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Orson Welles, Volume 3

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by Simon Callow


  30. Richard Watts Jr, New York Herald Tribune, 13th January 1956.

  31. Henry Hewes, ‘No Great Shakes’, Saturday Review, 14th January 1956.

  32. Walter Kerr, New York Herald Tribune, 13th January 1956.

  33. Wolcott Gibbs, The New Yorker, 21st January 1956.

  34. Richard Hayes, Commonweal Magazine, 17th January 1956.

  35. Paula Laurence, interview with the author, 1989.

  36. Geraldine Fitzgerald, interview with the author, 1989.

  37. Viveca Lindfors, interview with the author, 1989.

  38. John Maxtone-Graham, interview with the author, 1989.

  39. Alvin Epstein, interview with the author, 1989.

  40. Sorrell Booke, interview with the author, 1989.

  41. John Maxtone-Graham, interview with the author, 1989.

  42. Ibid.

  43. New York Times, 1st February 1956.

  44. Brooks Atkinson, New York Times, 22nd January 1956.

  45. George Jean Nathan, New York Journal-American, 21st January 1956.

  CHAPTER 12

  1. Bart Whaley, Orson Welles: The Man Who Was Magic. Lybrary.com, 2011.

  2. ‘Willard’, Daily Variety, 23rd February 1956.

  3. Whaley, Orson Welles: The Man Who Was Magic.

  4. Ben Walters, ‘Arrested Development: How Orson Welles Tried to Revolutionize Television, and Why Television Wouldn’t Let Him’, Culturalformations.org.

  5. Desi Arnaz, A Book. Morrow, 1976.

  6. Ben Walters, ‘Arrested Development’.

  7. John Collier, Fancies and Goodnights. Doubleday, 1951.

  8. Arnaz, A Book.

  9. Ben Walters, ‘Arrested Development.’

  10. Harriet Van Horne, New York World-Telegram and Sun, 17th September 1958.

  11. Arnaz, A Book.

  12. Jim Brochu, Lucy in the Afternoon: An Intimate Memoir of Lucille Ball. New English Library, 1990.

  13. Todd McCarthy and Charles Flynn, eds, Kings of the Bs: Working Within the Hollywood System, An Anthology of Film History and Criticism. E. P. Dutton, 1975.

  14. Jack Arnold, interview with Lawrence French, wellesnet.com, 24th August 2006.

  CHAPTER 13

  1. Todd McCarthy and Charles Flynn, eds, Kings of the Bs: Working Within the Hollywood System, An Anthology of Film History and Criticism. E. P. Dutton, 1975.

  2. Orson Welles and Peter Bogdanovich, ed. Jonathan Rosenbaum, This Is Orson Welles. HarperCollins, 1992.

  3. Charlton Heston, interview with the author, 1990.

  4. Charlton Heston, An Actor’s Life: Journals, 1956–1976, entry for 8th January 1957, ed. Hollis Alpert. E. P. Dutton, 1978.

  5. Charlton Heston, In the Arena: The Autobiography. HarperCollins, 1995.

  6. Ibid.

  7. Ibid.

  8. Janet Leigh, interview, 18th September 1998.

  9. Dennis Weaver, Working with Welles, Directors’ Guild of America.

  10. Mercedes McCambridge, The Quality of Mercy: An Autobiography. Times Books, 1981.

  11. Welles and Bogdanovich, ed. Jonathan Rosenbaum, This Is Orson Welles.

  12. Transcript of a press conference on Touch of Evil, Brussels International Fair, 1958.

  13. Heston, In the Arena.

  14. Press release, Universal International, notes.

  15. Ibid.

  16. Heston, An Actor’s Life, entry for 25th March 1957.

  17. Ibid., entry for 30th March 1957.

  18. Ibid., entry for 1st April 1957.

  19. Orson Welles, editing notes for Virgil Vogel, Lilly Library Orson Welles Archive.

  20. Henry Mancini, Did They Mention The Music?: The Autobiography of Henry Mancini. McGraw-Hill, 1989.

  21. Heston, An Actor’s Life, entry for 17th June 1957.

  22. Ibid.

  CHAPTER 14

  1. Orson Welles, interview with André Bazin, Cahiers du Cinéma, 1958.

  2. Charlton Heston, An Actor’s Life: Journals, 1956–1976, entry for 4th November 1957, ed. Hollis Alpert. E. P. Dutton, 1978.

