Orson shmoozes about a cockatoo

[@62SG]

For some reason I never imagined him to be so jolly.

[@hanksadowski7012]

James Fielding i

[@Glassandcandy]

@@hanksadowski7012 no, u

[@jacobreyes5357]

Probably because you never knew him! Lol

[@mayormc]

Welles was such an interesting and honest guy who really cut through the crap.

[@WhitStillman]

These two are great together. Orson is one of my favorite persons ever.

[@gonufc]

That's a perfect ending: "I can't get a pretentious answer out of you!".

[@darkprose]

When Dick asks "do you have any recurrent dreams?" and they cut to Welles and his cigar -- LOL! Nice editing.

[@balooga999]

"There is a veracity in what you are saying." ---------ZIINNGGGG!! lol

[@michaeljayklein500]

I could listen to 900 hours of this kind of interview...

[@beatlessteve1010]

+Michael Klein Amen!

[@AlternativeSack123]

dick cavett had a great way of talking to his guests, his hitchcock show is a must see

[@Glassandcandy]

This is what late night talk shows used to be like. Now we have jimmy fallon reading mean tweets and Stephen Colbert making the “Donald trump has small hands” joke for the nth time. It’s sad how far this format has fallen. It’s literally just turned into half an hour of advertisement for whatever the celebrity guest is trying to plug mixed with incredibly forced and predictable humor on the least controversial subjects imaginable.

[@ProfessorTime]

Not only was Welles a Genius, he was down to earth and had a salt of the earth personality. No directors like that today.

[@NxDoyle]

"I can't get a pretentious answer out of you." I think that's largely because Orson Welles was perhaps, the least pretentious person in Hollywood.

[@jeffstone2136]

The truly great let their work, whatever that work may be, do all the bragging.

[@Sam-qc6sz]

"That was to wake up the audience" AHAHAHAH

[@Darrylizer1]

Excellent interview! Thanks for posting this.

[@geligniteandlilies]

I love his line about history. This is such a amazing interview. Thank you so much for sharing this with us.

[@giles422]

yes, this was great. Cavett is better than I realized, and Orson is great, in a good mood, hilarious, and forthcoming. Thanks for the post

[@sclogse1]

IF you read Simon Callow's 2, soon to be 3 books on Orson, you realize that as a young man, he also has "presenting" himself, the way that Jerry Lewis does. It's all over Orson's voice and delivery, especially in his radio days. Orson's demands for credit and control were monumental when he was young. The ego that creates, also needs food...and isn't necessarily going to wait till you give it. Orson at this stage here seems truly master of himself...he took the ride of our lives.

[@geoffdearth8575]

It's funny just watching him laugh.

[@SeverusFelix]

"That was to wake up the audience." Orson Welles just joined the short list of time machine visits I must make.

[@Damiano54]

To me OW was the best talkshow guest ever

[@madamoiselle0sahara]

Orson welles had such a strong and commanding presence. It makes me smile that in nearly all the interviews ive seen of him the interviewer is close to shaking with anxiety- see michael parkinson's.

[@ddburrows988]

I love Olson Welles like crazy!

[@jjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj178]

I not only cannot BELIEVE something like this used to be on TV, but that evidently it was so popular!

[@hankthetank8039]

It's hilarious that George Carlin and Orson Welles have the same opinion on the lengthier use of words in the English language, great minds truly think alike!

[@eddtoro]

Orson is so funny. No wonder Charlton Heston said working with others is work, but working with Orson, Orson makes it fun.

[@MrImiller07]

As depicted in "The Battle Over Citizen Kane", now part of the bluray boxed set, Welles knew as Kane was being filmed that it would engender great antagonism from William Randolph Hearst and his supporters, who tried unsuccessfully to destroy the negative. Although the critical reputation of the film, as well as Ambersons and Touch Of Evil, grew, Welles could not overcome the perception that he was self destructive and wasteful as a director; an unjustified reputation.

[@ZekeUlrey]

Orson was The Bomb. I want to drink coffee and smoke cigars with the late Mr. Wells.

[@Drac39]

I love Orson Welles interviews. He was so intelligent and full of life. I'd have loved to have had an hour or two just to talk with him

[@rodneyrawlings7100]

I think with the cigar etc. Welles was humorously reacting to the 'veracity' zinger that Cavett got off--generously conceding and making it clear he'd been topped in the joke department, which was probably rare.

[@TheSealOfTheRose]

It seems to me at as soon as smoking was banned in television interviews the quality went down. Now people can speculate that causation isn’t necessarily correlation but they’ll be guilty of using big words in Orson Welles eyes.

[@SaxonC]

Orson Welles is a larger than life legend. Mr. Welles is extremely interesting and entertaining and unfortunately we lack people of his caliber in Hollywood or anywhere in the entertainment industry for that matter. Talk shows today, book these boring duds on their shows. No class and lack intelligence and I miss talk shows like Dick Cavett

[@January.]

