Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane

by McGilligan, Patrick

  Abbey Theatre, Dublin, 196, 205, 209, 210, 214, 248

  Abbott, George, 296

  Abe Lincoln in Illinois (film), 679

  Abraham Lincoln (stage play), 482, 485

  Academy Awards (Oscars), 517, 531, 590, 619, 671, 731, 736

  Actors Equity, 232, 293, 310, 373, 389, 392, 402, 417, 448, 462, 481

  Adams, Maude, 294

  Addams, Jane, 52–53

  Adding Machine, The (stage play), 180

  Ade, George, 22, 24, 27, 30, 63, 64, 75–76, 123, 188

  Adrian, Gilbert, 560

  (AFI) American Film Institute, 743, 744–45

  AFL (American Federation of Labor), 389, 392

  Aherne, Brian, 297–98, 300, 345, 550

  Alexander, Rita, 631, 632

  “Algiers” (radio play and film), 581

  Algonquin Hotel, New York, 255, 293, 294, 298, 414

  Algonquin Round Table, 571, 619

  Alice in Wonderland (stage adaptation), 210–11

  All-Alone, The (stage play), 214

  Alland, William, 419, 492

  and Citizen Kane, 382, 667–68, 682, 695, 704

  in Hollywood, 565, 574, 581, 610

  and HUAC, 727

  and Mercury Theatre, 418, 434, 502, 521, 547, 667

  and Orson’s “slaves,” 382, 418, 434, 479, 502, 547

  and The Second Hurricane, 382, 418

  as “Vakhtangov,” 418, 479, 549, 565, 574

  Allen, Evelyn, 416

  Allen, Gracie, 161

  American Lyric Theatre, 530

  American Mercury, 409

  American School of the Air (radio series), 324–26, 330, 413

  Anderson, Arthur, 417, 434, 443, 480

  Anderson, John, 428, 453

  Anderson, Mary, 262

  Anderson, Maxwell, 305, 380, 648

  Anderson, Sherwood, 485

  Anderson, Thomas, 334

  Anger, Kenneth, Hollywood Babylon, 737

  Anisfeld, Boris, 86, 185, 186

  Ankrum, Morris, 521, 548

  Appleby, Stephen, 549

  Aquitania (ship), 553

  Archdupe, The (stage play), 208, 209

  Archer, William, The Green Goddess, 546 Arlen, Michael, 115

  Arliss, George, 197

  Around the World in Eighty Days (Jules Verne story, radio play), 358, 497, 499

  Around the World in Eighty Days (musical), 739

  “Arrowsmith” (radio play), 531

  Art Institute of Chicago, The, 10, 86, 103, 110, 127, 149, 185, 279, 280, 281

  Ash, Walter, 417, 473, 536

  Atkinson, Brooks, 311, 342, 348, 366, 376, 428, 430, 436, 514

  Auden, W. H., 380

  Backus, Georgia, 616, 727

  Badger Brass Company, 24–26, 29, 31–32, 34–38, 39, 40, 45, 52, 55, 73–74

  Baer, Richard (Richard Barr), 549, 565

  in Hollywood, 554, 558, 610

  and Mercury Theatre, 492, 502, 521, 547, 554

  and money matters, 605–6, 616, 629–30, 656–57, 701

  and Orson’s “slaves,” 492, 502, 526, 547, 554

  Bain, Harriet, 49, 50, 52, 53, 56–57, 59–60, 64, 69, 71, 73, 75, 77

  Bain Wagon Works, 17, 18, 23, 35, 74

  Baird, Bil, 357, 363, 364, 373, 417

  Balanchine, George, 439, 455–56, 489, 542, 567

  Ball, Lucille, 576–77, 616–17, 642–43n

  Bankhead, Tallulah, 258–59, 405, 428, 520, 535–36

  Barnet, Charlie, 680

  Barrett, Edith, 446

  Barretts of Wimpole Street, The (stage play), 259, 262–67, 268, 275, 298, 363, 520

