Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 84 min
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States, United Kingdom
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
In 1939, boy-wonder Orson Welles leaves New York, where he has succeeded in radio and theater, and, hired by RKO Pictures, moves to Hollywood with the purpose of making his first film.
- cinema on cinema
- yellow press
- movie business
- biography
- antisemitism
- filmmaking
- movie star
- based on movie
- 1940s
- aspiring director
The bill
Liev Schreiber
Orson Welles
James Cromwell
William Randolph Hearst
Melanie Griffith
Marion Davies
John Malkovich
Herman Mankiewicz
- Liam Cunningham — Gregg Toland
- David Suchet — Louis B. Mayer
- Fiona Shaw — Hedda Hopper
- Anastasia Hille — Carole Lombard
- Brenda Blethyn — Louella Parsons
- Roy Scheider — George Schaefer
- Roger Allam — Walt Disney
- Simeon Andrews — John Houseman
- William Armstrong — Mr. Lewis
- Jay Benedict — Darryl Zanuck
- Ron Berglas — David O. Selznick
- Directed
- Benjamin Ross
- Written
- John Logan
Production
- Rating
- 6.5 / 10 · 101 ratings
- Studio
- Scott Free Productions, BBC Film, HBO Films, GBH
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