Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane (129 page)

and Hollywood, 407, 552, 553, 554, 558–60, 564–65, 572, 578, 579, 591, 594, 610–11

and
Horse Eats Hat
, 359, 361, 362, 365

“Houseman people,” 333–35, 355–56, 417, 463, 469, 497, 523, 530

and Mercury Theatre, 408–10, 415, 416–17, 422, 429, 435, 436, 446, 451–52, 454, 457–58, 460, 462, 478, 515, 610, 611, 629

and
Mercury Theatre on the Air
, 485–87, 489–91, 496, 498–99, 564

and Negro Unit, 328–29, 332, 333–35, 336, 339–40, 342, 344, 346, 347, 353

and Orson’s ballerinas, 487, 491, 542

Orson’s relationship with, 318, 319–20, 329, 334, 335, 342, 352–54, 370, 372, 375, 384, 402, 406, 408–10, 419, 421, 460–61, 478, 483, 491, 494, 527, 530–31, 546–47, 552, 579–80, 610–13, 650, 659–60, 695–96, 726, 731–32

Oscar awarded to, 731–32

and
Panic
, 305, 307–13, 318, 332

and Phoenix Theatre, 317–18, 324, 327

and Project 891, 354–55, 357, 359–62, 370, 375, 402

questionable memories of, 307, 340, 375, 384, 409, 458, 612–13

Run-Through
(memoir), 304, 310, 317, 371, 384, 408, 423–24, 457, 466, 478, 479, 480, 485, 500, 518, 522, 530, 584–85, 611, 612–13, 650–51, 654

and Hiram “Chubby” Sherman, 464, 466

and “The Summing Up,” 460–61, 462

and Virgil Thomson, 305, 307, 332, 333–35, 355, 385, 386, 419, 611–13

and
Too Much Johnson
, 477, 478, 479, 481, 483, 485–86, 487

Unfinished Business
by, 500n

and United Productions, 660

and Vassar Drama Department, 402, 423

and “War of the Worlds,” 500–501, 503–4, 505, 508–9, 510, 513, 514, 649, 650

Howard, David, 444

Howard, Leslie, 277, 353, 359, 369, 370, 393

Hoysradt, John (Hoyt), 268, 269, 270, 276, 308, 416, 434, 443, 451, 462

Hoyt, Thatcher, 84, 635n

HUAC (House Committee on Un-American Activities), 727

Hughes, Elinor, 528, 531–32

Hughes, Howard, 596

Hugo, Victor,
Les Misérables
, 403–5, 459, 469, 502

Hunchback of Notre Dame, The
(film), 539, 540, 551, 559, 563, 609, 673, 679

Hunter, Robert,
Poverty
, 50

Hurston, Zora Neale, 329

Huston, John, 498, 585, 612, 724, 742–43, 746

Huston, Walter, 261, 272

Huxley, Aldous, 566–68

After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
, 566–67, 622

Hyman, Marcus, 490

Ibsen, Henrik, 253, 308, 354

Illinois Fuel Company, 9–10, 11

I Love Lucy
(TV series), 642–43n, 728

I Married an Angel
(stage play), 456-57, 542

“Immortal Sherlock Holmes, The” (radio), 499

Importance of Being Earnest, The
(stage play), 464, 466, 466n, 472

Ince, Thomas H., 4, 625, 663, 665

Informer, The
(film), 322, 590

Ingersoll, Robert G., 148

Insull, Samuel, 155, 237, 309, 358, 371, 571, 625, 679

International Metal Workers Union, 34, 35, 36

Intimate Shakespearean Company, 195

Ireland, 188–216, 219, 322

Dublin, 194–214, 254

“Gaels” in performance in, 201–2

Galway, 189, 190–91, 192, 195

Orson as star in, 205, 215, 216, 252, 349, 733

Iron Horse, The
(film), 589–90

Irving, Henry, 271, 429, 468, 529

It Happened One Night
(film), 643

It’s All True
(uncompleted film), 645, 725, 746

I’ve Got the Tune
(radio opera), 415

Ivens, Joris, 382

Ives, Abigail Watson, 7, 8

Ives, Beatrice:

