Orson Welles, Vol I (114 page)

Chinese Theatre, Bowery, 210

Chippewa Indian reservation, 115, 122

Christian Science Monitor
, 442

Christians, Mady, 363

Christina
(Blitzstein song), 393

Cibber, Colley, 322

cinematography (for
Citizen Kane
), 476, 498, 499–503, 505, 507, 508, 509–10, 515, 521–2, 565, 567; continuous action, 501; feather-wiping
technique, 476; realism, 501, 502, 506, 512, 524, 525; seamlessness, 501–2; subjective camera technique, 468–9, 470, 476; universal focus, 502–3

CIO, 301

Circle, The
(Maugham), 105

Citadel, The
(radio play), 463

Citizen Kane
(film), xii, xiii, 60, 64, 121, 184, 201, 262, 327, 432, 484–9, 491, 493–539, 542, 543, 546, 560–75, 577–8; art work/design, 498, 503; cinematography, 498,
499–503, 505, 506, 507, 508, 509–10, 515, 521–2, 565, 567; commercial failure of, 575, 577; dispute over authorship of screenplay, 517–19; Hearst’s objections to, and attempts to suppress, 530–9, 548–50, 552, 555–8; make-up, 505–6, 574; Oscar nominations, 577–8; premières of, 561–2; release of (1941), 558–9, 560; reviews, 562–70, 572; screenplay, 488, 493–5, 497–8, 503, 504–5, 507–8, 577–8; sound
and music effects, 521, 524–7, 536, 565, 566; Souvenir Booklet, 527, 573–5; special effects, 521–3, 524; trailer, 558–9

Clarence
(Tarkington: radio play), 418

Clarke, David, 293–4

Clay, Jean, ix, 42

Clayton, John, 160–1

Clipper, The
magazine, 565, 572

Clurman, Harold, 210, 213–14, 314, 347, 355, 414, 416

CM Hall Lamp Company of Detroit, 15

Cochran, C.B., 347

Cocteau, Jean, 176, 241, 242

Cohan, George M., 210, 214, 447, 555, 557

Collins, Charles, 159, 160, 166, 170

Collins, Ray, 305, 418, 470, 514, 543

Coulouris, George, 313, 327, 336, 337, 338, 349, 359, 362, 363, 364, 365, 366, 379, 391, 418, 470, 503

Colum, Padraic, 102, 105

Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), 556;
His Honor the Mayor
broadcast by, 556–7; Mercury Theatre of
the Air (
First Person Singular
), 370–80, 387–9, 391, 394;
The War of the Worlds
, 398–408; withdraws from sponsorship, 408

Columbia Management, 451, 489

Columbia Workshop
, 304, 332, 371, 372

Columbian Exposition, Chicago (1893), 16

Comédie Française, Paris, 319, 415

Comedy Theatre, New York, 310, 311, 342;
see also
Mercury Theatre

Comingore, Dorothy, 503–4, 512, 515, 520,
559, 569

Commomveal
, 310, 552, 565

Communism, American Communist Party, 203–4, 248, 249, 291, 295, 301, 394, 551–2, 553, 557, 570

Composers’ Collective, 289

Conan Doyle, Arthur, 383

concept production, 222, 315, 364, 389–90

Conjur’ Man Dies
, 228

Connelly, John, 78

Connelly, Marc, 221, 256–8

Conrad, Joseph,
Heart of Darkness
, 412,
418, 463, 464–72, 476–7, 480

Conroy, Michael, 81, 82

Constant Nymph, The
, 159

Cooke, Alistair, 345–6

Copeau, Jacques, 46, 213

Copland, Aaron, 255, 289–90;
The Second Hurricane
, 302–3

Coquelin, Benoît Constant, 93

Coriolanus
(Shakespeare), 100, 107, 138, 328

Corn Is Green, The
(Williams), 553

Corneau, Guy, 30

Cornell, Katherine, 19, 139, 140, 142, 143–5, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151–4,
158, 159, 186, 189, 197, 198, 200, 208, 210, 235, 285, 344, 363, 425, 444, 485

Corrado, Gino, 508

Corrington, Dorothy (Mrs R.E. Jones), 140–1, 150

Cortot, Alfred, 10

Corwin, Norman, 370, 371, 375, 403

costumes, 271, 332, 352–3, 383, 396, 432

Cotten, Joseph, 204, 253, 254, 256–7, 260, 313, 349, 384, 385, 386, 391, 393, 415, 503, 511, 514, 529, 558, 569

Cotten, Lenore,
529

Count of Monte Cristo, The
(Dumas), radio adaptation of, 220, 387, 418

Coward, Noel, 205, 321, 419

Cowl, Jane, 154

Cradle Will Rock, The
(Blitzstein operetta), 287, 288, 289–303, 304, 310, 313; released from FTP for commercial presentation, 300–1; Worklight Theatre’s revival of, 344–6, 356, 357, 359

Cradle Will Rock, The
(unproduced screenplay by Welles), xii, 108, 199,
209, 246, 268–9, 277–8, 283, 289, 334

