by Simon Callow
Leighter, Lolita 194
Leopard, The (Lampedusa) 19
Les Misérables (radio) 160
Lesser, Sol B. 5, 77, 128
Levant, Harry 298
Lewis, Robert 106
Lewisohn Stadium (Chicago) 175
Lewisohn Stadium (New York) 336
Life of Christ (film) 7
Life of Desiré Landru, The (film) 7–8
Life of Galileo, The (Brecht) 282–3, 284, 296, 315, 316, 318–19, 404
Life magazine 48, 66, 113, 119, 124, 180, 196, 423–4
Light, James 265
Lighthouse and Informer 323, 329
Lindsay, Louis 416, 418
Little Brown Jug 289
Little Prince, The (film) 189
Litvinov, Maxim 239
Lockheed 157
Logan, Joshua 311
London 404, 414, 437
Long Beach 111
Long Island 353
Long Island University 47
Look magazine 163
Look Who’s Laughing (film) 149
Lorentz, Pare 34, 148; The Plow that Broke the Plains 4
Los Angeles 35, 38, 137, 201, 208, 210, 245, 250, 258, 282, 285, 316, 318, 348, 356
Los Angeles Herald Examiner 44
Los Angeles Society of Magicians 191
Los Angeles Times 54
Losey, Joseph 320
Lost Horizon (film) 38
Love Story (film) 8, 9
Loy, Myrna 410, 411
Lubitsch, Ernst 190
Luce, Henry 10, 139, 180–1, 251
Lyons, Leonard 169, 204, 225, 235, 425
Lyric Theatre (Hammersmith) 403
MacArthur, 307
Macbeth (Shakespeare) 270, 378; Harlem production 16, 324, 383–5, 387; Mercury recording 385–6; Utah production 387–97
Macbeth (Shakespeare) (film) xiv, 386–7, 397–401, 402, 404, 406, 409, 414, 443; new version 438–42; original version of 425–36, 442; post-production problems 416–18; press reaction to 422–5, 438–41; previews of 419–25; recommended changes 436–7
McClintic, Guthrie 165, 391
MacDonald, Philip 267
McDonough, 77
McDowall, Roddy 388, 391, 394, 399–400, 433
McGee, Fibber 149
McIntire, John 388, 397
Macleish, Archibald 10, 185
macLiammóir, Micheál 23, 168, 388
McMillan, John 203, 206–7
Magahlaes, Raymundo 58
Magnificent Ambersons, The (film) xiii, 12, 13, 18, 24–38, 39–42, 43, 44, 46, 48, 52, 53, 55, 59, 77, 78, 79, 82, 84–5, 86–91, 92, 94, 96, 103, 105, 107–12, 117, 123–5, 135, 137–40, 148, 150, 162, 165, 167, 268, 272, 355, 397, 402, 435; book plot 18–24; film 276, 313; music for 108–11; possible Brazilian print 150–1; previews of 111–12; radio production 18, 20, 21; re-editing of 107–8; release and press reviews 137–40
Makavejev, Dusan 7
Mallet, Richard 441
Man of Aran (film) xvi, 9
Man Who Came to Dinner (Kaufmann and Hart) 201
Mankiewicz, Herman 6
Mann, Thomas 185
Mantle, Burns 306
March of Time, The 388
Margetson, Arthur ‘Shirley’ 289, 294–5, 297, 301, 308, 313–14; Orson and 291
Markle, Fletcher 404
Marlowe, Christopher 265; Dr Faustus 385
Marshall, Thurgood 329
Martin, Tony 347
Martins, Pery 129
Marx, Karl 176
Masaryk, Jan 185
Massey, Raymond 391
Master of Ballantrae, The (Stevenson), film 344–5; radio production 242, 344–5, 387–8, 397
Maté, Rudolph 360, 366
Mathiessen, F.O. 10
Mature, Victor 196
Maw, Herbert 389
Maxwell, Elsa 177, 179, 309, 362
Mayer, Louis B. 162
Meira, Mandel Olimpio (Jacaré) 81, 83, 112, 113, 120–2, 132
Meltzer, Robert ‘Bob’ 17, 49, 51, 68, 69, 85, 92, 95, 99, 120, 129, 157, 188
Men, Machines and Victory (film) 140
Mendelssohn, Felix, A Midsummer Night’s Dream 245
Menjou, Adolphe 412
Mercury Printing Press 254
Mercury Productions 3, 4, 5, 7, 11–12, 16, 17, 25, 29, 46, 49, 78, 79, 87, 91, 93, 100, 115, 122–3, 125–6, 128, 138, 161, 189, 269, 284, 288, 298, 316, 321, 377, 383, 385, 388, 426, 442
Mercury Summer Theatre on the Air 308, 343, 344
Mercury Theatre of the Air 12, 28, 254, 257, 294, 309, 344, 385
Mercury Wonder Show for Service Men, The 194–200
