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NOTES
1 Brainerd Duffield, ‘Carmen Treatment’, n.d. Box 22, folder 21, Lilly Library; Heylin and Wood both cite a Latin American version. See Heylin, Despite the System, 202; and Wood, Orson Welles: A Bio-Bibliography, 206–8.
2 Orson Welles, Memo to Harry Cohn, n.d. Box 22, folder 21, Lilly Library.
3 Welles and Bogdanovich, This Is Orson Welles, 400.
4 Román Gubern’s definition in Marsha Kinder, Blood Cinema: The Reconstruction of National Identity in Spain (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), 22.
5 Parkinson, 1974.
6 Eva Woods Peiró, ‘Rehearsing for Modernity’, in Joan Ramon Resina (ed.), Burning Darkness: A Half Century of Spanish Cinema (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008), 14.
7 Esteve Riambau, ‘Don Quixote: The Adventures and Misadventures of an Essay on Spain’, in Drössler (ed.), The Unknown Orson Welles, 71.
8 Ernest Hemingway, The Dangerous Summer (New York: Scribner’s, 1985), 43.
9 Leaming, Orson Welles: A Biography, 469.
10 Berthome and Thomas, Orson Welles at Work, 198–202.
11 The documentary The Dominici Affair (Christophe Cognet, 2000) illustrates how extensively Welles re-structured his interviews during the editing process.
12 Welles quoted in Tarbox, Orson Welles and Roger Hill, 247–8.
13 Orson Welles en el país de Don Quijote (Carlos Rodríguez, 2000). Viewed 17 June 2013 at the Filmmuseum München, Germany.
14 Uncredited [Orson Welles and Oja Kodar], Crazy Weather.
15 See Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera, ‘“He Was Sort of a Joke, in Fact”: Ernest Hemingway in Spain’, Hemingway Review, Vol. 31, No. 2, spring 2012, 84–100.
16 Parkinson.
17 See Valerie Hemingway, Running with the Bulls: My Years with the Hemingways (New York: Ballantine Books, 2004).
18 Parkinson.
19 Filming ‘The Trial’.
20 Welles quoted in James A. Michener, Iberia: Spanish Travels and Reflections (New York: Random House, 1968), 304.
21 Parkinson.
22 Welles quoted in Michener, Iberia, 302.
23 Berthome and Thomas, Orson Welles at Work, 200.
24 See Kenneth Tynan, letter to John Appleton, 29 October 1955, in Kathleen Tynan (ed.), Kenneth Tynan Letters (Random House Ebooks, 2012).
25 Juan Cobos in Cobos and Lawrence French, ‘Juan Cobos on Orson Welles’ Spanish Travelogue In the Land of Don Quixote’, Wellesnet, 18 June 2008, at http://www.wellesnet.com/juan-cobos-on-orson-welles-spanish-travelogue-in-the-land-of-don-quixote (accessed 6 September 2015).
26 Nella terra di Don Chisciotte (In the Land of Don Quixote), Documentary 1961 (subseries), Production notes June 1961. Box 1, Orson Welles–Alessandro Tasca di Cutò Papers, Special Collections Library, University of Michigan.
27 Alessandro Tasca di Cutò, A Prince in America (Smashwords ebook, 2011), 109.
28 Anile, Orson Welles in Italy, 289.
29 Cobos and French, ‘Juan Cobos on Orson Welles’ Spanish Travelogue In the Land of Don Quixote’.
30 Orson Welles, letter to editor (name illegible), 5 June 1961, in Nella terra di Don Chisciotte (In the Land of Don Quixote), Documentary 1961 (subseries), Production notes June 1961. Box 1, Orson Welles–Alessandro Tasca di Cutò Papers, Special Collections Library, University of Michigan.
31 Tasca di Cutò, A Prince in America, 112.
32 Cobos and French, ‘Juan Cobos on Orson Welles’ Spanish Travelogue In the Land of Don Quixote’. In 2005 a new version of the series without the narration was prepared by Ciro Giorgini and broadcast by RAI.
