by Simon Callow
Friganza, Trixi, 52, 61
Front Page, The (Hecht and MacArthur), 221
Frost, David, 87
Gabel, Martin, 261, 305, 312, 337, 338, 379, 390, 391, 393, 398, 411, 418, 440–1
Gabriel, Gilbert (New York American critic), 275
Gallup poll on popularity of films, 463–4
Galway, Ireland, 75, 77, 78, 81, 83, 84
Gamba, Pierino, 46
Gambao, Frederico, Santa, 528–9
Gance, Abel, 384
Garden, Mary, 19
Garrick, David, 178, 316, 324
Gassner, John, 212, 218, 355
Gate Theatre, Dublin, 83–107, 108–9, 111, 112, 146, 162, 169, 325, 363
Geddes, Norman Bell, 262
Geer, Will, 296
Geiger, Miriam, 465, 510
Gellhorn, Martha, 236
Gibbons, Cedric, 472, 473
Gibbs, Wolcott, 524
Gielgud, John, 169, 170, 266, 348, 425, 427
Gieseking, Walter, 10
Gilder, Rosamond, 349, 552, 558, 564, 570
Gill, Roma, 277
Gillette, William, Too Much Johnson, 309, 380, 383–6, 387, 389, 390, 391, 392, 396, 418, 446, 449, 503, 568
Gilpin, Charles, 221
Giotto, 186
el-Glaoui see Thami el Glaoui
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, 281
Goldbeck, Eva see Blitzstein
Goldstein, Malcolm, 213, 294
Goldwyn, Sam, 450, 451, 500, 520
Goodman Theatre, Chicago, 53, 94, 99, 156
Goodman Theatre Amateur Drama League, 53
Gordon, Eric A., 288, 291
Gorky, Maxim, 19
Gottfredson, Edward, 63
Gottfredson, Jacob R., 62, 64
Gottfredson, Mary Head Welles (grandmother), 5–6, 8, 15, 63–4
Graham, Martha, 145, 201
Grand Detour, 184; family trips to, 23–7, 50–2; burning down of Sheffield House, 52, 57
Grand Detour Players, 26
Grapes of Wrath, The, 464, 499, 552
Grasi, Giovanni, 210
Graves, Rupert, 148
Great Crash (1929), 210–12
Green, Paul, 221, 555; In Abraham’s Bosom, 542; A Hymn to the Rising Sun, 542; Native Son adapted by Wright and, 540, 542–3, 546, 547–8
Green Back, The (Wallace), 112
Green Goddess, The (Archer), 386, 469; radio adaptation, 445–6; Welles’s vaudeville tour with, 446–8
Green Hat, The, 19, 143
Greet, Ben, 19
Gregory, Lady, 83, 101
Grisman, Sam, 357
Group Theatre, 213–14, 262, 313, 347, 416, 423
Guggenheim, Paul, 41–3, 45, 52, 68–9
Gunga Din (film), 498, 505
‘Gus and Sadie Love Song’ (Blitzstein), 292
Guthrie, Tyrone, 46, 328
Habima troupe, 340
Habimah, 19
Hairy Ape, The, 19
Hall, Peter, 309
Hamilton, Robert, 523
Hamlet (Shakespeare, 50, 106, 111, 112, 113, 139, 140, 150, 154, 178, 266, 315, 320, 348, 353, 405, 425, 427, 492; Houseman’s direction of Leslie Howard in, 266; Welles’s radio production of (1936), 304; Woodstock Summer Festival production (1934), 157, 158, 159, 168–72
Hammerstein I, Oscar, 19
Hammond, Percy, 238–9
Hampden, Walter, 181
Hannah, John, 151
Hardy, Joseph, 432–3
Harlem, New York, 277, 340, 554; Negro Theatre Unit in, 219–47, 249, 543
Harlem (Thurman), 221
Harpers, publishers, 184–5
Harris, Jed, 215
Harris, Robert, 112
Harris (London Times correspondent), 133–4
Hartung, Philip, 565
Harvey, Frank, 94
Hawks, Howard, 521
Hawkins, Jack, 379
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 213
Hayes, Helen, 143, 348, 423, 445
Hayes, J.J., 99–100, 104–5
