Ray, Man, 474
Red Dust (film), 589
Read, Thomas Buchanan, “Sheridan’s Ride,” 130
Readick, Frank, 405, 502, 504, 506, 521, 587, 616
Reid, Elliott “Ted,” 417, 421, 434
Reinhardt, Max, 160, 439, 490–91, 493, 514–15, 559, 577
Reis, Irving, 369, 379, 380, 422
Remington, Frederic, 654
Renoir, Jean, 587, 615, 702–3
Reuther, Walter, 389
Rhode family (Kenosha), 64, 65
Rhode Opera House, 4, 30, 36, 39, 44, 45, 52, 65, 74
Rice, Elmer, 180, 327–28, 331, 342, 347, 531
Richards, Shelah, 437
Richardson, Ralph, 558
Riis, Jacob, 41
Rivera, Diego, 388, 568
RKO:
and Academy Awards, 736n
budgets in, 702
Citizen Kane filmed at, 3, 696, 704–6, 735
Citizen Kane plans in, 628–30, 645, 655, 656, 660, 669, 674
control exercised by, 606, 610, 693
directors in, 588–89
and Heart of Darkness, see Heart of Darkness
and Lundberg lawsuit, 656
and Mercury Theatre, 605, 629–30, 693, 725
Orson’s arrival in, 557–68
Orson’s contract with, 551–52, 559, 561, 562, 565, 569, 582, 583, 587, 595, 597, 606–7, 614, 616, 628, 629, 647, 658, 659, 674, 735
Orson’s production unit in, 551–54, 561–62, 565–66, 575, 605
Orson’s project proposals to, 563–65, 617–18, 645
Orson’s screen test for, 539–41, 546, 551
Orson’s work in, 577–78, 586, 589, 591–97, 683
publicity for, 560, 562, 583, 609, 614, 617, 646, 689, 690
and The Stranger, 133
and World War II, 578–79
RKO 281 (TV movie), 104
Roach, Hal, 615
Roar China! (stage play), 205
Robbins, Tim, 388, 395
Robeson, Paul, 329
Robin Hood (film), 88
Robinson, Emma, 54, 75, 77
Rockefeller, Edith, 98, 238
Rockefeller, John D., 238, 368
Romains, Jules, 211
Romero, Cesar, 712
Rooney, Mickey, 584, 584n
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 512
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 388, 502–3, 557, 612, 734
Roosevelt, Theodore, 31
Roots of Heaven, The (film), 585
Rosenbaum, Jonathan, 739–40
Rosenthal, Jean, 393–94, 395, 411, 414–15, 473, 492–93, 497, 522, 534
Roskie, Tony, 163–64
Ross, Harold, 571
Ross, Madeline, 209
Rostand, Edmond, 563
Rowland, Betty, 521
R.U.R. (stage play), 165
Russell, Rosalind, 616
Ryskind, Morrie, 226
Safe Place, A (film), 741
Saint Louis Exposition, 30
Saki (Hector Hugh Monro), 485
Salisbury, Leah, 230
Sandburg, Carl, 8, 28, 184, 252
Sanders of the River (film), 589
Sanford, Erskine, 116, 308, 452, 473, 492, 497, 521, 586, 616, 666
San Francisco Examiner, 94
Saturday Evening Post, 559n, 617
Saturday Review of Literature, 518
Schaefer, George J.:
and Citizen Kane, 628, 656, 660, 669, 674, 693, 702, 703, 724, 735, 736n
and Heart of Darkness, 564–65, 578–79, 591, 597, 606–7, 628
offers to Orson, 546, 551, 563
and Orson’s contract, 551–52, 583, 607
and proposed projects, 562–65, 618, 628
and RKO, 540, 551, 562, 596, 603, 627
and Smiler with the Knife, 596–97, 607, 627, 628
and World War II, 578–79
Schallert, Edwin, 267, 562, 609, 674
Schilling, Gus, 521, 586, 666
Schnabel, Stefan, 417, 434
Schneider, Albert, 546, 560, 565, 610, 630, 646
Schnitzler, Arthur, 274, 485
Schoedsack, Ernest, 589
Scholey, Matthias J., 42, 51–52, 58
Schumann Quintet, 12
Scourby, Alexander, 318, 369
Screen Actors Guild, 615
Screen Playwrights, 620
Screen Writers Guild, 619, 696
Sears, David, 207
Second Hurricane, The (opera), 381, 382, 384, 387, 418, 433, 465
Seiderman, Maurice, 678–80, 728
Seldes, Gilbert, 380
Selig, William, 60
Selznick, David O., 407, 408, 467, 517, 540, 552, 587
Selznick, Lewis J., 540
Selznick, Myron, 540
Senber, Henry, 424, 449, 510, 551
Sennett, Mack, 473
Sensenderfer, Robert E. P., 535
Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, 379