  Barrier, Edgar, 473, 475, 476, 480, 492, 521, 587, 644

  Barrymore, Ethel, 153, 321, 543–44

  Barrymore, John, 102, 131–32, 199, 224, 261, 543–45, 547, 549, 551, 588, 620

  Barrymore, Lionel, 519, 543–44, 616

  Barrymore, Maurice, 543, 544

  Bartzen, Peter, 47–48

  Bass Rocks Theatre, Gloucester, MA, 530, 546, 547

  Bates, Ernest Sutherland, 652

  Batista, Miriam, 318

  Beaton, Cecil, 428, 430

  “Beau Geste” (radio play, 531

  Beau Geste (film), 557

  Beery, Wallace, 531

  Belasco, David, 324, 615

  Benét, Stephen Vincent, 380

  The Devil and Daniel Webster, 530, 536, 538

  Benny, Jack, 379, 560, 643, 645–46

  Bergman, Ingrid, 587

  Bergner, Elisabeth, 160

  Berle, Milton, 198

  Bernhardt, Sarah, 79–80

  Bernstein, Mrs. Mina (Elman), 65, 74, 82

  Bernstein, Hazel Moore, 65, 74, 82 573–74, 682, 723, 724, 726, 727, 729; see also Moore, Hazel

  Bernstein, Maurice A.:

  death of, 723, 728–29

  and Edith Mason, 162–63, 167–68

  and Hazel, 163, 226, 299, 321; see also Bernstein, Hazel Moore

  and Hollywood, 554, 573–74, 580, 594, 603–5, 723–29

  in Kenosha, 46–47, 82–83, 85

  letters to and from Orson, 188, 191, 192, 193, 195, 198, 201, 203, 204, 207, 244, 260, 298

  medical practice of, 47–48, 65, 724–25, 726, 728

  and Mina Elman, 65, 74, 82

  myths perpetuated by, 6, 9, 85, 107, 614, 617

  and Orson’s birth and childhood, 5–6, 87, 90, 109, 110, 111–15, 127, 131, 132, 149

  and Orson’s health, 101, 112

  and Orson’s performances, 264, 349, 535, 549, 682, 706

  and Orson’s teen years, 152, 153, 157–58, 159, 162, 168, 181, 184–87, 220, 226–27, 232, 234, 239, 241, 245, 261, 272

  and Orson’s trust fund/finances, 48, 177, 181–83, 194, 199, 225, 231, 232, 240, 245, 293, 297, 319, 323, 337, 449, 515, 539, 541, 573, 605, 657, 729

  and Orson-Virginia marriage, 301, 600

  personal traits of, 46–47, 48

  and Richard “Dick” Welles’s death, 176–77

  stories told by, 21, 60, 110–11, 112, 122, 168, 261, 525

  travels of, 106, 169, 329

  as Welles family friend, 49, 64–65, 83, 85, 87, 93, 99, 100

  Welles keepsakes in possession of, 8, 106, 182–83, 658, 729

  and Woodstock summer theater, 281, 282

  and young Richard Ives Welles’s financial affairs, 183, 228

  and young Richard Ives Welles’s health, 48–49, 75, 82–83, 91–92, 93, 101, 140

  Berry, John, 417, 476, 479, 494, 521, 727

  Besier, Rudolf, 259

  Bessy, Maurice, 418–19

  Bierce, Ambrose, 654

  Big Brass Ring, The (film), 607, 712, 746

  Big Sister (radio series), 359, 362, 365, 368

  Billingsley, Sherman, 536

  Birth of a Nation, The (film), 102–3, 615

  Biskind, Peter, My Lunches with Orson (ed.), 206

  Blackstone, Harry Jr., 714

  Blaine, James G., 148

  Blake, Nicholas (Cecil Day-Lewis), The Smiler with the Knife, 595–97

  Blankfort, Michael, 297

  Blitzstein, Marc, 409, 419, 433, 448

  and The Columbia Workshop, 415

  and Cradle revival, 415, 429–30

  and The Cradle will Rock, 384–86, 391, 392, 393, 395–98, 401–2, 406

  and Danton’s Death, 492, 495

  and Mercury Theatre, 415, 422, 429, 515, 521

  and The Spanish Earth, 382, 384

  and Too Much Johnson, 477, 482

  Blondell, Joan, 643

  Bodenheim, Maxwell, 425

  Bogdanovich, Peter, 620, 743, 746

  The Cat’s Meow, 663n

  on Citizen Kane, 3, 638, 640, 651, 661, 662, 664, 672, 673, 674, 682, 688, 689–90, 700, 704–5, 734