  3. Rick Schmidlin, interview with Lawrence French, wellesnet.com, 8th October 2008.

  4. Heston, An Actor’s Life, entry for 7th November 1957.

  5. Orson Welles, letter to Charlton Heston, 8th November 1957.

  6. Heston, An Actor’s Life, entry for 12th November 1957.

  7. Edward Muhl, letter to Orson Welles, 12th November 1957.

  8. Ann Rogers, interview with the author, August 1998.

  9. Orson Welles, letter to Charlton Heston, 17th November 1998.

  10. Heston, An Actor’s Life, entry for 19th November 1957.

  11. Orson Welles, letter to Charlton Heston, 20th November 1957.

  12. James Naremore, letter to the author, March 2015.

  13. Orson Welles, memorandum to Edward Muhl, 5th December 1957.

  14. Orson Welles, letter to Charlton Heston, early December 1957.

  15. Charlton Heston, interview with the author, November 1990.

  16. Heston, An Actor’s Life, entry for 11th November 1957.

  17. Orson Welles and Peter Bogdanovich, ed. Jonathan Rosenbaum, This Is Orson Welles. HarperCollins, 1992.

  18. Gerald Weales, ‘The Twilight of an Aging Prodigy’, The Reporter, 18, No. 13, 1958, quoted in Sarah Nilsen, Projecting America, 1958: Film and Cultural Diplomacy at the Brussels World’s Fair. MacFarlane & Company, Inc., 2011

  19. Stanley Kaufmann, ‘Whither Welles’, New Republic, 26th May 1958.

  20. Howard Thompson, ‘Orson Welles Is Triple Threat in Thriller’, New York Times, 22nd May, 1958.

  21. Welles and Bogdanovich, ed. Jonathan Rosenbaum, This Is Orson Welles.

  22. Janet Leigh, unattributed interview, 18th September 1998.

  23. Welles and Bogdanovich, ed. Jonathan Rosenbaum, This Is Orson Welles.

  24. Nilsen, Projecting America, 1958.

  25. Los Angeles Times, April 1958.

  26. Nilsen, Projecting America, 1958.

  27. Orson Welles, interview with André Bazin and Charles Bitsch, Cahiers du Cinéma, June 1958.

  28. Richard Fleischer, Just Tell Me When To Cry: A Memoir. Carroll and Graf, 1993.

  29. Lewis Gilbert, Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4, 25th June 2010.

  30. Fleischer, Just Tell Me When To Cry.

  CHAPTER 15

  1. Richard Barr (Dick Baer), letter to Orson Welles, 24th March 1947.

  2. Vogue Magazine, French edition, December 1982–January 1983.

  3. Orson Welles, letter to Hilton Edwards, late July 1959.

  4. Orson Welles, letter to Hilton Edwards, 20th July 1959.

  5. Hilton Edwards, letter to Orson Welles, late July 1959.

  6. Daily Telegraph, 29th September 1959.

  7. Hilton Edwards, letter to Eric Glass, 10th December 1959.

  8. Hilton Edwards, letter to Orson Welles, 18th January 1960.

  9. Leonard Fenton, interview with the author, 1989.

  10. Anne Cunningham, interview with the author, 1989.

  11. Peter Bartlett, interview with the author, 1989.

  12. Keith Baxter, interview with the author, 1989.

  13. Thelma Ruby, interview with the author, 1989.

  14. Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Luck and Circumstance. Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.

  15. Thelma Ruby, interview with the author, 1989.

  16. Alexis Kanner, interview with the author, 1989.

  17. Oxford Times, 3rd February 1960.

  18. Orson Welles, letter to Hilton Edwards, 10th February 1960.

  19. Aubrey Morris, letter to the author, June 1989.

  20. Alistair Davidson, interview with the author, 1989.

  21. Martin Tickner, interview with the author, 1989.r />
  22. Micheál MacLiammóir, quoted in Christopher Fitzsimmons, The Boys: A Double Biography. Nick Hern Books, 1994.

  23. Michael Lindsay-Hogg, interview with the author, 2007.

  24. Orson Welles and Peter Bogdanovich, ed. Jonathan Rosenbaum, This Is Orson Welles. HarperCollins, 1992.

  25. Lindsay-Hogg, Luck and Circumstance.

  26. Ibid.

  27. Thelma Ruby, interview with the author, 1989.

  28. Alistair Davidson, interview with the author, 1989.

  29. Northern Whig, 24th February 1960.

  30. Irish Times, 25th February 1960.

  31. ‘A Towering Wellesian Première’, Manchester Guardian, 25th February 1960.

