FILE - In this February 22, 1982 file photo, actor and film director Orson Welles poses for photographers during a press conference in Paris. A “very raw draft” of an unpublished Orson Welles memoir has joined the University of Michigan archives on the trailblazing filmmaker, the school says. (AP Photo/Jacques Langevin, File)
Republished May 22, 2015 - 2:34 PM
Original Publication Date May 22, 2015 - 1:30 PM
ANN ARBOR, Mich. - The University of Michigan says a "very raw draft" of an unpublished Orson Welles memoir has joined its archives on the trailblazing filmmaker.
The typewritten memoir was in eight boxes of materials from Croatian filmmaker Oja Kodar that the Ann Arbor school purchased. Kodar was Welles' partner and collaborator for 24 years before his death in 1985 at age 70.
The university says the 80-page typed memoir has handwritten notes and edits throughout. It includes passages about Welles' parents, second wife Rita Hayworth, Ernest Hemingway and D.W. Griffith.
Kodar is to attend the university's June 7-9 symposium on Welles, marking the 100th anniversary of his birth.
Welles directed the radio drama "The War of the Worlds" and the movie "Citizen Kane."
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