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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