33 Anile, Orson Welles in Italy, 289.
34 Tasca di Cutò, A Prince in America, 110.
35 Ernest Hemingway, By-Line: Ernest Hemingway – Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades, ed. William White (New York: Scribner’s, 1967), 95, 103, 105.
36 McBride, Whatever Happened to Orson Welles?, 180.
37 ‘Cierro di Pamplona’, Nella terra di Don Chisciotte (Orson Welles, 1964).
38 Cobos and French, ‘Juan Cobos on Orson Welles’ Spanish Travelogue In the Land of Don Quixote’.
39 Jess Franco’s universally loathed posthumous edition of Don Quixote (1992) intercuts Welles’s 16mm footage of the 1961 San Fermín encierro from In the Land of Don Quixote with what appears to be 35mm Don Quixote footage featuring Akim Tamiroff at the 1966 San Fermín festival. See Rosenbaum, Discovering Orson Welles, 203; and Riambau, ‘Don Quixote: The Adventures and Misadventures of an Essay on Spain’.
40 McBride, Whatever Happened to Orson Welles?, 180. According to novelist Peter Viertel, Welles had been developing the project as early as 1958. Karp, Orson Welles’s Last Movie, 10.
41 Orson Welles in Spain.
42 An undated private letter from Welles to Kodar confirms their co-writing of Crazy Weather and another project based on Kodar’s story ‘Blind Window’ (known as Mercedes, House Party, and Mercy). Name and topical (series). Box 21, Orson Welles–Oja Kodar Papers, Special Collections Library, University of Michigan.
43 Oja in Drössler, ‘Oja as a Gift’, 43.
44 Uncredited [Welles and Kodar], Crazy Weather, 32–3.
45 Lawrence French, ‘Truth and Lies About Orson Welles’ F for Fake’, Wellesnet, 11 February 2008, at http://www.wellesnet.com/truth-and-lies-about-orson-welles-f-for-fake/ (accessed 7 September 2015).
46 Uncredited [Welles and Kodar], Crazy Weather, 30–1.
47 Uncredited [Welles and Kodar], Crazy Weather, 130.
48 Susan C. Brantly, Understanding Isak Dinesen (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2002), 56.
49 Peter Tonguette, ‘From the Beginning: Notes on Orson Welles’ The Dreamers’, in Drössler (ed.), The Unknown Orson Welles, 92.
50 Orson Welles, The Dreamers (undated draft), 14, at http://www.scribd.com/doc/149698063 (accessed 9 July 2013).
51 Welles, The Dreamers (undated draft), 9.
52 Dinesen quoted in Susan Hardy Aiken, Isak Dinesen and the Engendering of Narrative (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), 294n8.
53 Welles, The Dreamers (undated draft), 10.
54 Welles, The Dreamers (undated draft), 4–5.
55 Welles, The Dreamers (undated draft), 7.
56 Viewed 17 June 2013 at the Filmmuseum München, Germany.
57 Parkinson.
58 Welles quoted in Krohn, ‘My Favourite Mask Is Myself’, 62.
59 Jonathan Rosenbaum, ‘Afterword’, in Welles with Kodar, The Big Brass Ring, 140. A very loose adaptation of the Welles–Kodar script was directed by George Hickenlooper in 1999 with a screenplay by F. X. Feeney and Hickenlooper.
60 Welles with Kodar, The Big Brass Ring, 126.
61 Orson Welles, The Big Brass Ring (novella), [Final?] Novella draft (photocopy of typescript) (copy 1), n.d. (3 folders). The Big Brass Ring (1981–82) (subseries), Scripts. Box 14, Orson Welles–Oja Kodar Papers, Special Collections Library, University of Michigan.