‘The Cradle Will Rock’ (title song), 292

Craig, Edward Gordon, 46, 47, 50, 67, 92, 169, 314–15, 316, 319

Creature from the Black Lagoon, The
, 327

Crisp, Quentin, 209

Crone, George, 523

Crowley, Aleister, 64

Crowther, Bosley, 234, 235, 562, 563, 568

Cuba, 49, 384, 385

Cullen, Countee, 219

Cumins, Solomon, 24

Cumins,
Theron, 24

Curtiss, Mina, 334

Cyrano de Bergerac
(film), 463, 464

Daily Express
, London, 103–4, 407

Daily News
, Philadelphia, 438

Daily Worker
, 300, 302, 309, 338, 394, 408, 551–2

Dale, Alan, 45

Danton’s Death
(Büchner), 210, 380, 383, 389–98, 399, 404, 406, 408–12, 413, 415, 418

Dark Room, The
(Welles), 116–17, 121

Davenport, Millia, 332, 352–3, 396, 432

David Copperfield
(film), 186

Davidson, Joy, 564, 565

Davies, Marion, 473, 484, 486, 496, 516, 530, 533, 534;
The Times We Had
, 533–4

Dead End
(Kingsley), 262

Dead Ride Fast, The
(Sears), 104

Dean Martin
show, 407

Dear Abigail
(Howard), 344

Death Takes a Holiday
(Ferris), 106, 111

Death Takes the Wheel
(marionette play), 218

‘Debunking the Orson Welles Myth’
(article, 1941), 64

Debussy, Claude, 10

Deere, John, 24

Dekker, Thomas, 322, 343;
The Shoemaker’s Holiday
, 322, 343, 344, 346, 347–56, 357, 493

Del Rio, Dolores, 472–3, 527–8, 529, 550, 561

Denby, Edwin, 251, 252, 253, 255–6, 261, 265–6, 270–1, 302

Deutsch, Helen, 300

Devine, George, 309

Dexter, John C., 38, 40, 46, 66

Diaghilev, Serge, 18, 19, 358

Dial
M for Murder
, 425

Diarmuid and Gráinne
(Mac Liammóir), 78, 84

Dieterle, film director, 451

Digges, Dudley, 214

Dillinger, John, 175, 484

director, role of, film, 451–3, 498–9, 508–9, 510–11, 523, 527, 536–7, 568, 569; stage, 45–7, 213–15, 313–15, 318–19, 320, 325, 361–2, 392–3, 431, 448, 449, 451, 510, 518–19, 527, 547

Director in the Theatre Today, The
(Welles), 313–19,
325, 392–3, 410

Dirkett, Congressman, 265

Disney, Walt, 452

Doctor Faustus
(Marlowe), 156, 158, 207, 250, 266–83, 284, 287, 306, 308, 310, 313, 315, 448, 484

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
, 220, 451

Dr Knock
(Romains), 106

Donahue, Eddie, 514

Dos Passos, John, 257–8

Downtown Music School, New York, 295

Doyle, Peggy, 435

Dracula
(Stoker), radio adaptation of, 375–6,
378–80, 389

Drake, Herbert, 384, 440, 441, 460, 461, 466, 467–8, 472, 473, 474, 475–6, 477, 485, 492, 493, 515, 516, 517, 530, 534, 550; ‘Orson Welles – Still a Four-Ply Genius’, 3; ‘Playbill’ column, 425–6

Draper, Ruth, 146, 257, 311

Drunkard, The
, 174, 447

Dryden, John, 110

Du Maurier, Daphne,
Rebecca
, 419, 420–1, 422, 452, 464

Du Maurier, Gerald, 112, 159;
Trilby
, 164–5,
166, 167–8

Dublin, 114, 175; Welles in (1931–2), 81, 82–107, 108, 110, 111, 127, 138, 139, 146, 232, 362, 484

Duchess of Malfi, The
(Webster), 286, 287, 309, 346, 358–9

Duck Soup
(film), 482

Dukes, Ashley, 93, 97

Dumas, Alexandre, 418, 483

Duncan, Isadora, 430, 482

Dunn, Linwood, 521–2, 523

Durante, Jimmy, 211, 447

Dust of the Road, The
, 45

Duthie, George,
384, 428

Eagle’s Nest Camp, Grand Detour, 24

Eckstein, Louis, 22–3

Edeson, Arthur, 500

Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy Show
, 371, 401–2

Edington, (RKO’s corporate lawyer), 495

editing, film, 385, 501, 523–4

Edward VIII (Duke of Windsor), 205, 426

Edwards, Hilton, 84, 85, 86–8, 89, 90, 91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 97–8, 99, 103, 104, 106, 107, 108–9, 112, 145, 235, 413;
at Woodstock Theatre Festival, 156, 157–8, 159, 160, 162, 163, 164–5, 168, 169, 171, 172, 174–6

