costs of, 578–79, 592, 596, 597, 605, 606, 693, 695
and Mercury players, 586–87, 592, 609
plans for, 563–65, 580, 589, 606, 617
postponement of, 574, 578, 607, 608, 609, 703
preparatory filming of, 592–93
previous radio version of, 564
and RKO, 563–65, 586, 606, 607, 618, 628
script for, 564–65, 569, 570, 578, 579, 591, 593–95, 607, 624
Smiler with the Knife as follow-up to, 595–97, 618
Smiler as substitute for, 607, 609–10, 616
and special effects, 592, 593, 595, 606–7, 673
Hearts of Age, The (short film), 286–87, 360, 474, 475, 565, 668
Hecht, Ben, 407, 425, 540, 695
“Cyrano de Bergerac” script, 563
The Front Page, 79, 406
Ladies and Gentlemen, 559, 560
and Charles MacArthur, 79, 406-7, 531, 537, 540, 559-60, 571, 658
Madame X, 660
and Herman Mankiewicz, 406, 571
socializing, 406, 537, 571, 658
The Kingdom of Evil, 679
“Twentieth Century” (radio play), 531
Hecht, Rose, 406
Helburn, Theresa, 463, 527
Hemingway, Ernest, 248, 249, 382–83, 520, 584, 746
Henderson, Ray, 303
Hendrickson, Carl, 138, 139, 158–60, 165, 279, 320
Henning, Doug, 710
Henrotin, Dr. Ferdinand, 277
Hepburn, Katharine, 258, 484, 520, 584, 593, 664
“Her Escape” (uncompleted film), 61
Herrmann, Bernard, 139, 379
and Citizen Kane, 3, 634, 692–93, 701, 703, 724, 735, 736n
and The Columbia Workshop, 370, 380
and “First Person Singular,” 459, 469–70, 471
and “War of the Worlds,” 501–2, 503, 649
Herron, Constance, 277, 278, 285, 288, 289
Hersholt, Jean, 674
Herz, William, 472, 480, 483, 502, 521
Hickenlooper, George, 746
Higham, Charles, Orson Welles: The Rise and Fall of an American Genius, 13, 15, 60, 80, 145, 146, 151, 183, 375, 525, 716
Highland Park News, 153, 169, 170, 186
Hill, Hortense Gettys, 137, 221
and Maurice Bernstein, 162
and Chris Welles Feder, 716
and Orson, 139, 145, 147, 148–49, 172, 178, 188–89, 205, 232, 255
and Orson-Virginia marriage, 298–99, 301
socializing, 252, 542, 549
and Todd School, 138, 147
and Woodstock summer theater, 282, 283, 287
Hill, Joanne, 218, 321
Hill, Noble, 135, 147, 149
Hill, Roger:
and Maurice Bernstein, 162
and Citizen Kane, 660, 706
and “The Deep,” 738
eulogy to Orson, 746–47
and Everybody’s Shakespeare, 240–41, 251, 255, 260, 293–94, 300, 302–4, 314, 606
and John Brown play, 219, 220, 222–23, 225–26, 229–30
letters to and from Orson, 187, 188–89, 194, 196, 197, 201, 215, 221–22, 228, 231–33, 239, 242–44, 255, 260, 261, 263, 272, 295, 308, 309, 313, 341, 358
and New York trip, 228–36
and Orson’s Big Ideas, 238–39, 272–73, 314–16
Orson’s conversations with, 90, 144, 456, 466–67, 718, 719, 733, 738–42
and Orson’s finances, 225, 234, 241, 263, 297, 299, 300, 314–16, 323, 337
Orson’s friendship with, 178, 181, 182, 186, 252, 263, 349, 515, 542, 549, 554
and Orson’s schooling, 132, 135–39, 145, 147–49, 184
and Orson’s teen years, 82, 155, 162–64, 165, 185, 220, 223, 227
