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Orson Welles: Hello Americans

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by Simon Callow


  Chiang Kai-shek, Madame 185

  Chicago 123, 192, 208, 210, 280, 325, 335, 351

  Chile 136

  Chimes at Midnight (film) 322

  Chimney Sweep (radio) 340

  Chirello, George ‘Shorty’ 166, 194, 359, 396, 420

  Cimino, Michael 30

  Cinedia 150–1

  Circus, The (film) 379

  Citizen Kane (film) xi, xiii, xvii, 10, 28, 29, 31, 36, 37, 41, 46, 48, 88, 89, 96, 109, 123, 126, 135, 149, 165, 167, 191, 197, 198, 212, 213, 224, 267, 268, 272, 276, 282, 313, 367, 385, 392, 394, 397, 403, 417, 421, 426, 435; awards for 76, 122; cost of 117; Los Angeles premiere 3; success of 3–6

  Citizens Committee on Displaced Persons 10, 409

  Civil Rights Statute 341

  Clark, Don 243

  Clark, Tom 327, 341

  Clemente, José 234

  Clifton’s Cafeteria (Los Angeles) 250

  Clurman, Harold 320

  Clyde, Vander see Barclift, Nelson

  Cochran, Charles B. 321–2, 404

  Cockburn, Claud 236

  Cocteau, Jean 288, 345, 421–2

  Cohn, Harry 197, 198, 212, 223, 290, 291, 299, 336, 347, 348, 349, 350, 355, 356, 360, 361–2, 365, 369, 372, 382, 386, 377, 402, 409, 439

  Colbert, Claudette 224, 337

  Cold War 251, 408, 410

  Collier, William 207

  Colliers’ Magazine 194, 195, 198

  Collins, Ray 29, 38, 309, 367

  Colombia 136

  Colt, Alvin 288, 305

  Columbia Pictures 93, 197, 290, 348, 350, 357, 360, 377, 402

  Columbia (Tennessee) 327

  Comédie-Française 404

  Comedia Balletica 288

  Commonwealth Pictures 442

  Communism 219, 235–6, 259, 410, 413

  Communist International 184

  Communist Party of America 10, 178

  Compton, Dick 207, 209, 210

  Compton’s Agency 201, 203–4, 206

  Conference of Studio Unions (CSU) 411, 412

  Conried, Hans 49, 51

  Cooper, Gary 13, 172

  Cooper, Stephen 379

  Copland, Aaron 208

  Corey, Don 358

  Cornell, Katharine 122, 165, 311

  Coronet Theatre (Los Angeles) 321

  Corrêa, Horacina 129

  Cortez, Stanley 35–6, 37, 38, 40, 48, 52, 139, 320

  Corwin, Norman 47, 260, 344, 420

  Costa, Rui 69

  Costello, Dolores 26, 37, 88, 111

  Cotten, Joseph 17, 27, 28, 48, 49, 50, 90, 91, 104, 106, 108, 111, 161, 172, 194, 258, 367

