by Simon Callow
42 ‘Korda, asking for preliminary sketches …’ Telegram from Alexander Korda to Orson Welles, 27 September 1946.
43 ‘No, wired back Welles …’ Telegram from Orson Welles to Alexander Korda, 28 September 1946.
44 ‘COMPLETELY HEARTBROKEN.’ ibid.
45 ‘We regret having to report …’ Letter from Joseph Breen, 4 September 1946.
46 ‘MY TIME IS GETTING SHORT …’ Telegram from Alexander Korda to Orson Welles, op. cit.
CHAPTER NINETEEN
If I Die Before I Wake
1 ‘May I direct your attention …’ Letter from Nichols and Phillips to Orson Welles, 13 September 1946.
2 ‘I have written to Orson …’ Letter from Ted Thackrey to Richard Wilson, 26 December 1946.
3 ‘as the audience is caught in the grip …’ Hermine Rich Isaacs, Theatre Arts, June 1946.
4 ‘“Dear Bill,” he wrote to Castle …’ Letter from Orson Welles to William Castle, n.d., quoted in Step Right Up!.
5 ‘Glennie darling, get on the next …’ ibid.
6 ‘Orson, an insomniac …’ William Castle, Step Right Up!.
7 ‘Flynn joked, cajoled, needled …’ Memorandum by Richard Wilson, n.d., from internal evidence, c. November 1946.
8 ‘there’s too much stalling …’ Interview with Orson Welles by Thomas A. Brady, New York Times, 8 December 1946.
9 ‘we have nothing to fear but Fier himself’. Barbara Leaming, Orson Welles.
10 ‘something off-centre, queer, strange’. Memorandum from Orson Welles to Harry Cohn, n.d., mid-1947.
11 ‘Rudolph [Maté] took a whole day …’ Memorandum by Richard Wilson, op. cit.
12 ‘I have a small public …’ Interview with Orson Welles by Thomas A. Brady, op. cit.
13 ‘According to Mary Pacios …’ Mary Pacios, Childhood Shadows.
14 ‘The Scar never fails …’ Anonymous letter sent to Rita Hayworth, quoted in If This was Happiness.
CHAPTER TWENTY
The Forces of Darkness
1 ‘RE POSSIBILITY OF YOUR APPEARING …’ Telegram from Vinton Freedley 24 January 1947.
2 ‘Shakespeare was very close to the origins …’ Interview with Orson Welles by Cahiers du Cinéma.
3 ‘the greatest thing that ever happened to Utah’. Press release 28 May 1947.
4 ‘His sense of theatre …’ Jeannette Nolan interviewed by François Thomas in ‘Mésaventures d’un Bande Sonore’. Positif, July/August 1992.
5 ‘last night’s show was about as much …’ Gladys Goodall, Salt Lake Telegram, 29 May 1947.
6 ‘Shakespearian stand-by Macbeth …’ Variety, 4 June 1947.
7 ‘The Wellesian stage settings …’ New York Times, 29 May 1947.
8 ‘Jeanette Nolan “of the radio” …’ ibid.
9 ‘ANTA has completed a project …’ Press release, 28 May 1947.
10 ‘OUR APPRECIATION …’ Telegram from Helen Hayes to Orson Welles, 28 May 1947.
11 ‘offered an opportunity …’ Programme note from Salt Lake City production.
12 ‘Again I urge …’ Memorandum from Orson Welles to Richard Wilson.
13 ‘to “everyone” …’ Peter Bogdanovich, This is Orson Welles.
14 ‘RUN! Don’t walk! Remember, this is …’ Alan Napier quoted in Richard Maurice Hurst, Republic Studios.
15 ‘One eye was on you …’ Roddy MacDowall interviewed by the author, Los Angeles, June 1990.
16 ‘The important thing to me …’ Letter from Jerry Wald to Orson Welles, 14 July 1947.
17 ‘From the human side …’ Letter from Herbert J. Yates to Orson Welles, 18 July 1947.
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
The Welles of Onlyness
1 ‘DEAR ORSON …’ Telegram from Gregory Ratoff to Orson Welles, 8 September 1947.
2 ‘BELIEVE ME AS YOUR FRIEND …’ Telegram from Johnny Maschio to Orson Welles, 15 September 1947.
3 ‘You will readily see …’ Letter from Michael Curtiz to Orson Welles, 20 September 1946.
4 ‘John Perry of the West End Management …’ Telegram from John Perry to Orson Welles, 29 August 1947.
5 ‘SORRY, Welles replied …’ Telegram from Orson Welles to John Perry, 30 August 1947.
6 ‘I HOPE GALILEO IS …’ Telegram from Orson Welles to Charles Laughton, 30 July 1947.
