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Aug 14, 2023
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Orson Welles, seated at left, and John Houseman, standing, at a script writing session, 1930s.

Their collaboration began in the 1930s, when 20-year-old Orson Welles agreed to give up his part in a Broadway play to star in a new production written by 33-year-old John Houseman.

‘He was the teacher and I was the student,’ the older Houseman would later say o…

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