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At the End of the Street in the Shadow

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by Matthew Asprey Gear


  If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

  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

 

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