Claim: In 1961, Orson Welles was not able to attend a retrospective of his films organized by Peter Bogdanovich for the Museum of Modern Art.
Evidence: In 1961 Peter Bogdanovich organized a retrospective of Orson Welles's films, the first in the United States, for the Museum of Modern Art. Welles was not able to attend — he was in Europe, preparing a film — but he did read the monograph Bogdanovich had written to accompany the screening and was favorably impressed by it.