and Orson-Virginia marriage, 298–99, 301, 600
and Richard Ives Welles, 82, 172
and sailing, 540, 738
and school productions, 150, 156–58, 180, 201, 231, 320–21
and Todd School, 115, 132, 137–39, 145, 147–49, 164, 184, 217–20, 228, 316, 320, 358, 404
and “War of the Worlds,” 509
and Woodstock summer theater, 273, 275, 277, 279, 281, 282, 283–84, 293
Hillside estate, Wyoming, NY, 108–9
Hindenberg disaster (1937), 504
Hitchcock, Alfred, 160–61, 485, 744, 745
Hitler, Adolf, 159, 372, 427, 493, 511, 566
Hoffenstein, Samuel, 571
Holland, Joseph, 416, 443
Holliday, Judy (Tuvim), 477
Hollywood blacklist, 562, 643n, 727
Hollywood Reporter, 593, 607, 647, 702
Hopkins, Arthur, 390, 403, 408, 409, 445
Hopkins, Harry, 389, 391, 393, 399, 400, 401
Hopkins, Miriam, 643
Hopper, Hedda, 560–62, 567, 608, 617–18, 642, 728
Horse Eats Hat (stage play), 359–62, 363–65, 368, 384, 410, 472
and Bil Baird, 357, 363-64
cast of, 359, 360–61, 373, 473
critics’ reactions to, 364–65, 535
and Edwin Denby, 355–56, 360, 361, 364, 378
and John Houseman, 359, 361, 362, 365
as Italian Straw Hat, 354, 355–56
music for, 356, 433
Orson as director of, 361–62, 363, 372, 401, 484
Orson’s acting in, 357, 364, 366
production team, 356–57, 361
script for, 356, 357, 359–60
success of, 364–65
timing in, 362, 363, 364, 434, 484
Horton, Asadata Dafora, 334–35, 341, 343
Houdini, Harry, 87, 88, 114–15, 127–28
Houseman, John, 304–10
and The Campbell Playhouse, 516, 518, 531, 546, 569, 570, 579–80, 611
and Citizen Kane, 628–30, 635, 636, 638, 639–41, 650–52, 653–55, 656, 659, 680, 696
and Citizen Kane lawsuit, 613, 621, 622, 628–29, 630, 638, 639–40, 651, 652–53, 655, 677, 681, 694
and The Columbia Workshop, 380, 415
and The Cradle Will Rock, 384, 385–86, 387, 390–92, 393, 394–98, 400, 402
and Danton’s Death, 489–91, 493, 495–97, 498
and The Devil and Daniel Webster, 530, 536, 538
early years of, 305
and Faustus, 371, 374–77
and Federal Theatre Project, 328, 460
and “First Person Singular,” 460, 467–69
and Five Kings, 522–27, 530, 532, 533–34, 536, 545, 546
and The Green Goddess, 549–50
and Hamlet, 369, 370
and Hollywood, 407, 552, 553, 554, 558–60, 564–65, 572, 578, 579, 591, 594, 610–11
and Horse Eats Hat, 359, 361, 362, 365
“Houseman people,” 333–35, 355–56, 417, 463, 469, 497, 523, 530
and Mercury Theatre, 408–10, 415, 416–17, 422, 429, 435, 436, 446, 451–52, 454, 457–58, 460, 462, 478, 515, 610, 611, 629
and Mercury Theatre on the Air, 485–87, 489–91, 496, 498–99, 564
and Negro Unit, 328–29, 332, 333–35, 336, 339–40, 342, 344, 346, 347, 353
and Orson’s ballerinas, 487, 491, 542
Orson’s relationship with, 318, 319–20, 329, 334, 335, 342, 352–54, 370, 372, 375, 384, 402, 406, 408–10, 419, 421, 460–61, 478, 483, 491, 494, 527, 530–31, 546–47, 552, 579–80, 610–13, 650, 659–60, 695–96, 726, 731–32
Oscar awarded to, 731–32