Seymour, Dan, 502
“Shadow, The” (radio serial), 109, 405, 413, 414, 430–32, 435, 440, 441, 448, 449, 459, 502, 514
Shakespeare, William:
Antony and Cleopatra, 428
Coriolanus, 213, 422
and Katharine Cornell tour, 261–72, 293
Everybody’s Shakespeare, see Everybody’s Shakespeare
Five Kings, see Five Kings
Hal-Poins relationship in, 419
Hamlet, 102, 213–14, 261, 276, 277, 278, 279, 284–86, 353, 359, 393, 531, 532
“Hamlet” (radio play), 369–70, 380
Henry IV, 279, 409, 430, 444–45, 529, 531
Henry V, 409, 430, 444–45, 529
Julius Caesar (radio play) 497
Julius Caesar (stage play), 132, 242, 247, 250, 302, 320, 409, 410, 411–15, 443-44, 486, 496, 671, 714
King Lear, 113, 320, 390, 403, 408, 409, 445, 532, 660, 712, 741–42
Macbeth (all-black cast), see Voodoo Macbeth
Macbeth (film), 452, 618, 679, 717
“Macbeth” (radio), 380
Measure for Measure, 465
The Merchant of Venice, 247, 250, 302, 409
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 86, 104
Orson’s knowledge of, 148, 156, 198, 240–41
Othello, 211, 213, 272, 623
Richard III, 261, 445, 646
Richard III, Todd School production, 180–81
Romeo and Juliet, 165, 254, 262–65, 268, 271–72, 293, 295, 297–98, 299–301, 302, 304, 305, 306, 308, 310, 317, 366
Romeo and Juliet (unproduced Caribbean version), 294–95, 296, 300, 329, 331n
Taming of the Shrew, 592
Twelfth Night, 61, 248, 250, 253, 302, 405, 475, 735
Twelfth Night, Todd School production, 217–20
Shannon, Harry, 116, 117, 667
Shaw, George Bernard, 214–15, 732
Androcles and the Lion, 172–73
Back to Methuselah, 214
Candida, 233, 254, 262–63, 265, 267, 268
The Great Catherine, 210
Heartbreak House, 409, 410, 442, 444, 447, 449, 451–53, 458, 461, 463, 466
Major Barbara, 165
Saint Joan, 416
and visit from Welles, 214-15, 447
Shealy, George, 279
Shearer, Norma, 267, 560
Sheeog (Sidheoghe) [donkey], 190–91, 206
Sheffield, Charles, 100, 111, 128
Sheldon, Edward “Ned,” 116, 258, 543
Shepherd, Cybill, 743
Sher, Jack, 580, 583
Sheridan, Ann, 647
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley:
The School for Scandal, 571
The Rivals, 165
Sherman, Hiram “Chubby,” 377, 406
and “Bright Lucifer,” 313–14
and The Cradle Will Rock, 386, 393, 395, 398, 429
and Goodman Theatre, 157, 273
and Hamlet, 369
in Hollywood, 586
and Horse Eats Hat, 357, 360
and Whitford Kane,
313, 318, 324, 327
and Les Misérables, 404
and Mercury Theatre, 416, 429, 434, 435, 436, 446, 457, 458, 460, 463–67, 472
and Phoenix Theatre, 317
and The Second Hurricane, 381
and The Shadow, 431
and ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, 318, 327
and Virginia Welles, 324, 466
and Woodstock summer theater, 273, 276
Sherwood, William, 203, 210
Shoemaker’s Holiday, The (stage play), 412, 429, 432–37, 444, 446, 447, 452, 461, 462, 463, 464, 465–66
Shor, Toots, 536
“Show Boat” (radio play), 531
Sight and Sound, 744
Silent Woman, The [Epicene] (stage play), 409
Simmel, Ernst, 697
Skolsky, Sidney, 583, 600, 608
Skum of the Earth (stage play), 166
Sleepy Lagoon murder case (1942), 352
Slezak, Walter, 456–57
Sloane, Everett, 198, 338–39, 362, 404, 431, 586, 593, 616, 640, 665, 695
Small Miracle (stage play), 296
Smart, Jack, 358
Smiler with the Knife, The (unrealized film project), 616–18
cancellation of, 616, 628, 674, 695, 703
casting problems of, 616–17, 642
costs of, 597, 607, 693, 695
initial plans for, 595–97, 608
and Herman Mankiewicz, 609, 618, 621, 624, 629, 634
script for, 596, 609, 618, 621, 624
as substitute for Heart of Darkness, 607, 609–10, 616
Smith, Florence, 61
Smith, Fred, 559n, 617
