Orson Welles, Volume 3
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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