Mercury Wonder Show, The xiii, 290, 396
Meredith, Burgess 140, 410
Mérimée, Prosper 345, 365
Merivale, Philip 269
Method acting 266
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) 189, 194, 200
Merry, Russell 268, 270
Mexican Hayride (musical) 281
Mexican Melodrama (film) 406
Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost (film) 138
Mexico 32, 33, 136, 146, 229, 234, 258, 285, 356, 357
Mexico City 196
Miami 123, 137, 201
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A (Shakespeare) 418
Mildred Pierce (film) 403
Milestone, Lewis 52
Miller, Arthur 157, 257; Timebends 155–6
Miller, Gilbert 391
Miller, Muriel 176
Minnelli, Vicente 288
Mitchell, Thomas 17
Moat Farm Murder, The (radio) 343–4
Moby-Dick (Melville), oratorio version 404; radio version 344, 404
Molnár, Ferenc, The Guardsman 243
Monroe, Marilyn 443
Monsieur Beaucaire (Tarkington) 18
Monster that Changed the World, The (film) 25
Moonlight in Hawaii (film) 36
Moonrise (film) 383
Moorehead, Agnes 28–9, 40–1, 49, 111, 112, 163, 194, 269, 367
Morgan, Michele 13, 16
Morgenthau, 210
Moss, Jack 17, 33, 35, 37, 49, 51, 59, 78, 89, 91, 93, 107, 112, 124, 125, 128, 139
Motion Pictures Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals 408
Mr Arkadin (film) 184
Mr Moto (film series) 12
Murnau, F.W. 33
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) (New York) 162, 266
My Friend Bonito (film) see Bonito the Bull
My Little Boy (Ewald) 54
Nagumi, Admiral Chuichi 42
Nanook of the North (film) 9
Napier, Alan 397, 399, 433
Naremore, James 12, 365
Nathan, George Jean 140, 300
Nation 168
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) 323–4, 327–9, 334, 336–8, 341
National Association for the Promotion of Colored Peoples 172
National Theatre 312
Native Son 265; film 106, 119; theatre play 3
NBC 210
NBC Symphony Orchestra 245
Negro Theatre Project 383
Nellie Bly (theatre) 311
Neruda, Pablo 196
Neuschul, Peter 54–5
New Haven 296, 298
New Republic journal 184, 322
New York 26, 35, 116, 123, 228, 256, 285, 296, 299, 336, 348, 384, 417
New York Daily Mirror 307
New York Herald Tribune 17, 301
New York Post 169, 179, 204, 221, 231, 244, 247, 249, 279, 323, 329, 348
New York Post Almanac 349
New York Times 121, 138, 139, 150, 180, 265, 266, 301, 304, 329, 335, 391, 422, 425, 438, 440
New York University 31
New Yorker 228–9, 304
Newman, Robert ‘Bob’ 416, 417, 419, 425, 436
Newsweek (radio) 158
Nichols, Lewis 305, 306
Night of the Hunter, The (film) 320
Nims, Ernest 268
Nola
n, Jeanette 388, 389, 390–1, 395, 396, 397–8, 399, 400, 428, 438
Noone, Jimmy 206
Noriega, José 33, 38, 46
North, John Ringling 289
Norton, Eliot 293, 296
Odd Man Out (film) 388
Oedipus 300
Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck) (film) 52
Office of Commercial and Cultural Relations 64
Office of Inter-American Affairs (I-AA) 45, 54, 71–2, 74, 97, 114, 141, 143, 147, 160
Officer X (radio) 330–3
Oglobo newspaper 252
O’Herlihy, Donal 388, 391, 394, 428
Oklahoma! (musical) 311
Old Vic Company 300, 311, 312
Old Westbury (Long Island) 201
Olivier, Laurence 259, 300, 311, 320, 345, 366, 391, 396, 403–4, 405, 421, 422, 423, 424, 427, 428, 429, 431, 437, 438, 439, 441
On the Town (musical) 265
O’Neill, Eugene 292
Orozco, José Clemente 231
Orson Welles Almanac (newspaper column) 225–37, 408
Orson Welles Almanac, The (radio series) 63, 201–10, 212, 257, 282
Orson Welles Sees South America (travelogue) 54
Orson Welles Today (newspaper column) 237–51
Orson Welles’s Commentary (radio series) 257–61, 290, 309, 323–43, 425
