#OTD 1955: Orson Welles recalled the expensive misfire that convinced him magic tricks were not the way to a woman's heart. | BBC Archive

Orson Welles The Magic Show

Orson Welles talks about his biggest regrets during an April 1975 interview on the "Tomorrow with Tom Snyder" show, where he famously referred to his love for movies as a destructive relationship. He lamented that this passion forced him to spend the majority of his life constantly hustling for money rather than focusing on the art of filmmaking itself. Credit: NBC Universal | History In Pictures

"Everything that came over this new magic box, the radio, was being swallowed" #OnThisDay 70 years ago, Orson Welles spoke about his famed radio adaptation of H.G. Wells' 'The War of the Worlds'. He claimed the 1938 broadcast, that depicted a Martian invasion of Earth, caused mass hysteria (a debated claim). Welles also said that one of the aims of the broadcast was to highlight people shouldn't believe everything they hear on the radio. This episode of Orson Welles' Sketch Book was broadcast on