Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane (126 page)

in Hollywood, 565, 574, 581, 610

and HUAC, 727

and Mercury Theatre, 418, 434, 502, 521, 547, 667

and Orson’s “slaves,” 382, 418, 434, 479, 502, 547

and
The Second Hurricane
, 382, 418

as “Vakhtangov,” 418, 479, 549, 565, 574

Allen, Evelyn, 416

Allen, Gracie, 161

American Lyric Theatre, 530

American Mercury
, 409

American School of the Air
(radio series), 324–26, 330, 413

Anderson, Arthur, 417, 434, 443, 480

Anderson, John, 428, 453

Anderson, Mary, 262

Anderson, Maxwell, 305, 380, 648

Anderson, Sherwood, 485

Anderson, Thomas, 334

Anger, Kenneth,
Hollywood Babylon
, 737

Anisfeld, Boris, 86, 185, 186

Ankrum, Morris, 521, 548

Appleby, Stephen, 549

Aquitania
(ship), 553

Archdupe, The
(stage play), 208, 209

Archer, William,
The Green Goddess
, 546 Arlen, Michael, 115

Arliss, George, 197

Around the World in Eighty Days
(Jules Verne story, radio play), 358, 497, 499

Around the World in Eighty Days
(musical), 739

“Arrowsmith” (radio play), 531

Art Institute of Chicago, The, 10, 86, 103, 110, 127, 149, 185, 279, 280, 281

Ash, Walter, 417, 473, 536

Atkinson, Brooks, 311, 342, 348, 366, 376, 428, 430, 436, 514

Auden, W. H., 380

Backus, Georgia, 616, 727

Badger Brass Company, 24–26, 29, 31–32, 34–38, 39, 40, 45, 52, 55, 73–74

Baer, Richard (Richard Barr), 549, 565

in Hollywood, 554, 558, 610

and Mercury Theatre, 492, 502, 521, 547, 554

and money matters, 605–6, 616, 629–30, 656–57, 701

and Orson’s “slaves,” 492, 502, 526, 547, 554

Bain, Harriet, 49, 50, 52, 53, 56–57, 59–60, 64, 69, 71, 73, 75, 77

Bain Wagon Works, 17, 18, 23, 35, 74

Baird, Bil, 357, 363, 364, 373, 417

Balanchine, George, 439, 455–56, 489, 542, 567

Ball, Lucille, 576–77, 616–17, 642–43n

Bankhead, Tallulah, 258–59, 405, 428, 520, 535–36

Barnet, Charlie, 680

Barrett, Edith, 446

Barretts of Wimpole Street, The
(stage play), 259, 262–67, 268, 275, 298, 363, 520

Barrier, Edgar, 473, 475, 476, 480, 492, 521, 587, 644

Barrymore, Ethel, 153, 321, 543–44

Barrymore, John, 102, 131–32, 199, 224, 261, 543–45, 547, 549, 551, 588, 620

Barrymore, Lionel, 519, 543–44, 616

Barrymore, Maurice, 543, 544

Bartzen, Peter, 47–48

Bass Rocks Theatre, Gloucester, MA, 530, 546, 547

Bates, Ernest Sutherland, 652

Batista, Miriam, 318

Beaton, Cecil, 428, 430

“Beau Geste” (radio play, 531

Beau Geste
(film), 557

Beery, Wallace, 531

Belasco, David, 324, 615

Benét, Stephen Vincent, 380

The Devil and Daniel Webster
, 530, 536, 538

Benny, Jack, 379, 560, 643, 645–46

Bergman, Ingrid, 587

Bergner, Elisabeth, 160

Berle, Milton, 198

Bernhardt, Sarah, 79–80

Bernstein, Mrs. Mina (Elman), 65, 74, 82

Bernstein, Hazel Moore, 65, 74, 82 573–74, 682, 723, 724, 726, 727, 729;
see also
Moore, Hazel