Orson Welles’s Scrapbook (television) 342
Otelo, Grande 64, 74, 129
Othello (Shakespeare) 418, 419–20; film 440
Overseas Press Club 177
Pabst, Georg Wilhelm 344, 418
Pacific Coast Association of Magicians 191
Pacios, Mary 377–8
Padilla, Ezequiel 230
Paley, William S. 156, 172
Pan-American Day (radio) 98, 155
Panic (theatre play) 10
Pankhurst, Emmeline 234
Paramount film company 4
Paris 212, 404, 442
Parsons, Louella 6, 127–8, 212
Pasadena 88–9, 105
Pascal, Gabriel 148
Pauling, Linus 343
Pearl Harbor 42, 44, 45
Pearson, Bud 379
Pegler, Westbrook 234
Pennsylvania 298
Perkins, Anthony 367
Perry, John 403
Peru 136
Pessao, Dr Albert 95, 99
Pettey, Tom 57, 58, 59, 61, 63, 65, 66, 75, 80–1, 83–4, 91, 92, 93, 97, 99
Philby, Kim 184
Phildelphia 298
Pickford, Mary 37
Pierre, Ray 253
Pinto, Fernando 120, 143
Pirandello, Luigi, Henry IV 443
Pittsburgh Courier 323
Planchon, Roger 379
‘Please Don’t Kiss Me’ (Roberts and Fisher song) 362, 363, 374
PM magazine 299
Pomona 86–8, 88, 91
Popular Front 9–10, 43, 75, 147, 174, 176, 202, 229, 407, 410–11
Porter, Cole 281, 284, 288, 289, 292, 294, 298, 301, 305, 310, 321
Porter, Linda 305
Porto, Eladyr 129
Powell, Richard, Don’t Catch Me 243
President’s Bill of Rights, The (radio) 47
Presnell, Bob 203
Procter, Samuel 338
Project 891 191, 312
Punch magazine 441
Pygmalion (Shaw) 312
Que Viva Mexico! (film) 5, 133
Quiet Man, The (film) 383
Racine, Jean 379
racism 323–42
radio broadcasts see named shows eg Cavalcade of America
Raft, George 199
Ragland, Rags 194
Ralston, Vera Hruba 383
Rankin Committee 412
Rankin, John 333
Rathvon, Peter 143, 160–1
Ratoff, Gregory 402–3, 415
Ray, Man 288
Raynor, Henry 441
RCA 6
Readick, Frank 49
Reagan, Ronald 412
Rebecca (du Maurier), film 161, 162; radio production 28, 162, 163
Recife 135, 147
Record 298
Redgrave, Michael 348, 367
Redman, Joyce 300
Reed, Alan 289, 293, 297, 300
Reed, Carol 167, 388
Reinhardt, Max 389
Reislor, Leo 99
Reismann, Phil 41, 45, 60, 61, 65, 66, 71, 72, 76, 78, 82, 84, 85, 93, 94, 96, 106, 115–16, 120, 129, 130
Relph, George 300
Republic Pix 382–3, 393, 397, 400, 402, 412, 416, 417, 418, 419, 420, 425, 436
Reyher, Ferdinand 315
Rice, Vernon 303
Richard III (Shakespeare) 300
Ride, Kelley, Ride (film) 13
Rio Cine-Radio Jornal 113
Rio de Janeiro 45, 52, 58–67, 99, 103, 113, 130, 135, 136, 137, 146, 196, 369
Rio Grande (film) 383
Ritter, Fred 393, 399
Rivas, Darlene 64
Rivera, Diego 196, 231
RKO film studios 3–7, 13, 18, 34, 45, 46, 48, 53, 58–9, 74, 77, 81, 87, 162, 224, 340, 357, 402, 442, 443; anxieties over The Magnificent Ambersons, Journey into Fear and It’s All True 86–103; archive xv; and compensation for death of Jacaré 121; and funding of films 141–3; and re-editing of Journey into Fear 160–1; relationship with Welles 19–20, 115–17, 123–9, 146–7, 149–50
Roach, Hal 412
Robeson, Paul 10, 175
Robins, A. 307
Robinson, Edward G. 31, 47, 269, 270, 276–7, 348, 410, 411
Robson, Mark 34, 91, 111
Rockefeller, John D., Junior 6
Rockefeller, Nelson 6, 45, 64, 97, 142–3
Rodgers, Richard 307
Roemheld, Heinz 355, 362, 363, 368, 417
Rogers, Roy 383
Rogers, Will 253
Rome 418, 419, 438
Roosevelt, Eleanor 333, 388, 409
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano 43, 44, 47, 53, 64, 98, 148, 183, 185, 211, 227, 229, 238–9, 334, 407; election campaign 213–21
Rose, Billy 218, 307
Rostand, Edmond, Cyrano de Bergerac 405
Royal Albert Hall (London) 321
Rubinsten, Artur 200
Russell, Bertrand 185
Russell, John L. 399, 432
