Nieznany Orson Welles

Abstrakt

The author discusses the most important archives which contain original documents related to the life and work of Orson Welles. She describes both the resources of places already well penetrated by the director’s biographers — such as the Lilly Library at Indiana University in Bloomington — and those that have only recently been discovered for Welles’s fans and researchers: the Bibliomediateca Mario Gromo in Turin and the director’s private home in Primošten, Croatia. The collection located in the United States mainly concerns the director’s pan-American artwork, covering the years 1930–1950, while the archives located in Italy and Croatia are related to Welles’s search for creative freedom in Europe during the 1960s and 1970s.