7 ‘ARRIVING SEPTEMBER 15TH …’ Telegram from Orson Welles to Alexander Korda, 4 September 1947.
8 ‘“Please answer, urgently …’ Letter from Maurice Bessy to Orson Welles, 6 October 1947.
9 ‘IT IS ALMOST CERTAIN …’ Telegram from Alexander Korda to Orson Welles, 15 January 1947.
10 ‘YOU TOLD ME YOU COULD …’ Telegram from Alexander Korda to Orson Welles, 3 March 1947.
11 ‘Q: Mr Welles …’ Transcript of court case, 8 May 1947.
12 ‘largely because your name topped …’ Letter from Stella Holt to Orson Welles, 17 June 1946.
13 ‘The people is heroic and suicidal …’ Recorded speech made by Orson Welles c. July 1946.
14 ‘to let the people of the world know …’ Speech by Henry A. Wallace, 19 May 1947.
15 ‘literally seared the ears off …’ Gordon Kahn, Hollywood on Trial.
16 ‘TERRIBLY SORRY BUT MY MONEY IS SPENT …’ Telegram from Orson Welles to Citizens Committee on Displaced Persons, 9 June 1946.
17 ‘THE MIGHTY “WE” LIKE YOU …’ Telegram from Citizens Committee on Displaced Persons to Orson Welles, 17 June 1946.
18 ‘after weeks of haggling begging bargaining …’ Letter from Orson Welles to Louis Dolivet, undated, c. December 1946.
19 ‘HOLLYWOOD STARS ARE BLASTED …’ Hollywood Reporter, 30 September 1946.
20 ‘I shall continue in the future …’ ibid., 2 December 1946.
21 ‘I definitely intend …’ ibid.
22 ‘a grave injustice has been done …’ ibid.
23 ‘Shall the studios remain open …’ ibid.
24 ‘the group of bigots …’ Speech by Henry A. Wallace, Los Angeles, 19 May 1947.
25 ‘THIS INDUSTRY IS NOW DIVIDING ITSELF …’ Telegram from Billy Wilder, William Wyler and John Huston to Orson Welles, 2 October 1946.
26 ‘the year 1947 was dominated by …’ Eric Barnouw, The Golden Web.
27 ‘with a small-town Robespierre …’ John Cromwell, quoted in Gordon Kahn, Hollywood on Trial.
28 ‘even my few remaining friends …’ Letter from Orson Welles to Arthur Margetson, 24 February 1947.
29 ‘FROM THE WAY YOU SOUND …’ Telegram from Bruce Elliott to Orson Welles, 3 September 1947.
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
The Charm’s Wound Up
1 ‘All of this stuff of lighting candles …’ Letter from Orson Welles to Richard Wilson, 3 September 1947.
2 ‘Good news is that picture …’ Letter from Orson Welles to Bernard Herrmann, 12 September 1947.
3 ‘Some of the individual scenes …’ Orson Welles, quoted in Frank Brady, Citizen Welles.
4 ‘Being a director at heart …’ Memorandum from Warren Doane to Edward Small, 23 April 1948.
5 ‘There is too much footage …’ SoundScriber message from Orson Welles to Richard Wilson, 4 November 1947.
6 ‘Several sections of Republic …’ Letter from Richard Wilson to Orson Welles, 14 November 1947.
7 ‘the whole lot – executives and artisans …’ ibid.
8 ‘for Christ’s sake write! …’ Letter from Richard Wilson to Orson Welles, 26 November 1947.
9 ‘“Dearest Chuck,” he calls him …’ Letter from Richard Wilson to Orson Welles, 10 February 1948.
10 ‘low and generally confused …’ ibid.
11 ‘When I talked to Feldman …’ Letter from Richard Wilson to Orson Welles, 24 March 1948.
12 ‘Please send some generalisations at least …’ Letter from Richard Wilson to Orson Welles, 14 March 1948.
13 ‘Dear Old Hank Cinq …’ Letter from Richard Wilson to Orson Welles, 19 April 1948.
14 ‘For your information, Charles K. Feldman …’ Letter from Richard Wilson to Orson Welles, 13 March 1948.
15 ‘There’s no reason why the witches …’ Memorandum from Norman Corwin to Orson Welles, n.d, c. June 1948.
16 ‘[Welles’s] own opinion …’ Daily Telegraph, 6 September 1948.
17 ‘[It] … grabs the audience …’ Il Tempo, quoted in Frank Brady, op. cit.
18 ‘Coiffed with horns and crowns …’ Jean Cocteau, The Art of Film.
19 ‘fake light and cardboard settings’. Robert Bresson, quoted in Frank Brady, op. cit.
20 ‘It may come as something …’ Bosley Crowther, New York Times, 30 September 1948.
21 ‘The scene opposite is not …’ Life, 11 October 1948.