  Cotten, Lenore 258

  Coulouris, George 367

  Cover Girl (film) 197, 198

  Coward, Noël 149, 204, 277; Middle East Diary 237

  Cradle Will Rock, The (musical) 10, 283

  Craig, Gordon 212

  Cranston, Geneva 187, 226, 235, 258

  Craxton, William 300

  Crime Doctor’s Warning, The (film) 350

  Critic, The 300

  Cromwell, John 413

  Crosby, Bing 314

  Crosby, Floyd 33–4

  Crowther, Bosley 138, 422, 438, 440

  Crummles, Vincent 295

  Cuban Love Song (film) 71

  Cultural Front, The (Denning) 30

  Culver City 91

  Curtiz, Michael 403

  Cyrano de Bergerac (film) 207, 345, 405, 418

  D’Agostino, Albert 49

  Daily News 137, 304, 314

  Daily Telegraph 38, 421, 440

  Daily Worker 323, 329

  Damaged Goods (film) 26

  Danger on the Air (film) 35

  Daniell, Henry 168

  Daniels, Walter 93, 120, 136

  Daniels, William 58–9

  Danton’s Death 397

  Danton’s Death (play) 178

  Date with Destiny see The Stranger

  Davies, Marion 222, 383, 397

  Davison, Robert 288

  De Gaulle, Charles 185

  De Moraes, Vinicius 98

  Dead of Night (film) 348

  Decca 265

  Del Rio, Dolores 31–2, 34, 46, 48, 49, 50, 113, 194, 196, 406, 444

  DeMille, Cecil B. 17

  Denning, Michael 9–10, 30

  Denver Post 412

  Dewey, Thomas E. 213, 215, 216, 332

  Diamond as Big as the Ritz, The (radio) 242

  Diary of a Doctor (film) 402

  Diary of Welles Group Activities 114

  Dickens, Charles 191

  Dies Committee 412

  Dieterle, William 5

  Dietrich, Marlene 197, 199

  Disney, Walt 189, 242–3

  Dixon, Campbell 38, 421, 440

  Doane, Warren 415

  Doctor Faustus, film 161–2; Unit 891 production 191

  Dolivet, Louis 183–6, 201, 211, 220, 223–4, 238, 252, 284, 409

  Don Quixote (film) 418

  Donne, John 207

  Don’t Catch Me (film) 243, 379

  Douglas, Melvyn 412

  Down to Earth (film) 443

  Dr Faustus (Marlowe) 265, 385, 418

  Dracula (radio play) 28, 168

  Drake, Herb 17, 41, 49, 57, 60, 63, 66, 80, 82, 83, 93, 97, 99, 101, 104, 106, 122, 123, 128, 137, 138, 140, 163

  Dreiser, Theodore 185

  Dreyer, Carl Theodor 360

  Drunkard, The (W.H. Smith) 312

  Dublin 258

  Duffield, Brainerd 289, 389, 394, 397, 404, 432

  Dumas, Alexandre, Diary of a Doctor 402

  Dumbarton Oaks Conference 227, 238

  Dunning, Decla 267

  Durante, Jimmy 307

  Eagle Squadron (film) 36

  Ecuador 136

  Edinburgh International Festival 393, 418, 419

  Edwards, Hilton 183, 431

  Ehrenburg, Ilya 239

  Einstein, Albert 185

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. 209, 240

  Eisenstein, Sergei Mikhailovich 5, 133, 190, 245–6

  Elhirst, Ruth 201

  Eliot, Bruce, Magic 281

  Ellington, Duke 11–12, 324

  Elliott, Bruce 413; Magic as a Hobby 192

  Ellis, Anita 362

  Elmhirst, William 201

  Emerson University 424

  Emily Brady (D.O. Stewart) 218–19, 307

  Enfield, Cy 92, 107

  Epstein, Jacob 403

  Evans, Maurice 315, 396

  Ewald, Carl 54

  Exiled Writers’ Committee 44

  Famous Artists Agency 382

  Fanfare 301

  Fante, John 9, 12; Love Story 379

  Fanto, George 133, 134, 219

  Farber, Jerry 431

  Farewell to Arms, A (radio play) 47

  Farley, Morgan 397

  Fast, Howard, Citizen Thomas Paine 218

  Fay, Frank 412

  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) 175, 178, 235–6, 254, 255, 329, 333, 334, 413

  Federal Theatre Project 10, 43–4, 53, 301

  Feigay, Paul 265, 290

  Feldman, Charles K. 382, 383, 418–19, 420, 436, 437

  Ferguson, Perry 268

  Ferrer, José 405

  Feydeau, Georges 203

  Fields, W.C. 200

  Fier, Jack 359, 360, 361

  Fifth Avenue (film) 25

  Figuereido, Dr Assis 61, 73, 76, 120

  films/movies see named films eg Citizen Kane

  Finian’s Rainbow (musical) 311

  Fitzgerald, Geraldine 69, 258

  Five Kings (Shakespeare: Wars of the Roses cycle) 106, 147, 294, 297, 322, 387, 397, 442