  interviews with Orson, 86, 88, 102, 108, 117, 128, 130, 159, 210, 296, 350, 362–63, 367, 369, 372, 408, 433, 442, 471, 492, 509, 518, 532, 544–45, 564, 583, 585, 587–88, 590, 593, 616, 618, 621, 623, 644, 710, 711, 715, 718, 732

  an
d Sight and Sound poll, 744

  This Is Orson Welles, 287

  Bohnen, Roman, 233, 297, 308

  Bolm, Adolph, 724

  Bonanova, Fortunio, 116–17

  Bond, Ward, 585

  Booth, Edwin, 30, 94, 203, 302, 429

  Borowoski, Felix, 94

  Bosch, Hieronymous, 620

  Bourbon, Diana, 569, 581, 582, 584

  Bow, Clara, 571

  Bowles, Paul, 356, 373, 474, 482n

  Boy Meets Girl (stage play), 338

  Boyar, Ben A., 229, 232, 235

  Boyer, Charles, 581

  Bradford, Mary D., 30, 44, 51, 52, 53, 55, 57–58, 59, 62, 63–64, 71, 77, 78

  Brady, Frank:

  Citizen Welles, 206, 215, 217, 378, 387n, 398, 439, 443, 449, 455, 476, 477, 478, 482, 516–17, 536, 548, 562n, 563, 589, 592, 593, 594, 596, 679

  watching filmed Twelfth Night rehearsals, 218, 374

  Brassler, Muriel, 416

  Brecht, Bertolt, 385

  Bright, John, 619

  “Bright Lucifer” (stage play), 294, 295, 302, 306, 313–17

  Bronte, Charlotte, 497, 498

  Brown, John, 148, 152, 219, 220, 222–26, 229–32, 237, 239, 240, 252, 253, 621

  See also “Marching Song”

  Brown, John Mason, 348, 426, 427, 428, 514

  Bryan, William Jennings, 622

  Buchan, John, The Thirty-Nine Steps, 485

  Büchner, Georg, Dantons Tod (Danton’s Death), 483, 490, 492

  Buck, Rev. Florence, 33–34, 39, 40, 41, 43, 52, 62, 98

  Buñuel, Luis, 286

  Burckhardt, Rudy, 406–7

  Burgess, Grover, 416

  Burke, Billie, 642

  Burns, George, 161, 560

  Burnshaw, Stanley, 312

  Burroughs, Eric, 336–37, 350, 386

  “Business Before Pleasure” (radio play), 547

  Butcher, Fanny, 186, 371

  Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The (film), 589

  Calleia, Joseph, 296–97, 582

  Callow, Simon, Orson Welles, 150, 155, 163, 174, 180, 194, 224, 245, 249, 300, 316, 344, 349, 352, 419, 436, 481, 504, 510, 517, 525–26, 534, 572, 595, 613, 619

  Campbell, Mrs. Patrick, 442–43

  Campbell Playhouse, The (radio series), 519, 523, 542, 568–70, 578, 584, 587, 599

  the deal with, 516–18, 569

  final broadcast of, 643–44

  and finances, 605, 629

  and John Houseman, 516, 518, 531, 546, 569, 570, 579–80, 611

  launch of, 517–18

  and Herman J. Mankiewicz, 572–73

  and Mercury Theatre, 517, 518

  and Orson in Hollywood, 568–69

  programs of, 517–18, 531, 545, 547, 548, 570, 572, 581, 616, 642–44, 646

  Camp Indianola, 118–21, 122, 124, 126, 143

  Camp Tosebo, 184, 186, 220, 272

  Cantril, Hadley, The Invasion from Mars: A Study in the Psychology of Panic, 506, 648–50

  Capek, Karel, 165

  Capital Times (Madison, WI), 123-25, 730

  Capra, Frank, 57, 588, 643

  Carle, Richard, 30, 71

  Carlson, Oliver, 652

  Carman, Bliss, “Envoy,” 158

  Carpenter, Francis, 294, 296, 317, 319–20, 419, 434, 521

  Carringer, Robert L., The Making of Citizen Kane, 368, 565, 594–95, 596, 629, 655, 656, 660, 661, 665, 669, 673, 675, 693, 702

