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  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

 

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