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Orson Welles, Volume 3

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by Simon Callow


  Orson Welles’s Sketch Book (television series) 161–5, 166, 175, 423

  Osborne, John: Look Back in Anger (play) 188, 319, 400

  Othello (Shakespeare) 214, 216, 218, 347; Edinburgh production (1948) aborted 7–8, 9, 13, 125; St James Theatre, London production (1951) 87–8, 90–2, 95–109, 111–12, 114, 118, 133, 139, 152, 159, 176, 177, 180, 186, 187, 214–15, 216, 293, 324

  Othello (Shakespeare) (film) xii, 87, 112, 113, 126, 159, 339, 344, 354, 383, 392, 419, 438, 439; Cannes Film Festival and 117; cast xv, 9, 16–17, 22, 30–7, 42–4, 176; crew 37–8, 39, 41–2, 43, 44, 45–6, 49, 52, 84, 121; filming 2, 16–17, 20, 21, 30, 31–44, 45–56, 59, 79, 80–3, 84, 112, 113, 115, 143, 144, 147, 374; finances 2, 7, 17, 21, 22, 30, 36, 38, 39, 40, 42, 43–4, 44, 48, 51, 53, 56–7, 71, 80, 87, 115–16, 137, 177, 287, 290, 335, 400; music 81–2, 395; origins of 2, 7, 8, 13, 16; post-production 83–5, 110–11, 190, 248, 361; rehearsals 32–3; reviews/reception 109–10, 117–19, 362; Venice Film Festival and 93–4; world premiere, Rome 109

  Otway, Robert 185

  Oxford Times 298

  Oxford Union 297–8

  Oxford University 132, 295, 296, 297–8

  Pabst, G. W. 56, 119, 137

  Padovani, Lea 8–9, 16–17, 24, 33–5, 37, 42, 56

  Pagnol, Marcel 2

  Palazzo Labia, Venice 94

  Palinkaš, Olga 365

  Palmer, Lili 133

  Papi, Giorgio 17, 34, 37, 41, 56, 419

  Parker, Al 83

  Parry, Natasha 136, 167

  Parsons, Derek 143

  Parsons, Louella 238

  Pasolini, Pier Paolo 369, 370, 371–4

  Paxinou, Katina 152, 153, 154, 192, 347, 350, 356, 361, 420

  ‘Pays Basque I’/’Pays Basque II’ (episodes of Around the World with Orson Welles) 203

  Peabody Award 240, 279

  Pechter, William S. 362

  Peck, Gregory 171

  Peeping Tom (film) 294

  Penwarden, Hazel 210

  Perkins, Anthony 347, 350, 353–4, 356, 360–1, 421

  Perón, Eva 345

  Perón, Juan 74

  Petit, Roland 127

  Phiber, Charles 22

  Philby, Kim 28

  Phillips, Margaret 136, 139

  Picasso, Pablo 62, 106, 345, 358

  Piccolo Theatre, Milan 14

  Picture Post 88

  Piedra, Emiliano 375, 389, 399, 422

  Pinter, Harold: The Caretaker 334–5; The Servant (screenplay) 362

  Pirandello, Luigi 2, 18, 64, 112, 122, 123, 143, 149; Enrico Quarto 2, 122

  Pithey, Wensley 176, 188, 414

  Planchon, Roger 405

  Pleasence, Donald 210

  Pleasure of Their Company, The (theatrical production) 312–13

  Plowright, Joan 176, 179–80, 183, 188, 189, 190, 206, 324, 326, 327–8, 333, 334, 336, 337, 414, 416

  Pol, Alain 199, 200, 201–2, 423

  Polito, Robert 155

  Ponce de Léon, Juan 236

  Ponti, Carlo 123

  Poole, Maggie 28

  Porgy and Bess (Gershwin) 116

  Portrait d’un Assassin (film) 21–2

  Portrait of Gina (television film) 241–2, 275, 424

  Potter, Stephen 297–8

  Powell, Michael 35, 126, 294

  Press Conference (television programme) 159–61, 162, 163, 171, 184, 349

  Pressburger, Emeric 35, 294

  Prince of Foxes (film) 2, 13, 16, 79, 409

  Producciones Cinematográficas MD 375

  Producciones Hispano Film 143

  Prouse, Derek 321, 325, 416, 449

  Puccini, Giacomo 151, 176

  Queen magazine 335

  Radio Times 342

  RAI (Radiotelevisione Italiana) 365, 366–7, 424

  Rank Organisation 15

  Ratoff, Gregory 1, 4, 7

  Ravinia Chronicle 117, 197

  Rawlins, Lester 218, 223, 415

  Redgrave, Michael 153, 420

  Reed, Carol 17, 19, 20, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30, 43, 44, 58, 73, 153, 175, 298