Bernstein, Maurice A.:

death of, 723, 728–29

and Edith Mason, 162–63, 167–68

and Hazel, 163, 226, 299, 321;
see also
Bernstein, Hazel Moore

and Hollywood, 554, 573–74, 580, 594, 603–5, 723–29

in Kenosha, 46–47, 82–83, 85

letters to and from Orson, 188, 191, 192, 193, 195, 198, 201, 203, 204, 207, 244, 260, 298

medical practice of, 47–48, 65, 724–25, 726, 728

and Mina Elman, 65, 74, 82

myths perpetuated by, 6, 9, 85, 107, 614, 617

and Orson’s birth and childhood, 5–6, 87, 90, 109, 110, 111–15, 127, 131, 132, 149

and Orson’s health, 101, 112

and Orson’s performances, 264, 349, 535, 549, 682, 706

and Orson’s teen years, 152, 153, 157–58, 159, 162, 168, 181, 184–87, 220, 226–27, 232, 234, 239, 241, 245, 261, 272

and Orson’s trust fund/finances, 48, 177, 181–83, 194, 199, 225, 231, 232, 240, 245, 293, 297, 319, 323, 337, 449, 515, 539, 541, 573, 605, 657, 729

and Orson-Virginia marriage, 301, 600

personal traits of, 46–47, 48

and Richard “Dick” Welles’s death, 176–77

stories told by, 21, 60, 110–11, 112, 122, 168, 261, 525

travels of, 106, 169, 329

as Welles family friend, 49, 64–65, 83, 85, 87, 93, 99, 100

Welles keepsakes in possession of, 8, 106, 182–83, 658, 729

and Woodstock summer theater, 281, 282

and young Richard Ives Welles’s financial affairs, 183, 228

and young Richard Ives Welles’s health, 48–49, 75, 82–83, 91–92, 93, 101, 140

Berry, John, 417, 476, 479, 494, 521, 727

Besier, Rudolf, 259

Bessy, Maurice, 418–19

Bierce, Ambrose, 654

Big Brass Ring, The
(film), 607, 712, 746

Big Sister
(radio series), 359, 362, 365, 368

Billingsley, Sherman, 536

Birth of a Nation, The
(film), 102–3, 615

Biskind, Peter,
My Lunches with Orson
(ed.), 206

Blackstone, Harry Jr., 714

Blaine, James G., 148

Blake, Nicholas (Cecil Day-Lewis),
The Smiler with the Knife
, 595–97

Blankfort, Michael, 297

Blitzstein, Marc, 409, 419, 433, 448

and
The Columbia Workshop
, 415

and
Cradle
revival, 415, 429–30

and
The Cradle will Rock
, 384–86, 391, 392, 393, 395–98, 401–2, 406

and
Danton’s Death
, 492, 495

and Mercury Theatre, 415, 422, 429, 515, 521

and
The Spanish Earth
, 382, 384

and
Too Much Johnson
, 477, 482

Blondell, Joan, 643

Bodenheim, Maxwell, 425

Bogdanovich, Peter, 620, 743, 746

The Cat’s Meow
, 663n

on
Citizen Kane
, 3, 638, 640, 651, 661, 662, 664, 672, 673, 674, 682, 688, 689–90, 700, 704–5, 734

interviews with Orson, 86, 88, 102, 108, 117, 128, 130, 159, 210, 296, 350, 362–63, 367, 369, 372, 408, 433, 442, 471, 492, 509, 518, 532, 544–45, 564, 583, 585, 587–88, 590, 593, 616, 618, 621, 623, 644, 710, 711, 715, 718, 732

and
Sight and Sound
poll, 744

This Is Orson Welles
, 287

Bohnen, Roman, 233, 297, 308

Bolm, Adolph, 724

Bonanova, Fortunio, 116–17

Bond, Ward, 585

Booth, Edwin, 30, 94, 203, 302, 429

Borowoski, Felix, 94

Bosch, Hieronymous, 620

Bourbon, Diana, 569, 581, 582, 584

Bow, Clara, 571

Bowles, Paul, 356, 373, 474, 482n

Boy Meets Girl
(stage play), 338

Boyar, Ben A., 229, 232, 235

Boyer, Charles, 581

Bradford, Mary D., 30, 44, 51, 52, 53, 55, 57–58, 59, 62, 63–64, 71, 77, 78

Brady, Frank:

