Orson Welles, Vol I

by Simon Callow

  Friganza, Trixi, 52, 61

  Front Page, The (Hecht and MacArthur), 221

  Frost, David, 87

  Gabel, Martin, 261, 305, 312, 337, 338, 379, 390, 391, 393, 398, 411, 418, 440–1

  Gabriel, Gilbert (New York American critic), 275

  Gallup poll on popularity of films, 463–4

  Galway, Ireland, 75, 77, 78, 81, 83, 84

  Gamba, Pierino, 46

  Gambao, Frederico, Santa, 528–9

  Gance, Abel, 384

  Garden, Mary, 19

  Garrick, David, 178, 316, 324

  Gassner, John, 212, 218, 355

  Gate Theatre, Dublin, 83–107, 108–9, 111, 112, 146, 162, 169, 325, 363

  Geddes, Norman Bell, 262

  Geer, Will, 296

  Geiger, Miriam, 465, 510

  Gellhorn, Martha, 236

  Gibbons, Cedric, 472, 473

  Gibbs, Wolcott, 524

  Gielgud, John, 169, 170, 266, 348, 425, 427

  Gieseking, Walter, 10

  Gilder, Rosamond, 349, 552, 558, 564, 570

  Gill, Roma, 277

  Gillette, William, Too Much Johnson, 309, 380, 383–6, 387, 389, 390, 391, 392, 396, 418, 446, 449, 503, 568

  Gilpin, Charles, 221

  Giotto, 186

  el-Glaoui see Thami el Glaoui

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, 281

  Goldbeck, Eva see Blitzstein

  Goldstein, Malcolm, 213, 294

  Goldwyn, Sam, 450, 451, 500, 520

  Goodman Theatre, Chicago, 53, 94, 99, 156

  Goodman Theatre Amateur Drama League, 53

  Gordon, Eric A., 288, 291

  Gorky, Maxim, 19

  Gottfredson, Edward, 63

  Gottfredson, Jacob R., 62, 64

  Gottfredson, Mary Head Welles (grandmother), 5–6, 8, 15, 63–4

  Graham, Martha, 145, 201

  Grand Detour, 184; family trips to, 23–7, 50–2; burning down of Sheffield House, 52, 57

  Grand Detour Players, 26

  Grapes of Wrath, The, 464, 499, 552

  Grasi, Giovanni, 210

  Graves, Rupert, 148

  Great Crash (1929), 210–12

  Green, Paul, 221, 555; In Abraham’s Bosom, 542; A Hymn to the Rising Sun, 542; Native Son adapted by Wright and, 540, 542–3, 546, 547–8

  Green Back, The (Wallace), 112

  Green Goddess, The (Archer), 386, 469; radio adaptation, 445–6; Welles’s vaudeville tour with, 446–8

  Green Hat, The, 19, 143

  Greet, Ben, 19

  Gregory, Lady, 83, 101

  Grisman, Sam, 357

  Group Theatre, 213–14, 262, 313, 347, 416, 423

  Guggenheim, Paul, 41–3, 45, 52, 68–9

  Gunga Din (film), 498, 505

  ‘Gus and Sadie Love Song’ (Blitzstein), 292

  Guthrie, Tyrone, 46, 328

  Habima troupe, 340

  Habimah, 19

  Hairy Ape, The, 19

  Hall, Peter, 309

  Hamilton, Robert, 523

  Hamlet (Shakespeare, 50, 106, 111, 112, 113, 139, 140, 150, 154, 178, 266, 315, 320, 348, 353, 405, 425, 427, 492; Houseman’s direction of Leslie Howard in, 266; Welles’s radio production of (1936), 304; Woodstock Summer Festival production (1934), 157, 158, 159, 168–72

  Hammerstein I, Oscar, 19

  Hammond, Percy, 238–9

  Hampden, Walter, 181

  Hannah, John, 151

  Hardy, Joseph, 432–3

  Harlem, New York, 277, 340, 554; Negro Theatre Unit in, 219–47, 249, 543

  Harlem (Thurman), 221

  Harpers, publishers, 184–5

  Harris, Jed, 215

  Harris, Robert, 112

  Harris (London Times correspondent), 133–4

  Hartung, Philip, 565

  Harvey, Frank, 94

  Hawks, Howard, 521

  Hawkins, Jack, 379

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 213

  Hayes, Helen, 143, 348, 423, 445

  Hayes, J.J., 99–100, 104–5

  Hays Office, 476, 534–5, 539

  Hayworth, Rita, 472

  He Who Gets Slapped, 19

  Head, Orson (great-grandfather), 6, 11

  Hearst, William Randolph, 275, 473, 484–7, 493–6, 505, 516, 524, 530–5, 538–9, 549, 550, 552, 555–8; see also Citizen Kane

