Orson Welles Trove to Academy Collection
Invitation to Citizen Kane wrap party, 1940. Academy Collection, image courtesy of the Margaret Herrick Library. James Pepper Collection on Orson Welles The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced numerous additions to its 52-million-item collection. Among them is Santa Barbara bookseller James Pepper's gift of his collection of Orson Welles material, assembled over half a century. Shown is an invitation to Citizen Kane 's wrap party, addressed to Mercury Theater actor Paul Stewart. The Pepper collection includes photographs, press clippings, and books; two hand-annotated scripts to Touch of Evil ; correspondence relating to The Magnificent Ambersons , Othello , and The Other Side of the Wind ; a grievance-filled 11-page letter (1977) to producer Medhi Bousherhri, lamenting the trials of a 62-year-old Hollywood wunderkind and outcast. Also new to the Academy collection are a Lumière Model A film projector, about 1897; James Cagney's tap shoes from Yankee...