Citizen Welles
, 206, 215, 217, 378, 387n, 398, 439, 443, 449, 455, 476, 477, 478, 482, 516–17, 536, 548, 562n, 563, 589, 592, 593, 594, 596, 679

watching filmed
Twelfth Night
rehearsals, 218, 374

Brassler, Muriel, 416

Brecht, Bertolt, 385

Bright, John, 619

“Bright Lucifer” (stage play), 294, 295, 302, 306, 313–17

Bronte, Charlotte, 497, 498

Brown, John, 148, 152, 219, 220, 222–26, 229–32, 237, 239, 240, 252, 253, 621

See also
“Marching Song”

Brown, John Mason, 348, 426, 427, 428, 514

Bryan, William Jennings, 622

Buchan, John,
The Thirty-Nine Steps
, 485

Büchner, Georg,
Dantons Tod
(
Danton’s Death
), 483, 490, 492

Buck, Rev. Florence, 33–34, 39, 40, 41, 43, 52, 62, 98

Buñuel, Luis, 286

Burckhardt, Rudy, 406–7

Burgess, Grover, 416

Burke, Billie, 642

Burns, George, 161, 560

Burnshaw, Stanley, 312

Burroughs, Eric, 336–37, 350, 386

“Business Before Pleasure” (radio play), 547

Butcher, Fanny, 186, 371

Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The
(film), 589

Calleia, Joseph, 296–97, 582

Callow, Simon,
Orson Welles
, 150, 155, 163, 174, 180, 194, 224, 245, 249, 300, 316, 344, 349, 352, 419, 436, 481, 504, 510, 517, 525–26, 534, 572, 595, 613, 619

Campbell, Mrs. Patrick, 442–43

Campbell Playhouse, The
(radio series), 519, 523, 542, 568–70, 578, 584, 587, 599

the deal with, 516–18, 569

final broadcast of, 643–44

and finances, 605, 629

and John Houseman, 516, 518, 531, 546, 569, 570, 579–80, 611

launch of, 517–18

and Herman J. Mankiewicz, 572–73

and Mercury Theatre, 517, 518

and Orson in Hollywood, 568–69

programs of, 517–18, 531, 545, 547, 548, 570, 572, 581, 616, 642–44, 646

Camp Indianola, 118–21, 122, 124, 126, 143

Camp Tosebo, 184, 186, 220, 272

Cantril, Hadley,
The Invasion from Mars: A Study in the Psychology of Panic
, 506, 648–50

Capek, Karel, 165

Capital Times
(Madison, WI), 123-25, 730

Capra, Frank, 57, 588, 643

Carle, Richard, 30, 71

Carlson, Oliver, 652

Carman, Bliss, “Envoy,” 158

Carpenter, Francis, 294, 296, 317, 319–20, 419, 434, 521

Carringer, Robert L.,
The Making of Citizen Kane
, 368, 565, 594–95, 596, 629, 655, 656, 660, 661, 665, 669, 673, 675, 693, 702