Hays Office, 476, 534–5, 539
Hayworth, Rita, 472
He Who Gets Slapped, 19
Head, Orson (great-grandfather), 6, 11
Hearst, William Randolph, 275, 473, 484–7, 493–6, 505, 516, 524, 530–5, 538–9, 549, 550, 552, 555–8; see also Citizen Kane
Hearst, William, Jr, 533
Heart of Darkness (Conrad), radio adaptation of, 412, 418, 463
Heart of Darkness (unfilmed screenplay), 463, 464–72, 476–7, 480, 481, 487, 501, 503, 504, 558
Heartbreak House (Shaw), 114, 309, 359, 362–6, 367, 381, 382, 390, 425
Hearts of Age (Welles short film), 176, 383
Hecht, Ben, 16, 221, 517, 518
Heifetz, Jascha, 342
Helen!, 112
Hellman, Lillian, 250, 300
Hellzapoppin, 259, 386, 435
Hemingway, Ernest, 136–7; Death in the Afternoon, 136
Henderson, Mary, 145
Hendrickson, Carl, 44
Hendrickson, Nanette, 40
Henri Christophe I, Haitian Emperor, 222
Henry IV, Pts I and II (Shakespeare), 112, 162, 358, 423, 427, 431
Henry V (Shakespeare), 358, 423, 427, 431
Hepburn, Katharine, 423, 503
Herald, Heinz, 391
Heron, Constance, 174
Herrmann, Bernard, 304, 375–6, 419, 420, 422, 525–7, 573
Hexter, George, 310
Heyward, Dubose, 221
Heywood, Thomas, 349
Higham, Charles, x, 8, 14, 29, 58, 61, 64, 575
Highland Park News, Welles’s column in, 47–8, 54–7
Hill, Benny, 350
Hill, Hortense (‘Horty’), 37, 38–9, 40, 53, 60, 63, 68, 76, 79, 98, 99, 100, 110, 117–18, 161, 167, 199, 474, 496
Hill, Joanne, 39
Hill, Noble (‘the King’), 12, 35, 37
Hill, Roger (‘Skipper’), 35–40, 41, 43, 44, 50, 53, 71, 151, 199, 337, 361, 515, 561–2; Everybody’s Shakespeare, 127, 129, 154, 177–85, 474; Marching Song, 115, 116, 117–19; The Mercury Shakespeare (on discs), 358, 474, 515, 529; Todd/Woodstock Theatre Festival, 155–6, 158, 160–2, 165, 167, 176–7; Welles’s letters to, 74, 75, 76, 85, 87, 91, 94, 102, 110, 115, 129, 140–1, 154; Welles’s relations with, 37–8, 39–40, 43, 52, 53, 57, 60, 209, 474–5
Hillside Farm Long Island, 31
Hillyer, Katherine, 437
Hindemith, Paul, 288
His Honor the Mayor (radio play), 555–7
Hitchcock, Alfred, 422, 452, 507, 509
Hitler, Adolf, 324, 358, 422, 485, 539
Hoffmann, E.T.A., 176
Holinshed, Raphael, The Chronicles, 427, 429
Holland, Joseph, 313, 337, 347
Holloway, Joseph, 99, 101, 102, 104, 105, 106, 110–11
Hollywood, 211, 306, 368, 382, 391, 413, 448–53, 554, 555; movie community’s reaction to Welles, 457–9, 472, 473–4; Welles in, 457–539, 543; see also films
Hollywood Masquers’ Club, 458
Hollywood Reporter, The, 472, 562
Homer, Louise, 19
homosexuality, 10–11, 33, 66, 89, 138–9, 143, 174–5, 206, 288, 444, 460
Hope, Bob, 285
Hopkins, Arthur, 306
Hopkins, Harry, 216, 249, 285, 299
Hopkins, Perry, 219
Hopper, Hedda, 167, 473–4, 516, 530, 532, 549
Horizon, 571
Horse Eats Hat (adaptation of An Italian Straw Hat), 250–62, 263, 265, 270, 287, 315, 380, 397, 434
Horton, Asadata Dafora, 223, 234, 239
Houdini, Harry, 58, 447
Houghton, Charles, I Am Jonathan Scrivener, 484