birth and childhood of, 9–12

and Dick, 26, 27–28;
see also
Welles, Richard Head

marriage of,
see
Welles, Beatrice Ives

Ives, Benjamin (grandfather), 8, 9–10, 11, 27, 50–51

Ives, John G., 7, 8

Ives, Lucy Alma Walker (grandmother), 8, 9, 51, 57, 62, 63, 77

Ives family, 7–12, 15

Jack Benny Show, The
(radio series), 646

Jacobsen, Sigrid, 93, 103

Jacques Gordon String Quartet, 89, 98

Jaglom, Henry, 741, 743

interviews with Orson, 88, 160, 205–6, 283, 340, 359, 399, 408, 419, 463, 491, 515, 532, 562, 584n, 602–3, 644, 685, 689, 732

My Lunches with Orson
(Jaglom and Biskind), 206

Jane Eyre
(Brontë), 487, 497, 643–44

Jane Eyre
(film), 452, 679

Jannings, Emil, 584

Jarrett, Guy, 710

Jazbo (drummer), 348–49

Jeffery Company, The, 26, 35, 50

Jeffery, Thomas B., 23, 24, 26, 37

Jerome, Jerome K., 210

Jerome, V. J., 312–13, 390, 495

Jew Süss
(
Jud Süss
) (stage play), 212

critical reviews of, 204–5

Orson’s acting in, 200–205, 206, 207, 208, 254, 313

Orson’s audition for, 197–98

premiere in Dublin, 202–3

Johann, Zita, 310

John Meade’s Woman
(film), 618–19

Johnson, Albert, 294

Johnson, Haven, 680

Johnson, James P., 347

Johnson, Martin and Osa, 589

Johnston, Alva, 559n, 617

Jones, Robert Edmond, 217, 258, 272

Jonson, Ben, 409, 410

Jordan, Charlotte Hannahs “Lottie,” 49–50, 54, 60, 72, 77

Jordan, Edward S., 49, 54, 77

Journey into Fear
(film), 116, 679, 725

Joyce, Phyllis, 452

Julius Caesar
(Mercury Theatre), 411–15, 430, 435, 455, 495

on Broadway, 132, 444

casting, 416–18, 420, 434, 452, 491

critical reviews of, 427, 428, 436, 442–43

instrumentation for, 433

and
Me and Orson Welles
, 420–21

and Mercury Theatre, 409, 410, 486–87

in modern dress, 409, 412–13, 414, 443

Orson as director of, 411, 414–15, 416, 421–23, 493

Orson’s adaptations of, 413, 424–26, 427

phonograph recording of, 444, 448

players’ compensation, 462

premiere of, 423, 426–28, 432

previews of, 423, 424–27

rehearsals, 417–18, 421–24

road production of, 443, 448, 452, 461

stage design of, 422, 433

success of, 427–28, 429, 453

June Moon
(film), 643

Kael, Pauline, 504, 619, 632, 650

“Raising Kane,” 620, 712

The Citizen Kane Book
, 633, 661

Kahlke, Charles, 99, 105

Kahlo, Frida, 388

Kane, Whitford, 406, 626

and Goodman Theatre, 150, 157, 185, 273, 465

and
Hamlet
, 531

and
Les Misérables
, 404

and Mercury Theatre, 434, 436, 446, 465–66

and
The Shadow
, 431

and Hiram “Chubby” Sherman, 313, 318, 324, 327

and ’
Tis Pity She’s a Whore
, 318, 327

and Virginia Welles, 324, 466

and Woodstock summer theater, 273, 274, 275, 276

Kanin, Garson, 588–89, 673

Karson, Nat, 334, 341, 343, 356