  Hearst, William, Jr, 533

  Heart of Darkness (Conrad), radio adaptation of, 412, 418, 463

  Heart of Darkness (unfilmed screenplay), 463, 464–72, 476–7, 480, 481, 487, 501, 503, 504, 558

  Heartbreak House (Shaw), 114, 309, 359, 362–6, 367, 381, 382, 390, 425

  Hearts of Age (Welles short film), 176, 383

  Hecht, Ben, 16, 221, 517, 518

  Heifetz, Jascha, 342

  Helen!, 112

  Hellman, Lillian, 250, 300

  Hellzapoppin, 259, 386, 435

  Hemingway, Ernest, 136–7; Death in the Afternoon, 136

  Henderson, Mary, 145

  Hendrickson, Carl, 44

  Hendrickson, Nanette, 40

  Henri Christophe I, Haitian Emperor, 222

  Henry IV, Pts I and II (Shakespeare), 112, 162, 358, 423, 427, 431

  Henry V (Shakespeare), 358, 423, 427, 431

  Hepburn, Katharine, 423, 503

  Herald, Heinz, 391

  Heron, Constance, 174

  Herrmann, Bernard, 304, 375–6, 419, 420, 422, 525–7, 573

  Hexter, George, 310

  Heyward, Dubose, 221

  Heywood, Thomas, 349

  Higham, Charles, x, 8, 14, 29, 58, 61, 64, 575

  Highland Park News, Welles’s column in, 47–8, 54–7

  Hill, Benny, 350

  Hill, Hortense (‘Horty’), 37, 38–9, 40, 53, 60, 63, 68, 76, 79, 98, 99, 100, 110, 117–18, 161, 167, 199, 474, 496

  Hill, Joanne, 39

  Hill, Noble (‘the King’), 12, 35, 37

  Hill, Roger (‘Skipper’), 35–40, 41, 43, 44, 50, 53, 71, 151, 199, 337, 361, 515, 561–2; Everybody’s Shakespeare, 127, 129, 154, 177–85, 474; Marching Song, 115, 116, 117–19; The Mercury Shakespeare (on discs), 358, 474, 515, 529; Todd/Woodstock Theatre Festival, 155–6, 158, 160–2, 165, 167, 176–7; Welles’s letters to, 74, 75, 76, 85, 87, 91, 94, 102, 110, 115, 129, 140–1, 154; Welles’s relations with, 37–8, 39–40, 43, 52, 53, 57, 60, 209, 474–5

  Hillside Farm Long Island, 31

  Hillyer, Katherine, 437

  Hindemith, Paul, 288

  His Honor the Mayor (radio play), 555–7

  Hitchcock, Alfred, 422, 452, 507, 509

  Hitler, Adolf, 324, 358, 422, 485, 539

  Hoffmann, E.T.A., 176

  Holinshed, Raphael, The Chronicles, 427, 429

  Holland, Joseph, 313, 337, 347

  Holloway, Joseph, 99, 101, 102, 104, 105, 106, 110–11

  Hollywood, 211, 306, 368, 382, 391, 413, 448–53, 554, 555; movie community’s reaction to Welles, 457–9, 472, 473–4; Welles in, 457–539, 543; see also films

  Hollywood Masquers’ Club, 458

  Hollywood Reporter, The, 472, 562

  Homer, Louise, 19

  homosexuality, 10–11, 33, 66, 89, 138–9, 143, 174–5, 206, 288, 444, 460

  Hope, Bob, 285

  Hopkins, Arthur, 306

  Hopkins, Harry, 216, 249, 285, 299

  Hopkins, Perry, 219

  Hopper, Hedda, 167, 473–4, 516, 530, 532, 549

  Horizon, 571

  Horse Eats Hat (adaptation of An Italian Straw Hat), 250–62, 263, 265, 270, 287, 315, 380, 397, 434

