by Simon Callow
Garrick Hotel, London 164, 176
Gate Theatre, Dublin 30–1, 36, 57, 69, 162, 287, 289, 291, 296, 306, 307
Gaulle, Charles de 278
Gauthier, Jacques 21
Gauthier, Théophile 388
Geisengeige Studios, Germany 72
Germany 48, 69, 71–80, 95, 106, 114, 116, 153, 164, 178, 193, 197, 278, 292–3, 322, 381
Germi, Pietro 401
Gershenson, Joseph 260
Giazotto, Remo 360
Gibbs, Wolcott 226
Giddins, Gary 152
Gielgud, John 8, 87, 91, 104, 132, 166, 220, 288, 307, 330, 374, 376, 384, 385, 388, 390, 391, 392, 422
Gilbert, Lewis 280, 282
Gill, Brendan 362
Gillette, William 245
del Giudice, Filippo 15
Gleason, Jackie 213, 347–8, 402
Glover, Julian 296
Godard, Jean-Luc 369
Godfrey, Michael 93
von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang: Faust 71–2
Goldenson, Leonard 241, 424
Gorlinsky, Sandor 87–8
Gough, Michael 337
Gouzy 43
Graham, Martha 218
Grand Detour, Illinois 255, 302, 330
Grant, Cary 19
‘Greek Meets Greek’ (episode of The Adventures of Harry Lime) 89, 146
Green Thoughts (Collier) 239
Green, William 330, 331
Greene, Graham 19–20, 25, 26, 27, 28, 73, 89, 149–50, 151, 153, 298
Greenidge, Terence 295–6, 310, 415, 416
Gregoretti, Ugo 369
Griffith, D.W. 120, 243–4, 259, 404
Griffith, Hugh 376
Guardian 100, 335
Guthrie, Tyrone 219, 322
Guzman, Claudio 237
H.M. Tennent 400
Habima Theatre, Tel Aviv 218
Hall, Peter 187
Hamilton, Guy 19–20, 29
Hamlet (Shakespeare) 14, 15, 16, 31, 35, 49, 87, 92, 95, 97, 110, 187, 216, 311, 384, 386, 400
Hancock, Tony 337
Harris, Margaret (‘Percy’) 91–2, 96, 102–3
Harrison, Rex 19, 133
Harrods 179
Harry’s Bar, Venice 45
Hatch, Robert 363
Hayes, Richard 226–7, 228
Hayworth, Rita xviii, 2, 3, 9, 137
Heath, Gordon 153
Hemingway, Ernest 141, 175, 210, 345
Henry IV, Parts One and Two (Shakespeare) 18, 149, 214, 216, 218, 289, 290, 294, 296, 301, 303, 383, 384, 395, 407
Henry V (Shakespeare) 54, 288, 289, 309–10, 383, 402
Henry VI (Shakespeare) 71, 288, 413
Henson, Gladys 326, 417
Hepburn, Katharine 37
Herlie, Eileen 8
Herrmann, Bernard 81, 117, 157, 168
Heston, Charlton xv, 139, 247–9, 250, 251–2, 253, 257, 258, 259–62, 264, 265–6, 267, 268–70, 273, 274, 275, 277, 324, 420, 448
Higham, Charles xv, 33
Hill, Roger 9, 160, 289, 380
Hitchcock, Alfred 126, 234–5, 371
Hitler, Adolf 10, 72, 74, 77, 153, 345
Hobson, Harold 102, 322
Holliday, Judy 101, 182
Hollywood xii, xvii–xviii, 1, 3, 7, 15, 17, 35, 47, 57, 61, 62, 63, 64, 73, 88, 101, 121, 126, 131, 161, 172, 192, 234, 242, 243, 246–62, 263–77, 279, 280, 285, 286, 298, 342, 359, 369, 380, 404, 406
Hoover, J. Edgar 3
Hope-Wallace, Philip 335
Hopper, Hedda 238, 284
Horizon 363
House, Billy 238, 424
Houseman, John 160, 190–1, 214, 374
Howard, Jennifer 58–9, 411, 412
Howard, Trevor 121
Hughes, Hazel 326, 329, 416
Hughes, Howard 266