  Carrington, Margaret, 258, 261, 272

  Carroll, Lewis, 211

  Carroll, Madeleine, 531, 644

  Carson, Johnny, 709, 714

  Carter, Jack, 297, 340, 610

  and Faustus, 372–73, 374, 376, 586

  and Heart of Darkness, 586

  in Voodoo Macbeth, 336, 344, 345, 346, 347, 350, 351, 586

  Caruso, Enrico, 31, 90, 94

  Caruthers, Julia Lois, 11–12, 83, 99, 103

  Cavalcade of America (radio series), 368

  CBS, 337, 338, 369, 370, 379

  and American School of the Air, 324, 330

  and The Campbell Playhouse, 516–18

  and The Columbia Workshop, 369–70, 378, 380, 405, 415, 459

  and “First Person Singular,” 458, 459–60

  and Studio One, 459

  and “War of the Worlds,” 498, 501, 508–10, 511, 513, 516

  Celebrity, The (stage play), 210

  Century of Progress Exposition, Chicago (1933), 251–52, 281

  Chaliapin, Fyodor, 90

  Chamlee, Mario, 94, 154, 186, 301, 574, 724

  Chancellor, Betty, 204, 206–7, 213

  Chaney, Lon, 88, 210, 539

  Chang (film), 589

  Chaplin, Charles “Charlie,” 474, 545, 577, 584, 663, 689, 702, 703

  The Gold Rush, 118

  The Great Dictator, 566, 582

  The Kid, 473

  Modern Times, 198

  Monsieur Verdoux, 725

  Chappell, Ernest, 569, 581, 582

  Chase and Sanborn Hour, The (radio series), 498

  Chesterton, G. K., The Man Who Was Thursday, 485–86

  Chestnut Theater, Philadelphia, 534–35

  Chicago Civic Opera, The, 152, 155, 162, 164–65, 232, 238, 301, 358

  Chicago Conservatory, The, 10–12, 34

  Chicago Daily News, 79, 236, 252, 288, 735

  Chicago Herald (and) Examiner, 94, 97, 152, 165, 167, 168, 174, 177

  Chicago (Daily) Tribune, 60, 79, 93, 94, 105, 152, 154, 186, 207, 210, 216, 220, 226, 237, 261, 265, 273, 274, 281, 282, 284, 285, 299, 302, 358, 371, 541, 570, 604, 625

  Chimes at Midnight (film), 419, 519, 529, 710, 738, 745

  Chimes at Midnight (stage play), 602, 603

  Chirello, George “Shorty,” 553, 717, 734

  Chopin, Frédéric, 10, 40, 74, 330

  Christians, Mady, 451–52

  Christie, Agatha, 572

  “Christmas Carol, A” (radio play), 519–20, 616

  Churchill, Sir Winston, 620

  Cimber, Alphonse, 334

  Cintrón, Conchita, 249

  CIO (Committee for Industrial Organization), 389, 390, 448

  Circle, The (stage play), 209

  Citizen Kane, 590, 593, 607, 615n

  and Academy Awards, 619, 736, 742

  books and articles about, 3, 368, 565, 594–95, 596, 620, 632, 633, 656, 661, 686, 712

  budget for, 693

  casting of, 114, 116, 639–40, 663–68, 683–90, 703–4, 735

  and censors, 677, 683, 702

  characters in, 46, 107–8, 116, 155, 221, 366, 382, 452, 625–27, 634, 635–39, 653, 655, 664–65, 675–76, 678, 688, 689, 691–93, 694, 723, 737, 744

  credits for, 546, 673, 695–97

  critical reviews of, 735–36

  filming of, 3, 681–83, 687–88, 703–6, 710, 723

  Hearst media ban on, 735, 736–37

  lighting for, 671–72

  Lundberg lawsuit about, see Lundberg, Ferdinand

  music for, 634, 692–93, 701, 724

  Orson’s acting in, 678–79, 688

  Orson’s scriptwriting contributions to, 631, 651, 655–56, 659, 660–63, 664–65, 669, 674–83, 693–96, 742