  Horton, Asadata Dafora, 223, 234, 239

  Houdini, Harry, 58, 447

  Houghton, Charles, I Am Jonathan Scrivener, 484

  Houseman, John, 108, 193–204, 210, 215, 242, 251, 265, 285, 312, 422, 423, 425, 431–2, 449, 465, 483, 518–19, 557; Campbell Playhouse, 417, 445, 461, 462, 464, 483; Citizen Kane, 485, 487, 488–9, 493, 494, 496, 497, 514–15, 519, 524, 542, 548, 554; The Cradle Will Rock, 290, 293, 294–6, 297, 299, 300, 301, 303, 357; Danton�
��s Death, 390, 391–2, 393–5, 398, 408; Doctor Faustus, 273–4, 275, 277, 278; dismissed from Project 891: 301; directs Leslie Howard in Hamlet, 266; early years, 193–4; Five Kings, 423–4, 426–7, 428, 430, 433, 438, 440, 441, 443–5; Heartbreak House, 363, 365, 367; in Hollywood, 459, 460, 461, 468, 477; Horse Eats Hat, 254–5, 257, 259, 266; Julius Caesar, 322, 323, 325, 333, 334, 336, 340, 343; Liberty Jones directed by, 546–7; Mankiewicz’s friendship with, 488–9; Mercury Theatre, 308–11, 343, 344, 355, 356, 357, 358, 360, 366–9, 370, 384, 385, 386, 390, 391–417 passim, 423–4, 426; Mercury Theatre of the Air, 370, 374–5, 376, 377, 387, 413–14, 415, 417; Native Son, 539, 540–3, 546, 547–8, 550; Negro Theatre Unit run by, 219–44, 246; Panic, 196–7, 198, 200–4, 325; Project 891: 247, 250–62, 265, 286–7, 290, 301; returns to New York from Hollywood to run radio show, 464; Run-Through (Vol.I of memoir), xi, 195–6, 311–12, 336, 445, 477–8, 543, 548, 555; ‘The Summing Up’ (article in New York Times), 366–7; Vassar College teaching job, 306–7, 310, 333; The Voice of America: appointed head of, 554–5; ‘Voodoo’ Macbeth, 222–44 passim, 249; The War of the Worlds, 398, 399, 400, 401, 404, 406, 411–12, 490; Welles’s relationship with, 195–200, 206–7, 209, 227–8, 243–4, 246–7, 254–5, 266, 267–8, 273–4, 286, 303, 306–8, 334–5, 374–5, 444–5, 459, 464, 477–80, 488–9, 529–30, 537, 546, 554–5

