Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane (127 page)

“Rosebud,” 632, 633, 634, 635, 636, 661, 666, 692, 697–701, 735, 737

scenes from, 3, 116–17, 367, 571, 585, 622, 623–24, 633–34, 635–38, 652–53, 655, 664–65, 666–67, 676–78, 680–85, 687–89, 691, 699–700, 701, 735

seeds of the story, 6, 19–20, 27, 30, 88, 90, 125, 134, 183, 223, 245, 287, 368–69, 564, 596, 619, 621–27, 703

shooting script of, 81, 504, 633, 661, 677, 682–83, 691, 697–701, 702

special effects in, 673, 678

structure of, 621, 626, 634–40

success of, 734, 735, 744–45

title of, 674

UCLA course on, 714, 743

writing the script (with John Houseman, Herman Mankiewicz), 630–32, 639, 640, 646, 650–56, 659, 681

Xanadu (Florida) in, 625–26, 633, 634, 655, 670, 678, 680–81, 687, 698, 699

Civic Repertory, New York, 297

Civil War, U.S., 8, 14, 15, 17, 19, 22, 102, 117, 130, 133, 219, 222, 236, 252, 261, 358, 671

Clair, René, 354

Claire, Ina, 94

Clayton, John, 152, 155, 180, 201, 226, 232, 235, 236, 239, 251–52, 246, 253, 280, 285

Clouds over Europe
(film), 558

Cocteau, Jean, 233, 286, 327

Cody, Buffalo Bill, 60

Cohan, George M., 30

Cohn, Harry, 567, 727n

Colbert, Claudette, 567

Colcord, Lincoln, 70

Cole, Nat “King,” 680

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 698

Collins, Charles, 94, 152, 220, 226, 227, 251, 261, 265

and Woodstock summer theater, 273, 274, 275, 281, 282, 284, 285–86

Collins, Ray:

background of, 326-27

in
Citizen Kane
, 666, 668

and
Heart of Darkness
, 586

in
The Magnificent Ambersons
, 107

radio roles of, 325–26, 404, 431, 469, 499, 502, 507, 582, 616

Collins, Richard, 690, 727

Colonial Theatre, Boston, 526–30

Colum, Padraic, 211–12

Columbia Artists, 646, 657

Columbia Workshop, The
(radio series), 369–70, 378, 380, 405, 415, 459, 499

Comingore, Dorothy, 577, 689–93, 695, 727

Communist Party, U.S., 312, 346, 349, 364, 389, 390, 415, 448, 474, 495–96, 619

See also Daily Worker

Conan Doyle, Arthur, 487, 497, 498

Conjur’ Man Dies
(stage play), 331–32, 337, 339, 342–43

Connelly, Marc, 364, 535–36

Conrad, Joseph,
Heart of Darkness
, 517, 563–65, 587, 591, 595

Conrad, Peter,
Orson Welles: The Stories of His Life
, 113, 355, 433, 607, 737

Cooper, Merian C., 589

Coote, Robert, 589, 593, 617, 644

Copland, Aaron, 356, 377, 381–82, 522

Corbett, James J., 31

Cornell, Katharine, 115, 116, 233, 301, 310, 408

in
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
, 262–67, 268, 275, 298, 520

in
Candida
, 262–63, 268

critical reviews of performances, 265, 267, 268–69, 300

in
Romeo and Juliet
, 262–65, 268, 271–72, 293, 298, 299–301, 304, 307, 366

Shakespeare debut of, 261–62

touring company of, 210, 253–54, 258–73, 274–75, 278, 280, 289, 293, 294, 308, 335, 416, 452, 480, 537, 539

Corrado, Gino, 705–6

Cosgrave, W. T., 190–91

Cotten, Joseph, 381, 484, 746

and Dr. Maurice Bernstein, 724–25

in
Citizen Kane
, 585, 638, 640, 664, 704, 705

and
Danton’s Death
, 492

and
Faustus
, 373

and
Hamlet
, 369

and Hollywood, 553, 596

and
Horse Eats Hat
, 360, 362, 363, 473

in
The Magnificent Ambersons
, 23

and Mercury Theatre, 416, 421, 434, 443, 444, 462, 463, 520, 733

and radio, 324–26

in
The Third Man
, 737–38

in
Too Much Johnson
, 472, 473, 475–76, 477, 484

Vanity Will Get You Somewhere
(memoir), 325, 733, 740

Coulouris, George, 351n, 365–66

and
The Campbell Playhouse
, 616

in
Citizen Kane
, 639, 644, 665

and “First Person Singular,” 469

in Hollywood, 586, 616

and Mercury Theatre, 416, 421, 425, 426, 427, 434, 446, 447, 451, 452, 453, 462, 464, 483, 491