62 Welles with Kodar, The Big Brass Ring, 75.
63 Welles with Kodar, The Big Brass Ring, 81–2.
64 Welles with Kodar, The Big Brass Ring, 84.
65 Welles with Kodar, The Big Brass Ring, 114.
66 Welles with Kodar, The Big Brass Ring, 109–10.
67 Welles with Kodar, The Big Brass Ring, 114.
68 Welles with Kodar, The Big Brass Ring, 115.
69 Welles with Kodar, The Big Brass Ring, 131.
INDEX
Page numbers refer to the print edition but are hyperlinked to the appropriate location in the e-book.
A Country Doctor see Ein Landarzt
Adventures of Don Juan, The 258
Albina Films 244
Alexander the Great 195
Ambler, Eric 49, 78, 82–3, 90, 93–4, 131, 183, 207, 217
American Civil War 10, 21, 28, 68; post-Civil War 24, 26, 29; see also The Magnificent
Ambersons
American historiography 40
American Magazine 89
An Evening with Orson Welles (play) 220
Antolic´, Vladimir 232
Antonioni, Michelangelo 231, 235
Argentina 133, 146, 182, 184–5, 189, 225; see also Good Will tour and Nazism and The Other Man
Armstrong, Louis 101–3
Arnold, Jack 166
Around the World in Eighty Days 17, 145, 160
Around the World in Eighty Days (novel) 127
Around the World in Eighty Days (play) 127
Around the World with Orson Welles (TV series) 165, 204, 259–60; ‘St-Germain-des-Prés’ (episode) 212; ‘Spain: The Bullfight’ (episode) 265; see also Basque Country and Europe and Spain
Asphalt 169
Assassin 181
Association for the Protection of the Individual Against Officialdom 165
audience 8, 28–9, 51, 53, 64, 87, 169, 203, 238n.1
Austerlitz (Welles as an actor) 225, 236
Austro-Hungarian empire 1, 3, 83, 165, 226, 229; see also The Trial
avant-garde 4, 230
Badge of Evil (novel) 166
Bakhtin, Mikhail 210–11
Barefoot Contessa, The 258
Basque Country 165, 196, 257, 260–2, 268
Battle of Neretva, The 199
Baudelaire, Charles 70
Bazin, André 249
Beat the Devil 206
Because of the Cats 197
Berlin Film Festival 245
Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis 4
Bessy, Maurice 205, 209, 217
Between Yesterday and Tomorrow see Zwischen Gestern und Morgan
Beyond the Limit see Other Man, The
¡Bienvenido, Mister Marshall! 258
Big Brass Ring, The 11, 84, 231, 264, 273, 277; and Madrid 11, 231
Big Money, The (novel) 22
Big Sleep, The 169
Black Irish 145
blacklist 128, 160, 195, 236
‘Blackmail Is a Nasty Word’ (radio episode) 207
Black Rose, The 193
Black Wave see Yugoslavia
Blake, Nicholas see Day-Lewis, Cecil
blaue Engel, Der 169
Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente 258
Blind Window see Mercedes
Blood and Sand 258
Blue Angel, The see blaue Engel, Der
Bogdanovich, Peter 2, 18, 54, 191n.35, 205, 220, 251
Border Incident 165
Brazil 50, 80, 89, 101–2, 105–6, 115, 118, 120, 260, 277; Afro-Brazilian 100, 110–11, 116; see also It’s All True and jangadeiro and Rio de Janeiro
Breen, Joseph 92, 146
Bronston, Samuel 195
Budget Script see Journey into Fear
Buenos Aires 81, 133, 184; see also Argentina and Good Will tour and The Stranger