  Reich, Wilhelm 10

  Reiguera, Francisco 263, 367

  Reinhardt, Max 48, 168, 346, 379

  Renoir, Jean 144, 153, 308, 371, 404

  Reporter, The 276

  Return to Glennascaul: A Story Told in Dublin (short film) 112–14, 409

  ‘Revisiting Vienna’ (episode of Around the World with Orson Welles) 198, 205–6

  Revue de Cinéma 119–20

  Rey, Fernando 376

  Rhinoceros (Ionesco) (Royal Court production, 1960) xii, 313, 314, 317, 348, 358, 385, 416–17, 438, 439; casting 325–6; closure of 335–8; design 326, 330; finances 335–6, 337, 339; first night 332–3; Olivier and 323–31, 333, 334, 335–7, 338; origins of 313, 314, 317, 319–25; rehearsals 326–32; reviews 331, 334–5, 336, 339; sound 331–3

  Ribolla, Rita v, xv, 11–13, 16–17, 22, 33–4

  Richard II (Shakespeare) 289, 384, 407

  Richard III (Shakespeare) 101, 288

  Richard, Edmond 220, 351, 389, 392, 394, 395

  Richardson, Ralph 87, 166, 395–6, 422

  Richardson, Tony 400

  Ritt, Martin 279

  Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas 231–4, 243

  RKO Studios xvii–xviii, 10, 30, 46, 148, 167, 234, 239, 252, 268, 276, 369, 375, 400

  Roberts, Pernell 218

  Robinson, David 84

  Robinson, Edward G. 329

  Robinson, Robert 335, 402–3

  Rodway, Norman 385, 388, 422

  Rogers, Ann v, xv, 193–5, 198, 209, 210, 268, 300, 301, 308–9, 313, 316, 323, 329–30, 331, 333, 374–6, 380, 389, 449

  Rogers, Pieter 329, 336, 449

  Rognoli, Piero 121

  Rohmer, Éric 149

  Romance, Viviane 122, 123

  Roots of Heaven, The (film) 277, 279–80, 365, 409

  Rosenbaum, Jonathan 147–8, 157, 214

  Ross, Don 211–12

  Rossellini, Roberto 3, 369, 371

  Rowe, Jeremy 387, 391, 392, 422

  Royal Albert Hall, London 87

  Royal Court Theatre, London 96, 175, 313, 319, 320, 321, 323, 325, 326–7, 329, 331, 332, 335, 336, 337

  Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh 7–8

  Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) 104, 310, 385

  Ruby, Thelma 294, 296, 297, 303, 304, 309, 311, 314, 416, 449

  Rutherford, Margaret 374, 385, 387, 422

  Sacha, Jean 59, 83, 419

  Saint-Denis, Michel 322

  Salkind, Alexander 346, 347, 350–1, 355, 360, 421

  Sallis, Peter 176, 184, 188–9, 206–7, 326, 327–8, 329, 333, 334, 361, 414, 417, 449

