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"The War of the Worlds" was a Halloween episode of the radio series The Mercury Theatre on the Air directed and narrated by Orson Welles as an adaptation of H. G. Wells's novel The War of the Worlds (1898) that was performed and broadcast live at 8 pm ET on October 30, 1938, over the CBS Radio Network.
- Orson Welles
- John Houseman, Orson Welles
- October 30, 1938, 8 –, 9 pm ET
May 6, 2015 · Orson Welles (arms raised) rehearses his radio depiction of H.G. Wells' classic, The War of the Worlds.The broadcast, which aired on October 30, 1938, and claimed that aliens from Mars had invaded ...
- 57 min
- A. Brad Schwartz
Oct 30, 2023 · Welles was only 23 years old at the time, and regarded by many as a prodigy – this was his most ambitious project yet, an update of The War of the Worlds, a science-fiction thriller by HG Wells ...
Yet Marymount University professor Marguerite Rippy doubts that Welles could have fully anticipated such a response. “People try to act like he has more artistic intentionality than perhaps he does,” says Rippy, who wrote about The War of the Worlds in her 2009 book Orson Welles and the Unfinished RKO Projects. “To me, he is a man who ...
Oct 29, 2009 · October | 30. “The War of the Worlds”—Orson Welles's realistic radio dramatization of a Martian invasion of Earth—is broadcast on the radio on October 30, 1938. Welles was only 23 years ...
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Oct 30, 2013 · Inside ‘The War of the Worlds’ Radio Broadcast. Orson Welles' radio drama is the most famous broadcast in radio history. Updated: June 1, 2023 | Original: October 30, 2013. As the clock struck ...
