Orson Welles before her return in late October, whereas Welles did not travel overseas during that period. After the death of Rebecca Welles Manning, a man named Marc McKerrow was revealed to be her son—and therefore a direct descendant of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth. McKerrow's reactions to the revelation and his meeting with Oja Kodar are documented in the 2008 film "Prodigal Sons". McKerrow died on June 18, 2010. Despite an urban legend promoted by Welles, he was not related to Abraham Lincoln's wartime Secretary of the Navy, Gideon Welles. The myth dates back to the first newspaper feature ever written
This is Orson Welles of Welles's career; a summary of the alterations made in Welles's 1942 masterpiece, "The Magnificent Ambersons"; and notes on each chapter by film scholar Jonathan Rosenbaum, who edited the volume. A second edition of "This is Orson Welles" was published in paperback in 1998, with a new introduction by Bogdanovich and excerpts of a 58-page memo Welles wrote Universal Pictures about the editing of his 1958 film "Touch of Evil". The memo was used to create a director's cut of the film released in 1998. The 1992 audiobook version of "This is Orson Welles" was nominated for a Grammy Award