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
Rhinoceros (Orson Welles production) a lot of money out of that production, and the critics liked it." In 1999, Austin Pendleton (who had worked as an actor with Welles on the 1969 film "Catch-22"), wrote the play "Orson's Shadow" about the 1960 production of "Rhinoceros", focussing on the rival egos of Olivier and Welles. The play premiered in Chicago in January 2000, and has subsequently had numerous revivals in Britain and America, most notably in an off-Broadway production directed by David Cromer in 2005 which ran to 349 performances. Rhinoceros (Orson Welles production) Rhinoceros was a 1960 production of Eugène Ionesco's surrealist play of