22 ‘If Welles has failed utterly …’ Newsweek, 18 October 1948.
23 ‘There is no doubt …’ Fortnight, 5 November 1948.
24 ‘had exhausted themselves …’ Letter from Richard Wilson to Orson Welles, 10 October 1948.
25 ‘Of course I think the whole thing …’ ibid.
26 ‘for the first time in my life I got …’ Peter Bogdanovich, This is Orson Welles.
27 ‘What I am trying to do …’ Cahiers du Cinéma, September 1958.
28 ‘he that plays the king …’ Foreword to He That Plays The King by Kenneth Tynan, 1950.
29 ‘a prehistoric universe …’ André Bazin, Orson Welles.
30 ‘I don’t think films made on a small budget …’ Quoted in Peter Noble, The Fabulous Orson Welles.
31 ‘I have had the considerable disillusionment …’ Letter from Richard Wilson to Orson Welles, 7 May 1949.
32 ‘it has a great deal in its favour …’ New York Times, 28 October 1950.
33 ‘They don’t review my films any more …’ Profile by Kenneth Tynan in Show, October/November 1961.
34 ‘an imaginative and highly stylised …’ Herald Tribune, 28 December 1950.
35 ‘a terrific piece of melodramatic …’ New York Times, 10 January 1948.
36 ‘though Mr Orson Welles’s film …’ The Times, 23 May 1951.
37 ‘the brilliant Mr Welles …’ Daily Telegraph, 28 May 1951.
38 ‘The temptation with the long-awaited …’ Punch, 6 June 1951.
39 ‘a more powerful effect …’ Sight and Sound, September 1951.
40 ‘It is uncouth, unscholarly, unmusical …’ Observer, 27 May 1951.
41 ‘Welles’s Macbeth is nothing if not …’ Henry Raynor Sight and Sound, June 1952.
42 ‘What is needed is more pictures …’ Quoted in Peter Noble, The Fabulous Orson Welles.
43 ‘Some years later …’ Henry Raynor, op. cit.
44 ‘Welles’s finest work …’ Letter from Richard Wilson to Jerome Hyams, 16 September 1947.
45 ‘couldn’t put up with his genius any more …’ Daily News, 10 November 1947.
Index
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99th Pursuit Squadron 324
Abbey Theatre (Dublin) 168
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (film) 415
ABC 290, 309, 339, 340, 342
Abednego (radio) 343
Acapulco 356, 362–3, 370, 404
Adelphi Theatre (New York) 300–1, 306, 308, 310, 318, 322, 323, 326
Admiral of the Ocean Sea (radio) 156
Adorno, Theodor 423
Agee, James 168
Aiken (South Carolina) 328–9, 333–5, 337, 338, 339
Aino Da Noite (newspaper) 46, 96, 121
Airborne Symphony 287
Albuquerque, Chico 134
All That Money Can Buy (Dieterle) 5
Alland, William ‘Bill’ 356, 385, 388, 394, 432
Allen, Fred 203
Allenberg, Bert 315
Ambler, Eric 6, 13–14, 50
American National Theatre and Academy (ANTA) 382, 391–3, 403, 424
American Student Union’s Peace Ball 10
Americans All (documentary) 64
Amsterdam News 336
Anderegg, Michael, Orson Welles: Shakespeare and Popular Culture 429
Anders, Glenn 356, 367
Anderson, Dame Judith 396
Andrei Rublev (film) 427
Andreyev, Leonid 27
Annie Get Your Gun (musical) 311
Anouilh, Jean 311
Antheil, George 362
Antigone (Anouilh) 3 11
Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare) 418
Argentina 136
Armour, Reg 33, 93, 94, 96, 107, 115, 124, 131
Around the World in Eighty Days (musical) xiii, 287–302, 290, 323, 334, 343, 357, 392, 424; cost of production 305–6, 321–2, 348; critics views of 303–5, 308, 310–11; failure of 303–22; inception and production 280, 281, 283–4, 284, 285; Todd’s abandonment of 316–19; Welles’s promotion of 308–10
Art of Illusion, The 192
Atkinson, Brooks 391
Atlas Mountains 83
Atlee, Clement 239
Aviso newspaper 135
Bahia 135, 147
Bainter, Fay 385
Bakaleinikoff, Constantin 109
Bakhtin, Mikhail 386, 387