and Panic, 305, 307–13, 318, 332
and Phoenix Theatre, 317–18, 324, 327
and Project 891, 354–55, 357, 359–62, 370, 375, 402
questionable memories of, 307, 340, 375, 384, 409, 458, 612–13
Run-Through (memoir), 304, 310, 317, 371, 384, 408, 423–24, 457, 466, 478, 479, 480, 485, 500, 518, 522, 530, 584–85, 611, 612–13, 650–51, 654
and Hiram “Chubby” Sherman, 464, 466
and “The Summing Up,” 460–61, 462
and Virgil Thomson, 305, 307, 332, 333–35, 355, 385, 386, 419, 611–13
Unfinished Business by, 500n
and United Productions, 660
and Vassar Drama Department, 402, 423
and “War of the Worlds,” 500–501, 503–4, 505, 508–9, 510, 513, 514, 649, 650
Howard, David, 444
Howard, Leslie, 277, 353, 359, 369, 370, 393
Hoysradt, John (Hoyt), 268, 269, 270, 276, 308, 416, 434, 443, 451, 462
Hoyt, Thatcher, 84, 635n
HUAC (House Committee on Un-American Activities), 727
Hughes, Elinor, 528, 531–32
Hughes, Howard, 596
Hugo, Victor, Les Misérables, 403–5, 459, 469, 502
Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (film), 539, 540, 551, 559, 563, 609, 673, 679
Hunter, Robert, Poverty, 50
Hurston, Zora Neale, 329
Huston, John, 498, 585, 612, 724, 742–43, 746
Huston, Walter, 261, 272
Huxley, Aldous, 566–68
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, 566–67, 622
Hyman, Marcus, 490
Ibsen, Henrik, 253, 308, 354
Illinois Fuel Company, 9–10, 11
I Love Lucy (TV series), 642–43n, 728
I Married an Angel (stage play), 456-57, 542
“Immortal Sherlock Holmes, The” (radio), 499
Importance of Being Earnest, The (stage play), 464, 466, 466n, 472
Ince, Thomas H., 4, 625, 663, 665
Informer, The (film), 322, 590
Ingersoll, Robert G., 148
Insull, Samuel, 155, 237, 309, 358, 371, 571, 625, 679
International Metal Workers Union, 34, 35, 36
Intimate Shakespearean Company, 195
Ireland, 188–216, 219, 322
Dublin, 194–214, 254
“Gaels” in performance in, 201–2
Galway, 189, 190–91, 192, 195
Orson as star in, 205, 215, 216, 252, 349, 733
Iron Horse, The (film), 589–90
Irving, Henry, 271, 429, 468, 529
It Happened One Night (film), 643
It’s All True (uncompleted film), 645, 725, 746
I’ve Got the Tune (radio opera), 415
Ivens, Joris, 382
Ives, Abigail Watson, 7, 8
Ives, Beatrice:
birth and childhood of, 9–12
and Dick, 26, 27–28; see also Welles, Richard Head
marriage of, see Welles, Beatrice Ives
Ives, Benjamin (grandfather), 8, 9–10, 11, 27, 50–51
Ives, John G., 7, 8
Ives, Lucy Alma Walker (grandmother), 8, 9, 51, 57, 62, 63, 77
Ives family, 7–12, 15
Jack Benny Show, The (radio series), 646
Jacobsen, Sigrid, 93, 103
Jacques Gordon String Quartet, 89, 98
Jaglom, Henry, 741, 743
interviews with Orson, 88, 160, 205–6, 283, 340, 359, 399, 408, 419, 463, 491, 515, 532, 562, 584n, 602–3, 644, 685, 689, 732
My Lunches with Orson (Jaglom and Biskind), 206
Jane Eyre (Brontë), 487, 497, 643–44
Jane Eyre (film), 452, 679
Jannings, Emil, 584
