David Thomson in Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles
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(Welles' radio roles) account "for the development of a kind of superior fraudulence in his voice.
There were those who detected this rising bogusness. Welles was the first choice to read the narration for the documentary movie 'This Spanish Earth'. The narration had been written by Ernest Hemingway, who claimed he had no desire to read it himself- until he heard Welles' voice. Then he objected and said he would do it himself. 'Every time Orson said the word infantry', he said, 'it was like a cocksucker swallowing.'"
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