Russian Life 267
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de 158; The Little Prince 189
Salomé (Wilde) 345, 404; film 345, 411
Salt Lake City 382, 386, 389, 389–92, 393, 394, 395
Saludos Amigos (film) 146
Salzburg Festival 419
Samish, Adrian 339, 340
San Diego 255
San Francisco 357, 359, 374, 440
San Francisco Conference 238, 239–40, 255
San Francisco Theatre Association 404
Sanford, Erskine 163, 356, 388, 391, 430
Santa Fe Waiters’ Union 333
Sarnoff, David 6
Saunders, Lloyd F. 286
Sausalito 357
Schaefer, George J. 3–6, 18, 20, 41, 60, 76, 77, 78, 81, 82, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88–9, 93, 94, 96, 106–7, 119, 122, 124–8, 131, 132, 142, 148, 161, 364
Schary, Dore 343
Schif, Dorothy 249
Schilling, Gus 194, 356, 397
Schnabel, Stefan 289, 309
Scott, George C. 366
Scott, Ned 59
Screen Actors’ Guild (SAG) 412
Second World War 42, 44, 45, 149, 173, 208–10
Seidermann, Maurice 224
Selznick, David O. 30, 161–4, 364
Serlin, Oscar 391
Sforza, Count 185
Shadow, The (radio play) 28
Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (Stratford-upon-Avon) 403
Shakespeare, William 233, 265, 300, 422, 423, 427, 429, 440, 441
Sherwood, Robert E. 391
Shirer, William L, 239
Shirley see Margetson, Arthur
Shoemaker’s Holiday, The (Dekker) 31, 442
Shore, Di
nah 200
Shores, Lynn 58–9, 66–7, 75, 76, 79, 80, 81, 82, 84, 92, 93, 94–5, 99–100, 101, 120, 121, 122, 130, 131–2, 135
Short, Elizabeth 377
Show Tunes 306
Shubert, Lee 301, 314
Shubert Theatre (New Haven) 296–7
Shull, Lynwood Lanier 338, 341, 342
Sight and Sound 441, 442
Silvers, Phil 194
Simon, Michel 366
Simonson, Lee 391
Sinatra, Frank 234, 343, 368
Since You Went Away (film) 30
Sinclair, Upton 133
Sing Your Worries Away (film) 77, 149
Singleton, Zutty 206
Siodmak, Robert 258
Siqueiros, David 231
Sleepy Lagoon incident (1942) 254
Sloane, Everett 17, 49, 107, 356, 367
Small, Edward 402, 415, 418, 425
Smiler with a Knife, The (film) 14
Smith, Fred 209
Smith, Oliver 265, 290
Snow White (film) 243
Snowball 172
Society of Amateur Magicians 191
Socony-Vacuum Company 201
Solorzáno, Jesús 32
Something Borrowed, Something New 192
Something for the Boys (film) 281
Soviet-American Congress 177–8
Spanish Aid 44
Spaull, Guy 289
Specter of the Rose (film) 383
Spellbound (film) 276
Spiegel, Sam 245, 267, 268, 269
Spitz, Leo 267
Sprawls, Police Chief 333
Stalin, Josef 334
Standard Oil 64
Stander, Lionel 410
State of the Union (theatre) 311
Steichen, Edward 35
Stettinius, Edward 239
Stevenson, Robert 13, 161, 164, 166, 168, 188
Stevenson, Robert Louis, The Master of Ballantrae 344–5, 387
Steward, Paul 194
Stewart, Donald Ogden 218
Stewart, James (actor) 47
Stewart, James (sound editor) 34, 38
Stokowski, Leopold 208
Straight, Beatrice 183, 184, 201, 223
Straight, Michael 184, 185
Strange Affair of Uncle Harry, The (film) 258
Stranger, The (film) xiii, 267–79, 280, 281, 313, 348–9, 357, 383, 402, 427
Strauss, Theodore 140
Struss, Karl 17, 49, 270
Sturges, Preston 149
Sunderland, Nan 21
Suskin, 306
Sutherland, Eddie 198, 200
Swanson, Gloria 148
Sylvester, Robert 314
Tabu (film) 33
Take This Woman see Lady from Shanghai, The (film)
Tales from Manhattan 267
Talmadge, Eugene 327
Tamburlaine the Great (Marlowe) 265
Tamiroff, Akim 415
Tarkington, Booth 355; The Magnificent Ambersons 12, 18, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 40, 90, 112; Seventeen 18
Tarkovsky, Andrei 427
Tarzan (film) 340
Taylor, Davidson 172
Taylor, Elizabeth 168
Tchelitchew, Pavel 288