Ball, Lucille 204–5
Ballad for Americans (song) 10
Ballet Russes de Monte Carlo 288, 296
Bankhead, Tallulah 396
Barbette 289, 298–9
Barclift, Nelson 288–9
Barlow, Joyce 389
Barnes, George 166–7
Barnouw, Eric 413
Barra Da Tijuca 120, 132
Barrier, Edgar 17, 309, 388, 391, 433
Barry, Iris 266
Barrymore, John xvii, 26, 231–2
Batesburg (South Carolina) 336, 339, 341
Batista, Linda 129
Baxter, Anne 27, 88, 112
BBC 96
Beaton, Cecil 345
Beck, Martin 289
Ben-Hur (film) 269
Benamou, Catherine xvi, 74, 379
Bennett, Barbara 27
Bennett, Constance 27
Bennett, Joan 27
Bennett, Richard 26–7, 37, 49, 51
Benny, Jack 170–2, 203, 246–7
Bérard, Christian (Bébé) 345
Berg-Allenberg Agency 315
Berkeley, Busby 36
Bernstein, Dr Maurice (‘Dadda’) 4, 22, 23, 47, 106, 117–19, 194, 198, 201, 248, 416
Bernstein, Leonard 287
Berry, John 106
Bert Wheeler’s Circle of Magic 191
Bessy, Maurice 404
Best Years of Our Lives, The (film) 411
Between Americans (radio) 55
Biarritz 421
Big Sleep, The (film) 382
Biroc, Joe 59
Black Cat (film) 35
Black Dahlia murders 377–9
Black Irish see Lady from Shanghai, The (film)
Black Magic (film) see Cagliostro
Blake, Nicholas 14
Blitzstein, Marc 10, 178, 179, 183, 283, 287, 417
Bloch, Richard 193
Blue Network 239
Bluebeard (film) 7
Blunt, Anthony 184
Bogdanovich, Peter xv, 25, 26, 37, 49, 52, 130, 137, 284, 320, 393, 405, 427, 432, 437, 438
Bolivia 136
Bombay Clipper (film) 36
Bonito the Bull (aka My Friend Bonito) (film) 2, 9, 12–13, 31–4, 38–9, 44, 45, 46, 48, 80, 102, 143, 146
Bonito the Bull (radio) 259
Booth, Clare Luce 10
Borba, Emilinha 129
Borzage, Frank 383
Boston Daily Globe 293, 294, 295
Boyer, Charles 13
Bracken, Eddie 86
Brady, Frank 45
Brady, Thomas A. 360
Brando, Marlon 163, 311
Brasseur, Pierre 366
Br
aun, Bob 243–4
Brazil 58–67, 82–4, 159–60, 190, 210, 219, 369
Brecht, Bertolt 13, 282–4, 296, 315, 316, 318, 320, 321, 363, 404
Breen, Bob 392–3
Breen, Joseph 5–6, 13, 18, 41, 45, 67, 77, 345, 418
Bridges, Harry 10
Brigadoon (musical) 311
Bright Lucifer (Welles) 384, 385
Britannicus (Racine) 379
Broadcast 439
Broadway 265, 306–7, 310, 321, 324, 391
Brook, Peter 384, 403
Browder, Earl 10
Bryson, Lyman 172–3
Büchner, George 178
Buenos Aires 98, 99, 136
Burgess, Guy 184
Byrnes, Jimmy 251
Cabinet of Dr Caligari, The (film) 356
Caesar (film) 442
Cagliostro (film) 405, 415–16, 418, 425
Cagney, James 31, 86, 410
Cahiers du Cinéma 386, 427
Cahn, Irving 303, 321
Calder-Marshall, Arthur 14
California 301
Camacho, General Maximo 230
Campbell Playhouse, The (radio series) 18, 162, 344
Candida (theatre) 311
Cansino, Margaret see Hayworth, Rita
Cansino, Volga 256
Capra, Frank 17, 38, 267
Captain’s Chair, The (film) 9
Carmen (film) 291, 345, 349
Carmen Jones (musical) 324
Carné, Marcel 418, 422
Carnival (Rio de Janeiro) 57–67, 69–71, 74–5, 81–4, 85, 103, 114, 443
Carnival in Rio (film) 93
Carousel (musical) 311
Carringer, Robert L. 22, 23, 24, 52, 107
Carter, Jack 384
Casablanca (film) 403
Cassidy, Jack 289
Castle, William 233, 349, 356, 358; Step Right Up 350
Cat and the Canary, The (film) 417
Catherine the Great (film) 417
Cavalcade of America (radio series) 155, 156–7
CBS Records 32, 47, 155, 156, 172, 203, 204, 241, 384.
Ceiling Unlimited (radio) 157, 158–9, 287
Chaliapin, Fedor 232, 418
Chandler, Fred 151
Chaplin, Charlie 7–8, 17, 68, 118, 149, 150, 173, 267, 320, 379, 412
Chapman, John 304, 305, 306, 308
Charlie Chan (film series) 12
Chávez, Carlos 55, 146
Cherkassov, Nikolai 366
Chestnut Street Theatre (Philadelphia) 297
