The Magic World of Orson Welles (55 page)

Costumes: Edward Stevenson

Sound: Bailey Fesler, James G. Stewart

Editors: Robert Wise, Mark Robson

Producer: Orson Welles

Associate Producer: Richard Barr

Assistant Director: Richard Wilson

Cast: Orson Welles (
Kane
), Joseph Cotten (
Jed Leland
), Everett Sloane (
Bernstein
), Dorothy Comingore (
Susan Alexander
), Ray Collins (
Jim Gettys
), William Alland (
Jerry Thompson and newsreel narrator
), Agnes Moorehead (
Mary Kane
), Ruth Warrick (
Emily Norton
), George Coulouris (
W. P. Thatcher
), Erskine Sanford (
Herbert Carter
), Harry Shannon (
Jim Kane
), Philip Van Zandt (
Rawlston
), Paul Stewart (
Raymond
), Fortunio Bonanova (
Matisti
), Georgia Backus (
Curator of Thatcher Library
), Buddy Swan (
Kane, age 8
), Sunny Bupp (
Kane Jr
.), Gus Schilling (
Waiter
), Richard Barr (
Hillman
), Joan Blair (
Georgia
), Al Eben (
Mike
), Charles Bennett (
Entertainer
), Milt Kibbee (
Reporter
), Tom Curran (
Teddy Roosevelt
), Irving Mitchell
(
Dr. Corey
), Edith Evanson (
Nurse
), Arthur Kay (
Orchestra conductor
), Tudor Williams (
Chorus master
), Herbert Corthell (
City editor
), Benny Rubin (
Smather
), Edmund Cobb (
Reporter
), Francis Neal (
Ethel
), Robert Dudly (
Photographer
), Ellen Lowe (
Miss Townsend
), Gino Corrado (
Gino the waiter
), Alan Ladd, Louise Currie, Eddie Coke, Walter Sande, Arthur O'Connell, Katherine Trosper, and Richard Wilson (
Reporters
).

Production Company: A Mercury Production at RKO, June 29-Oct. 23, 1940. US premiere in New York, May 1941. 119 mins.

The Magnificent Ambersons
(1942)

Director: Orson Welles (added scenes by Freddie Fleck and Robert Wise)

Script: Orson Welles, based on Booth Tarkington's novel

Photography: Stanley Cortez (added scenes by Russell Metty and Harry Wild)

Art Direction: Mark-Lee Kirk

Set Decoration: Al Fields

Special Effects: Vernon L. Walker

Music: Bernard Herrmann (added music by Roy Webb)

Costumes: Edward Stevenson

Sound: Bailey Fesler, James G. Stewart

Editors: Robert Wise, Jack Moss, Mark Robson

Producer: Orson Welles

Associate Producer: Richard Wilson

Assistant Director: Freddie Fleck

Cast: Orson Welles (
Narrator
), Tim Holt (
George Amberson Minafer
), Joseph Cotten (
Eugene Morgan
), Dolores Costello (
Isabel Amberson Minafer
), Agnes Moorehead (
Fanny Minafer
), Anne Baxter (
Lucy Morgan
), Ray Collins (
Jack Amberson
), Richard Bennett (
Major Amberson
), Don Dillaway (
Wilbur Minafer
), Erskine Sanford (
Roger Bronson
), J. Louis Johnson (
Sam
), Gus Schilling (
Drugstore clerk
), Charles Phillips (
Uncle John
), Dorothy Vaughan and Elmer Jerome (
Spectators at funeral
), Olive Ball (
Mary
), Nina Guilbert and John Elliot (
Guests
), Anne O'Neil (
Mrs. Foster
), Kathryn Sheldon and Georgia Backus (
Matrons
), Henry Roquemore (
Hardware man
), Hilda Plowright (
Nurse
), Mel Ford (
Fred Kinney
), Bob Pittard (
Charlie Johnson
), Lillian Nicholson (
Landlady
), Billy Elmer (
House servant
), Maynard Holmes and Lew Kelley (
Citizens
), Bobby Cooper (
George
as boy
), Drew Roddy (
Elijah
), Jack Baxley (
Rev. Smith
), Heenan Elliott (
Laborer
), Nancy Gates (
Girl
), John Maguire (
Young Man
), Ed Howard (
Chauffeur/Citizen
), William Blees (
Youth at accident
), James Westerfield (
Cop
), Philip Morris (
Cop
), Jack Santoro (
Barber
), Louis Hayward (
Ballroom extra
).

Production Company: A Mercury Production at RKO, Oct. 28, 1941-Jan. 22, 1942. US premiere Aug. 1942. 88 mins. (originally 131 mins.).

