AN EVENING WITH RUTH WARRICK at Film Forum in New York City

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AN EVENING WITH RUTH WARRICK

AND A SCREENING OF

CITIZEN KANE

A SPECIAL
FILM FORUM
MEMBERS'
EVENT!

"Kane's" Last Star Discusses Welles's Masterpiece

Join us for a special screening of Orson Welles's CITIZEN KANE, followed by a live interview with actress RUTH WARRICK, who played Kane's wife in the Welles masterpiece. Foster Hirsch, (historian & author of Detours and Lost Highways: A Map of Neo-Noir) will interview Miss Warrick, who will discuss working with Welles, Kane, and her distinguished career in radio, theater, movies and television, including her 30-year stint as Phoebe Tyler on All My Children. The event will take place on Miss Warrick's 85^th birthday, Thurs, June 29.

Ruth Warrick was born in St. Joseph, Missouri and moved to St. Louis while in high school. After college, a promotional tour brought her to New York, where she worked in radio while pursuing a stage career. In 1938, Orson Welles heard her work while both were in radio at CBS. Two years later, he asked her to play the role of Emily Norton Kane, because he needed "a lady" and "there are no ladies in Hollywood."

Following her screen debut in Kane, Miss Warrick went on to appear in dozens of films, including Gregory Ratoff's The Corsican Brothers (1941), Journey into Fear (1942), Disney's Song of the South (1946), and Otto Preminger's Daisy Kenyon (1947). Among her theater performances are roles in The King and I, Long Day's Journey into Night, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, and Miss Lonelyhearts. She is perhaps best known, however, for her television work, especially as Phoebe Tyler, one of four original cast members of ABC's long-running daytime drama All My Children. In 1997, Miss Warrick was awarded the Governor's Medal by the New York Arts Club for her contributions to the dramatic arts. She lives in New York and Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Citizen Kane is consistently ranked as one of the greatest and most important films of all time; it was voted the best American film in the American Film Institute 100 Years/100 Films poll.

This is a special event for Film Forum members, with all tickets at $5.00. Day of event tickets available at the box office on a first-come, first-served basis. Tickets for non-members will be available on a standby basis at showtime.

Links:

Selections From Amazon.com:

This is Orson Welles
by Orson Welles,
Peter Bogdanovich,
Jonathan Rosenbaum (Editor)
The Story of Orson Welles
by David Thomson
Orson Welles:
The Road to Xanadu
by Simon Callow

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