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Orson Welles, Vol I

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by Simon Callow


  Boston, 423, 431, 432, 448; Five Kings performed at Colonial Theatre, 433–6, 437, 438, 442

  Boulanger, Nadia, 288

  Bourbon, Diana, 461, 462–3

  Bourchier, Arthur, 159

  Bowden, Charles, 263

  Bowles, Paul, 130, 251, 255, 257, 270, 386

  Boyars, Ben, 118

  Boyd, James, 555, 557

  Bradford, Mary D., 9

  Brady, Frank, x, 20, 113, 134, 384, 386, 469, 473, 481, 505, 510, 518, 533

  Brady, William A., 118

  Brahim el Glaoui, Kaid, 113, 129, 132, 133, 134

  Brahm, Otto, 46

  Brassler, Muriel, 313

  Breasted, James H., 40

  Brecht, Bertholt, 92, 289, 291, 313, 327, 342, 352, 390, 429

  Breen, Joseph H., 476, 535

  Brentwood, Welles’s house in, 450, 460, 477

  Bridge of San Luis Rey, The (Wilder), radio adaptation of, 418

  Bridges-Adams, William, 109–10, 112

  Bridie, James, 112

  Bright Lucifer (Welles), 121–7, 209, 305, 465

  Bringing Up Baby (film), 521

  Britten, Benjamin, 543

  Broadway (New York), 140, 143, 147, 194, 209, 210–12, 218, 221, 223, 236, 244, 249, 260, 262, 263, 272, 282, 309, 312, 342, 348, 354, 363, 365, 366, 381, 385, 414, 419, 447, 461, 539, 543, 546, 549, 550, 553, 561, 562

  Brooklyn Eagle-Examiner, 258, 408, 409–10, 413

  Brooks Costumes, 396

  Broome Stages (radio), 463

  Brothers Karamazov, The (Dostoevsky), 158, 297

  Brown, Ivor, 355

  Brown, John, anti-slaver, 115, 116, 117, 118–21

  Brown, John Mason, 147, 214–15, 240, 336, 337, 338, 365–6, 409, 413

  Brown, Mrs, Music in Kenosha, 10

  Browne, Maurice, 19

  Browning, Robert, 226

  Buchbinder, Hazel, 138

  Büchner, Georg, 536; Danton’s Death, 380, 383, 389–98, 399, 404, 406, 408–12, 413, 415, 418; Woyzeck, 390, 540

  Buffalo, NY, Cornell tour opens in, 147

  Bumpus, Dr Dudley, 560–1

  Bunuel, Luis, 176

  Burbage, Richard, 178

  Burgtheater, Vienna, 415

  Burroughs, Eric, 224

  Burton, Richard, 267

  Cabinet of Dr Caligari, The (film), 176

  Cahiers du Cinéma, 50

  Calder-Marshall, Arthur, The Way to Santiago, 528

  Campbell, Alexander, 349

  Campbell, Mrs Patrick, 346

  Campbell Playhouse, The radio series, 408, 417, 418–23, 426, 445, 448, 460–3, 464, 483, 487, 489; The Green Goddess, 445–6; Jane Eyre, 418, 489; Rebecca, 419, 420–1, 422

  Candida (Shaw), 141, 143, 144, 146, 147–8, 153, 154

  Cantril, Hadley, The Invasion front Mars, 402–3, 406, 492; War of the Worlds script authorship dispute, 406, 490–2, 517

  Capek, Josef, 88

  Capek, Karel, 88, 135

  Capra, Frank, 452

  Carpenter, Francis, 208, 209, 222, 313, 335, 352, 428, 529

  Carringer, Robert, 476–7, 496; The Making of Citizen Kane, x, 493, 494, 504, 505, 522, 525