+Saxon C EXACTLY! ME TOO!

[@beatlessteve1010]

+Saxon C i agree with you, on Orson Welles, I would of liked him to talk about Rita Hayworth a bit but it was definitely an informative interview..

[@_SPREZZATURA_McGEE_]

Craig Ferguson was the closest modern day interviewer like Cavett, imho.

[@blacquesjacques7239]

His was a life lived . Oh , how I envy him .

[@Saturn537]

At 2:45, I think Dave Cavett might have reminded Orson of some nightmares of his XD That would also explain him taking a big smoke of his cigar after that question.

[@Glassandcandy]

Man I would’ve loved to have a beer with this man. He’s like Falstaff of the 20th century (I suppose that’s why he ended up trying to play him lol). So charismatic and witty but not pretentiously so.

[@dinkolukin]

what a cool guy...

[@michaeljayklein500]

PS: Regarding the statement about "What (Jerry Lewis) did for "Myra Breckinridge", the best I could find was a statement he made reported in Earl Wilson's column in 1970 about what a dreadful film it was (he was right there!)

[@justinfossa1254]

Back in those days most of the guys had a cockatoo.

[@patsirianni7984]

Loved Wells he reminds me of Me

[@NGS712]

giles: I agree. Cavett seemed to bring out a whole new dimension to Welles.

[@NxDoyle]

The passing observer might have good reason to expect that one of the world's greatest film makers was prickly in temper and prone to diva type behaviour. But everything I've seen of Mr Welles in interview, he comes across as charming, erudite, warm, engaging and, the best bit...his generosity.

[@itayig.kahari393]

nowadays it's different Mr Welles very very different less books more social media

[@EdOscuro]

It's amazing, watching these interviews, how many of the statements from these guys I actually have read in biographies. You have to wonder if what Welles says about history is playing out here!

[@androsthemighty2269]

I never thought I could ever love Welles any more but after watching this clip about his distaste for Lewis, my admiration doubled....

[@cellardoor199991]

2:30 Welles is right. People who talk like that lack common sense because they over analyze. I used to be like this surrounding myself with punks, hipsters. That's what they do. I love Welles and Zappa, they were both brilliant guys w/ common sense. Very rare.

[@ivolpanda]

At the same time I, as he was talking about new generations, I wish that I'd hear more polysyllabic words from the young.

[@Sam-qc6sz]

Not really It depends on whether the person wants to talk in a way or another

[@Onlymusical]

People in their 29s have now reversed from what Welles complained about back in the '70s.

[@LenHummelChannel]

Orson was always a SMASHING interview. ... and a wonderful liar as well. ... well, he often embellished to the point of lying, ... but who cares, really. lol

[@sd02231]

@Ballsarama I still think "Kane" would have had trouble commercially even without Hearst's intervention. With US involvement in World War II just around the corner, Hollywood would eventually bring more escapist films. The idea that the life of a man in America, no matter how successful and powerful he was, could end in such a bitter, empty way was not something the nation would have wanted to hear at the time. Welles's message was cautionary, the antithesis of the American Dream. It's a messag

[@MrJoeybabe25]

I cannot think of one national television talk show that I would watch on a regular basis today. Back then I would switch between Johnny and Dick and Merv (I actually liked Cavett more because he had better guests and was funny and also serious in the interview. DC was more like Jack Paar, though my memories of Jack Paar are of the Friday night prime time show. Orson Welles is perhaps the premier example of someone I would stay up until 1am to watch, even though I had school at 8 o'clock.No more

[@Omnicient.]

I rarely took to Carson as he interrupted so often and ended up fragmenting what could have been better interviews. He was a running commentary which Jerry Lewis took him to task about.

[@LarryWake]

Just thinking how dead-on Maurice LaMarche is.

[@jeffstone2136]

"Well, that's the interview done, thank you, Orson. Would you like to go for a drink at the studio bar?" "You're kind, Dick, but I must say no. I have to now go do what I do every night at this time." "And what's that?" *"TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!!!"*

[@SenorZorrozzz]

shmooze shmooze shmooze shmooze shmooze

[@sd02231]

To continue my post (I got cut off), it's a message that in many ways we're still not ready to hear.

[@informationnotfound]

He almost looks and sounds just like Mark Hamill......

[@Marckymarc71]

Two great raconteurs. I could listen to Welles or Hamill talk for hours.

[@kraken138]

I wonder if there is more to his Jerry Lewis animosity than just his being annoyed by his T.V appearance.

[@lindashelley3635]

Mike Frak I don’t know if it’s at all relevant but I believe that Mr Welles was a friend of Dean Martin and had been a guest at his and Jeannie’s house. He certainly appeared on Dean’s show quite a few times and apparently Dean was a great admirer of his, a feeling which seems to have been reciprocated as there is a video interview on You tube where Orson warmly refers to him “a prince of a fellow.” And of course everyone knows about the longstanding animosity that existed between Dean and Jerry, so that may possibly have had something to do with it...