  How Green Was My Valley (film), 577

  Howard, David, Dear Abigail, 344

  Howard, Leslie, 266

  Howard, Sidney, 286–7, 322

  Howe, Irving, 540

  Hoystradt John, (John Hoyt), 145, 313, 362

  Hughes, Langston, 219

  Hughes, Richard, 131; A High Wind in Jamaica, 131

  Hugo, Victor, Les Misérables, 304–6, 320, 372, 373, 445

  Hull House settlement, Chicago, 9, 18

  Humorous Lieutenant, The, 349

  Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (film), 451, 523

  Hurston, Zora Neale, 246

  Huston, Walter, 445

  Hutchens John K., 341–2, 343, 435–6

  Hutton, Edward, 130, 135

  Huxley, Aldous, 549; After Many a Summer, 473

  Ibsen, Henrik, 19, 536

  Idiot, The, 158

  If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody, 349

  If This Be Not a Good Play, The Evil Is in It, 349

  Imperial Theatre, New York, 201, 203

  Importance of Being Earnest, The (Wilde), 368

  Ince, Thomas, 495

  Independent, The Dublin, 99, 102, 104, 105, 106

  ‘The Index of American Design’, 218

  Ingram, Rex, 384

  Insull, Samuel, 505

  Ireland, 150; Welles’s stay in (1931–2), 75–111, 131, 135

  Iris Theatre of Velva, North Dakota, 575

  Irving, Henry, 281, 313, 316, 318, 375

  Isaacs, Edith, 202, 214, 275, 339

  It Can’t Happen Here (film), 451

  It Happened One Night (radio play), 463

  It Won’t Be Long Now (musical), 45

  Italian Straw Hat, An see Horse Eats Hat

  It’s All True (film), 577

  I’ve Got the Time (radio play), 302

  Ives, Lucy (grandmother), 7, 10, 13–14, 15

  Jacobsen, Sigrid (nanny), 14

  Jane Eyre (Brontë), radio adaptation of, 418, 489

  Jane Eyre (film), 422

  Japan, Welles’s visits to, 55–7, 131

  Jarry, Alfred, 259

  Jedermann, 50

  Jerome, Jerome K., 82

  Jerome, V.J., 203

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

  Jewell, Richard, The RKO Story, 450

  John Citizen, USA see Citizen Kane

  John Meade’s Woman (Mankiewicz), 487

  Johnny Belinda, 553

  Johnston, Alva, 301, 475, 476

  Johnston, Denis, 100, 101

  Jones, Errol Aubrey, 239

  Jones, Inigo, 67

  Jones, Robert Edmond, 138, 154, 169

  Jones, Mrs Robert see Corrington, Dorothy

  Jonson, Ben, 286, 309, 349

  Jordan, Joe, 219

  Journey into Fear (film), 528, 577

  Jouvet, Louis, 173

  Joyce, Phyllis, 363

  Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 53–4, 114, 177, 183–4, 275, 282, 286, 287, 309, 344, 394, 398, 409, 516; on disc, 474; Mercury Theatre modern-dress production, 309–10, 313, 320, 321, 322–43, 346–7, 348, 352, 353, 354, 355, 356, 357, 359, 365, 367, 368, 382, 388, 392, 435, 438, 448, 500, 545; nation-wide tour of, 357–8, 362, 428; radio adaptation of, 336–7, 377, 418; Schintzer’s production at Delaware of, 322; transferred from Mercury to National Theatre, 357, 362

  June Moon (radio), 463

  Juno, Beverly, 271

  Juno and the Paycock (O’Casey), 348

  Kachalov, Vasili Ivanovich, 50

  Kael, Pauline, 488, 506, 524, 570, 571

  Kaltenborn, H.V., 336, 418

  Kanakee state sanatorium, Dick Welles Jr incarcerated in, 58, 74, 119

  Kane, Whitford, 94, 156–7, 158, 160, 164, 208, 209, 348, 352, 356, 359, 368, 496

  Karson, Nat, 219, 222, 229–30, 231, 237, 238, 241, 255

  Kaufmann, George, 214

  Kazin, Alfred, Starting Out in the Thirties, 342

  Kean, Edmund, 110, 316, 378

  Keen, J.H., 438

  Kemble, Charles, 178

  Kenosha, Wisconsin, Welles’s birth, childhood and family in, 3–15, 17, 23, 474; funeral of Dick Welles Sr in, 63, 64, 65

  Kenosha City Club, 9

  Kent, Amalia, 465

  Kilmer, Joyce, 81

  King, Alexander, 140

  King Lear (Shakespeare), 31, 110, 112, 138, 208, 306, 315, 317

  Kingsley, Sidney, 262, 263–4

  Kingsway Theatre, London, 113

  Kiri Te Kanawa, 526

  Kitty Foyle (film), 496

  Kline, Herbert, 200, 203

  Koch, Howard, 402, 406; War of the Worlds, 398, 399–400, 401, 406, 490–2, 517

  Koenig, John, 365

  Komisarjevsky, Théodore, 92, 112

  Korngold, Erich Wolfgang, 526

  Krauss, Werner, 50

  Kreisler, Fritz, 10

  Kris and Kurz, Legend, Myth and Magic in the Image of the Artist, xi

  Kyunokor, 223

  La Salle, Henrietta, 493

  Labiche, Eugène, 250, 252, 253, 255, 259

  Lac du Flambeau, Welles’s stay at, 115–17, 122, 135

  Lady Has a Heart, The, 348

  Lady in the Dark, 553

  Lafayette Players, Harlem, 210, 219

  Lafayette Theatre, Harlem, 220, 221; ‘Voodoo’ Macbeth production, 222–44, 249

  Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, 209

  Lakeside Musical Society, Chicago, 20

  Lamb, Mary, Tales from Shakespeare, 13

  Lang, Matheson, 94

  Langner, Lawrence, 423–4, 428, 438, 439–40; The Magic Curtain, 423, 433–4

  Laughton, Charles, 112, 168, 170, 172, 451, 463, 492

  Laurence, Paula, 253, 270, 271, 277, 282

  Laurens and Benjamin, 417

  Lawrence, Gertrude, 344, 434, 445

  Laye, Evelyn, 112

  Leaming, Barbara, x, 7, 12, 22, 31, 32–3, 37, 39, 52, 62, 65–6, 98, 126–7, 131, 132, 133, 134, 136, 137, 138, 165, 174, 175, 196, 198, 206, 225, 244, 273, 285, 447–8, 462, 473, 479