  Carrington, Katharine, 154

  Carroll, Madeleine, 489

  Carter, Jack, 224–6, 227, 238, 244–5, 270, 271, 273, 276, 277–8, 470, 503

  Casablanca, 128, 129, 134

  Casamassina, Connie, 403

  Case of Philip Lawrence, The, 298

  Cassidy, Claudia, 22–3, 167, 171, 173–4

  Catalina, Bruno, 26

  Catholic World, 275

  Cavalcade of America, 376

  censorship, 265–6, 300, 303, 311, 405, 476, 534–5

  Césaire, Aimé, ‘La Tragédie du Roi Christophe’, 222

  Chaliapin, Fedor Ivanovich, 19

  Chalk Dust, 228

  Chamberlain, Neville, 422, 539

  Chancellor, Betty, 96, 97, 98

  Chaney, Stewart, 266

  Chaplin, Charles, 383, 449, 452, 504

  Chappell, Ernest, 462

  Chekhov, Anton, 19, 365, 536

  Cherry Orchard, The (Chekhov), 297, 315

  Chesterton, G.K., 103, 418

  Chicago (‘The Windy City’), 3, 5, 8, 9, 16–30, 61, 115, 128, 137–8, 150, 151, 159, 175, 184, 295, 358, 436, 542, 543–4; arts and architecture in, 16–17, 18–19, 21; première of Citizen Kane, 561–2; theatre and opera in, 19, 22–3, 83, 156, 446, 447, 448; Welles family move to (1918), 15, 17–18; Woodstock/Todd Theatre Festival (1934), 155–76; World’s Fair, 160–1, 175

  Chicago Art Institute, 18, 24, 72

  Chicago Drama League, 137–8, 156

  Chicago Herald American, 60–1

  Chicago Herald and Examiner, 161, 167, 171

  Chicago Little Theatre, 19

  Chicago Memorial Hospital, death of Beatrice Welles in (1924), 29

  Chicago Opera, 19

  Chicago Sunday Tribune, 517

  Chicago Tribune, 142, 150, 162, 166, 168

  Children’s Hour, The, 250

  Chimes at Midnight (film), 435, 441, 442

  Chimes at Midnight (play), 441

  China, Welles’s visits to, 49, 50, 52, 54–5, 58–9, 131

  Chinese Theatre, Bowery, 210

  Chippewa Indian reservation, 115, 122

  Christian Science Monitor, 442

  Christians, Mady, 363

  Christina (Blitzstein song), 393

  Cibber, Colley, 322

  cinematography (for Citizen Kane), 476, 498, 499–503, 505, 507, 508, 509–10, 515, 521–2, 565, 567; continuous action, 501; feather-wiping technique, 476; realism, 501, 502, 506, 512, 524, 525; seamlessness, 501–2; subjective camera technique, 468–9, 470, 476; universal focus, 502–3

  CIO, 301

  Circle, The (Maugham), 105

  Citadel, The (radio play), 463

  Citizen Kane (film), xii, xiii, 60, 64, 121, 184, 201, 262, 327, 432, 484–9, 491, 493–539, 542, 543, 546, 560–75, 577–8; art work/design, 498, 503; cinematography, 498, 499–503, 505, 506, 507, 508, 509–10, 515, 521–2, 565, 567; commercial failure of, 575, 577; dispute over authorship of screenplay, 517–19; Hearst’s objections to, and attempts to suppress, 530–9, 548–50, 552, 555–8; make-up, 505–6, 574; Oscar nominations, 577–8; premières of, 561–2; release of (1941), 558–9, 560; reviews, 562–70, 572; screenplay, 488, 493–5, 497–8, 503, 504–5, 507–8, 577–8; sound and music effects, 521, 524–7, 536, 565, 566; Souvenir Booklet, 527, 573–5; special effects, 521–3, 524; trailer, 558–9

  Clarence (Tarkington: radio play), 418

  Clarke, David, 293–4

  Clay, Jean, ix, 42

  Clayton, John, 160–1

  Clipper, The magazine, 565, 572

  Clurman, Harold, 210, 213–14, 314, 347, 355, 414, 416

  CM Hall Lamp Company of Detroit, 15

  Cochran, C.B., 347

  Cocteau, Jean, 176, 241, 242

  Cohan, George M., 210, 214, 447, 555, 557

  Collins, Charles, 159, 160, 166, 170

  Collins, Ray, 305, 418, 470, 514, 543

  Coulouris, George, 313, 327, 336, 337, 338, 349, 359, 362, 363, 364, 365, 366, 379, 391, 418, 470, 503

  Colum, Padraic, 102, 105

  Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), 556; His Honor the Mayor broadcast by, 556–7; Mercury Theatre of the Air (First Person Singular), 370–80, 387–9, 391, 394; The War of the Worlds, 398–408; withdraws from sponsorship, 408

