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

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by McGilligan, Patrick


  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

  and Hilton Edwards, 195–97, 202

  and Faustus, 387n

  and Gate Ball, 212–13

  and Gate Theatre, 192, 196, 202–3, 208, 213–14, 214, 295

  and Hamlet, 213, 284–86

  influence on Orson, 215–16, 230, 271, 295–96

  and Jew Süss, 202, 203

  and Orson’s acting, 197, 205, 210, 213, 283, 288

  and Orson’s immaturity, 207–9, 211

  personal traits of, 202, 419

  Put Money in Thy Purse (memoir), 211

  as stage designer, 202, 211

  and Woodstock summer theater, 273–76, 280, 281, 282, 283–86, 289

  MacMahon, Aline, 445, 451

  Madame X (film), 660

  “Magic Show, The” (unfinished film), 88, 710, 714, 741, 743, 746

  Magie Africaine (a.k.a. Dark Rapture) (film), 589

  Magnificent Ambersons, The (film), 23–24, 107–8, 434, 452, 582, 588, 640, 706, 725, 745

  Maloney, Russell, 524–25

  Mamoulian, Rouben, 567

  Man in the Shadow (film), 728

  Mankiewicz, Herman J. “Mank,” 406, 558, 570–73, 577, 618–21

  Academy Award to, 619, 736

  biography of, see Meryman, Richard

  and The Campbell Playhouse, 572–73

  in Citizen Kane cameo, 667

  and Citizen Kane script, 81, 619, 628–29, 630–32, 633, 634–41, 646, 650–56, 659, 661, 662–63, 664, 666, 675, 680, 693–96, 697–99, 703, 735, 737

  film ideas of, 573, 619, 621–27

  and William Randolph Hearst, 622–23, 624–25, 652–54, 655, 675–76, 696

  and John Houseman, 628–29, 630–32, 650–51, 653–55, 656, 694n

  income of, 629

  and Lundberg lawsuit, 624, 629, 652–54, 675, 696, 697, 698

  and Smiler with the Knife, 609, 618, 621, 624, 629, 634

  and United Productions, 660

  Mankiewicz, Joseph L., 620

  Mankiewicz, Sara, 624, 627

  Man of Aran (film), 89, 322, 645

  Mansfield, Richard, 94

  Man Who Came to Dinner, The (stage play), 645

  Mao Tse-tung, 474

  March, Fredric, 622

  Marching Song (John Brown play), 219, 220, 222–26, 227, 229–37, 239, 252, 253, 278, 294, 316, 567, 622

  March of Time, The (radio series), 338, 339, 350, 358, 360, 368–69, 430, 435, 596

  Marford, Charles, 199, 200, 202

  Mario, Queena, 94, 186

  Marlowe, Christopher, The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Dr. Faustus, 274, 318, 355, 371, 372–73, 376

  Marlowe, Julia, 262

  “Marseillaise, La,” 78

  Marshall, Frank, 746

  Marshall, Herbert, 551, 560

  Martin, John Dunn, 278

  Martyn, Edward, 214

  Marx Brothers, 363, 572, 626

  Mason, Edith, 94, 162–63, 167–68

  Massey, Raymond, 679

  Massine, Léonide, 455, 488

  Maugham, Somerset, 209

  Maxine Elliott Theatre, New York, 363, 365, 368, 370, 373, 387, 388, 391–93, 394, 395, 400

  Maxwell, Elsa, 655

  Mayer, Louis B., 408, 552, 560, 735

  Mayflower (ship), 12, 15

  McBride, Joseph, 419, 745

  interview of Orson, 106, 120, 287, 312, 316, 375

  McCarthy, Mary, 428

  McClendon, Rose, 310, 327, 328, 336

  McClintic, Guthrie, 115, 255, 301, 374, 422, 539

  and Broadway Romeo and Juliet, 293, 297–98, 299–300, 304, 307, 317

  and Cornell tour, 253, 254, 258–61, 262–72, 280

  and Jezebel, 325

  marriage to Cornell, 253, 262

  and Orson’s acting, 268, 298, 310

  McCormick, Harold F., 61, 154–55, 238

  McCormick, Robert Medill, 60

  McCormick, Robert R. “Bertie,” 237–38, 302, 625

  McCormick, Ruth Hanna, 60, 255

  McCutcheon, John T., 22, 24, 27, 30, 39, 63, 64, 281

  McGovern, Frances E., 55

  McIntire, John, 359

  McKay, Christian, 420

  McKee, Harry, 373, 376

  McKinley, William, 183, 639, 654, 662–63, 683

  McManus, George, 113

  McMaster, Anew, 195, 211

  Mead, Catherine Pannill, 102, 105

  Me and Orson Welles (film), 420–21

  Medill, Joseph, 302

  Meigs, James B., and sons, James Jr., and William, 220–21, 224–25

  Meisel, Myron, 745

  Melians, The (stage play), 195, 196

  Méliès, Georges, 739

  Mencken, H. L., 409

  Menken, Helen, 405

  Mercury Shakespeare, The, 606

  Mercury Theatre:

  and Bass Rocks, 530, 546, 547

  and Comedy Theatre, 411

  Cradle revival, 415, 429–30, 444

  credits to Orson in, 211, 414, 433, 463

  critical reviews for, 436, 453, 484, 513–14

  decline of, 436, 457–67

  finances of, 410, 415, 417, 423, 428, 429, 451, 461, 462, 467, 478, 480, 481, 489–90, 493, 497, 514, 515, 517, 518, 541, 546, 647, 648, 656–57, 659, 701–2

  and “First Person Singular,” 458, 459–60, 467–70, 471

  and Five Kings, 520–23, 541

  future plans, 659–60

  generation gap in, 465

  growing cachet of, 434, 436

  Heartbreak House, 409, 410, 447, 449, 451–53, 458, 461, 463, 466

  history of, 413, 481

  and Hollywood, 467, 597

  and HUAC, 727

  “I am the Mercury Theatre” (Welles), 463, 630

  idea for, 408–10

  Julius Caesar, see Julius Caesar

  and leftist politics, 415, 495–96, 514

  Los Ange
les offices of, 605

  and Me and Orson Welles, 420–21

  media stories about, 464–65, 466

  Orson as director in, 414–15, 416, 421–23, 434–35, 453, 733

  and Orson’s Hollywood contract, 552, 610, 629

  “Orson’s slaves” in, 418, 434, 473, 479, 485, 492, 494, 502, 518, 547, 727

  partnership breakup, 611–13

  photography for, 474–76, 477–80, 481–83

  players of, 173, 268, 326, 434, 446–47, 451–52, 461–62, 492, 531, 578, 586, 592, 609–10, 616, 639–40, 664–65, 667, 703–4, 705, 735

  preliminary steps to, 404, 409–10

  publicity for, 524

  and RKO, 605, 629–30, 693, 725

  road productions of, 415, 429

  Shoemaker’s Holiday, The, 412, 429, 432–37, 444, 447, 452, 461, 462, 463, 464, 465–66

  and “Summing Up,” 460–61, 462

  and Theatre Guild, 519, 535

  Too Much Johnson, see Too Much Johnson

  and Worklight Theatre, 444

  Mercury Theatre on the Air, 481, 489, 497–512

  closing of, 517

  first broadcast of, 471

  move to West Coast, 609

  official name of, 487

  programs for, 485–87, 497, 564

  and “War of the Worlds,” 499–512, 513–14, 916

  Mercury Wonder Show, The, 640, 642

  Meredith, Burgess, 298, 448, 605

  and “Fall of the City,” 379

  and Five Kings, 462, 464, 520, 526, 527, 528, 534, 539, 541–42

  in Hollywood, 558, 559, 577

  So Far, So Good (memoir), 541, 542, 543

  Merezhkovsky, Dmitri, 276, 287

  Merritt, Russell, 287

  “Merry Month of May, The,” 432

  Merv Griffin Show, The (TV series), 709, 713, 719, 730–34, 736, 737–38, 739, 742

  Meryman, Richard (Mankiewicz biographer), 571, 572, 609, 619, 620, 623, 624, 625, 627, 629, 630, 631, 650, 654, 655, 659, 661, 675, 694, 696, 697, 736n

  Meyerhold, Vsevolod, 180

  Middelschulte, Wilhelm, 40

  Mielziner, Jo, 262, 299, 304, 307, 310

  Milestone, Lewis, 588

  Miller, Ruth, 9, 154

  “Millie, the Messy Old Mermaid” (song), 212

  Milne, A. A., 116, 156, 452

  Milwaukee Art Institute, 83, 84, 97–99, 101–2, 103

  Milwaukee Sentinel, 102, 105, 265

  Milwaukee Journal, 265

  Mr. Arkadin (film), 249, 623, 715, 745

  Mr. Pim Passes By (stage play), 116, 452

  Moby Dick (film), 142, 519, 746

  Modjeska, Helena, 30, 262, 302

  Mogu of the Desert (stage play), 211–12

  Molière, 180, 207

  Molnár, Ferenc, 4, 599, 59n

  Moon Rides High, The (stage play), 210

  Moore, Edward “Ned,” 162, 163, 181, 188, 281

  death of, 299, 449

  as music critic, 94, 154, 226, 239, 299

  socializing, 93, 94, 95, 152, 153, 186, 281, 282

  and Tavern Club, 152, 174, 251

  Moore, Hazel, 163, 181, 188, 226–27, 281

  and Dr. Maurice Bernstein, 163, 226, 299, 321, 449; see also Bernstein, Hazel Moore