Eisenstein, Serge, 176

Eliot, T.S., 200; The
Hollow Men
, 466

Elliott, Maxine, 250

Ellis, Maurice, 224, 245

Elman, Mischa, 14, 20

Emery, John, 342, 427, 435, 439, 470, 503

Emperor Jones, The
, 221, 242

Engel, Lehman, 289, 293, 297, 298, 330, 351, 353;
This Bright Day
, 301

Equity, 300, 385, 504

Ethiopia
(FTP show), cancellation of, 228, 247

Evans, Edith, 112, 114, 153, 188–9

Evans, Maurice, 168–9, 353, 380, 424–5, 427, 438–9, 442

Even a Wise Man Stumbles
(Eisenstein film), 176

Evening with Orson Welles, An
(chat show), 37

Everybody’s Shakespeare
(Welles and Hill), 127, 129, 131, 134, 146, 154, 177–85, 186, 223, 323, 329, 358, 474

Everyman
, 228

Everything Old Was Once New
(Welles interview), 349

Ewald, Carl,
My Little Boy
, 418

Exception and the Rule, The
(Brecht-Weill), 291

Exermont
, Welles trip to Morocco on, 128–9

Faber, Leslie, 159

Fabulous Invalid, The
(Kaufmann & Hart), 416

Fall of the City, The
(radio play), 202

Fallon, Gabriel, 110

Farrell, Eileen, 526

Father, The
(Strindberg),
159

Favorite, Mrs, 439

FBI, 557, 570–1

Feder, Abe, 201, 219, 230–2, 237, 241, 255–6, 269, 270, 272, 273, 275–6, 297, 330;
Steps in Lighting
, 231

Federal Art Project, 216

Federal Music Project, 216

Federal Negro Theatre, Chicago, 542

Federal Theatre Magazine, 219

Federal Theatre Project (FTP), 215, 216–301, 308, 310, 312, 313, 322, 325, 333, 395, 430; criticisms
of, 248–9; economic threat, and
The Cradle Will Rock
, 294–301, 303;
Ethiopia
cancelled, 228, 247; Negro Theatre Project, 219–47, 543; Project 891 (Classical Unit), 247, 250–87, 290–301, 340, 350, 444

Federal Writers’ Project, 216

Ferguson, Otis, 566–8, 569–70

Ferguson, Perry, 498, 503, 507, 527

Ferris, Walter, 106

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

Feydeau, Ernest, 252, 384

Field, Eugene, ‘With Brutus in St Jo’, 184

Field, Mrs Henry, 167, 171

Fields, Marshall, 161, 167

Fields, W.C., 447

films/movies, 176, 306, 382, 383–6, 410, 422, 446, 448–539, 577;
Citizen Kane
, xii, xiii, 60, 64, 121, 184, 201, 262, 327, 432, 484–9, 491, 493–539, 543, 546, 548–50, 552, 560–75, 577–8;
The Cradle Will Rock
(unfilmed screenplay), xii, 108, 199, 209, 246, 268–9, 277–8, 283, 289, 334;
Heart of Darkness
(unfilmed screenplay), 463, 464–72, 476–7, 480, 481, 487, 501, 503, 504, 558;
Hearts of Age
(Welles’s early short film), 176, 383;
Journey into Fear
, 528, 577;
The Magnificent Ambersons
, 418, 512, 525, 577; RKO’s contract with Welles, 449–53, 457;
Santa
(unfilmed screenplay), 528–9; The
Smiler with a
Knife
(unfilmed screenplay), 477, 480–1, 485, 487

Finesse the Queen
(musical), 44, 45

First Nighter
(radio show), 372–3

First Person Singular see
Mercury Theatre of the Air

Fiske, Harrison Grey, 248–9, 258

Fitzgerald, Geraldine, 111, 363–4, 368

Fitzgerald, Scott, 457, 482;
The Great Gatsby
, 15

Five Kings
(Shakespeare: Wars of the Roses cycle), Mercury-Theatre Guild
co-production of, 358, 359, 362, 368, 380, 383, 423–5, 447, 448, 451, 470, 473, 492, 503, 543

Flanagan, Hallie, 216–18, 228, 236, 239, 240, 243, 247, 249, 250, 258, 270, 278–9, 285, 286, 290, 293, 294–5, 297, 299, 300, 303, 306, 310, 322;
Shifting Scenes
, 216

Fletcher, Lawrence, 428

Flexner, Eleanor, 349

Fokine, Michel, 303

Fonteyn, Margot, 171

Food: A Tragedy of the Future
(Mille), 45

Forbes, Brenda, 153, 158, 363

Ford, Charles-Henri, 274

Ford, John, 462; ‘
Tis Pity She’s a Whore
, 207, 208–9

Ford, John (film director), 458, 500, 501, 514, 520, 577

Ford, Ruth, 348, 384

Forrest, Edwin, 178

Fortune
magazine, 200

Forward, Jean, 526

Foster, Norman, 528–9

Four Saints in Three Acts
(Stein), 194, 219, 220, 221

Fowler, Roy Alexander,
550

Fra Diavolo
(Auber), 48–9

France, Richard, xii, 261, 269, 272, 290, 300, 397, 430

Francis, Arlene, 253, 254, 384

Free Company, The, 555–6, 557

Frescoes for Mr Rockefeller’s City
(MacLeish), 196

Freund, Karl, 506

Friday
, 531, 532

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