Huston, John 171, 172, 174, 206, 277, 279–80, 313, 368
Huston, Walter 172
I Love Lucy 234, 237, 238, 242; ‘Lucy Meets Orson Welles’ episode 242–3
Immortal Story, The (film) 145
Importance of Being Earnest, The (Wilde) 50, 57, 71, 412–13
In the Land of Don Quixote (Nella terra di Don Chisciotte) (Italian television documentary) 365–7, 424
Independent Television Authority 166, 195
Informer, The (O’Flaherty) 291
International Film Festival (1958) 277
International Herald Tribune 62–3, 140–1
International Revenue Service (IRS) 1, 281–2
Ionesco, Eugène xii, 313, 319–23, 325, 328, 329, 333, 334, 335, 337, 338, 348, 358, 416
Irish Independent 313
Irish Times 304, 308–9
Irving, Sir Henry 106, 118, 164, 186
It’s All True (film) xviii, 38, 149, 197, 400, 448
Italy 2–18, 23, 28, 30, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 44, 50, 56, 63, 64, 69, 80, 82, 83, 91, 93–4, 109–10, 115, 116, 117, 121, 122–4, 143, 163–4, 193, 200, 240–2, 340, 355, 365, 366, 369, 370, 371–2, 373, 401
Ivan the Terrible (film) 256
Jack Benny Show, The (television show) 242
Jackie Gleason Show, The (television show) 213
Jackson, Gordon 176, 180, 184, 207, 414, 448
Jacob and Esau (script) 367, 369
James, Alistair 301, 304, 309
Jannings, Emil 256–7
Jarman, Reginald 296, 301–2, 415
Jason, Rick 238–9, 424; Scrapbooks of My Mind 238–9
Jane Eyre (play) 36, 48
Jonson, Ben 209, 213, 214
Jouhaux, Léon 130
Journey into Fear (film) 148, 375
Joyeux Chagrins (play) 22
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare) 54, 87, 121, 133, 141, 233, 299
Kael, Pauline 403–5
Kafka, Franz: The Trial 346–50, 352–3, 355, 362, 363, 364, 421
Kanner, Alexis 297, 301, 305, 310–11, 312, 323, 415, 448
Karas, Anton 73, 88–9, 205
Kauffmann, Stanley 276
Kaye, Danny 37, 88, 310
Kee, Robert 150, 192
Keller, Harry 269, 275
Kelly, Gene 35
Kerr, Walter 210–11, 225–6, 257, 355
Kezich, Tullio 15
Kid for Two Farthings, A (film) 175
King Lear (Shakespeare) xvi, xvii, 2, 13, 97, 173, 174, 185, 207, 269, 309, 310, 339, 384, 448; City Center, New York production (1956) 207, 209–30, 231, 233, 257, 258, 339, 414–15, 438, 439; television adaptation, Omnibus (1953) 132–41, 152, 207, 214, 409
King of Paris (film project) 355–6
Kings of the Bs (ed. McCarthy and Flynn) 247
Kingsley, Sidney 145
Kinney, Abbot 249–50
Kirkham, Kirk 232
Kirkham, Phyllis 232
Kitt, Eartha 59–60, 61, 68, 71, 72, 122, 234, 412, 413
Knox, Michael 387, 388, 389
Knudson, Thurston: Alibi for Drums 331
Kobler, Jack 355–6
Koerner, Charles 239
Korda, Alexander 2, 7, 8, 17, 18, 19, 26, 29, 42, 89, 121, 126, 169, 298
Korda, Michael: Charmed Lives 18
Korda, Vincent 18
Koval, Francis 67, 120, 126
Krohn, Bill 64
Kronshaw, Bill 130, 448
L’Uomo, la bestia e la virtù (film) 122–4, 143, 409
La Ricotta (film) 370–4
La Scala, Milan 116
