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Joseph Cotten
Joseph Cheshire Cotten Jr. was an American film, stage, radio and television actor. Cotten achieved prominence on Broadway, starring in the original stage productions of The Philadelphia Story (1939) and Sabrina Fair (1953). He gained worldwide fame for his collaborations with Orson Welles on films Citizen Kane (1941), The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), and Journey into Fear (1943). Cotten starred…
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entertainment · American actor (1905–1994) · film actor · writer · autobiographer · stage actor · television actor · radio personality · actor · screenwriter · film screenwriter · also Joseph Cotten, Joseph Cheshire Cotten, Jr., Cotten
Born 15 May 1905 · Died 6 February 1994 · Q95148
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2024· 1 entry
Moviefone: The Joseph Cotten Show
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2016· 1 entry
The Progress-Index: Ceremony to honor Hollywood actor, Petersburg native Joseph Cotten
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2009· 1 entry
BroadwayWorld: Me and Orson Welles Character Card: Joseph Cotten (James Tupper)
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1994· 1 entry
Died 1994-02-06.
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1990· 1 entry
Cotten's larynx was removed because of cancer
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1981· 1 entry
Cotten experienced a heart attack followed by a stroke that affected his brain's speech center
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1961· 1 entry
Cotten was admitted to the Society of the Cincinnati in North Carolina based on his descent from Captain Hudson Whitaker, Seventh Regiment, North Carolina Continental Line
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1956· 1 entry
Introduced and occasionally starred in his own anthology NBC series, On Trial
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1955· 1 entry
Cotten hosted The 20th Century Fox Hour on television
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1953· 1 entry
Cotten created the role of Linus Larrabee Jr
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1942· 1 entry
The film won only for Best Screenplay, for Mankiewicz and Welles
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1941· 2 entries
Citizen Kane – based in part on the life of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst– did not do much business at theaters; Hearst owned numerous major newspapers, and forbade them to carry advertisements for the film
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“I was tall. I had curly hair. I could talk. It was easy to do.”
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1937· 1 entry
Cotten became an inaugural member of Welles's Mercury Theatre company, starring in its Broadway productions Caesar as Publius; it ran for 157 performances
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1934· 1 entry
Cotten met and became friends with Orson Welles, a fellow cast member on CBS Radio's The American School of the Air
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1932· 1 entry
In Absent Friends which ran for 88 performances
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1925· 1 entry
And worked as an advertising salesman for The Miami Herald at $35 a week
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1923· 1 entry
When Cotten was 18, his family arranged for him to receive private lessons at the Hickman School of Expression in Washington, D
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1905· 2 entries
In Petersburg, Virginia, United States, the first of three sons born to Joseph Cheshire Cotten Sr
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Born 1905-05-15.
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