Name: Oja Kodar
Date of Birth: 1941 'Orson Welles' (qv) and Oja (real name: Olga Palinkas) met in Zagreb in 1962 while he was making a film (_Le proc?s (1962)_ (qv)). He reportedly wrote a letter to her which he never gave but kept in his pocket until they met again in 1966. They immediately began their relationship.Hers and Welles' first project together, which began filming in 1967, was _The Deep (1970)_ (qv) starring 'Jeanne Moreau' (qv) and 'Laurence Harvey (I)' (qv). It was abandoned in 1969 and left unfinished - one of the c... ouple's many projects that fell through.Around 1969, in a Charles Foster Kane/Susan Alexander like move, Welles renamed Olga "Oja Kodar" and started building her up Svengali-style to become a big star. As in _Citizen Kane (1941)_ (qv), it didn't work.In 1970, an Italian newspaper published an expos? of Welles' affair with Oja. Welles, who was editing the movie _Don Quijote de Orson Welles (1992)_ (qv) for more than a year with editor 'Mauro Bonanni' (qv), angrily left Italy forever to return to America, and Quixote was never finished.Oja never became the fourth Mrs. Welles. A year after Orson's death, the third Mrs. Welles (actress 'Paola Mori' (qv)) and Oja finally agreed on the settling of his will. On the way to their meeting to sign the papers, however, Mrs. Welles was killed in a car accident.Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1991.Read more Oja Kodar movies (actor)User Comments |