in
Valley Forge
, 308

Coward, Noël, 152

Cradle Will Rock
(1999 film), 387–88

Cradle Will Rock, The
(stage play), 388–402, 414, 712

and Marc Blitzstein, 384–86, 391, 392, 393, 395–98, 401–2, 406

and Federal Theatre Project, 390, 399–402

leftist politics in, 384, 386, 406, 415

music for, 385, 433

ownership of, 402

phonograph recording of, 444

players from, 446

previews of, 390–402, 403

revival of, 415, 429–30, 444

unproduced film script by Orson Welles, 306, 372, 384, 407, 408, 472, 600, 734

and WPA, 390, 391, 392, 394, 396, 397, 399–402

Crawford, Joan, 567

Creelman, James, 652

Cronin, A. J.,
The Citadel
, 643

Crowther, Bosley, 345, 436

Cullen, Countee, 328

Curran, Isaac, 7, 8

Custer, Stanley, 122–23, 265

Custer, Frank, 123

Cyrano de Bergerac
(unrealized film project), 563-64, 618

Daily Worker
, 311, 349, 415, 495

Dalí, Salvador, 286

Damita, Lili, 585, 598

“Danny Deever,” 78

Danton’s Death
(
Dantons Tod
), 511

casting of, 483, 489, 491–92, 493

challenges of, 490, 492–94, 497, 498, 504, 513, 524, 526

closing of, 515, 517

costs of, 489, 493, 515, 523, 541, 657

critical response to, 513–14

and Mercury Theatre, 483, 489, 494, 515, 523, 657

and politics, 495–96

postponements of, 493, 496–97, 513

and publicity, 494, 514, 524

and Max Reinhardt, 490–91, 493, 514–15

and “War of the Worlds,” 500–501, 509, 513

Dark Tower, The
(stage play), 256–57

Da Silva, Howard, 386, 393, 395, 429

De Vries, Herman, 94

Davenport, Millia, 433, 522

Davies, Marion, 238, 567, 625, 626, 663, 633n, 737

Davis, Bette, 584

Day, Clarence,
Life with Father
, 517

Day-Lewis, Cecil,
see
Nicholas Blake

Dead Rides Fast, The
(stage play), 207–8, 209, 210

Dean Martin Show, The
(TV series), 709

Dear Abigail
(stage play), 444

Death Takes a Holiday
(stage play), 213

“Deep, The” (unfinished film), 738

de Gaulle, Charles, 732, 739

Dekker, Thomas, 412, 429, 432, 433, 436, 447

Delmar, Kenneth (Kenny), 502

Del Rio, Dolores, 725, 726, 735

and Cedric Gibbons, 568, 598, 616, 641, 642

Orson’s relationship with, 567–68, 585, 598–99, 600, 609, 614–15, 641–42, 674

socializing, 567–68, 585, 587–88, 674

DeMille, Cecil B., 236, 459, 518, 569

Denby, Edwin, 355–56, 360, 361, 364, 378, 381

Denny, Roger Q., 570

de Paur, Leonard, 333, 334, 340, 341

Dexter, John, 135, 139, 145, 155, 157, 173, 181

Dickens, Charles, 274, 485

A Christmas Carol
, 122, 519–20

Oliver Twist
, 487, 497

The Pickwick Papers
, 517, 618

A Tale of Two Cities
, 485

“Dick Welles” (horse), 26–27, 183, 697

Dieterle, William, 559, 736n

Dietrich, Marlene, 641–42, 731, 733, 747

Dietz, John, 503, 649

Dillinger, John, 573, 619, 621, 694n

Dinesen, Isak, 742

“Dinner at Eight” (radio play), 642

Dinner at Eight
(film), 618

Dirksen, Everett, 364

Doctor Faustus
(stage play), 274, 318, 355, 370, 371–78, 386-87, 401, 403, 407, 411-12, 416, 422, 455, 586