La Terra Trema (film) 14, 15–16, 45
Lady from Shanghai, The (film) xviii, 16, 132, 144, 255, 259, 363–4
Lady in the Ice (Une Femme dans la Glâce) (ballet) 126–30
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Laemmle, Carl 250
Lahr, Bert 217
Lamarr, Hedy 75, 275
Lang, Fritz 15, 257
Lansing, Joi 237, 238, 420, 424
Laplanche, Yves 346, 355
Lattuada, Alberto 120
Laughton, Charles 28, 167, 347
Laugier, Henri 130
Laurence Olivier Productions (LOP) 87, 90, 110, 325
Laurence, Michael 35, 109, 113, 419
Laurence, Paula 227
Lavagnino, Francesco 80–2, 395, 413, 419, 422
Laverty, Maura 112
Le Bal Oriental (masked costume ball) 94–5, 146
Le Caprice Restaurant, London 179, 190
Leaming, Barbara xviii, 9, 223–4
Lederer, Charlie 21, 248
Leigh, Janet 253, 254, 258, 270, 277, 364, 420
Leigh, Vivien 87, 91, 111, 324, 336
Lelouch, Claude 401
Leone, Sergio 143
Les Enfants du Paradis (film) 2
Les Parents Terribles (film) 8
Let’s Have a Brainwash: RoGoPaG (film) 369–70, 409
Levin, Bernard 334
Levy, Benn 324
Lewenstein, Oscar 175, 176, 178, 180, 193, 314, 320, 321–2, 323, 325, 400, 448
Lewis, Jerry 234
Life magazine 279–80
Lindfors, Viveca 218, 221, 227–8, 415, 448
Lindsay-Hogg, Michael 221, 296, 297, 302–3, 314, 315–16, 317, 346, 448; Luck and Circumstance 221, 297, 316
Lindsay, Lou 83
Littlewood, Joan 188, 322
Litvak, Anatole 35, 347, 355
Lockwood, Margaret 122
Lollobrigida, Gina 241–2, 424
Lombardini, Alfredo 17
Lonsdale, Michael 348, 421
Look Back in Anger (film) 400
Lord, Basil 92, 413
Loren, Sophia 401
Los Angeles Times 277–8
Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare) 218
Lovelife (screenplay) 68–9, 120–1
Lucidi, Renzo 83, 84, 157, 158
Luening, Otto 216–17, 415
Lynn, Jonathan 30
Macbeth (Shakespeare) 118, 190, 220; Harlem production (1936) 14, 101, 116, 133, 249; Utah production (1947) 1
Macbeth (Shakespeare) (film) xviii, 1–2, 7, 14, 15–16, 19, 30, 33, 82, 83, 84, 87, 88, 119, 125, 126, 132, 144, 207, 237, 300, 339, 396, 448
MacBride, Maud Gonne 36
MacCauley, Robert 136
MacColl, René 60–1, 159
MacDermot, Rory 297, 305, 310, 415, 416
MacLiammóir, Micheál xiii, xv, 30–3, 35–6, 38–9, 40–1, 42, 43, 44, 45, 47, 49, 50, 51, 52, 54–5, 56–7, 60, 63, 67, 71, 72–3, 80, 92, 109, 111, 112, 114, 118, 129, 137, 139, 190, 248, 287–8, 291, 296, 301–2, 303, 306–7, 308, 314, 336, 337, 386, 412, 413, 419
Macrae, Duncan 326, 330–1, 333, 416
‘Madrid Bullfight’ (episode of Around the World with Orson Welles) 203–5
Magnificent Ambersons, The (film) xviii, 59, 81, 106, 113, 119–20, 144, 197, 209, 211, 252, 255, 275–6, 300, 342, 361, 375, 393
Malleson, Miles 326, 329, 333, 334, 417
Maltese Falcon, The (film) 172
Man in the Shadow (film) 243–5, 247, 409
‘Man of Mystery’ (episode of The Adventures of Harry Lime) 145–6, 149, 153
Manchester Guardian 118, 304