  Columbia Management, 451, 489

  Columbia Workshop, 304, 332, 371, 372

  Columbian Exposition, Chicago (1893), 16

  Comédie Française, Paris, 319, 415

  Comedy Theatre, New York, 310, 311, 342; see also Mercury Theatre

  Comingore, Dorothy, 503–4, 512, 515, 520, 559, 569

  Commomveal, 310, 552, 565

  Communism, American Communist Party, 203–4, 248, 249, 291, 295, 301, 394, 551–2, 553, 557, 570

  Composers’ Collective, 289

  Conan Doyle, Arthur, 38
3

  concept production, 222, 315, 364, 389–90

  Conjur’ Man Dies, 228

  Connelly, John, 78

  Connelly, Marc, 221, 256–8

  Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness, 412, 418, 463, 464–72, 476–7, 480

  Conroy, Michael, 81, 82

  Constant Nymph, The, 159

  Cooke, Alistair, 345–6

  Copeau, Jacques, 46, 213

  Copland, Aaron, 255, 289–90; The Second Hurricane, 302–3

  Coquelin, Benoît Constant, 93

  Coriolanus (Shakespeare), 100, 107, 138, 328

  Corn Is Green, The (Williams), 553

  Corneau, Guy, 30

  Cornell, Katherine, 19, 139, 140, 142, 143–5, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151–4, 158, 159, 186, 189, 197, 198, 200, 208, 210, 235, 285, 344, 363, 425, 444, 485

  Corrado, Gino, 508

  Corrington, Dorothy (Mrs R.E. Jones), 140–1, 150

  Cortot, Alfred, 10

  Corwin, Norman, 370, 371, 375, 403

  costumes, 271, 332, 352–3, 383, 396, 432

  Cotten, Joseph, 204, 253, 254, 256–7, 260, 313, 349, 384, 385, 386, 391, 393, 415, 503, 511, 514, 529, 558, 569

  Cotten, Lenore, 529

  Count of Monte Cristo, The (Dumas), radio adaptation of, 220, 387, 418

  Coward, Noel, 205, 321, 419

  Cowl, Jane, 154

  Cradle Will Rock, The (Blitzstein operetta), 287, 288, 289–303, 304, 310, 313; released from FTP for commercial presentation, 300–1; Worklight Theatre’s revival of, 344–6, 356, 357, 359

  Cradle Will Rock, The (unproduced screenplay by Welles), xii, 108, 199, 209, 246, 268–9, 277–8, 283, 289, 334

  ‘The Cradle Will Rock’ (title song), 292

  Craig, Edward Gordon, 46, 47, 50, 67, 92, 169, 314–15, 316, 319

  Creature from the Black Lagoon, The, 327

  Crisp, Quentin, 209

  Crone, George, 523

  Crowley, Aleister, 64

  Crowther, Bosley, 234, 235, 562, 563, 568

  Cuba, 49, 384, 385

  Cullen, Countee, 219

  Cumins, Solomon, 24

  Cumins, Theron, 24

  Curtiss, Mina, 334

  Cyrano de Bergerac (film), 463, 464

  Daily Express, London, 103–4, 407

  Daily News, Philadelphia, 438

  Daily Worker, 300, 302, 309, 338, 394, 408, 551–2

  Dale, Alan, 45

  Danton’s Death (Büchner), 210, 380, 383, 389–98, 399, 404, 406, 408–12, 413, 415, 418

  Dark Room, The (Welles), 116–17, 121

  Davenport, Millia, 332, 352–3, 396, 432

  David Copperfield (film), 186

  Davidson, Joy, 564, 565

  Davies, Marion, 473, 484, 486, 496, 516, 530, 533, 534; The Times We Had, 533–4

  Dead End (Kingsley), 262

  Dead Ride Fast, The (Sears), 104

  Dean Martin show, 407

  Dear Abigail (Howard), 344

  Death Takes a Holiday (Ferris), 106, 111

  Death Takes the Wheel (marionette play), 218

  ‘Debunking the Orson Welles Myth’ (article, 1941), 64

  Debussy, Claude, 10

  Deere, John, 24

  Dekker, Thomas, 322, 343; The Shoemaker’s Holiday, 322, 343, 344, 346, 347–56, 357, 493