Kaufman, George S., 226, 256–57, 390, 570–71, 618, 643, 645

Kauser, Alice, 230

Kazan, Elia, 431–32

Keating, Seán, 192

Keaton, Buster, 216, 474, 702, 703

Keen, J. H., 535, 541

Kekst, Louis, 37–38

Kemble, Charles, 302

Kemble, Fanny, 543

Kemper Campbell Ranch, 630–32

Kenosha News
, 3-4, 27, 28, 30, 31, 34, 38, 40, 47, 50, 53, 54, 55, 59, 62, 63, 64, 65, 71, 73, 74, 75, 78, 105, 177

Kenosha Political Equality League, 50, 52–53, 54, 55–57, 60, 69, 78

Kenosha, Wisconsin, 3–5, 25, 28

Community Tree in, 62–63

education reform in, 51, 64, 70, 71

jitney buses in, 54–55

Kenosha City Club, 59, 69, 71, 78

labor activism in, 34–38

Progressive Club, 56, 58, 78

Rudolphsheim in, 20, 25, 26, 28, 29, 110, 177

school board, 44, 57–58, 69, 70, 71, 76, 78

Unitarian Church in, 40–42, 43, 56, 61–62, 78, 98

Woman’s Alliance, 40, 41, 44, 56, 62, 70

Woman’s Club, 33-34, 39, 40–42, 45–46, 49, 50, 51, 53, 56-57, 58, 59, 78

Kent, Amalia “Molly,” 565

Kent, Rockwell, 322, 448

Keystone Kops, 286, 475, 477

Khan, Prince Aly, 109, 727

King Kong
(film), 564, 589, 593, 652, 673

Kingsley, Charles,
Hypatia
, 34

Kingsley, Guy, 492, 494, 509, 521

Kingsley, Sidney, 357, 359, 365–66

Kipling, Rudyard, 78

Kitt, Eartha, 387n

Kliman, Bernice W.,
Hamlet: Film, Television and Audio Performance
, 370

Knickerbocker Playhouse
(radio series), 547

KNX Los Angeles, 616

Koch, Howard:

As Time Goes By
, 500

and
The Campbell Playhouse
, 518, 531, 570

and Hollywood blacklist, 727

and Mercury Theatre, 498, 612

and “War of the Worlds” script, 499–501, 504, 648–50

Kodar, Aleksandar, 715, 743

Kodar, Oja, 106, 584n, 712, 715–16, 741, 743, 746, 747

Korda, Zoltan, 589

Korea Maru
(ship), 169

Krasna, Norman, 296

Kreidl, John F., 24, 29

Kreidler, Louis, 73, 78

Kriss
(film), 589

Krohn, Bill, 745

Krutch, Joseph Wood, 426

Kubrick, Stanley, 590

Kykunkor
(opera), 334–35

Laage, Barbara, 727n

Labiche, Eugène,
Un Chapeau de Paille d’Italie
(
An Italian Straw Hat
), 354

labor unions, 384, 388–90, 392–93, 397, 430, 448, 496

Ladd, Alan, 699, 700

Lady from Shanghai, The
(film), 215, 452, 585, 607, 717, 727

Lafayette Players, 336

Lafayette Theatre, New York, 328, 331, 339, 343, 347, 350

Lamarr, Hedy, 560, 582

Lamb, Charles and Mary,
Tales from Shakespeare
, 86

Lance, Hazel, 57

“Land of Heart’s Desire, The,” 205

Lang, Matheson, 197, 199

Lang, Fritz, 567

Langer, Lawrence, 463

Lardner, Ring, 643

Last Voyage Home, The
(film), 673

Latin School of Chicago, 83, 90, 91, 100

Laughton, Charles, 551

Laurant, Eugene, 61

Laurel and Hardy, 206, 577

Laurence, Paula, 373, 374, 600

Lawrence, Gertrude, 528, 542

Lawson, John Howard, 312

Leaming, Barbara:

on Maurice Bernstein’s death, 723

and
Merv Griffin Show
, 719, 732, 733–34, 738

Orson Welles
, 60, 96, 101, 109, 110, 119, 125–26, 136, 155, 159, 163, 164, 167, 169–70, 172, 174, 175, 178, 206, 208, 223, 227, 240, 241, 245, 248–49, 252, 276, 283, 296, 299, 313, 330, 336, 340, 341, 344, 350, 353, 364, 365, 373, 377, 385, 392, 402, 406, 418, 439–40, 446, 456, 460, 465, 480, 515, 536, 544, 546, 549, 551, 612, 613, 642, 680, 686–87, 710, 716, 729, 732

Lederer, Charles, 406, 600, 601n, 624–25, 641, 658, 660, 702, 716–17, 737

Lee, Canada, 297, 337, 346, 347, 660, 727

Le Gallienne, Eva, 520

Lehmann, Lotte, 724

Leiber, Fritz, 165, 185, 271

LeNoire, Rosetta, 339, 340, 346

Lester, Richard, 590

Leve, Sam, 374, 414, 433

Levy, Beatrice S., 127, 236

Lewis, Lloyd, 236–37, 251, 252, 282, 288

Lewis, Sinclair,
Dodsworth
, 572

Lewis, W. B., 511

Light, James, 307, 309, 310

Lincoln, Abraham, 7–8, 14, 16, 26, 53, 69, 352, 482, 498, 679

Lincoln, Mary Todd, 8

Lindsay-Hogg, Edward, 437, 455, 553, 601, 602

Lindsay-Hogg, Michael, 455, 601–3, 601n

Linklater, Richard, 420

Lloyd, George, 417

Lloyd, Harold, 473–74

Lloyd, Norman:

in Hollywood, 586

and Mercury Theatre, 417, 421–22, 423–24, 425, 434, 435, 445–46, 447, 461–62, 464

Stages: Of Life in Theatre, Film and Television
, 422

Lockridge, Richard, 376, 453, 514

Lombard, Carole, 558, 596, 616

Lonely Man, The
(stage play), 498

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 142

Longford, Earl of, 195, 205

Longford, Lady, 205, 206

“Lorna Doone” (radio play), 500

Los Angeles Times
, 162, 267, 549, 560, 562, 576, 583, 598, 609, 614, 617, 674, 720

Losch, Tilly, 439–41, 448, 454, 456, 487, 490

Losey, Joseph, 331–32, 337

Lost Patrol, The
(film), 590

Louis, Joe, 347

Lubitsch, Ernst, 228, 233, 454n, 557, 567

Lundberg, Ferdinand:

Citizen Kane
lawsuit, 621–22, 624, 625, 626, 628–29, 630, 638, 639–40, 650–55, 656, 666, 675, 677, 678, 681, 694, 696, 697, 698, 699, 701

Imperial Hearst
, 246, 652, 653

Lunt, Alfred, 165, 418, 455, 480, 517, 551, 592, 599

Lupino, Ida, 545, 728

Lux Radio Theatre
(
Lux Presents Hollywood
), 459, 569

Lyons, Leonard, 574, 591

MacArthur, Charles, 407, 540, 605

The Front Page
, 79, 406

and Helen Hayes, 406, 537, 559-60, 566

and Ben Hecht, 79, 406-7, 531, 537, 540, 559-60, 571, 658

Ladies and Gentlemen
, 559, 560

socializing, 406, 537, 538, 566, 571, 658

“Twentieth Century” (radio play), 531

Macdermid, Sybil Sammis, 74

MacLeish, Archibald:

“Air Raid” (radio play), 499

and
The Cradle Will Rock
, 393, 399, 401

“Fall of the City” (radio play), 378–80, 382, 499, 502

Panic
(stage play), 305–7, 308–13, 332

social circle of, 308, 378

MacLíammóir, Micheál:

All for Hecuba
(autobiography), 196