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Nov 8, 2009 · CHRIS WELLES FEDER: Yes, that was the thing that plagued him all of his life, not being able to get sufficient funds to realize his creative vision. He was also very ill towards the end of his life, much more than people realized.
Nov 15, 2009 · NEW YORK — No posters or photographs of Orson Welles hang in the living room of his eldest daughter, Chris Welles Feder. His memory is preserved, imperfectly, through a shelf of books that...
- Personal Life
- Career
- In My Father’s Shadow: A Daughter Remembers Orson Welles
- Conclusion
Christopher Welles Feder was born in 1938 and grew up in Hollywood’s golden age. Her loving and funny father was there even after her father divorced her mother, actress Virginia Nicholson, in 1940. Next came Rita Hayworth, whom he married in 1943, and the weekend at their house was a blissful and memorable time for Chris. Chris was able to spend h...
In November 2009, Christopher published a book called, “In my Father’s Shadow: A daughter remembers Orson Welles”. In My Father’s Shadow is the classic story of a life lived in the public eye, the love and affection of a daughter who kept believing that one day she would truly know and understand her elusive and larger life. The result is a moving ...
When asked in an interview why she chose to write on this subject, she responded, that there were many books here, biographies, critical studies, etc., written about her father, but none of that captured the Orson Welles she knew. Also, many of the people who have written about her father have never met him or have only met him in the last 15 years...
Christopher Welles Feder did not have a happy childhood as she had many family or relationship problems also, being the kid of a star was not at all an easy task for her but she did cover it all and became a writer. She wrote a biography of her father because she felt the need to let people know her father from a different perspective.
In My Father’s Shadow: A Daughter Remembers Orson Welles by ...
The result is a moving and insightful look at life in the shadow of a legendary figure and an immensely entertaining story of growing up in the unreal reality of Hollywood, enhanced by Welles...
Nov 22, 2009 · Host Liane Hansen speaks with Chris Welles Feder about her new book, In My Father's Shadow, an account of her life growing up as the daughter of Orson Welles.
The Orson Welles-Chris Welles Feder Collection is an assortment of material on Orson Welles collected by his eldest daughter Chris Welles Feder. She was born Christopher Welles in 1938 to Orson Welles and Virginia Nicolson Welles.