  Lean, Tangye, 566, 571

  Lecture Notes on Acting (Welles), 372, 449

  Lederer, Charles, 530, 533

  Lee, Canada, 224, 234, 543, 547, 551, 552

  Lee, Gypsy Rose, 543

  Lefkow, Irene, 58

  Leiber, Fritz, 147

  Leiter, Sam, 211, 239, 263, 348; Encyclopaedia of the New York Stage, 210

  Lenin, V.I, 358, 394

  Leoncavallo, Ruggiero, 23; Pagliacci, 23

  Letter, The, 143

  Leve, Sam, 325, 327, 331, 352

  Lewin, David, 58

  Lewis
, Cecil Day (Nicholas Blake), The Smiler with the Knife, 477, 480–1

  Lewis, Chick, 572

  Lewis, James, 182

  Lewis, Lloyd, 159, 166, 167, 172

  Lewis, Robert, 214, 440

  Lewis, William, 370, 372, 374

  Liberty Jones, 546–7

  Life magazine, 472, 549, 558

  Life of Christ (film project), 527

  Life of Dumas, The, 481

  Light, James, 201

  lighting effects, film, 507, 508, 566; stage, 230–2, 237, 241, 255, 269–70, 275–6, 281, 297, 325, 330–1, 340, 341, 354, 365, 396–8, 408, 409, 410, 432, 433, 508, 543, 544

  Lillie, Beatrice, 423

  Lin Yutang, 41

  Little Man, What Now (film), 175

  Living Hours (Schnitzler), 158

  Living Newspaper (FTP), 219, 248, 313

  Llewellyn Park, Welles’s marriage to Virginia in (1934), 198–9

  Lloyd, Harold, 383

  Lloyd, Norman, 284, 313, 327, 328, 333, 334, 335, 347, 349, 351, 352, 358–9, 470

  Lloyd, Peg, 327

  Lockhart, Gene, 458

  Lockridge, Richard, 238, 339, 365

  Lombard, Carole, 470, 480

  London, Welles’s stay in (1932), 112–14

  London Gate Theatre, 112

  Long Christmas Dinner, The (Wilder), 504

  Long Voyage Home, The (film), 499, 500

  Longchamps Diner, New York, 346, 351, 395

  Longford, Countess of, 100–1, 139

  Longford, Edward, Earl of, 84, 100

  Look Back in Anger (Osborne), 549

  Lord of the Flies, 302

  Lorna Doone, 398

  Lorre, Peter, 506

  Los Angeles see Hollywood

  Losey, Joseph, 228, 232, 258, 550

  Love of Three Oranges, The (Prokofiev), 19, 20

  Luce, Henry, 334, 524, 549

  Lucrece, 139

  Lundberg, Ferdinand, 519; Imperial Hearst, 493, 496

  Lunt, Alfred, 285

  Lux Radio Theatre, 372

  Lysistrata, 246

  Macbeth (Shakespeare), 113, 425; on disc, 474, 515, 529; film (1947), 516; Negro Theatre Unit production (Voodoo Macbeth: 1936), 222–45, 246, 249, 255, 256, 259, 261, 278, 285, 305, 308, 310, 315, 444, 552; radio, 304, 375

  MacBride, Maud Gonne, 101

  McCandless, Stanley, 330

  McCarthy, Charlie, 463

  McCarthy, Mary, 223, 242, 282, 339–40, 346, 366, 414

  McClintic, Guthrie, 139, 140–1, 142–3, 144–5, 146, 148, 150, 151–2, 153, 154, 185–8, 189–90, 198, 200, 207, 208, 212, 214, 353, 380, 430; Me and Kit, 186, 189

  McCullers, Carson, 543

  MacGowan, Kenneth, 138

  McGraw-Hill, publishers, 185

  Machiavelli, Niccolo dei, 481, 483

  McKee, Harry, 270–1, 276

  MacLeish, Archibald, 196–7, 199–200, 298, 299, 300, 328; Air Raid (radio play), 400; The Fall of the City (radio play), 202; Frescoes for Mr Rockefeller’s City, 196; Nobodaddy, 200; Panic, 196–7, 198, 200–5, 206; The Young Men of Wall Street, 200