bullfighting 14, 181, 258–9, 263–4, 266, 271, 273; aficionado 263, 265, 270–1; corridas 104, 168, 259, 263–6, 271; see also Crazy Weather and The Sacred Beasts
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The 168
Cahiers du cinéma 22, 211
Camille (TV programme) 17
Campbell Playhouse 38
Campbell Playhouse, The (radio play) 15, 50, 65
Cannes Film Festival 194, 245; Palme d’Or 194; see also Othello
Capitan Noè 194
Carmen 257, 274, 276
Carmen (novel) 257
Carmen, la de Triana 258
Carnaval (segment) see It’s All True
Carne, Sturges 154
Carringer, Robert L. 36, 38, 54
Cause for Alarm (novel) 83, 207
CBS radio 16, 50, 65, 145
Cervantes Films 195
Cervantes, Miguel de 183, 244, 246
Chimes at Midnight 6, 14, 197, 245, 247, 258, 266, 268; Falstaff 11, 14, 247, 248; Madrid 245, 247–8; see also Europe and Spain
chivalry 129, 147, 246
Cid, El 195
Cinédia Studio 54, 106
Citizen Kane 6, 10, 13, 16, 21–30, 31n.22, 33–47, 49, 51, 59, 61–4, 77–82, 84, 86, 89–90, 99, 104, 108, 128–9, 139, 184, 193, 203, 205, 208, 215, 243; capitalism 10, 21; Colorado 25–6, 28–9, 35, 59; Depression 34, 43; Kane-as-Hearst 38; New York 3, 21–2, 34–7, 42–7, 59, 81, 90; megalomania 22–3, 34, 44, 46; New York Inquirer 34, 37, 44; Rosebud 27, 29, 31n.22, 33, 35, 39–40, 57, 210–11; semi-documentary realism 128; Xanadu 33, 35, 47, 63; see also and expressionism and Gregg Toland and San Francisco and William Randolph Hearst
Cobos, Juan 266, 268
Cohn, Harry 17, 148, 159, 162, 257
Cold War 1, 160, 212, 217, 221, 233; nationalism 10; see also Vienna and Zagreb
Columbia Pictures 257
Communism 24, 40, 42, 125–6, 143n.10, 230, 232; anti-communism 128, 130; non-Soviet form of 232; pro-communism 24
Comprehensive Version see Mr. Arkadin
Confidential Report see Mr. Arkadin
Conrad, Joseph 16, 78–9, 81, 243, 274
Corinth version see Mr. Arkadin
Cortez, Stanley 49, 64
cosmopolitanism 4, 99–100
Cotten, Joseph 16, 35, 51; see also Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons
Cradle Will Rock, The 15, 23, 80
Crazy Weather 181, 189–190n.2, 263, 264, 271, 272, 273; American macho in Spain 264; see also bullfighting
Cyrano de Bergerac 127
Danton’s Death (play) 16
Dassin, Jules 77, 128, 148, 169–70
David and Goliath (play) 196
Day-Lewis, Cecil 83
Dead Calm 198
Death in the Afternoon (novel) 14, 236
Deep, The 5, 198
Devil Makes Three, The 220–1
Dinesen, Isak 10, 198, 243–5, 274–6
Dmytryk, Edward 128, 133, 169
Doctor Faustus (play) 15
Dolivet, Loui (Ludovicu Brecher) 126–7, 160, 195, 203–5, 215
Don Quixote 5, 11, 17, 196, 197, 198, 204, 210, 246, 257–79; see also Europe and Pamplona and Spain
Don’t Catch Me 80, 89–90, 104, 127; see also comic thriller
Don’t Catch Me (novel) 83
Dos Passos, John 4, 22–3, 30n.2, 278
Dreamers, The 264, 273–4, 276
‘Dreamers, The’ (tale) 243, 274
Dublin Gate Theatre 14, 247
Duffield, Brainerd 79, 257
Dupont, Ewald André 169
‘Echoes’ (tale) 274–5
Ein Landarzt (book) 227
Escolano, Ángel 247
Esquire (magazine) 6