Jarrett, Guy, 710
Jazbo (drummer), 348–49
Jeffery Company, The, 26, 35, 50
Jeffery, Thomas B., 23, 24, 26, 37
Jerome, Jerome K., 210
Jerome, V. J., 312–13, 390, 495
Jew Süss (Jud Süss) (stage play), 212
critical reviews of, 204–5
Orson’s acting in, 200–205, 206, 207, 208, 254, 313
Orson’s audition for, 197–98
premiere in Dublin, 202–3
Johann, Zita, 310
John Meade’s Woman (film), 618–19
Johnson, Albert, 294
Johnson, Haven, 680
Johnson, James P., 347
Johnson, Martin and Osa, 589
Johnston, Alva, 559n, 617
Jones, Robert Edmond, 217, 258, 272
Jonson, Ben, 409, 410
Jordan, Charlotte Hannahs “Lottie,” 49–50, 54, 60, 72, 77
Jordan, Edward S., 49, 54, 77
Journey into Fear (film), 116, 679, 725
Joyce, Phyllis, 452
Julius Caesar (Mercury Theatre), 411–15, 430, 435, 455, 495
on Broadway, 132, 444
casting, 416–18, 420, 434, 452, 491
critical reviews of, 427, 428, 436, 442–43
instrumentation for, 433
and Me and Orson Welles, 420–21
and Mercury Theatre, 409, 410, 486–87
in modern dress, 409, 412–13, 414, 443
Orson as director of, 411, 414–15, 416, 421–23, 493
Orson’s adaptations of, 413, 424–26, 427
phonograph recording of, 444, 448
players’ compensation, 462
premiere of, 423, 426–28, 432
previews of, 423, 424–27
rehearsals, 417–18, 421–24
road production of, 443, 448, 452, 461
stage design of, 422, 433
success of, 427–28, 429, 453
June Moon (film), 643
Kael, Pauline, 504, 619, 632, 650
“Raising Kane,” 620, 712
The Citizen Kane Book, 633, 661
Kahlke, Charles, 99, 105
Kahlo, Frida, 388
Kane, Whitford, 406, 626
and Goodman Theatre, 150, 157, 185, 273, 465
and Hamlet, 531
and Les Misérables, 404
and Mercury Theatre, 434, 436, 446, 465–66
and The Shadow, 431
and Hiram “Chubby” Sherman, 313, 318, 324, 327
and ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, 318, 327
and Virginia Welles, 324, 466
and Woodstock summer theater, 273, 274, 275, 276
Kanin, Garson, 588–89, 673
Karson, Nat, 334, 341, 343, 356
Kaufman, George S., 226, 256–57, 390, 570–71, 618, 643, 645
Kauser, Alice, 230
Kazan, Elia, 431–32
Keating, Seán, 192
Keaton, Buster, 216, 474, 702, 703
Keen, J. H., 535, 541
Kekst, Louis, 37–38
Kemble, Charles, 302
Kemble, Fanny, 543
Kemper Campbell Ranch, 630–32
Kenosha News, 3-4, 27, 28, 30, 31, 34, 38, 40, 47, 50, 53, 54, 55, 59, 62, 63, 64, 65, 71, 73, 74, 75, 78, 105, 177
Kenosha Political Equality League, 50, 52–53, 54, 55–57, 60, 69, 78
Kenosha, Wisconsin, 3–5, 25, 28
Community Tree in, 62–63
education reform in, 51, 64, 70, 71
jitney buses in, 54–55
Kenosha City Club, 59, 69, 71, 78
labor activism in, 34–38
Progressive Club, 56, 58, 78
Rudolphsheim in, 20, 25, 26, 28, 29, 110, 177
school board, 44, 57–58, 69, 70, 71, 76, 78
Unitarian Church in, 40–42, 43, 56, 61–62, 78, 98
Woman’s Alliance, 40, 41, 44, 56, 62, 70
Woman’s Club, 33-34, 39, 40–42, 45–46, 49, 50, 51, 53, 56-57, 58, 59, 78
