Orson Welles Welles Feder (born March 27, 1938, with Virginia Nicolson); Rebecca Welles Manning (December 17, 1944 – October 17, 2004, with Rita Hayworth); and Beatrice Welles (born November 13, 1955, with Paola Mori). Welles is thought to have had a son, British director Michael Lindsay-Hogg (born May 5, 1940), with Irish actress Geraldine Fitzgerald, then the wife of Sir Edward Lindsay-Hogg, 4th baronet. When Lindsay-Hogg was 16, his mother reluctantly divulged pervasive rumors that his father was Welles, and she denied them—but in such detail that he doubted her veracity. Fitzgerald evaded the subject for the rest of her life. Lindsay-Hogg
The Orson Welles Almanac label, all of them recorded August–November 1944 by the group Ertegun renamed Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band. "Viewed in perspective," Ertegun later wrote, "they are among the most significant jazz records ever made: they gave eloquent proof of the continuing vitality of New Orleans jazz at a time when such proof was needed." Broadcast July 19, 1944, from the Coast Guard camp in Long Beach, California, the final episode of "The Orson Welles Almanac" ends with a five-minute reading by Welles, "a short story, especially written for me to broadcast by one of the first talents in American literature, John