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100 Years of Orson Welles

Orson Welles was born one hundred years ago today near Chicago. But after making Citizen Kane, still considered one of the best films ever made, was it all downhill for him? Our arts correspondent Vincent Dowd spoke to Welles biographer, Simon Callow.

(Photo: Orson Welles standing on stacks of newspapers in a scene from the film "Citizen Kane", 1941. Credit: RKO Radio Pictures/Getty Images)

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