It's All True
(1941–42)

Producer: Orson Welles

Director: Orson Welles

Associate Producer: Richard Wilson

Co-Director for “My Friend Bonito” episode: Norman Foster

Screenwriters: John Fante, Norman Foster, Robert Meltzer, Edmar Morel, Orson Welles

Photography: Floyd Crosby, William Howard Greene, Harry J. Wild, George Fanto

Production Company: Mercury Productions for RKO, with the collaboration of Cinedia Studios, Rio de Janeiro. 35mm, black-and-white and Technicolor. Photographed in and near Mexico City, Mexico; and in Rio de Janerio, Fortaleza, Olinda, and Recife, Brazil. Intended as a film in three parts (I: “My Friend Bonito,” II: “Carnival, or The Story of Samba,” and III: “Jangadeiros, or Three Men on a Raft”), but unfinished. Some of the footage has been preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive, but as of 2000 most of it is unpreserved in the RKO and Paramount vaults. For detailed credits and information on footage, see Catherine Benamou, It's All True:
Orson Welles's Pan-American Odyssey
. In 1993 parts of the film became
It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles
, directed by Richard Wilson, Myron Meisel, and Bill Krohn.

Journey into Fear
(1943)

Director: Norman Foster (and, uncredited, Orson Welles)

Script: Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles, based on Eric Ambler's novel

Photography: Karl Strauss

Art Direction: Albert S. D'Agostino, Mark-Lee Kirk

Set Decoration: Darrell Silvera, Ross Dowd

Special Effects: Vernon L. Walker

Music: Roy Webb

Costumes: Edward Stevenson

Editor: Mark Robson

Executive Producer: George J. Schaefer

Producer: Orson Welles

Cast: Joseph Cotten (
Howard Graham
), Dolores del Rio (
Josette Martel
), Orson Welles (
Colonel Haki
), Ruth Warrick (
Stephanie Graham
), Agnes Moorehead (
Mrs. Mathews
), Everett Sloane (
Kopeikin
), Jack Moss (
Banat
), Jack Durant (
Gogo
), Eustace Wyatt (
Dr. Haller
), Frank Readick (
Mathews
), Edgar Barrier (
Kuvetli
), Stephen Schnabel (
Purser
), Hans Conried (
Oo Lang Sang, the magician
), Robert Meltzer (
Steward
), Richard Bennett (
Ship's captain
), Shifra Haran (
Mrs. Haller
), Herbert Drake, Bill Roberts.

Production Company: A Mercury Production at RKO, 1942–43. US premiere, Feb. 1943. 71 mins.

The Stranger
(1946)

Director: Orson Welles

Script: Anthony Veiller assisted by John Huston

Story: Victor Trivas, Decla Dunning

Photography: Russell Metty

Art Direction: Perry Ferguson

Music: Bronislaw Kaper

Orchestration: Harold Byrns, Sydney Cutner

Costumes: Michael Woulfe

Sound: Carson F. Jowett, Arthur Johns

Editor: Ernest Nims

Producer: S. P. Eagle (pseudonym of Sam Spiegel)

Assistant Director: Jack Voglin

Cast: Orson Welles (
Franz Kindler alias Professor Charles Rankin
), Loretta Young (
Mary Longstreet
), Edward G. Robinson (
Inspector Wilson
), Philip Merivale (
Judge Longstreet
), Richard Long (
Noah Longstreet
), Byron Keith (
Dr. Lawrence
), Billy House (
Mr. Potter
), Martha Wentworth (
Sarah
), Konstantin Shayne (
Konrad Meinike
), Theodore Gottlieb (
Fairbright
), Pietro Sosso (
Mr. Peabody
), Isabel O'Madigan.

Production Company: International Pictures (RKO Studios), 1945. US premiere, May 1946. 85 mins. (originally 115 mins.).

The Lady from Shanghai
(1946)

Director: Orson Welles

Script: Orson Welles, from Sherwood King's novel
If I Die Before I Wake

Photography: Charles Lawton Jr.

Camera Operator: Irving Klein

Art Direction: Stephen Goosson, Sturges Carne

Set Decoration: Wilbur Menefee, Herman Schoenbrun

Special Effects: Lawrence Butler

Music: Heinz Roemheld

Musical Director: M. W. Stoloff

Orchestration: Herschel Burke Gilbert

Song “Please Don't Kiss Me”: Allan Roberts, Doris Fisher

Costumes (gowns): Jean Louis

Sound: Lodge Cunningham

Editor: Viola Lawrence

Assistant Director: Sam Nelson

Executive Producer: Harry Cohn

Associate Producers: Richard Wilson, William Castle

Cast: Orson Welles (
Michael O'Hara
), Rita Hayworth (
Elsa Bannister
), Everett Sloane (
Arthur Bannister
), Glenn Anders (
George Grisby
), Ted de Corsia (
Sidney Broom
), Gus Schilling (
Goldie
), Louis Merrill (
Jake
), Erskine Sanford (
Judge
), Carl Frank (
District Attorney Galloway
), Evelyn Ellis (
Bessie
), Wong Show Chong (
Li
), Harry Shannon (
Horse cab driver
), Sam Nelson (
Captain
), Richard Wilson (
D.A.'s assistant
), players of the Mandarin Theatre.