  32. London Times, 26th February 1960.

  33. Alistair Davidson, interview with the author, 1989.

  34. Anne Cunningham, interview with the author, 1989.

  35. Ibid.

  36. Keith Baxter, interview with the author, 1989.

  37. Micheál MacLiammóir, letter to Orson Welles, 1960.

  38. Micheál MacLiammóir, letter to Peter Bogdanovich, quoted in FitzSimmons, The Boys.

  39. Ann Rogers, diary entry, 1st March 1960,

  40. Irish Times, 1st March 1960.

  41. Alistair Davidson, interview with the author, 1989.

  42. Thelma Ruby, interview with the author, 1989.

  43. H. R. Jeans, ‘Sometimes You Feel It Could Be Danny Kaye’, Daily Mail, 24th February 1960.

  44. Alexis Kanner, interview with the author, 1989.

  45. Aubrey Morris, letter to the author, June 1989.

  46. Martin Tickner, interview with the author, 1989.

  47. Ibid.

  48. Godfrey Quigley, letter in Irish Times, 1st March 1960.

  49. Oscar Lewenstein, letter to Orson Welles, 22nd December 1959.

  50. Keith Baxter, My Sentiments Exactly. Oberon, 1998.

  51. Hilton Edwards, letter to Orson Welles, 18th March 1960.

  52. Aubrey Morris, letter to the author, June 1989.

  53. Lindsay-Hogg, Luck and Circumstance.

  54. Anne Cunningham, interview with the author, 1989.

  55. Ann Rogers, interview with the author, 1989.

  56. Baxter, My Sentiments Exactly.

  CHAPTER 16

  1. Kenneth Tynan, ‘Ionesco: Man of Destiny?’, Observer, 22nd June 1958.

  2. Eugène Ionesco, Observer, 29th June 1958.

  3. Orson Welles, Observer, 13th July 1958.

  4. Oscar Lewenstein, letter to Eugène Ionesco, 5th October 1959.

  5. Oscar Lewenstein, letter to Orson Welles, 22nd December 1959.

  6. Eugène Ionesco, Notes and Counter-Notes. John Calder, 1964.

  7. Harold Hobson, Sunday Times, 3rd April 1960.

  8. Oscar Lewenstein, letter to Zero Mostel, 20th January 1960.

  9. Oscar Lewenstein, letter to Zero Mostel, 20th February 1960.

  10. Oscar Lewenstein, letter to Eugène Ionesco, 20th February 1960.

  11. Ann Rogers, interview with the author, 1989.

  12. Keith Baxter, My Sentiments Exactly. Oberon, 1998.

  13. Daily Mail, 9th March 1960.

  14. Eugène Ionesco, ‘Preface to the American edition of Rhinocéros’, November 1960.

  15. Peter Sellers, Empire News, 27th March 1960.

  16. Stuart Stallard, interview with the author, 1989.

  17. Virginia Fairweather, interview with the author, 1989.

  18. Daily Express, 21st April 1960.

  19. Robert Otway, Sunday Graphic, 24th April 1960.

  20. News Chronicle, 24th April 1960.

  21. Joan Plowright, And That’s Not All. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001.

  22. Peter Sallis, taped statement, 1989.

  23. William Green, interview with the author, 1989.

  24. Peter Sallis, taped statement, 1989.

  25. Ibid.

  26. Barbara Leaming, Orson Welles: A Biography. Viking, 1985.

  27. William Green, interview with the author, 1989.

  28. Stuart Stallard, interview with the author, 1989.

  29. William Green, interview with the author, 1989.

  30. Orson Welles, interview with Kathleen Tynan, 12th February, 1983.

  31. Martin Tickner, interview with the author, 1989.

  32. Ibid.

  33. Ibid.

  34. John Timbers, interview with the author, 1989.

  35. Virginia Fairweather, interview with the author, 1989.

  36. Ann Rogers, interview with the author, 1998.

  37. Martin Tickner, interview with the author, 1989.

  38. ‘Shh! Director Welles whispers his way through the play’s opening night’, Daily Express, 29 April 1960.