  Salome: film (dir. Dieterle) 13; opera (Strauss) 132; play (Wilde) 2, 8

  Saltzman, Harry 195, 399–400, 401, 422

  Samuel Bronston Company 376, 390

  San Francisco Theatre Association 169

  Sarris, Andrew 340, 341

  Saturday Evening Post 355

  Saturday Review 225

  Saudek, Robert 132, 133, 134, 136

  Scalera Studios 7, 13–14, 38, 48, 80, 123

  Scalera, Michele 13–14

  Scalera, Salvatore 13

  Scarlet Woman: An Ecclesiastical Melodrama (film) 295

  Schaefer, George 160

  Schauspielhaus, Düsseldorf 321

  Schmidlin, Rick 264, 273

  Schneider, Romy 347, 354, 421

  Schusser, Otto 20

  Scofield, Paul 132

  Scotsman 8

  Screen Actors Guild 270, 282–3

  Second World War (1939–45) 77–8, 114, 124
, 400

  Secrets of Scotland Yard (radio series) 109

  Sellers, Peter 326

  Selznick, David O. 19, 26, 29, 101

  Servant, The (film) 362

  Shakespeare, Nicholas 37, 40

  Shakespeare, William 15–16, 28, 34, 37, 38, 40, 42, 47, 60, 71, 82, 87, 91, 92, 93, 97, 101, 104, 105, 107, 110, 118, 123, 126, 131, 132, 134, 138, 140, 147, 173, 193, 210, 212, 214, 217, 218, 221, 223, 225, 231, 232, 233, 234, 243, 256, 288, 290, 292, 293, 294–5, 299, 304, 310, 324, 345, 383, 384, 392, 396, 397, 398, 400, 402, 403, 405, 407, 413, 414–15, 419

  Shane, Tamara 147, 421

  Shannon, Harry 258, 420

  Shaw, Artie 37

  Shepperton Studios 20, 25, 27, 171

  Shepridge, John 83

  Sheridan, Sergeant Ken 21

  Shoemaker’s Holiday, The (play) 133, 325

  Shoe-Shine (film) 14, 37

  Short, Sylvia 218, 415

  Show magazine 345, 346

  Sight and Sound 67, 120, 342, 362

  Sills, Theodore 195

  Simon, Michel 153

  Sinatra, Frank 37, 154, 261

  Singer Not the Song, The (Erskine-Lindop) 261

  Sirk, Douglas 252

  Sketch, The 106–7

  Sloane, Everett 16, 21

  Small, Edward 2, 5

  Smiler with a Knife, The (film project) 234

  Smith, Maggie 337

  Smollett, Peter 28

  Snakepit (film) 35

  Spanish Civil War (1936–39) 3, 263

  Spectator, The 403

  Spiegel, Sam 261

  St James’s Theatre, London vii, 87, 101–2, 105, 106, 108, 110, 159, 214, 324, 413

  Stalin, Joseph 74, 111, 148, 292

  Stallard, Stuart 326, 330, 449

  Stanislavsky, Constantin 217, 346

  State Senate Committee on Un-American Activities Report 37, 298

  Stell, Aaron 261

  Stern, Michael 115–16

  Steve Allen Show (television show) 261

  Stevens, Adlai 160

  Stewart, David J. 136

  Stockwell, Dean 285

  Stoll Theatre 127

  Stone, Paul 328

  Straight, Beatrice 130, 136, 139

  Stranger, The (film) xviii, 15, 144, 145, 146, 172, 238, 252, 261, 264, 342

  Strasberg, Lee 133, 217, 279, 384

  Stravinsky, Igor 345; Soldier’s Tale 213–14

  Strehler, Giorgio 14

  Stroheim, Erich von 21, 259, 371

  Stroux, Karl-Heinz 322

  Sulgrave Hotel, New York 212, 213, 229

  Sun Also Rises, The (Hemingway) 175, 210

  Sunday Graphic 185, 327, 335

  Sunday Telegraph 402–3

  Sunday Times 102, 322–3, 334, 352, 354

  Taming of the Shrew, The (Shakespeare) 47, 218

  Tamiroff, Akim 147, 152, 153, 158, 175, 253, 254, 260, 263, 347, 363, 367, 420, 421