  Fix, Dick 297, 298, 301, 304, 308

  Flaherty, Robert xvi, 9, 33, 132

  Fleck, Freddie 108

  Fleet’s In, The (film) 86, 87

  Fleischer Cartoon Studio 59

  Flesh and the Devil (film) 291

  Fletcher, Louise 47

  Florence 212

 
Flynn, Errol 358

  Fo, Dario 202

  Follow the Boys (film) 198–200, 382

  Fontaine, Joan 162, 164, 165–6; No Bed of Roses 165

  Ford, John 36, 383

  Fortaleza 130–5, 369

  Foster, Norman 12–13, 31, 32, 34, 39, 43, 45, 46, 49, 104, 106

  Four Men on a Raft (film) 93, 121–2, 134, 135, 137, 147, 369, 443

  Franco, General Francisco 202

  Fraser, Mrs Edna 324–5

  Free World Association of Hollywood 211

  Free World Forum 242

  Free World magazine 185, 186, 211, 214, 220, 229, 238, 245, 252–3, 260, 284, 335, 340, 408

  Freedley, Vinton 382, 391

  Freeman, Don 301

  Friele, Berent 97–8, 123

  Gallagher, Bret 286

  Gance, Abel 418

  Garland, Judy 223, 443

  Garland, Robert 303

  Garner, Peggy Ann 168

  Garson, Greer 189

  Gate Theatre (Dublin) 388, 431

  Gessner, Robert 31

  Ghiaroni, Professor 70

  Gibbs, Wolcott 304, 305, 306

  Gielgud, John 311

  Gilda (film) 349

  Gilder, Rosamond 391

  Gilks, Al 31, 33

  Girl of the Rio (film) 71

  Glamour magazine 253

  Goddard, Paulette 345

  Goetz, William ‘Bill’ 162, 163, 164, 224, 267, 268, 269

  Goldbogen, Avrom Hirsch see Mike Todd

  Goldwyn, Samuel 5, 142, 412

  Golgotha (film) 418

  Gone with the Wind (film) 161

  Gonzaga, Adhear 150–1

  Good Neighbor Family (documentary) 64

  Good, Ray 293

  Goodall, Gladys 390, 391

  Gordon, William 49, 142, 145, 146

  Grafton, Sam 239

  Grand Detour (Illinois) 22

  Grant, Cary 31

  Great Dictator, The (film) 17, 68

  Great McCoy: His Wonder Show of 1936, The (vaudeville) 191

  Green Goddess, The 312

  Greenberg, Josh 151

  Greene, Harry 75

  Greene, William ‘Duke’ 61, 64–5, 75

  Griffith, D.W. 17

  Group, The (film) 382

  Guatemala 229–30

  Guild, Nancy 415

  Guthrie, Woody 336

  Haig Corporation 267

  Hall, Robert 244–5, 247, 250

  Hamlet (Shakespeare) 23–4, 232, 315; film 421, 422–3, 424, 427, 428, 431, 438, 441

  Hammerstein, Oscar, II 208, 324

  Hammond, John 10

  Hammond, Percy 308, 384

  Happy Prince, The (Wilde) 48, 314, 345

  Haran, Shifra 49, 100, 143, 144, 194

  Harburg, F.Y. 343

  Harrington, Oliver 323, 326, 329, 338, 341; Why I Left America 328

  Harris, Jed 4, 148

  Harrison, Rex 322

  Hart, Lorenz 307

  Hastings, Ross 124, 128

  Havilland, Olivia de 342–3

  Hawkins, William 304

  Hawks, Howard 36

  Hays Code Administration Office 5, 48, 266, 345, 418

  Hayworth, Rita 48, 50, 196–7, 221, 243, 255, 258, 267, 277, 290, 291, 347, 349–50, 356, 382; and Black Dahlia letter 378–9; breakdown of marriage to Welles 222–5, 256–7, 285, 443–4; marriage to Welles 198, 201; and The Lady from Shanghai 357, 358–9, 361, 362, 367, 368, 375, 380