  39. Peter Sallis, taped statement, 1989.

  40. Ibid.

  41. The Times, 29th April 1960.

  42. Robert Muller, Daily Mail, 29th April 1960.

  43. Bernard Levin, Daily Express, 29th April 1960.

  44. J. W. Lambert, Sunday Times, 1st May 1960.

  45. Alan Pryce-Jones, Observer, 1st May 1960.

  46. Hugh Siriol-Jones, Queen, 11th May 1960.

  47. J. C. Trewin, Illustrated London News, 14th May 1960.

  48. Philip Hope-Wallace, Guardian, 29th April 1960.

  49. Evening Standard, 6th May 1960.

  50. Robert Robinson, Sunday Graphic, 1st May 1960.

  51. Pieter Rogers, interview with the author, 1989

  52. Orson Welles, letter to Hilton Edwards, 19th May 1960.

  53. Birmingham Mail, 23rd May 1960.

  54. Orson Welles, interview with Kathleen Tynan, 12th February 1983.

  CHAPTER 17

  1. Kenneth Tynan, Show Magazine, October–November 1961.

  2. Parker Tyler, ‘Orson Welles and the Big Experimental Film Cult’, Film Culture, No. 29, Summer 1963.

  3. Anonymous, ‘A Saint for the Cinema’, Contact, Winter 1960.

  4. Peter Bogdanovich, ‘The Cinema of Orson Welles’, MOMA, 1961.

  5. Orson Welles, interview with André Bazin, Cahiers du Cinéma, 1958.

  6. Lindsay Anderson, ‘He Asked the Impossible’, Radio Times, 11th March 1960.

  7. Orson Welles, BBC television interview with Huw Wheldon, 13th March 1960.

  8. Bernard Braden, television interview with Orson Welles, June 1960.

  9. Kenneth Tynan, Show Magazine, October–November 1961.

  10. Orson Welles, BBC television interview with Huw Wheldon, 16th September 1962.

  11. Robert Hussong, quoted in Charles Winecoff, Split Image: The Life of Anthony Perkins. Dutton and Dial, 1996.

  12. Antony Perkins, quoted in Winecoff, Split Image.

  13. Orson Welles, BBC television interview with Huw Wheldon, 16th September 1962.

  14. Bertolt Brecht, quoted in Stefan Kanfer, ‘The Malady Was Life Itself’, Time Magazine, 18th July 1983.

  15. Press release, The Trial, 1962.

  16. Jean Clay, ‘Orson Welles on Trial’, Realités, December 1962.

  17. Ibid.

  18. Orson Welles, ‘A Trip to Don Quixoteland’, interview with Juan Cobós, Miguel Rubio, and J. A. Pruneda, Cahiers du Cinéma, June–July 1964; English edition, Cahiers du Cinema in English, No. 5, 1966.

  19. Jean Clay, ‘Orson Welles on Trial’, Realités, December 1962.

  20. Ibid.

  21. Edmond Richard, quoted in Jean-Pierre Berthomé and François Thomas, Orson Welles at Work. Phaidon, 2008.

  22. William Chappell, Sunday Times, 27th May 1962.

  23. Orson Welles, BBC television interview with Huw Wheldon, 16th September 1962.

  24. Antony Perkins, quoted in Winecoff, Split Image.

  25. En
rique Martinez, ‘The Trial of Orson Welles’, Films and Filming, October 1962.

  26. ‘Prodigal Revived’, Time Magazine, 28th June 1962.

  27. John Kobler, Saturday Evening Post, 8th December 1962.

  28. Welles, ‘A Trip to Don Quixoteland’, Cahiers du Cinema in English.

  29. Fred Muller, interview with the author, 2011.

  30. Fred Muller interview with Peter Tonguette, in Orson Welles Remembered: Interviews with His Actors, Editors, Cinematographers and Magicians. McFarland, 2006.

  31. Fred Muller, interview with the author, 2011.

  32. Peter Sallis, Fading into the Limelight. Orion, 2006.

  33. Genêt (Janet Flanner), The New Yorker, 12th January 1963.

  34. Brendan Gill, The New Yorker, 2nd March 1963.

  35. Dwight Macdonald, Esquire, July 1963.

  36. ‘Orson Welles Fails with Kafka’, The Times, 12th November 1962.

  37. William S. Pechter, Sight and Sound, Winter 1962.

  38. Robert Hatch, ‘Adult Prodigy’, Horizon, July 1963

  39. Franz Kafka, The Trial, translated by Idris Parry. Originally published in Germany, 1925. This edition published by Penguin Classics, 2000.

  CHAPTER 18

  1. Juan Cobós, In the Land of Don Quixote, 18th June 2008, wellesnet.com.

  2. Ibid.

  3. Keith Baxter, My Sentiments Exactly. Oberon, 1998.

  4. Ibid.

  5. Orson Welles, ‘A Trip to Don Quixoteland’, interview with Juan Cobós, Miguel Rubio, and J. A. Pruneda, Cahiers du Cinéma, June–July 1964; English edition, Cahiers du Cinema in English, No. 5, 1966.

  6. Baxter, My Sentiments Exactly.

  7. Laura Betti, interview for the booklet accompanying the Eureka! edition of RoGoPaG, 2012.

  8. Alfredo Bini, ibid.

  9. Tonino Delli Colli, ibid.

  10. Pier Paolo Pasolini, interview by James Blue, Film Comment, 1965.

  11. Orson Welles, letter to Keith Baxter, June 1964, quoted in Baxter, My Sentiments Exactly.

  12. Ann Rogers, Chimes at Midnight/Treasure Island memorandum, Autumn 1964.

  CHAPTER 19

  1. New York Herald Tribune, 29th September, 1961.

  2. New York Times, 29th September, 1961.

  3. Orson Welles, letter to Louis Dolivet, 2nd September 1964. Gray Film Archives, Paris.

 

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