Houseman, John, 108, 193–204, 210, 215, 242, 251, 265, 285, 312, 422, 423, 425, 431–2, 449, 465, 483, 518–19, 557; Campbell Playhouse, 417, 445, 461, 462, 464, 483; Citizen Kane, 485, 487, 488–9, 493, 494, 496, 497, 514–15, 519, 524, 542, 548, 554; The Cradle Will Rock, 290, 293, 294–6, 297, 299, 300, 301, 303, 357; Danton�
��s Death, 390, 391–2, 393–5, 398, 408; Doctor Faustus, 273–4, 275, 277, 278; dismissed from Project 891: 301; directs Leslie Howard in Hamlet, 266; early years, 193–4; Five Kings, 423–4, 426–7, 428, 430, 433, 438, 440, 441, 443–5; Heartbreak House, 363, 365, 367; in Hollywood, 459, 460, 461, 468, 477; Horse Eats Hat, 254–5, 257, 259, 266; Julius Caesar, 322, 323, 325, 333, 334, 336, 340, 343; Liberty Jones directed by, 546–7; Mankiewicz’s friendship with, 488–9; Mercury Theatre, 308–11, 343, 344, 355, 356, 357, 358, 360, 366–9, 370, 384, 385, 386, 390, 391–417 passim, 423–4, 426; Mercury Theatre of the Air, 370, 374–5, 376, 377, 387, 413–14, 415, 417; Native Son, 539, 540–3, 546, 547–8, 550; Negro Theatre Unit run by, 219–44, 246; Panic, 196–7, 198, 200–4, 325; Project 891: 247, 250–62, 265, 286–7, 290, 301; returns to New York from Hollywood to run radio show, 464; Run-Through (Vol.I of memoir), xi, 195–6, 311–12, 336, 445, 477–8, 543, 548, 555; ‘The Summing Up’ (article in New York Times), 366–7; Vassar College teaching job, 306–7, 310, 333; The Voice of America: appointed head of, 554–5; ‘Voodoo’ Macbeth, 222–44 passim, 249; The War of the Worlds, 398, 399, 400, 401, 404, 406, 411–12, 490; Welles’s relationship with, 195–200, 206–7, 209, 227–8, 243–4, 246–7, 254–5, 266, 267–8, 273–4, 286, 303, 306–8, 334–5, 374–5, 444–5, 459, 464, 477–80, 488–9, 529–30, 537, 546, 554–5
How Green Was My Valley (film), 577
Howard, David, Dear Abigail, 344
Howard, Leslie, 266
Howard, Sidney, 286–7, 322
Howe, Irving, 540
Hoystradt John, (John Hoyt), 145, 313, 362
Hughes, Langston, 219
Hughes, Richard, 131; A High Wind in Jamaica, 131
Hugo, Victor, Les Misérables, 304–6, 320, 372, 373, 445
Hull House settlement, Chicago, 9, 18
Humorous Lieutenant, The, 349
Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (film), 451, 523
Hurston, Zora Neale, 246
Huston, Walter, 445
Hutchens John K., 341–2, 343, 435–6
Hutton, Edward, 130, 135
Huxley, Aldous, 549; After Many a Summer, 473
Ibsen, Henrik, 19, 536
Idiot, The, 158
If You Know Not Me, You Know Nobody, 349
If This Be Not a Good Play, The Evil Is in It, 349
Imperial Theatre, New York, 201, 203
Importance of Being Earnest, The (Wilde), 368
Ince, Thomas, 495
Independent, The Dublin, 99, 102, 104, 105, 106
‘The Index of American Design’, 218
Ingram, Rex, 384
Insull, Samuel, 505
Ireland, 150; Welles’s stay in (1931–2), 75–111, 131, 135
Iris Theatre of Velva, North Dakota, 575
Irving, Henry, 281, 313, 316, 318, 375
Isaacs, Edith, 202, 214, 275, 339
It Can’t Happen Here (film), 451
It Happened One Night (radio play), 463
It Won’t Be Long Now (musical), 45
Italian Straw Hat, An see Horse Eats Hat
It’s All True (film), 577
I’ve Got the Time (radio play), 302
Ives, Lucy (grandmother), 7, 10, 13–14, 15
Jacobsen, Sigrid (nanny), 14