Kent, Amalia “Molly,” 565
Kent, Rockwell, 322, 448
Keystone Kops, 286, 475, 477
Khan, Prince Aly, 109, 727
King Kong (film), 564, 589, 593, 652, 673
Kingsley, Charles, Hypatia, 34
Kingsley, Guy, 492, 494, 509, 521
Kingsley, Sidney, 357, 359, 365–66
Kipling, Rudyard, 78
Kitt, Eartha, 387n
Kliman, Bernice W., Hamlet: Film, Television and Audio Performance, 370
Knickerbocker Playhouse (radio series), 547
KNX Los Angeles, 616
Koch, Howard:
As Time Goes By, 500
and The Campbell Playhouse, 518, 531, 570
and Hollywood blacklist, 727
/> and Mercury Theatre, 498, 612
and “War of the Worlds” script, 499–501, 504, 648–50
Kodar, Aleksandar, 715, 743
Kodar, Oja, 106, 584n, 712, 715–16, 741, 743, 746, 747
Korda, Zoltan, 589
Korea Maru (ship), 169
Krasna, Norman, 296
Kreidl, John F., 24, 29
Kreidler, Louis, 73, 78
Kriss (film), 589
Krohn, Bill, 745
Krutch, Joseph Wood, 426
Kubrick, Stanley, 590
Kykunkor (opera), 334–35
Laage, Barbara, 727n
Labiche, Eugène, Un Chapeau de Paille d’Italie (An Italian Straw Hat), 354
labor unions, 384, 388–90, 392–93, 397, 430, 448, 496
Ladd, Alan, 699, 700
Lady from Shanghai, The (film), 215, 452, 585, 607, 717, 727
Lafayette Players, 336
Lafayette Theatre, New York, 328, 331, 339, 343, 347, 350
Lamarr, Hedy, 560, 582
Lamb, Charles and Mary, Tales from Shakespeare, 86
Lance, Hazel, 57
“Land of Heart’s Desire, The,” 205
Lang, Matheson, 197, 199
Lang, Fritz, 567
Langer, Lawrence, 463
Lardner, Ring, 643
Last Voyage Home, The (film), 673
Latin School of Chicago, 83, 90, 91, 100
Laughton, Charles, 551
Laurant, Eugene, 61
Laurel and Hardy, 206, 577
Laurence, Paula, 373, 374, 600
Lawrence, Gertrude, 528, 542
Lawson, John Howard, 312
Leaming, Barbara:
on Maurice Bernstein’s death, 723
and Merv Griffin Show, 719, 732, 733–34, 738
Orson Welles, 60, 96, 101, 109, 110, 119, 125–26, 136, 155, 159, 163, 164, 167, 169–70, 172, 174, 175, 178, 206, 208, 223, 227, 240, 241, 245, 248–49, 252, 276, 283, 296, 299, 313, 330, 336, 340, 341, 344, 350, 353, 364, 365, 373, 377, 385, 392, 402, 406, 418, 439–40, 446, 456, 460, 465, 480, 515, 536, 544, 546, 549, 551, 612, 613, 642, 680, 686–87, 710, 716, 729, 732
Lederer, Charles, 406, 600, 601n, 624–25, 641, 658, 660, 702, 716–17, 737
Lee, Canada, 297, 337, 346, 347, 660, 727
Le Gallienne, Eva, 520
Lehmann, Lotte, 724
Leiber, Fritz, 165, 185, 271
LeNoire, Rosetta, 339, 340, 346
Lester, Richard, 590
Leve, Sam, 374, 414, 433
Levy, Beatrice S., 127, 236
Lewis, Lloyd, 236–37, 251, 252, 282, 288
Lewis, Sinclair, Dodsworth, 572
Lewis, W. B., 511
Light, James, 307, 309, 310
Lincoln, Abraham, 7–8, 14, 16, 26, 53, 69, 352, 482, 498, 679
Lincoln, Mary Todd, 8
Lindsay-Hogg, Edward, 437, 455, 553, 601, 602
Lindsay-Hogg, Michael, 455, 601–3, 601n
Linklater, Richard, 420
Lloyd, George, 417
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