  Del Rio, Dolores, 472–3, 527–8, 529, 550, 561

  Denby, Edwin, 251, 252, 253, 255–6, 261, 265–6, 270–1, 302

  Deutsch, Helen, 300

  Devine, George, 309

  Dexter, John C., 38, 40, 46, 66

  Diaghilev, Serge, 18, 19, 358

  Dial M for Murder, 425

  Diarmuid and Gráinne (Mac Liammóir), 78, 84

  Dieterle, film director, 451

  Digges, Dudley, 214

  Dillinger, John, 175, 484

  director, role of, film, 451–3, 498–9, 508–9, 510–11, 523, 527, 536–7, 568, 569; stage, 45–7, 213–15, 313–15, 318–19, 320, 325, 361–2, 392–3, 431, 448, 449, 451, 510, 518–19, 527, 547

  Director in the Theatre Today, The (Welles), 313–19, 325, 392–3, 410

  Dirkett, Congressman, 265

  Disney, Walt, 452

  Doctor Faustus (Marlowe), 156, 158, 207, 250, 266–83, 284, 287, 306, 308, 310, 313, 315, 448, 484

  Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, 220, 451

  Dr Knock (Romains), 106

  Donahue, Eddie, 514

  Dos Passos, John, 257–8

  Downtown Music School, New York, 295

  Doyle, Peggy, 435

  Dracula (Stoker), radio adaptation of, 375–6, 378–80, 389

  Drake, Herbert, 384, 440, 441, 460, 461, 466, 467–8, 472, 473, 474, 475–6, 477, 485, 492, 493, 515, 516, 517, 530, 534, 550; ‘Orson Welles – Still a Four-Ply Genius’, 3; ‘Playbill’ column, 425–6

  Draper, Ruth, 146, 257, 311

  Drunkard, The, 174, 447

  Dryden, John, 110

  Du Maurier, Daphne, Rebecca, 419, 420–1, 422, 452, 464

  Du Maurier, Gerald, 112, 159; Trilby, 164–5, 166, 167–8

  Dublin, 114, 175; Welles in (1931–2), 81, 82–107, 108, 110, 111, 127, 138, 139, 146, 232, 362, 484

  Duchess of Malfi, The (Webster), 286, 287, 309, 346, 358–9

  Duck Soup (film), 482

  Dukes, Ashley, 93, 97

  Dumas, Alexandre, 418, 483

  Duncan, Isadora, 430, 482

  Dunn, Linwood, 521–2, 523

  Durante, Jimmy, 211, 447

  Dust of the Road, The, 45

  Duthie, George, 384, 428

  Eagle’s Nest Camp, Grand Detour, 24

  Eckstein, Louis, 22–3

  Edeson, Arthur, 500

  Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy Show, 371, 401–2

  Edington, (RKO’s corporate lawyer), 495

  editing, film, 385, 501, 523–4

  Edward VIII (Duke of Windsor), 205, 426

  Edwards, Hilton, 84, 85, 86–8, 89, 90, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 97–8, 99, 103, 104, 106, 107, 108–9, 112, 145, 235, 413; at Woodstock Theatre Festival, 156, 157–8, 159, 160, 162, 163, 164–5, 168, 169, 171, 172, 174–6

  Eisenstein, Serge, 176

  Eliot, T.S., 200; The Hollow Men, 466

  Elliott, Maxine, 250

  Ellis, Maurice, 224, 245

  Elman, Mischa, 14, 20

  Emery, John, 342, 427, 435, 439, 470, 503

  Emperor Jones, The, 221, 242

  Engel, Lehman, 289, 293, 297, 298, 330, 351, 353; This Bright Day, 301

  Equity, 300, 385, 504

  Ethiopia (FTP show), cancellation of, 228, 247

  Evans, Edith, 112, 114, 153, 188–9

  Evans, Maurice, 168–9, 353, 380, 424–5, 427, 438–9, 442

  Even a Wise Man Stumbles (Eisenstein film), 176

  Evening with Orson Welles, An (chat show), 37

  Everybody’s Shakespeare (Welles and Hill), 127, 129, 131, 134, 146, 154, 177–85, 186, 223, 323, 329, 358, 474