Production Company: Columbia Pictures, filmed in Hollywood, Mexico, and San Francisco, 1946. US premiere, May 1948. 86 mins. (cut from 155 mins.).

Macbeth
(1948)

Director: Orson Welles

Script: Orson Welles, adapted from Shakespeare

Photography: John L. Russell

Second Unit Photography: William Bradford

Art Direction: Fred Ritter

Set Decoration: John McCarthy Jr., James Redd

Special Effects: Howard and Theodore Lydecker

Music: Jacques Ibert

Musical Director: Efrem Kurtz

Costumes: Orson Welles, Fred Ritter, Adele Palmer

Makeup: Bob Mark

Sound: John Stransky Jr., Gary Harris

Editor: Louis Lindsay

Dialogue Director: William Alland

Assistant Director: Jack Lacey

Executive Producer: Charles K. Feldman

Producer: Orson Welles

Associate Producer: Richard Wilson

Cast: Orson Welles (
Macbeth
), Jeanette Nolan (
Lady Macbeth
), Dan O'Herlihy (
Macduff
), Edgar Barrier (
Banquo
), Roddy McDowall (
Malcolm
), Erskine Sanford (
Duncan
), Alan Napier (
Holy Father
), John Dierkes (
Ross
), Keene Curtis (
Lennox
), Peggy Webber (
Lady Macduff
), Lionel Braham (
Siward
), Archie Heugly (
Young Siward
), Christopher Welles (
Macduff child
), Brainerd Duffield (
1st murderer
), William Alland (
2nd murderer
), George Chirello (
Seyton
), Gus Schilling (
Porter
), Jerry Farber (
Fleance
), Lurene Tuttle (
Gentlewoman
), Robert Alan (
3rd murderer
), Morgan Farley (
Doctor
); the witches have been listed variously as Peggy Webber, Lurene Tuttle, Brainerd Duffield, and Charles Lederer.

Production Company: A Mercury Production at Republic Studios, Summer 1947. US premiere, Oct. 1948. 107 mins. (cut to 86 mins.).

Othello
(1952)

Director: Orson Welles

Script: Orson Welles, adapted from Shakespeare

Photography: Anchise Brizzi, G. R. Aldo, George Fanto, Obadan Troiani, Alberto Fusi

Art Direction: Alexandre Trauner

Costumes: Maria de Matteis

Sound: Piscitrelli

Editors: Jean Sacha, John Shepridge, Renzo Lucidi, William Morton

Assistant Director: Michael Washinsky

Producer: Orson Welles

Associate Producers: Giorgio Patti, Julien Derode, Walter Bedone, Patrice Dali, Rocco Facchini

Cast: Orson Welles (
Othello
), Micheál MacLiammóir (
Iago
), Suzanne Cloutier (
Desdemona
), Robert Coote (
Roderigo
), Michael Lawrence (
Cassio
), Hilton Edwards (
Brabantio
), Fay Compton (
Emilia
), Nicholas Bruce (
Lodovico
), Jean Davis (
Montano
), Doris Dowling (
Bianca
), Joseph Cotten (
Senator
), Joan Fontaine (
Page
).

Production Company: A Mercury Production, filmed at Scalera Studios in Rome and on location in Morocco and Italy, from 1949 to 1952. US premiere, June 1955. 91 mins.

Mr. Arkadin
[British title:
Confidential Report
] (1955)

Director: Orson Welles

Script: Orson Welles

Photography: Jean Bourgoin

Art Direction: Orson Welles

Music: Paul Misraki

Costumes: Orson Welles

Sound: Jacques Lebreton, Jacques Carrère

Editor: Renzo Lucidi

Executive Producer: Louis Dolivet

Production Manager: Michel J. Boisrond

Assistant Directors: José Maria Ochoa, José Luis de la Serna, Isidoro Martínez Ferry

Cast: Orson Welles (
Narrator/Gregory Arkadin
), Paola Mori (
Raina Arkadin
), Robert Arden (
Guy Van Stratten
), Akim Tamiroff (
Jacob Zouk
), Michael Redgrave (
Burgomil Trebitsch
), Patricia Medina (
Mily
), Mischa Auer (
The Professor
), Katina Paxinou (
Sophie
), Jack Watling (
Marquis of Rutleigh
), Grégoire Aslan (
Bracco
), Peter van Eyck (
Thaddeus
), Suzanne Flon (
Baroness Nagel
), Tamara Shane (
Woman in apartment
), Frédéric O'Brady (
Oskar
).