The Nose Knows..

[saint_monkey]

• Thu, 08:50: RT @LettersOfNote: The Many Noses of Orson Welles: http://t.co/cVHB58Xv

Every now and then you get sucked into a story that is just so darn interesting.

I can't say it better than the article, (which is linked to up above..) So I'll just quote a bit from it...

...Orson Welles’ insecurity over the size of his nose, however, is probably the most baffling of the actor hangups I’ve read about.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with Orson Welles’ nose but the legendary actor/director/producer thought it was too small. He was once quoted as saying “My own nose is nothing” and lamented that it “had not grown one millimetre since infancy.” In a sketchbook entry from 1955, Welles wrote, “You may have wondered why I look so peculiar on the television. And it’s partly, I must confess to you, the fact that you see my nose as it is. In most of the films that I appear in, I put on a false nose. Usually as large as I can find.”

There is much more in the article, which is a wonderful collection of stills and stories, the author confesses that Welles nose obsession was so consuming that virtually everyone that worked with him had a number of anecdotes, enough to be expanded into a book, So the ones in the story are just the tip of the iceberg.

Telegram from Welles to makeup artist Maurice Seiderman regarding a nose he required to make "Roots of Heaven."