Smith, Howard, 473, 502
Smith, Logan Pearsall, On Reading Shakespeare, 260
Smith, Steven C. (Bernard Herrmann biographer), 379, 469–70, 692–93
Smith, Wendy, 335, 342, 346, 347
Sneden’s Landing, New York, 403, 406, 407, 408, 411, 414, 435, 437, 438, 454, 457, 467, 478
Sokoloff, Vladimir, 491, 493, 514, 587, 617
Someone to Love (film), 741
Sommers, Harry, 72
Spanish-American War, 652, 654
Spanish Civil War, 378, 382, 383, 401, 448
Spanish Earth, The (documentary), 382, 384
Speaight, Robert, 521, 533
Speicher, Eugene, 233
Spielberg, Steven, 746
Springfield, IL, 7-10, 69, 313-14, 670
Spurin-Calleia, Joseph, see Calleia, Joseph
Stagecoach (film), 590
Stalin, Joseph, 495
Stanley and Livingstone (film), 576
Stanton, Olive, 386, 397, 429
Stanton, Sanford, 386
Star Is Born, A (film), 622
“Star-Spangled Banner, The,” 78
Starkie, Walter, 241, 248
Raggle Taggle, 248
Steffens, Lincoln, 28
Stein, Gertrude, 305, 474
Steinbeck, John, Of Mice and Men, 559
Steinmeyer, Jim, 710–13, 714, 718, 738
Stevedore (stage play), 297
Stevens, Ashton, 309, 322, 449, 472, 535, 549, 648, 743
and Citizen Kane, 638, 640, 668, 675, 682, 706, 724, 735
death of, 728
and Everybody’s Shakespeare, 303–4
and Goodman Theatre, 186
and Hearst newspapers, 94–95, 226, 735
in Hollywood, 558, 574
influence of, 233–34, 236, 238, 515, 588
as newspaperman, 94–95, 152, 265
and Orson’s teen years, 186, 188
and Tavern Club, 174, 251
and Woodstock summer theater, 275
Stevens, Mrs. Florence “FloFlo” (Katherine Krug), 186, 188, 233-34, 235, 273, 276, 327, 574, 728
Stevens, George, 558, 588, 589, 668, 669, 743
Stevens, George Jr., 743
Stevens, Landers, 558, 668
Stevens, Thomas Wood, 149, 185, 230
Stevenson, Robert (director), 644
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 180, 278, 467, 468
Stewart, James G. (sound man), 678
Stewart, James “Jimmy,” 689
Stewart, Paul, 198, 498, 501
and American School of the Air, 324, 326
and The Campbell Playhouse, 518, 531, 545–46, 642
and Citizen Kane, 359, 649, 665, 686, 704, 744
Stinson, Eugene, 94
Stoker, Bram, 467–68
Stony Creek, Connecticut, 480–81
Stony Creek Playhouse, 472, 473, 478, 483–84, 485, 489
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The (home movie), 278
Stranger, The (film), 133, 452, 454, 596, 640, 726, 727, 737
Stravinsky, Igor, 113–14, 724
Straw Hat, The (An Italian Straw Hat; later Horse Eats Hat), 354
Streets of New York, The (stage play), 358
Strictly Dishonorable (film), 712
Strindberg, August, 211, 327
Stronger, The, 211
Sturges, Preston, 153, 623, 712
Suber, Howard, 713–14, 743
Sullavan, Margaret, 517–18, 531, 576, 618, 638
Sullivan, Ed, 608
“Summing Up, The” (Welles and Houseman), 460–61, 462
Svengali, 276, 282
Swiss Family Robinson, The (film), 608
Synge, J. M., 188, 192
Tabu (film), 589
Taft, Lorado, 86, 93, 120, 280
Tagore, Rabindranath, 99, 102
Taibhdhearc theater, Galway, 192, 195
Tarbox, Hascy, 164, 173, 179, 279
Tarbox, Todd, Orson Welles and Roger Hill: A Friendship in Three Acts, 136, 739
Tarkington, Booth, 498
Clarence, 517
and Orson’s father, 24, 146
Seventeen, 497
The Magnificent Ambersons, 23–24, 25, 65–66, 106–7
Tasca di Cuto, Prince Alessandro, 738
Tavern Club, Chicago, 152–53, 174, 185, 201, 227, 237, 238, 251, 280, 554
Taylor, Davidson, 508, 649
Taylor, Laurette, 94
Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich, Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor, 471
Tchelitchew, Pavel, 375, 403, 445
Teapot Dome scandal, 684n
Teichmann, Howard, 256
Temple, Shirley, 558, 583
Ten Million Ghosts (stage play), 357, 359, 365–67, 368, 370, 416