  Taras Bulba (film project) 355

  Tasca di Cutò, Alessandro 9, 366, 379, 389, 398, 399, 422, 424

  Taylor, Elizabeth 88, 254

  Tempest, The (Shakespeare) 42, 101, 392

  Ten Million Ghosts (Kingsley) 145

  Tenney, Senator Jack 37

  Tenoudji, Edmond 51

  Theatre Arts 210–11

  Theatre Royal, Newcastle 96, 97, 100, 101

  ‘Third Audience, The’ (lecture) 125–6

  Third Man, The (film) 17–20, 22, 25–30, 32, 58, 73, 88–9, 121, 204–5, 298, 409

  This Is Orson Welles (Bogdanovich/Welles) 28

  Thompson, Sam: Over the Bridge 314–15

  Thomson, Virgil 140

  ‘Thoughts on Germany’ (The Fortnightly Review) 73–9, 95, 153

  Three Cases of Murder (film) 122, 137, 409

  Tickner, Martin 301, 312, 313, 331–2, 333, 449

  Timbers, John 332, 449

  Time Runs (play) 57, 60, 61, 63, 65–7, 71, 129, 411–12

  Times Educational Supplement 129, 193

  Times, The 28, 185, 305, 334, 362, 364

  Tip on a Dead Jockey (film) 248

  Tobin, Dan 238, 424

  Todd School, Woodstock, Illinois 9, 71, 219, 254, 288, 302, 312, 344, 379

  Togliatti, Palmiro 3

  Toland, Greg 252

  Tonguette, Peter 360

  Too Much Johnson (play) 84

  Totò 122, 123

  Touch of Evil (film) xii, 245, 247–62, 263, 264–5, 285, 321, 354, 364, 419–20, 438; cast 248–9, 251–2, 253–6, 259–62, 263; crew 251–2; European premiere 277; European reception of 278–9; filming 249–62, 267–9, 275; International Critics’ Prize 277; origins of 247–8; post-production/various cuts of 260–1, 264–74, 277; preview 275; promotion of 276–7; release 275–6; reviews 276, 277, 339; script/screenplay 247–8, 249, 256–7; soundtrack 272–3; Welles’s memorandum on 270–2, 273–5

  Towers, Harry Alan 89, 90, 109, 145, 166, 449

  Trauner, Alexandre 2, 21, 36–7, 39–40, 41, 46–7, 48, 51, 56

  Treasure Island (film project) 375–7, 379, 389

  Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm 27, 118

  Trent’s Last Case (film) 121–2, 177, 409

  Trewin, J.C. 335

  Trial, The (film) 346–64, 365, 367, 373, 385, 389, 394, 395, 438; cast 347–8, 350, 367, 385, 389; filming/shoot 350–4, 365; interviews relating to 354–9; origins of 346–7; Paris premiere 361; post-production 359–61, 394, 395; released in England 362; reviews 361–4; screenplay 348–50, 365–6

  Trial of Ann Boleyn, The (play) 133–4

  Trilby (television programme project) 195

  Troiani, Oberdan 37, 41–2, 121

  True magazine 115

  Truffaut, François xiii, 149, 340

  Tumbler, The (play) 324

  Twelfth Night (Shakespeare) 209, 217, 226, 293, 295, 305, 311–12, 330

  20th Century Fox 56, 79, 279, 400–1

  Tyler, Parker 156, 340–1

  Tynan, Kathleen 108, 331, 338, 401

  Tynan, Kenneth xiv–xv, 105–8, 186–7, 203–4, 205, 319–21, 339, 345–6, 356, 396–7, 414

  Ulysses (film projects) 10, 50, 56, 82, 89

  Ulysses in Night-Town (play) 321

  UNESCO 10, 130, 400

  UNICEF 130

  United Nations 89, 130

  Universal Declaration of Human Rights 130

  Universal Pictures 243, 247, 248, 250, 253, 258–9, 260, 261, 264, 265, 266, 273, 274, 275, 276, 277, 279

  Unthinking Lobster, The (play) 57–9, 60–5, 71, 79, 411

  Untouchables, The (television series) 248

  Ure, Gudrun 91, 92, 93, 96–8, 108–9, 189, 413, 419, 449

  Ussachevsky, Vladimir 216–17, 415

  Ustinov, Peter 48, 88

  Vallecca, Fred 97, 100, 103

  Valli, Alida 73, 121, 153

  Van Eyssen, John 92, 413

  Variety 94, 232, 233, 402

  Varsi, Diana 283, 284

  Vassalle, Annamaria xvi

  Venice, California 249–50, 257, 258–9

  Venice, Italy 2, 9, 14–17, 18, 21, 37, 44, 45, 48, 50, 80, 82–3, 93–5, 108, 146, 250