[@ChortortleC]

@sd02231 I don't know if it's so much to do with the American Dream - Kane didn't earn his way up to riches from nothing, which is supposed to be the American Dream. Rather, he was given money and from it created public stature and influence. But I agree, it's certainly a dreary film for wartime. It's the sort of movie that should temper a period of excess.

[@HS22181]

Funny, there is a Dick Cavett interview with Jerry Lewis here on KZbin and you can see what Orson Welles describes about him in this clip.

[@Whackooyzero]

Love Welles and Lewis equally but for different reasons.

[@incrediblesimilarity5858]

The show aired July 27th 1970.

[@MokkaMatti]

On the 27th day in the month of July during the year of 1970, this television programme was originally broadcast to viewers with apparati capable of receiving and displaying it.

[@NxDoyle]

I'm posting long things lately in my effort to write 1000 words a day. I collect the best ones for some potential future use. So, if you feel tl;dr about it, understandable. But my thanks to those who indulge my long YT bigmouthery. I was born after Jerry Lewis's heyday, which means that my 'relationship' with him, so to speak, was initially via his movies on T.V., some with Dean, of course, and some not. As a young child I loved him. Growing up in Australia, I never saw any of the muscular dystrophy telethons. However, I was always attentive around anything to do with acting, performing and showbiz, especially comedy, that I likely heard via some other vessel that Jerry Lewis hosted big charity fundraisers on American TV. _And_ that some in showbiz were not content to accept Jerry's charitable inclinations at face value, given the size of his ego. I remember the first and second times when I felt 'let down' by Jerry. They must have happened fairly close together, thinking back...I was 10 or 11. The first time was an appearance he made on the Donnie and Marie Show. They mentioned him as a special guest star (or something) at the top of the show and teased his appearance going into each ad break. Finally he appears, in a tux, singing Send in the Clowns. Poorly. Then there is a dissolve to Jerry, all gussied up in his sad 'cloune' outfit & make up and performs a seemingly interminable mime. The second time was when I was allowed to go see him in Hardly Working. Even as a ten year old, I knew how bad it was. So the romance or fandom or the whatever it was, died. It's only been comparatively recently that I've found out what an insufferable ass he was. His masturbatory interviews with, say, Dick Cavett. They're impossible to watch without thinking that Jerry has his head shoved firmly up his own ass. So utterly pretentious, unlike Mr Welles. In light of Jerry's desperation to be considered an auteur, getting a clip across the ear courtesy of one of the greatest film makers in movie history must have stung.

[@jeffstone2136]

I tend to agree with your views here. My advice about length, as a professional writer, is to take a look at your work and check each sentence/paragraph, always asking yourself 'Is there a way I can say those fifteen words in ten and still keep my voice intact? Can I make one word speak for two? Am I taking too long to make a point, or repasting myself later on?" If you need to write long, definitely write long, but brevity is usually wit.

[@thegreatbandini]

Orson is high.

[@madsciiscrazy]

@darkprose Oddly enough its not a bad cut - SMOKE enters the the shot prior

[@sd02231]

It's still an great interview, though. Orson Welles is one of my favorite actor/directors. I just didn't like him taking potshots at Jerry Lewis who is another of my favorites.

[@MelancoliaI]

Welles saw a tendency toward increasing complexity and bigger words in public discourse? oh...oh ha ha ha ha hee hee hee....ha...ha...ha.....

[@ottoskidoo]

Welles lays the smackdown on poor Jerry Lewis!

[@NGS712]

What did Jerry Lewis do for Myra Breckinridge?

[@aa-tx7th]

william shatner and jonathan frakes

[@fcampbell696]

@darkprose he reminded me so much of my dad with that cigar in his mouth.

[@chrismhp]

Wouldn't it be nice if today's 'next generation' was using words that were too complex.

[@budimon121]

according to orson welles it wouldnt be

[@sd02231]

Orson Welles was just jealous that he never got the creative freedom at any studio that Jerry Lewis got at Paramount. Of course, in order to have that kind of freedom, you have to be commercially successful, which Welles never was. I'm not saying Jerry wasn't or couldn't be full of himself at times, but he eventually got out of that pretentious frame of mind in later years.

[@sd02231]

@shnoepie1 My comment had nothing to do with comparing the talents of either man. To gain or maintain creative freedom in Hollywood, your movies have to be commercially successful. It's as simple as that. Welles was a great filmmaker but was terrible at the business side of "the movie business". That's why he couldn't succeed in Hollywood.

[@beatlessteve1010]

rosebud

[@HENJAM48]

:)

[@jeffreylombardo782]

Holy Christ......Now we get Kanye West.....instead of a genius on television!! Please help us God to get back to where we should be!!!!!!!!!!!!!