  parallels to real life, 246, 454, 626, 634, 635, 638, 656, 659, 661, 663, 681, 744

  premiere of, 588

  production team for, 474, 669–73, 682–83, 691, 701, 703

  published script of, 633–34, 638, 650, 653, 665, 705

  RKO 281 telefilm about, 104

  RKO planning for, 628–30, 645, 655, 656, 660, 669, 674

  “Rosebud,” 632, 633, 634, 635, 636, 661, 666, 692, 697–701, 735, 737

  scenes from, 3, 116–17, 367, 571, 585, 622, 623–24, 633–34, 635–38, 652–53, 655, 664–65, 666–67, 676–78, 680–85, 687–89, 691, 699–700, 701, 735

  seeds of the story, 6, 19–20, 27, 30, 88, 90, 125, 134, 183, 223, 245, 287, 368–69, 564, 596, 619, 621–27, 703

  shooting script of, 81, 504, 633, 661, 677, 682–83, 691, 697–701, 702

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sp; special effects in, 673, 678

  structure of, 621, 626, 634–40

  success of, 734, 735, 744–45

  title of, 674

  UCLA course on, 714, 743

  writing the script (with John Houseman, Herman Mankiewicz), 630–32, 639, 640, 646, 650–56, 659, 681

  Xanadu (Florida) in, 625–26, 633, 634, 655, 670, 678, 680–81, 687, 698, 699

  Civic Repertory, New York, 297

  Civil War, U.S., 8, 14, 15, 17, 19, 22, 102, 117, 130, 133, 219, 222, 236, 252, 261, 358, 671

  Clair, René, 354

  Claire, Ina, 94

  Clayton, John, 152, 155, 180, 201, 226, 232, 235, 236, 239, 251–52, 246, 253, 280, 285

  Clouds over Europe (film), 558

  Cocteau, Jean, 233, 286, 327

  Cody, Buffalo Bill, 60

  Cohan, George M., 30

  Cohn, Harry, 567, 727n

  Colbert, Claudette, 567

  Colcord, Lincoln, 70

  Cole, Nat “King,” 680

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 698

  Collins, Charles, 94, 152, 220, 226, 227, 251, 261, 265

  and Woodstock summer theater, 273, 274, 275, 281, 282, 284, 285–86

  Collins, Ray:

  background of, 326-27

  in Citizen Kane, 666, 668

  and Heart of Darkness, 586

  in The Magnificent Ambersons, 107

  radio roles of, 325–26, 404, 431, 469, 499, 502, 507, 582, 616

  Collins, Richard, 690, 727

  Colonial Theatre, Boston, 526–30

  Colum, Padraic, 211–12

  Columbia Artists, 646, 657

  Columbia Workshop, The (radio series), 369–70, 378, 380, 405, 415, 459, 499

  Comingore, Dorothy, 577, 689–93, 695, 727

  Communist Party, U.S., 312, 346, 349, 364, 389, 390, 415, 448, 474, 495–96, 619

  See also Daily Worker

  Conan Doyle, Arthur, 487, 497, 498

  Conjur’ Man Dies (stage play), 331–32, 337, 339, 342–43

  Connelly, Marc, 364, 535–36

  Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness, 517, 563–65, 587, 591, 595

  Conrad, Peter, Orson Welles: The Stories of His Life, 113, 355, 433, 607, 737

  Cooper, Merian C., 589

  Coote, Robert, 589, 593, 617, 644

  Copland, Aaron, 356, 377, 381–82, 522

  Corbett, James J., 31

  Cornell, Katharine, 115, 116, 233, 301, 310, 408

  in The Barretts of Wimpole Street, 262–67, 268, 275, 298, 520

  in Candida, 262–63, 268

  critical reviews of performances, 265, 267, 268–69, 300

  in Romeo and Juliet, 262–65, 268, 271–72, 293, 298, 299–301, 304, 307, 366

  Shakespeare debut of, 261–62

  touring company of, 210, 253–54, 258–73, 274–75, 278, 280, 289, 293, 294, 308, 335, 416, 452, 480, 537, 539