Carrington, Margaret, 258, 261, 272

Carroll, Lewis, 211

Carroll, Madeleine, 531, 644

Carson, Johnny, 709, 714

Carter, Jack, 297, 340, 610

and
Faustus
, 372–73, 374, 376, 586

and
Heart of Darkness
, 586

in Voodoo
Macbeth
, 336, 344, 345, 346, 347, 350, 351, 586

Caruso, Enrico, 31, 90, 94

Caruthers, Julia Lois, 11–12, 83, 99, 103

Cavalcade of America
(radio series), 368

CBS, 337, 338, 369, 370, 379

and
American School of the Air
, 324, 330

and
The Campbell Playhouse
, 516–18

and
The Columbia Workshop
, 369–70, 378, 380, 405, 415, 459

and “First Person Singular,” 458, 459–60

and Studio One, 459

and “War of the Worlds,” 498, 501, 508–10, 511, 513, 516

Celebrity, The
(stage play), 210

Century of Progress Exposition, Chicago (1933), 251–52, 281

Chaliapin, Fyodor, 90

Chamlee, Mario, 94, 154, 186, 301, 574, 724

Chancellor, Betty, 204, 206–7, 213

Chaney, Lon, 88, 210, 539

Chang
(film), 589

Chaplin, Charles “Charlie,” 474, 545, 577, 584, 663, 689, 702, 703

The Gold Rush
, 118

The Great Dictator
, 566, 582

The Kid
, 473

Modern Times
, 198

Monsieur Verdoux
, 725

Chappell, Ernest, 569, 581, 582

Chase and Sanborn Hour, The
(radio series), 498

Chesterton, G. K.,
The Man Who Was Thursday
, 485–86

Chestnut Theater, Philadelphia, 534–35

Chicago Civic Opera, The, 152, 155, 162, 164–65, 232, 238, 301, 358

Chicago Conservatory, The, 10–12, 34

Chicago Daily News
, 79, 236, 252, 288, 735

Chicago Herald (and) Examiner
, 94, 97, 152, 165, 167, 168, 174, 177

Chicago (Daily) Tribune
, 60, 79, 93, 94, 105, 152, 154, 186, 207, 210, 216, 220, 226, 237, 261, 265, 273, 274, 281, 282, 284, 285, 299, 302, 358, 371, 541, 570, 604, 625

Chimes at Midnight
(film), 419, 519, 529, 710, 738, 745

Chimes at Midnight
(stage play), 602, 603

Chirello, George “Shorty,” 553, 717, 734

Chopin, Frédéric, 10, 40, 74, 330

Christians, Mady, 451–52

Christie, Agatha, 572

“Christmas Carol, A” (radio play), 519–20, 616

Churchill, Sir Winston, 620

Cimber, Alphonse, 334

Cintrón, Conchita, 249

CIO (Committee for Industrial Organization), 389, 390, 448

Circle, The
(stage play), 209

Citizen Kane
, 590, 593, 607, 615n

and Academy Awards, 619, 736, 742

books and articles about, 3, 368, 565, 594–95, 596, 620, 632, 633, 656, 661, 686, 712

budget for, 693

casting of, 114, 116, 639–40, 663–68, 683–90, 703–4, 735

and censors, 677, 683, 702

characters in, 46, 107–8, 116, 155, 221, 366, 382, 452, 625–27, 634, 635–39, 653, 655, 664–65, 675–76, 678, 688, 689, 691–93, 694, 723, 737, 744

credits for, 546, 673, 695–97

critical reviews of, 735–36

filming of, 3, 681–83, 687–88, 703–6, 710, 723

Hearst media ban on, 735, 736–37

lighting for, 671–72

Lundberg lawsuit about,
see
Lundberg, Ferdinand

music for, 634, 692–93, 701, 724

Orson’s acting in, 678–79, 688

Orson’s scriptwriting contributions to, 631, 651, 655–56, 659, 660–63, 664–65, 669, 674–83, 693–96, 742

parallels to real life, 246, 454, 626, 634, 635, 638, 656, 659, 661, 663, 681, 744

premiere of, 588

production team for, 474, 669–73, 682–83, 691, 701, 703

published script of, 633–34, 638, 650, 653, 665, 705

RKO 281
telefilm about, 104

RKO planning for, 628–30, 645, 655, 656, 660, 669, 674