  Everyman, 228

  Everything Old Was Once New (Welles interview), 349

  Ewald, Carl, My Little Boy, 418

  Exception and the Rule, The (Brecht-Weill), 291

  Exermont, Welles trip to Morocco on, 128–9

  Faber, Leslie, 159

  Fabulous Invalid, The (Kaufmann & Hart), 416

  Fall of the City, The (radio play), 202

  Fallon, Gabriel, 110

  Farrell, Eileen, 526

  Father, The (Strindberg), 159

  Favorite, Mrs, 439

  FBI, 557, 570–1

  Feder, Abe, 201, 219, 230–2, 237, 241, 255–6, 269, 270, 272, 273, 275–6, 297, 330; Steps in Lighting, 231

  Federal Art Project, 216

  Federal Music Project, 216

  Federal Negro Theatre, Chicago, 542

  Federal Theatre Magazine, 219

  Federal Theatre Project (FTP), 215, 216–301, 308, 310, 312, 313, 322, 325, 333, 395, 430; criticisms of, 248–9; economic threat, and The Cradle Will Rock, 294–301, 303; Ethiopia cancelled, 228, 247; Negro Theatre Proj
ect, 219–47, 543; Project 891 (Classical Unit), 247, 250–87, 290–301, 340, 350, 444

  Federal Writers’ Project, 216

  Ferguson, Otis, 566–8, 569–70

  Ferguson, Perry, 498, 503, 507, 527

  Ferris, Walter, 106

  Feuchtwanger, Lion, Jew Süss, 84, 85–7, 93–100, 103, 105, 107, 110, 111, 139, 148, 280

  Feydeau, Ernest, 252, 384

  Field, Eugene, ‘With Brutus in St Jo’, 184

  Field, Mrs Henry, 167, 171

  Fields, Marshall, 161, 167

  Fields, W.C., 447

  films/movies, 176, 306, 382, 383–6, 410, 422, 446, 448–539, 577; Citizen Kane, xii, xiii, 60, 64, 121, 184, 201, 262, 327, 432, 484–9, 491, 493–539, 543, 546, 548–50, 552, 560–75, 577–8; The Cradle Will Rock (unfilmed screenplay), xii, 108, 199, 209, 246, 268–9, 277–8, 283, 289, 334; Heart of Darkness (unfilmed screenplay), 463, 464–72, 476–7, 480, 481, 487, 501, 503, 504, 558; Hearts of Age (Welles’s early short film), 176, 383; Journey into Fear, 528, 577; The Magnificent Ambersons, 418, 512, 525, 577; RKO’s contract with Welles, 449–53, 457; Santa (unfilmed screenplay), 528–9; The Smiler with a Knife (unfilmed screenplay), 477, 480–1, 485, 487

  Finesse the Queen (musical), 44, 45

  First Nighter (radio show), 372–3

  First Person Singular see Mercury Theatre of the Air

  Fiske, Harrison Grey, 248–9, 258

  Fitzgerald, Geraldine, 111, 363–4, 368

  Fitzgerald, Scott, 457, 482; The Great Gatsby, 15

  Five Kings (Shakespeare: Wars of the Roses cycle), Mercury-Theatre Guild co-production of, 358, 359, 362, 368, 380, 383, 423–5, 447, 448, 451, 470, 473, 492, 503, 543

  Flanagan, Hallie, 216–18, 228, 236, 239, 240, 243, 247, 249, 250, 258, 270, 278–9, 285, 286, 290, 293, 294–5, 297, 299, 300, 303, 306, 310, 322; Shifting Scenes, 216

  Fletcher, Lawrence, 428

  Flexner, Eleanor, 349

  Fokine, Michel, 303

  Fonteyn, Margot, 171

  Food: A Tragedy of the Future (Mille), 45

  Forbes, Brenda, 153, 158, 363

  Ford, Charles-Henri, 274

  Ford, John, 462; ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, 207, 208–9

  Ford, John (film director), 458, 500, 501, 514, 520, 577

  Ford, Ruth, 348, 384

  Forrest, Edwin, 178

  Fortune magazine, 200

  Forward, Jean, 526

  Foster, Norman, 528–9

  Four Saints in Three Acts (Stein), 194, 219, 220, 221

  Fowler, Roy Alexander, 550

  Fra Diavolo (Auber), 48–9

  France, Richard, xii, 261, 269, 272, 290, 300, 397, 430

  Francis, Arlene, 253, 254, 384

  Free Company, The, 555–6, 557

  Frescoes for Mr Rockefeller’s City (MacLeish), 196

  Freund, Karl, 506

  Friday, 531, 532

 

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