  Venice Film Festival: (1947) 15, 45–6; (1948) 14–17, 120; (1951) 85, 93–4; (1954) 157; (1962) 361

  de Vere White, Terence 336

  Verdi, Giuseppe 13, 116, 118, 126, 370

  Vidal, Gore 406

  Vieux-Colombier Theatre, Paris 321

  Village Voice, The 406

  VIP (screenplay) 89

  Visconti, Luchino 3, 14, 15, 41–2, 45, 367

  Vlady, Marina 385–6, 422

  Vogel, Virgil 260, 261

  Vogue
289, 381

  Volpone (Jonson) 209, 213–14, 215, 235, 347

  Wagner, Richard 168, 206, 216

  Waiting for Godot (Beckett) 50, 188

  Walters, Ben 234, 237

  Walton, Tony 187

  War and Peace (Tolstoy) 2, 186

  War of the Worlds, The (radio broadcast) 3, 79

  Warner Bros 191

  Washinsky, Michael 6–7, 17, 37, 40, 50, 51

  Watts Jr, Richard 141, 185, 430, 431, 432

  Waugh, Evelyn 107, 295

  Weales, Gerald 276

  Weaver, Dennis 253–4, 420

  Weaver, Fritz 218

  Weaver, Sylvester 239

  Webb, Alan 326, 329, 333, 334, 337, 385, 387, 417, 422

  Webster, Margaret 217, 218

  Weitzman, Bernard 234, 235, 239

  Welch, Raquel 401

  Welles, Beatrice (daughter) 207, 209, 231, 289, 316, 365, 374, 381, 386, 399, 422

  Welles, Orson: acting career 409–10 see also under individual name of work; appearance xvii, 3, 5, 102–3, 192, 302–3, 339, 391–2; appetite/eating 12, 96, 97, 125, 180, 289, 388, 392; awards 117, 240, 248, 277, 278, 279, 285, 401; bad behaviour on film sets xiv, 1, 4–6, 18–21, 121, 123, 282–5; Brazil, love of 4, 7, 38, 197; childhood 9, 35, 71, 78–9, 149, 197, 219, 255, 288, 289, 302, 330, 344, 345, 357, 379–81; children 207, 209, 231, 289, 316, 343, 365, 375, 381, 386, 399; communism and 1, 3, 37, 72, 74, 111–12, 130, 148, 175, 263, 298; ‘decline’ xi–xii, 339, 343–4; directing career see under individual name of work; educational film, interest in 38, 133, 134; energy xvii, 5, 44, 59, 97, 102, 179, 192–3, 199, 221, 226, 248, 253, 259, 267, 274, 297, 324, 332, 351, 357, 387, 388–9, 391, 396, 399; English character, thoughts on 95; Europe, admiration of within 119–20, 278–9, 339–41; fabrications 3, 80, 149, 343, 345; fame 60, 187, 339; father and 2, 7, 8, 35, 160, 196, 288, 289, 379–81; films see under individual film name; finances 1, 7, 12, 17–18, 21, 22, 30, 43, 52–3, 58, 59, 82, 88, 91–2, 112, 115–16, 122, 171, 194, 231, 234, 240–1, 261, 282, 323, 335–6, 344, 367, 368–9; Germany/Fascism and 69, 73–82, 95, 153, 164; health 192–3, 339, 391–2; home, on meaning of 344; households, chaotic nature of 9–13; hurt, impression of being 343; inheritance 379–80; innocence and xiv, xvii, 68, 207, 255, 275, 289, 302, 338, 379, 389, 403, 406; insecurities over acting 25–6, 27, 93, 98–9, 101, 111, 171–2, 220–1, 222–3, 392–3; Italy and see Italy; loneliness, sense of 93, 189–90, 330; love affairs 8–9, 16–17, 22–4, 33–5, 37, 42, 364, 365; magic/conjuring and 5, 12, 15, 64, 71, 104, 106, 109, 120, 148, 161, 164, 191, 225, 231–4, 242–3, 261, 299, 312, 354, 291; marriage to Paola Mori see Mori, Paola; marriage to Rita Hayworth 2, 3, 9; ‘My Father Wore Black Spats’ 289, 380–1; plays see under individual play name; political art, on 319–20; political views xi, xviii, 1–2, 3, 37, 68, 69, 72, 73–80, 112, 130–1, 148, 156, 160, 163, 165, 175, 188, 213, 263, 277, 278, 298, 319–20, 343, 349, 382, 383; public dislike of, belief in 93, 189–90; radio work see under individual name of work; religion and 32, 78–9, 356, 371; reviews, general reaction to 227 see also under individual name of work; romantic artist xiii–xiv, 24, 363, 365, 389; tax affairs 1, 133, 239, 282; ‘Thoughts on Germany’ (The Fortnightly Review) 73–8, 95; ‘Welles vortex’ xiii, 301

 

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