Off duty, the mercurial genius painted murals on his walls, smoked a pipe in his study, and grew his own stash of marijuana Orson Welles playing with his eldest daughter at home in LA in 1939. CBS Photo Archive/Getty Images Orson Welles reshaped Hollywood, bringing a new visual and narrative language to the screen with Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons —films that would come to define his legacy as a director of uncommon ambition and control. Despite his undeniable brilliance, Orson Welles’s career resisted stability. Projects were started, interrupted, and reworked; financing proved elusive; and the director and actor spent years moving between continents, living in Europe for nearly a decade while chasing creative freedom outside the studio system. That same restlessness defined his personal life.…