Mancini, Henry 260–1, 273, 419
Mancori, Alvaro 46–7, 52
Mandaroux, Jean 353
Mandl, Fritz 74–5, 145, 275
Maney, Richard 213
Mankowitz, Wolf 174–5, 176, 180, 182, 191, 192, 193, 210, 314, 322, 448
Marais, Jean 152, 401
Marchand, Colette 127
Marco the Magnificent (film) 369, 389
Margolis, Henry M. 175, 206, 209, 210, 213, 215, 229, 448
Marsh, Keith 295, 416
Marshall, E.G. 281
Martin, Becky 98
Martin, Dean 234
Martinelli, Elsa 347, 421
Martinez, Enrique 354, 357
Mason, Edith 81
Masquerade (screenplay) 131, 143, 145–7, 148–9, 152, 154 see also Mr Arkadin
Matcham, Frank 300
de Maupassant, Guy 24
Maurette, Marc 352
Maxtone-Graham, John 216, 219, 222, 223–4, 228–9
Maxwell, Elsa 9, 15, 16
May, Jack 210
MCA Studios 275
McCambridge, Mercedes 254
McCarthy, Joseph 138, 325
McCarthy, Todd 247
McClintic, Guthrie 104
McCormack, Patty 263
McCullough, Andrew 136, 138
McEwen, Molly 289
McGoohan, Patrick 176–7, 181, 188–9, 207, 210, 292, 311, 414
Medin, Harriet White 9–10, 16, 22, 36
Medina, Patricia 156–7, 420
Megahey, Leslie 90, 394, 398
Melville, Herman 167, 168, 171, 174, 185, 206, 207, 414
Merchant of Venice, The (Shakespeare) 132, 218, 233, 290, 293
Mercury Productions 2, 113, 369
Mercury Summer Theatre of the Air (radio drama series) 133, 167–8, 375
Mercury Theatre 2, 25, 84, 133, 135, 137, 153, 167, 174, 175, 182, 184, 211–12, 214, 217, 218, 219, 244, 254, 255, 288, 300, 375, 379
Mercury Wonder Show, The (stage show) 255
Merman, Ethel 217
Method, the 95–6, 217, 221, 257, 384
Metropolitan Opera, New York 116
Metty, Russell 252, 275, 276
MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) 248
Mills, Mort 251, 420
Milton, Ernest 386–7
Misraki, Paul 153–4, 157, 420
Mitchum, Robert 19
Moby-Dick: Huston film (1956) 171–72, 174, 206, 210, 409; Mercury Summer Theatre of the Air version (1946) 167; Moby-Dick: The Movie (British television film project) 195, 206–7, 210
Moby-Dick Rehearsed (play) 164, 165, 167–9, 171–91, 193, 195, 198, 200, 206, 207, 209, 210, 219, 228, 287, 293, 299, 312, 326, 327–8, 339, 389, 414; casting 176–7; first night 182–4; origins of 164, 165, 167–9; producers/finances 174–5; rehearsals 179–82; reviews 184–8; run 182–91; script 172–4; Welles’s support team 177–9
Monash, Paul 247, 248, 256
Monitor (television programme) 342–3, 344, 346–7, 348, 352–3
Monsieur Verdoux (film) 1
Montagu, Elizabeth 22–4, 25, 27
Montez, Maria 21
Moorehead, Agnes 35, 255
Morahan, Christopher 103
Moravia, Alberto 110
Moreau, Jeanne 347, 374, 385, 392–3, 421, 422
Mori, Paola (wife) 124, 127, 147, 153, 166–7, 179, 183, 190, 191, 193, 200, 207, 212, 224, 231–2, 241, 289, 314, 316, 347, 355, 357, 365, 374, 387, 391–2, 399, 420, 424
Morley, Robert 376
Morris, Aubrey 295, 300, 311, 315, 415, 416
Morton, Bill 143, 423
Moss, Arnold 136
