 drama is often cited as the best movie ever made and much more so when contemplating that this was the actor’s first-ever movie and directorial debut. 

And to organize to helm his masterpiece, he watched John Ford’s Stagecoach over 40 instances.

Welles stated of the 1939 Western that made John Wayne a star: “As it turned out, the first day I ever walked onto a set was my first day as a director. I’d learned whatever I knew in the projection room—from Ford. 

“After dinner every night for about a month, I’d run Stagecoach, often with some different technician or department head from the studio, and ask questions. ‘How was this done?’ ‘Why was this done?’ It was like going to school.”

Aside from Ford’s wonderful expertise as a director one of many tragic causes Stagecoach was so good is as a result of the filmmaker was a infamous bully.

Throughout his profession, he would deal with his actors terribly to get higher performances out of them.

On the set of this Western, the director would name Duke “a big oaf and “dumb “b***ard”, continuously criticising his supply of traces, his method of strolling and even how he washed his face on movie.

Dallas star Claire Trevor claims that at one level the director grabbed Duke by his chin and shook him saying: “Why are you moving your mouth so much? “Don’t you know you don’t act with your mouth in pictures? You act with your eyes.” 

And yet Wayne put up with all this as “Pappy” had made him a star with Stagecoach having needed to foyer onerous to forged him as Ringo Kid since he was a B-movie actor.

In the tip, Ford informed producer Walter Wanger that he would refuse to make the film with out Duke and the remaining is historical past.