Tennant, Barbara, 4
Thackeray, William Makepeace, Vanity Fair, 572
Thalberg, Irving, 266–67
Theatre Guild, New York, 116, 149, 164, 165, 175, 196, 201, 385, 417, 452
and Five Kings, 463, 490, 515, 519, 522–24, 527, 530, 531, 533–35
and Mercury Theatre, 519, 535
and Porgy, 336
Theatre Royal, Dublin, 205
Third Man, The (film), 160, 607, 737–38, 745
“This Can’t Be Love” (song), 680
Thomas, Edna, 297, 336, 337, 340, 343, 344, 347
Thompson, William Hale “Big Bill,” 79
Thompson, Dorothy, 512
Thompson, Woodman, 262
Thomson, David, 352, 376
Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles, 407, 439, 525, 737
Showman: The Life of David O. Selznick, 407
Sight and Sound essay by, 744–45
Thomson, Virgil, 522
and Antony and Cleopatra, 428
and The Cradle Will Rock, 385
and The Duchess of Malfi, 442
and Four Saints in Three Acts, 305
and Horse Eats Hat, 356
and John Houseman, 305, 307, 332, 333–35, 355, 385, 386, 419, 611–13
and Panic, 307, 308, 310
and The Second Hurricane, 382
and The Shoemaker’s Holiday, 433
and Voodoo Macbeth, 332–33, 341, 343, 344, 345, 356
Thornton, Cherokee, 335
Three Comrades (film), 517
Three Stooges, The, 690
Three Weekends (film), 57
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Thucydides, 195
Thurber, James, 577
Thurston, Harry, “The Great Thurston,” 87–88, 127, 334, 713
Tichacek, Stephen Jan, 492–93
Time, 453–54, 459, 462–63, 464, 512, 524–25
’Tis Pity She’s a Whore (stage play), 318–19, 320, 324, 327, 328, 446, 464, 583
Todd, Richard Kimball, 135
Todd School for Boys, Woodstock, Illinois, 133–39, 316
arts curriculum of, 149–50, 165–66
“Big Bertha” history tour to New York, 219
and Everybody’s Shakespeare, 302–4
expansion of, 166
graduates of, 183–84
and “Marching Song,” 235
Orson as drama coach in, 217–18, 219, 253, 271, 272, 320
Orson’s time in, 131, 132, 135–39, 141–45, 150, 152, 156–58, 162–66, 179–81, 329, 331, 475, 519, 683
Red & White (school newspaper), 141–44, 150, 156, 158
and Richard Ives Welles, 78–79, 82, 131
Roger Hill as headmaster of, 115, 147, 149, 164, 320
school performances of Orson, 136–39, 150, 156–58, 165–66, 172–74, 175, 179–81, 196, 214, 217–18, 242, 253, 277, 320–21, 329, 360, 362, 412, 444, 739
and Woodstock summer theater, 272–75, 279
Tokyo Story (film), 745
Toland, Gregg, 474, 667, 670–73, 683, 687, 701, 703, 704, 735
Tone, Franchot, 560, 600
Tonight Show, The (TV), 709
Too Much Johnson (stage play/film), 472–80, 481–84, 485, 486, 487
adaptation of, 472, 482, 484
cinematic aspects of, 474, 475, 479, 548, 565, 589
editing of, 473, 478-80
and finances, 478, 481, 490
and Mercury Theatre, 410, 475, 490, 521
opening night, 482–84
players in, 472, 473, 489, 492, 502
postponement of, 513, 515
scenes of, 472–73, 475, 477–78
screen rights of, 481–82
unfinished footage of, 551, 746
Toscanini, Arturo, 270
Touch of Evil (film), 297, 642, 679, 728, 745, 747
Toumanova, Tamara, 439
Toussaint Louverture, 329
Towne, Gene, 608
Tozere, Frederick, 446
Tracy, Lee, 674
Tracy, Spencer, 576, 584, 623
Trader Horn (film), 589
Treasure Island (films), 247n
“Treasure Island” (radio), 467, 468–69
Tree, Herbert Beerbohm, 271, 529, 618
Tretyakov, Sergei, 205
Trial, The (film), 710
Trilby (stage play), 276, 277, 278, 279, 281, 282, 284, 285, 295
Trotsky, Leon, 495
Truffaut, François, 312, 427
Tsar Paul (stage play), 276, 277, 278, 279, 287–89
Tull, Clyde, 184
Turpentine (stage play), 353
Twain, Mark, 315, 316, 572
“Twentieth Century” (radio), 531
Twentieth Century–Fox, 644
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