  socializing, 93, 94, 95, 153, 186, 281, 282, 321

  Moorehead, Agnes, 108, 114, 404, 431, 444, 469, 640, 665, 673

  Morcom, James, 477, 522

  Morgan, J. P., 653

  Morgan, J. P. Jr., 653

  Mori, Paola (di Girifalco) (wife), 715

  Morley, Christopher, 169n

  Morrison, Herbert, 504

  Morse, Rev. Rowena, 43

  Mortimer, Lee, 561–62

  Moskowitz, Sam, 246

  Moss, Jack, 725, 726

  “Mourn with the Sighing Wind” (song), 78

  Mowry, William Jr., 173, 279, 286, 320, 412, 417, 419–20, 434, 480, 492, 521, 668

  Mueller, Frederick, 119–21, 124, 125–27, 155, 419

  Mueller, Mina, 119, 121, 126

  Munich Film Museum, 746

  “Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The” (radio play), 572

  Murdoch, Rev. Marion, 33, 40, 43

  Murnau, F. W., 589

  Mussolini, Benito, 415, 426, 427

  Mussorgsky, Modest, 693

  “Mutiny on the Bounty” (radio play), 531

  Mutual Broadcasting System, 358, 403–5, 459

  My Dear Children (stage play), 543, 544, 547–48

  Nanook of the North (film), 89, 645

  Naremore, James, 744–45, 746

  The Magic World of Orson Welles, 316

  National Labor Relations Act (1935), 388

  National Political Equality League, 50, 52

  National Theatre, New York, 436, 443, 444

  Native Son (film), 660, 727

  Natwick, Mildred, 517–18

  Nazimova, Alla, 70

  Neagle, Anna, 674

  Needham, Maurice, 50, 77

  Needham, Ray Elizabeth, 50, 72, 75, 77

  Negro Cultural Committee, 448

  Negro People’s Theatre, Harlem, 310

  Negro Theatre Project (Negro Unit), 328–29, 331–37, 339, 341–42, 345–48, 351–54, 356, 363, 386

  Neighborhood Playhouse, New York, 381

  Neilson, Adelaide, 262

  New Deal, 389, 399, 400, 401

  Newspaper Guild, 328

  Newsweek, 460

  New Yorker, 254, 524–25

  New York Daily News, 348, 364, 376, 510

  New York Evening Journal, 94, 311, 453

  New York Herald Tribune, 301, 348, 364, 366, 376, 409, 427, 428, 436, 475, 483, 494, 513, 535, 553,

  New York Journal-American, 386

  New York Madrigal Society, 433

  New York Post, 132, 348, 361, 376, 427, 574, 591

  New York Theatre Guild, 165, 196, 201

  New York Times, 201, 204, 229, 261, 262, 284, 295, 299, 300, 302, 303, 311, 327, 331, 332, 342, 345, 347, 348, 350, 353, 355, 364, 366, 369, 376, 381, 387, 390, 405, 409, 410, 411, 428, 429, 430, 434, 436, 445, 457, 458, 460, 464, 497, 508, 510, 511, 512, 514, 515, 518, 521, 528, 530, 533, 540, 547, 551, 553, 570, 583, 599, 602, 612, 626, 636, 638, 646, 674, 746

  New York Urban League, 328, 341

  Nichols, Ora Daigle, 503

  Nicolson, Leo, 296, 322, 608

  Nicolson, Mrs. Lillian, 299, 449

  Niles, David, 399–401

  Niven, Penelope, 254

  Noble, Peter, The Fabulous Orson Welles, 86, 110, 113, 115, 118, 122, 125, 129, 151, 168, 170, 181, 206–7, 210, 214, 248, 280, 282, 298, 332, 348, 367, 378

  Nolan, Jeanette, 359

  Nouryeh, Andrea Janet, “The Mercury Theatre: A History” (thesis), 413, 424, 434, 451, 452, 465, 466, 481, 482, 515, 541

