Orson Welles stage production "Native Son". They acted together in the movie "Journey into Fear" (1943). Their relationship came to an end due, among other things, to Welles's infidelities. Del Río returned to México in 1943, shortly before Welles married Rita Hayworth. Welles married Rita Hayworth on September 7, 1943. They were divorced on November 10, 1947. During his last interview, recorded for "The Merv Griffin Show" on the evening before his death, Welles called Hayworth "one of the dearest and sweetest women that ever lived … and we were a long time together—I was lucky enough to have been with her
Orson Welles and was assumed lost. Over 50 years later, some (but not all) of the surviving material saw release in the 1993 documentary "It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles". In 1944, Welles wrote the first-draft script of "Monsieur Verdoux", a film that he also intended to direct. Charlie Chaplin initially agreed to star in it, but later changed his mind, citing never having been directed by someone else in a feature before. Chaplin bought the film rights and made the film himself in 1947, with some changes. The final film credits Chaplin with the script, "based