  He Who Gets Slapped (theatre play) 27

  Healy, Mary 289, 291, 301, 313

  Hearst Newspapers 128

  Hearst, William Randolph 3, 6, 222, 337, 383, 397

  Heart of Darkness, The (Conrad), film 427; radio 243

  Heartbreak House (film) 397, 442

  Hearts of Age 134

  Heaven’s Gate (film) 30

  Hecht, Ben 13, 307, 383

  Heifetz, Jascha 423

  Hello Americans (radio series) 81, 98, 157–8, 159–60, 343

  Hempstead, David 13, 16

  Henry IV Parts One and Two (Shakespeare) 294, 300

  Henry V (Shakespeare) (film) 300, 391

  Hepburn, Katharine 300, 408

  Herald Tribune 139, 216, 329, 439

  Herbert, Lolita 315

  Herlie, Eileen 405

  Herrmann, Bernard 21, 34, 47, 55, 108–11, 161, 163, 208, 257, 268, 272, 273, 344, 362, 386, 414, 416, 417, 419

  Higham, Charles 34, 349

  Highland Park News 169, 225

  Hill, Roger ‘Skipper’ 4, 47, 160, 248

  Himber, Richard 193

  Hirschfeld, Al 301

  His Honour the Mayor (radio play) 3

  Hitch-Hiker, The (radio) 47, 155

  Hitchcock, Alfred 162, 276, 398

  Hollywood 7, 18, 23, 28, 59, 78, 84, 85, 122, 123, 127, 130, 131, 132, 137, 139, 140, 148, 150, 161, 179, 198, 199, 211, 224, 245, 246, 249, 258, 265, 267, 268, 299, 310, 332, 356, 359, 360, 376, 382, 392, 400, 425, 437, 442, 444; industrial unrest 409–13

  Hollywood Independent Citizens’ Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions 342–3

  Hollywood Reporter 136, 148, 168, 198, 410, 411, 412

  Hollywood Ten 413

  Holt, Tim 25, 28, 40, 88, 111, 124

  Honey Pot, The (film) 382

  Hoover, J. Edgar 333

  Hopkins, Harry 53, 54, 72

  Hopper, Hedda 212, 213, 277, 425

  Horne, Lena 166, 343

  Horse Eats Hat (radio) 191, 195, 312

  Hot Mikado (musical) 281

  Houdini, Harry 192

  House, Billy 269

  House of Un-American Activities Committee 184, 408, 412

  Household, Geoffrey, Rogue Male 75

  Houseman, John 162, 163, 199, 321, 332, 383, 404

  Houston, Mary 325

  How Green Was My Valley (film) 388

  Hughes, Langston 327

  Hull, Cordell 44, 185

  Hunchback of Notre Dame, The (film) 170, 282

  Huston, John 25, 267, 412

  Huston, Walter 21, 47, 172, 218

  Hutton, Betty 86

  Huxley, Aldous 162

  Hymans, Jerome 442

  Hypnotic Influence 192

  Hypnotic Rigid Test 192

  Hypnotism on Animals 192

  I-AA see Office of Inter-American Affairs

  Ibert, Jacques 418

  Iceman Cometh, The (O’Neill) 311

  If I Die Before I Wake see Lady from Shanghai, The (film)

  I.F. Stone’s Weekly 236

  Il Tempo 421, 424

  Importance of Being Earnest, The (Wilde) 311

  Independent Voters’ Committee for Arts and Sciences for Roosevelt 213, 218

  Information Please (radio quiz) 160

  Inglewood 111

  International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Moving Picture Operators (IASTE) 411, 412

  International Brotherhood of Magicians 191

  International Free World Association 184–5

  Intolerance (film) 269

  Ipacema Beach 147

  Isaacs, Hermine Rich 348

  Italian Straw Hat, An see Horse Eats Hat

  It’s All True (film) xiii, xv, xvi, 8–12, 31, 45, 46, 52, 53, 55, 112, 159, 196, 324, 357, 369, 379, 442; briefing and preparation for filming in Brazil 57–60; Carnival sequence 57–67, 74–5, 85, 442–3; chôros in 100–1; and death of Jacaré 120–2; favelas 141; funding for 141–3; ideas on what the film was about 101–3; and the jangadeiros 81–4, 92, 103, 114, 134–5, 141; post-Carnival filming 91–101; problems and frictions on 113–17, 122, 131–8; RKO dinner party for 128–9; and the samba 70–1, 79, 81; versions of 143–7