Europe 2–3, 6, 22, 26, 40, 82, 90, 99, 110, 119–20, 163–5, 193–9, 203–13, 216–17, 222, 225, 229–30, 245, 251, 258–9, 264, 274, 277; Mitteleurope 210, 226–8; mythical 10; ancient/old 10, 129, 247; postwar 10, 206, 212, 226; romantic nostalgia 4; seaport town 81; self-exile 10, 128; Welles as an actor in 196; European spy novel 83; see also Cold War and fascism
European Union 216, 230
Everybody’s Shakespeare (play) 14
Expressionism 3, 148, 168–70, 175, 213, 228, 237; expressionism-within-realism 175; expressionist lighting 5; German 4, 18n.5, 37, 128, 130; shadows 137, 175
Fall of the City, The (play) 15
Fall of the Roman Empire, The 195
Fante, John 79, 101, 103–4, 156
Fellini, Federico 197
Ferguson, Perry 36–7, 47, 49, 89, 139
Fessier, Michael 79, 156
F for Fake 5–6, 181, 197, 199, 244–5, 257, 259, 272; pseudo-documentary 244; see also Europe and Spain
55 Days in Peking 195
Filming ‘Othello’ 6
Filmorsa 195, 204–5
Films de l’Astrophore, Le 199
Final Draft see Take This Woman
First Person Singular (radio play) 15
Five Kings (Part One) (play) 14, 16, 247
Fleet’s In, The (musical) 53
Foreign Correspondent 83
Forster, Norman 50
42nd Parallel, The (novel) 22
Fountain of Youth, The (TV programme) 17
Franco, Francisco 266; post-Franco 277, 279; Pro-Franco committee 147; regime 23, 147, 195–6, 197–8, 231, 258, 262, 266, 276; see also Spain
Freed, Donald 181
Freeling, Nicolas 197
Full Moon 198
Fully Dressed and In His Right Mind (novel) 79, 156, 157
Gance, Abel 225
García Berlanga, Luis 258
Gare d’Orsay see Trial, The
Gilda 146
Gillette, William 4, 15, 35
Gogol, Nikolai 225
Goldwyn, Samuel 37
Good Neighbor Policy 10, 78, 86, 88–9, 99, 115, 125; pre-Good Neighbor Policy 101; Welles as ambassador of 17, 50, 100, 110, 129, 160, 183; Good Will tour 133; see also Franklin Delano Roosevelt and It’s All True
Goosson, Stephen 154
Grand Detour (Illinois) 57
Green Goddess, The (play) 16
Greene, Graham 82–3, 181–9, 190n.5, 206
Grosse Légume, Une see V.I.P.
Grune, Karl 169
Hammett, Dashiell 130, 169
Hampton, Christopher 182
Hannaford, Jake 244, 268, 271
Hathaway, Henry 193
Hath not a Jew eyes? (TV programme) 253
Hawks, Howard 169
Hayworth, Rita 17, 90, 146, 160, 257
HBO 185
Hearst, William Randolph 16–17, 23–4, 30, 38–47, 184; proto-fascist 23; San Francisco Examiner 39; yellow journalism 39; see also Citizen Kane
Heartbreak House (play) 15
Heart of Darkness 90, 66, 79–80, 86, 102, 131, 149, 173, 243
Heart of Darkness (novel) 16, 78, 272
Heart of Darkness (radio play) 79
Heart of Darkness (play) 82
Hearts of Age 15
Hemingway, Ernest 11, 14, 23, 131, 258, 263–4, 267–71, 273, 278; see also bullfighting
Heroine, The (book) 198, 240n.31
Heroine, The (segment) 245
Herrmann, Bernard 16, 53–4
Heston, Charlton 166
Heyman, John 182
His Honor, the Mayor (radio play) 24
Hitchcock, Alfred 83–5, 87, 89–90, 138
Honorary Consul, The (novel) 181–4, 186, 190n.5
Hopper, Hedda 126
Horse Eats Hat (play) 15
House Party see Mercedes
House Un-American Activities Committee 128, 160, 195
Huston, John 17, 131, 133, 138, 169, 196, 206, 271
If I Should Die Before I Wake (novel) 145