Jane Eyre (Brontë), radio adaptation of, 418, 489
Jane Eyre (film), 422
Japan, Welles’s visits to, 55–7, 131
Jarry, Alfred, 259
Jedermann, 50
Jerome, Jerome K., 82
Jerome, V.J., 203
Jew Süss (Feuchtwanger), 84, 85–7, 93–100, 103, 105, 107, 110, 111, 139, 148, 280
Jewell, Richard, The RKO Story, 450
John Citizen, USA see Citizen Kane
John Meade’s Woman (Mankiewicz), 487
Johnny Belinda, 553
Johnston, Alva, 301, 475, 476
Johnston, Denis, 100, 101
Jones, Errol Aubrey, 239
Jones, Inigo, 67
Jones, Robert Edmond, 138, 154, 169
Jones, Mrs Robert see Corrington, Dorothy
Jonson, Ben, 286, 309, 349
Jordan, Joe, 219
Journey into Fear (film), 528, 577
Jouvet, Louis, 173
Joyce, Phyllis, 363
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 53–4, 114, 177, 183–4, 275, 282, 286, 287, 309, 344, 394, 398, 409, 516; on disc, 474; Mercury Theatre modern-dress production, 309–10, 313, 320, 321, 322–43, 346–7, 348, 352, 353, 354, 355, 356, 357, 359, 365, 367, 368, 382, 388, 392, 435, 438, 448, 500, 545; nation-wide tour of, 357–8, 362, 428; radio adaptation of, 336–7, 377, 418; Schintzer’s production at Delaware of, 322; transferred from Mercury to National Theatre, 357, 362
June Moon (radio), 463
Juno, Beverly, 271
Juno and the Paycock (O’Casey), 348
Kachalov, Vasili Ivanovich, 50
Kael, Pauline, 488, 506, 524, 570, 571
Kaltenborn, H.V., 336, 418
Kanakee state sanatorium, Dick Welles Jr incarcerated in, 58, 74, 119
Kane, Whitford, 94, 156–7, 158, 160, 164, 208, 209, 348, 352, 356, 359, 368, 496
Karson, Nat, 219, 222, 229–30, 231, 237, 238, 241, 255
Kaufmann, George, 214
Kazin, Alfred, Starting Out in the Thirties, 342
Kean, Edmund, 110, 316, 378
Keen, J.H., 438
Kemble, Charles, 178
Kenosha, Wisconsin, Welles’s birth, childhood and family in, 3–15, 17, 23, 474; funeral of Dick Welles Sr in, 63, 64, 65
Kenosha City Club, 9
Kent, Amalia, 465
Kilmer, Joyce, 81
King, Alexander, 140
King Lear (Shakespeare), 31, 110, 112, 138, 208, 306, 315, 317
Kingsley, Sidney, 262, 263–4
Kingsway Theatre, London, 113
Kiri Te Kanawa, 526
Kitty Foyle (film), 496
Kline, Herbert, 200, 203
Koch, Howard, 402, 406; War of the Worlds, 398, 399–400, 401, 406, 490–2, 517
Koenig, John, 365
Komisarjevsky, Théodore, 92, 112
Korngold, Erich Wolfgang, 526
Krauss, Werner, 50
Kreisler, Fritz, 10
Kris and Kurz, Legend, Myth and Magic in the Image of the Artist, xi
Kyunokor, 223
La Salle, Henrietta, 493
Labiche, Eugène, 250, 252, 253, 255, 259
Lac du Flambeau, Welles’s stay at, 115–17, 122, 135
Lady Has a Heart, The, 348
Lady in the Dark, 553
Lafayette Players, Harlem, 210, 219
Lafayette Theatre, Harlem, 220, 221; ‘Voodoo’ Macbeth production, 222–44, 249
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, 209
Lakeside Musical Society, Chicago, 20
Lamb, Mary, Tales from Shakespeare, 13
Lang, Matheson, 94
Langner, Lawrence, 423–4, 428, 438, 439–40; The Magic Curtain, 423, 433–4
Laughton, Charles, 112, 168, 170, 172, 451, 463, 492
Laurence, Paula, 253, 270, 271, 277, 282
Laurens and Benjamin, 417
Lawrence, Gertrude, 344, 434, 445