Mostel, Zero 153, 321, 322, 323, 326
Motley (design team) 91, 413
Moulin, Jean 130
Mr Arkadin (film) 74–5, 242, 298, 310, 339, 348, 354, 363, 383, 389, 420–1, 438; casting 143–4, 146–7, 153–4, 191, 253, 347; crew 143, 144, 150, 156; failure of 381; filming 143–57, 366; Filmorsa suit over 381–2; finances/producers 143, 156–7, 158, 191, 381–2; music 157; novelisation of 150–2, 191, 192; origins of 75, 79, 89, 95, 115, 131, 143, 144–7, 148, 149, 152, 154; post-production 143, 148, 156, 159, 191, 192; reception 159, 160; screenplay 131, 143, 144–9, 150–1, 152–3, 154; serialisation of 175
, 191; Spanish version premier, Madrid 191–2; ‘Thoughts on Germany’ and 75, 79; titles for 191, 381
Mr Arkadin: The Novel (Bessy) 150–2, 191, 192
Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare) 288, 295
Muhl, Edward 250, 262, 264–5, 266–7, 270, 274, 275
Muller, Fritz 359–60, 394, 399
Muller, Robert 334
Murnau, F.W. 6
Museum of Modern Art, New York season (1961) 341
Mussolini, Benito 13, 121, 143–4
Naremore, James 117, 270
Nathan, George Jean 230, 231, 298–9
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) 249
National Theatre, London 104, 386
Native Son (play) 116
NBC (National Broadcasting Company) 239–40
Negri, Richard 127–8, 129, 449
Neo-Film Productions GmbH 72
neo-realism 3, 14–16, 63, 109–10, 120
New Republic 219, 276, 403
New Statesman 102
New York Herald Tribune 211, 213, 225
New York Post 69, 73, 74, 130–1, 141, 368–9
New York Times 37, 134–5, 139, 184, 185, 195, 215, 225, 229, 230, 276, 402, 403
New York World-Telegram and Sun 212, 240
New Yorker 133, 134, 135, 139, 226, 361–2
News Chronicle 104, 184, 327
Nicolson, Virginia 21
Night of a Hundred Stars, The (charity gala) 190
Nilsen, Sarah: Projecting America, 1958 277–8
Nims, Ernest 261, 262, 264, 265, 266
Niven, David 19
NO-DO 366
Noble, Peter 122, 449
Northern Whig 304
Nureyev, Rudolf 369
O’Brady, Frédéric 153, 411, 420
O’Toole, Peter 386, 387
Observer 186, 319–20, 335
Odéon-France Theatre, Paris 321
Officer X (radio broadcast) 76, 163
Old Vic Theatre/Company, London 7–8, 87, 88, 218, 337
Olian, Michael 115–16, 145
Olivier, Laurence xvii, 14, 15, 87, 88, 90, 91, 100, 101, 104, 105, 109, 110, 111, 132, 164, 181, 187, 190, 220, 312, 313, 323–6, 327, 328–31, 333, 334, 335, 336, 337–9, 393, 400, 402, 416
Olympic Films 121
Omnibus (television programme) 132, 133–4, 136, 137–8, 141, 240
Once and Future King, The (White) 313
Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park 295
Operation Cinderella (screenplay) 121
Orson Welles At Work (Thomas/Berthomé) xv, 40, 248, 392
Orson Welles Interviews the Irish and Vice Versa (television programme) 312, 316
Orson Welles Productions 85
Orson Welles Almanac (radio show) 133, 234, 242
Orson Welles’s Commentaries (radio show) 73, 76, 78