  It’s a Wonderful Life (film) 17

  Ivan the Terrible (film) 190, 245–6

  Ivens, Joris 34

  Izvestia 236

  Jacaré see Meiro, Mandel Olimpio (‘Jacaré’)

  Jack Benny Show (radio series) 231

  Jaglom, Henry xv

  Jam Session (aka The Story
of Jazz) (film) 8, 9, 11–12

  Jane Eyre (film) 161–9, 213, 224, 231, 268

  Joan of Arc (film) 360

  Joan of Paris (film) 162

  Johnson, Hiram Warren 261

  Joseph, Ray 136

  Journey into Fear (film) xiii, 6, 12, 13–17, 31, 46, 48, 49–55, 79, 93–4, 103, 104–5, 117, 125–6, 135, 160–1, 165, 168, 269, 270

  Juárez, Benito 155

  Julius Caesar (Shakespeare) 31, 205, 321, 387

  Jumbo 308

  Jump for Joy 11

  Just William (film) 388

  Kahn, Gordon 408

  Kamp, David 150

  Kanin, Garsin 5

  Kaper, Bronislaw 268, 272–3

  Kauffimann, Stanley 322

  Kazan, Elia 106, 266, 320

  Keller, Helen 255

  Kellner, Sandór Laszlo 189–90

  Kelly, Gene 197

  Kennedy, Joseph 5, 44

  Kenosha School Board 10

  Kent, Amalia 29

  Keys of the Kingdom, The (film) 189

  King Lear (Shakespeare) 265, 292, 382, 383, 392; radio production 344

  King, R. Sherwood, The Adventurer 351; Between Murders 351; If I Die Before I Wake 349, 351; The Outlaws of the Air 351

  Kirk, Mark-Lee 34, 49

  Kiss Me, Kate (musical) 306, 321

  Koch, Howard 172

  Koerner, Charles W. 77, 79, 86, 86–7, 88, 93, 107, 111, 118, 120, 124–5, 126, 142, 148–9, 161

  Korda, Alexander 140, 189, 190, 200, 267, 290, 299, 322, 340, 344, 345–6, 404–5, 411, 414, 415, 418

  Korea 258, 259

  Korngold, Erich Wolfgang 109

  Krupa, Gene 142

  Ku Klux Klan 327

  Kurtz, Efrem 419

  La Cava, Gregory 25

  Laage, Barbara 405

  Lady in the Dark (film) 288

  Lady Esther Show, The (radio series) 32, 38, 44, 47, 48, 54, 55, 155, 202

  Lady from Shanghai, The (film) xiii, 347, 349–51, 382, 386, 397, 402, 403, 404, 409, 410, 412, 439; and the censor 355; delays and costs 358–61; dialogue 353–5; end result 364–81; illness and death on set of 358–9; location shooting 356–8; plot of 351–3; production of 355–6, 361–4

  Lady Hamilton (film) 190

  Lady Killer, The (film) 8

  Lady Windermere’s Fan (Wilde) 311

  Lampedusa, Giuseppe 19

  Lanchester, Elsa 105

  Lasky, Betty 4

  Lassie Come Home (film) 388

  Laster, Al 333

  Laughton, Charles 29, 52, 105, 167, 190, 205, 282, 283, 284, 315, 316–21, 404, 405

  Laurence, Larry 289, 295

  Lawrence, Gertrude 312

  Lawrence, Viola 355, 361, 369, 377, 382, 386

  Lawton, Charles ‘Buddy’, Junior 355, 356, 358

  Le Sang d’un Poète 288

  Lea Radios 259

  Leaming, Barbara 277, 283, 285, 320, 361, 443

  Lear, Les 333

  Lear Radios 257, 290

  Lear, William 257, 260

  Lederer, Charles 222, 397

  Lee, Canada 172

  Leigh, Vivien 345, 396

  Leighter, Jackson 194, 236, 243, 315

 

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