On this day in Horror History, Orson Welles was born. One of the most celebrated talents in the entertainment industry, Welles saw a fair share of awards, controversy, and worldwide infamy in his lifetime. Early in his career while directing the Mercury Theatre Broadcast of "War of the Worlds", based on H.G. Wells' novel, he would terrify millions who believed that the events in the 1938 Radio dramatization were in fact the reporting of an invasion from mars. Publicly apologizing after the mass hysteria that resulted from his fluidity and directorial realism, the world would be in awe for the next half a century watching Welles career give film some of the most beloved movies of all time. Having lent his brilliance to such classics as Citizen Kane (1941) and Othello (1952), Welles was a soul that would bless the world with an ideology and beauty that will forever be missed.
"For thirty years people have been asking me how I reconcile X with Y! The truthful answer is that I don't. Everything about me is a contradiction and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There is a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don't reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.” –Orson Welles
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