  Noyes, Alfred, “The Highwayman,” 84, 85

  Nuremberg, Nazi rallies, 414, 427

  Ó Ceallaigh, Cathal, 195, 196, 197

  Ó Conaire, Michael, 190

  Ó Conaire, Pádraic, 188, 190

  O’Brien, Edmond, 443, 452

  O’Brien, Pat, 647

  O’Casey, Sean, 188

  Ochs, Adolph, 636

  Oenslager, Donald, 366

  Of Thee I Sing (stage play), 226, 231, 232, 622

  Okito (Theodore Bamberg), 88, 741

  Olivier, Laurence, 258, 417, 531, 532, 558

  O’Neal, Charles “Blackie,” 277–78, 277n, 284, 285, 286, 289

  O’Neal, Ryan, 278

  O’Neill, Eugene, 165, 242, 307, 329

  Only Angels Have Wings (film), 643

  On Your Toes (film), 559

  Ordoñez, Antonio, 249, 747

  Ordonneau, Maurice, La Plantation Thomassin, 472

  Orson Welles Commentaries (radio series), 352

  Osborne, Hubert, 230

  Other Side of the Wind, The (film), 740, 742, 746

  Ould, Herman, 210

  Pageant of the Celt, The (stage play), 289

  I Pagliacci (opera), 73
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  Pagnol, Marcel, 214

  Panic (stage play), 305–13, 318, 332, 349, 382, 495

  Paper Chase, The (film), 731

  Papi, Gennaro, 154

  Paramount Pictures, 481, 540, 571

  Paris Vogue, 104, 151, 151n

  Parker, Dorothy, 256, 571

  Parlo, Dita, 587, 617

  Parsons, Louella O., 560–62, 567, 598, 695, 735

  Paul, Edgerton, 173, 279, 286, 360, 361, 366, 369, 373, 417, 492, 521

  Peacock Repertory Players (Peacock Theatre, Dublin), 196, 210–11, 213, 214

  Peer Gynt (stage play), 583

  Pegler, Westbrook, 668

  Perlman, Sherman, 136, 145, 150, 157

  Perry, Antoinette, 712

  Perry, Edward, 334

  Peter Absolute (radio serial), 338

  Peter Pan (stage play), 294

  Philadelphia Daily News, 535

  Philadelphia Inquirer, 137

  Philadelphia Story, The (stage play), 484, 664

  Phillips, Wendell, 148, 329

  Phoenix Theatre, New York, 308, 317–19, 324, 327, 328

  Physician in Spite of Himself, The (stage play), 180

  Pickford, Mary, 88, 576

  Pinchot, Rosamond, 369

  Playboy (magazine), 590

  Playboy of the Western World, The (stage play), 583

  Polacco, Giorgio, 162–63, 167–68

  Polglase, Van Nest, 559, 669, 673

  Pollack, Howard, 381, 382, 522

  Mark Blitzstein: His Life, His Work, His World, 415, 492

  Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man, 381, 522

  Pollard, Sherrard, 420, 480

  Pollock, Arthur, 513–14

  Powell, William, 643

  Power and the Glory, The (film), 622, 623, 712

  Powers, Tom, 443, 448, 452

  Preminger, Otto, 543

  Price, Natalie Whitted, 84

  Price, Victoria, Vincent Price: A Daughter’s Biography, 21

  Price, Vincent, 21, 434, 444, 446, 451, 452–53, 462, 464

  Price, Vincent Leonard (father of Vincent Price), 21

  Princip, Gavrilo, 538

  Pringle, Jackie (third husband of Virginia Nicolson), 716, 717

  Production Code office, 593, 595, 683

  Project 891, 354–55, 378, 412n

  The Cradle Will Rock, 384–402

  death of, 402

  Faustus, 370, 371–77, 387, 401

  Horse Eats Hat, 356–57, 359–62, 363–65, 368, 373, 401

  Provincetown Players, 307

  Prussing, Lilian Edgerton, 277

  Prussing, Louise, 277, 280, 281, 285, 289, 294, 295

  Pryor, Arthur Jr., 358

  Pudovkin, V. I., Film Technique and Acting, 478

  Purple Joss (stage play), 166

  Quarles Camp, 39

  Racine College Grammar School, 20–21

  Radio Daily, 404–5, 432, 512

  Raphaelson, Samson, 137, 228–29, 231, 233, 234, 235, 239, 267, 542

  Rathbone, Basil, 262, 263, 267, 298, 304

  Ravinia Festival (Highland Park, IL), 93–95, 153, 155, 186, 220, 251, 371

 

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