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It’s true. Welles met Hitler:

When Orson Welles Met Adolf Hitler
Mental Floss | May 6, 2020 | Jake Rossen

Appearing on The Dick Cavett Show in 1970, Welles shared details of an encounter he had with another highly recognizable face—Adolf Hitler. But according to Welles, the meeting was mostly forgettable.

Welles attended a dinner function with history’s most infamous monster at the behest of his Austrian hiking instructor. At the time, Welles said the Nazi party was a “minority party of nuts” that “nobody took seriously at all.” Hitler himself “made so little an impression on me that I can’t remember a second of it.”

The dictator, he added, “had no personality whatsoever … I think there was nothing there.”

In another appearance with Cavett, Welles described meeting Winston Churchill, a far more pleasant memory. Churchill attended Othello in London, and then went backstage to meet Welles and proceeded to recite all the actor’s lines from memory.

Also, Welles gives a fine tribute to George Marshall. It’s a 12-minute video (some computer jargon wouldn’t let me display it here, but it’s at the Mental Floss website). It’s full of interesting commentary, and laughs from the audience. I wish we had a show on today like Dick Cavett’s. It would probably be all woke and broke, though.

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