Laye, Evelyn, 112
Leaming, Barbara, x, 7, 12, 22, 31, 32–3, 37, 39, 52, 62, 65–6, 98, 126–7, 131, 132, 133, 134, 136, 137, 138, 165, 174, 175, 196, 198, 206, 225, 244, 273, 285, 447–8, 462, 473, 479
Lean, Tangye, 566, 571
Lecture Notes on Acting (Welles), 372, 449
Lederer, Charles, 530, 533
Lee, Canada, 224, 234, 543, 547, 551, 552
Lee, Gypsy Rose, 543
Lefkow, Irene, 58
Leiber, Fritz, 147
Leiter, Sam, 211, 239, 263, 348; Encyclopaedia of the New York Stage, 210
Lenin, V.I, 358, 394
Leoncavallo, Ruggiero, 23; Pagliacci, 23
Letter, The, 143
Leve, Sam, 325, 327, 331, 352
Lewin, David, 58
Lewis
, Cecil Day (Nicholas Blake), The Smiler with the Knife, 477, 480–1
Lewis, Chick, 572
Lewis, James, 182
Lewis, Lloyd, 159, 166, 167, 172
Lewis, Robert, 214, 440
Lewis, William, 370, 372, 374
Liberty Jones, 546–7
Life magazine, 472, 549, 558
Life of Christ (film project), 527
Life of Dumas, The, 481
Light, James, 201
lighting effects, film, 507, 508, 566; stage, 230–2, 237, 241, 255, 269–70, 275–6, 281, 297, 325, 330–1, 340, 341, 354, 365, 396–8, 408, 409, 410, 432, 433, 508, 543, 544
Lillie, Beatrice, 423
Lin Yutang, 41
Little Man, What Now (film), 175
Living Hours (Schnitzler), 158
Living Newspaper (FTP), 219, 248, 313
Llewellyn Park, Welles’s marriage to Virginia in (1934), 198–9
Lloyd, Harold, 383
Lloyd, Norman, 284, 313, 327, 328, 333, 334, 335, 347, 349, 351, 352, 358–9, 470
Lloyd, Peg, 327
Lockhart, Gene, 458
Lockridge, Richard, 238, 339, 365
Lombard, Carole, 470, 480
London, Welles’s stay in (1932), 112–14
London Gate Theatre, 112
Long Christmas Dinner, The (Wilder), 504
Long Voyage Home, The (film), 499, 500
Longchamps Diner, New York, 346, 351, 395
Longford, Countess of, 100–1, 139
Longford, Edward, Earl of, 84, 100
Look Back in Anger (Osborne), 549
Lord of the Flies, 302
Lorna Doone, 398
Lorre, Peter, 506
Los Angeles see Hollywood
Losey, Joseph, 228, 232, 258, 550
Love of Three Oranges, The (Prokofiev), 19, 20
Luce, Henry, 334, 524, 549
Lucrece, 139
Lundberg, Ferdinand, 519; Imperial Hearst, 493, 496
Lunt, Alfred, 285
Lux Radio Theatre, 372
Lysistrata, 246
Macbeth (Shakespeare), 113, 425; on disc, 474, 515, 529; film (1947), 516; Negro Theatre Unit production (Voodoo Macbeth: 1936), 222–45, 246, 249, 255, 256, 259, 261, 278, 285, 305, 308, 310, 315, 444, 552; radio, 304, 375
MacBride, Maud Gonne, 101
McCandless, Stanley, 330
McCarthy, Charlie, 463
McCarthy, Mary, 223, 242, 282, 339–40, 346, 366, 414
McClintic, Guthrie, 139, 140–1, 142–3, 144–5, 146, 148, 150, 151–2, 153, 154, 185–8, 189–90, 198, 200, 207, 208, 212, 214, 353, 380, 430; Me and Kit, 186, 189
McCullers, Carson, 543
MacGowan, Kenneth, 138
McGraw-Hill, publishers, 185
Machiavelli, Niccolo dei, 481, 483
McKee, Harry, 270–1, 276
MacLeish, Archibald, 196–7, 199–200, 298, 299, 300, 328; Air Raid (radio play), 400; The Fall of the City (radio play), 202; Frescoes for Mr Rockefeller’s City, 196; Nobodaddy, 200; Panic, 196–7, 198, 200–5, 206; The Young Men of Wall Street, 200