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(drama), 121, 180, 278

Doctor Knock
(stage play), 211

Don Juan
(film), 131–32

Don Quixote
(film), 740, 745

Dos Passos, John, 364, 382

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor, 274

Dracula
(novel and radio play), 467–71, 485

Drake, Herbert, 535, 553–54, 695

and
Heart of Darkness
, 591

in Hollywood, 554, 565, 593, 610, 657

and Orson’s lecture tour, 630, 646, 648

and Mercury Theatre, 475, 560, 657

and Orson’s public image, 594, 609, 614

publicity by, 409, 580, 614, 689, 690

in
Too Much Johnson
, 475

Drama League of Chicago, 156–57, 217–18, 252–53, 280

Dreamers, The
(film), 741–42, 746

Drinkwater, John, 482, 485

Drunkard, The
(stage play), 277–78, 289, 295

Duchess of Malfi, The
(stage play), 409, 410, 442, 445–47, 448, 451, 462

Dukes, Ashley, 197

Dumas, Alexandre père, 622

The Count of Monte Cristo
, 485

du Maurier, Daphne,
Rebecca
, 517–18, 531

du Maurier, George, 186, 276, 279

Peter Ibbetson
, 570

Duncan, Isadora, 570

Dunham, Harry, 474–75, 476, 589

Dunn, Linwood, 593, 673

Dunne, Irene, 584

Dunning, Decla, 614, 616

Durant, Jack, 116

Dwan, Allan, 88

Eckstein, Louis, 153

Eddy, Nelson, 506

Edwards, Hilton, 195–200, 387n

and Gate Ball, 212–13

and Gate Theatre, 196–200, 202, 207, 208, 213–14, 295

and
Hamlet
, 213, 284–85

influence of, 215–16, 230, 271, 280, 295–96, 361

and
Jew Süss
, 200, 202, 203, 212

and Micheál MacLíammóir, 195–97, 202

and
Mogu of the Desert
, 212

Orson coached by, 198–99, 200, 207

and Orson’s audition, 196–99

and Orson’s employment, 199, 200, 203, 208, 209, 214

and Peacock Theatre, 210–11

and
Tsar Paul
, 287–89

and Woodstock summer theater, 273–76, 280, 281, 283–85, 287–89

El Americano
(film), 249, 250

El Glaoui, Brahim, 215, 244–45

El Glaoui, T’hami, 244

Eliot, T. S.,
Murder in the Cathedral
, 521

Ellington, Duke, 387n

Ellis, Maurice, 337, 350, 351

Ellsberg, Edward,
Hell on Ice
, 497, 498

Elman, Mischa, 65, 74

Emery, John, 520, 535, 539, 541, 586, 592

Emery, “Rattlesnake-Oil,” 117

Emperor Jones, The
(stage play), 329

Engel, Lehman, 377, 381, 387, 391, 392, 395, 396, 433, 435

Entrikin, Knowles, 325–26, 444

“Escape” (radio), 405

Ethiopia
(stage play), 342

Etude in A-flat Major (Chopin), 74

Europe:

fascism in, 426–27, 564, 596, 620

Evans, Maurice, 422, 465, 531–32, 535, 735

Evening with Orson Welles, An
(stage show), 387, 466n

Everybody’s Shakespeare
(Hill and Welles):

and finances, 300, 314

on hold, 255, 263, 294

ideas for, 240–41, 247–48, 252

illustrations in, 302

Julius Caesar
, 247, 302, 412, 427

The Merchant of Venice
, 247, 302

publication of, 302–4

radio adaptation of, 668

republished as
The Mercury Shakespeare
, 606

Twelfth Night
, 302

writing of, 241, 242–44, 247–48, 250, 251, 252, 260, 293–94, 295

Ewald, Carl, 485

Fairbanks, Douglas, 88, 136, 197

Fairbanks, Douglas, Jr., 576

Faust
(opera), 371

FCC (Federal Communications Commission), and “War of the Worlds,” 511

Feder, Abe, 334, 341, 343, 345, 356, 362, 374, 376, 386–87, 391, 395, 397, 414–15

Feder, Christopher Welles (daughter):

birth of, 449–50, 454, 467

childhood of, 489, 515, 553, 558, 573, 574–75, 614, 641

and her father’s debts, 656, 658

In My Father’s Shadow
, 450, 716

memories of, 87, 104, 171, 181, 296, 298, 406, 438

and parents’ divorce, 627, 641, 716

Federal Relief Appropriation Act (1935), 327

Federal Theatre Project, 347, 417, 428, 460, 492, 498, 739

The Cradle Will Rock
, 386, 390, 397, 399–402

creation of, 327–28

and Equity rules, 373, 389

Faustus
, 373, 376–77, 401

and finances, 337, 342, 357

Horse Eats Hat
, 357, 360, 364–65, 401

and Negro Theatre Project, 328, 331, 335, 342

political attacks on, 342, 348, 364, 447–48

press hostility to, 376

and Project 891, 354, 360, 386, 390, 399, 401

Voodoo
Macbeth
, 335, 342, 348–49, 351–52, 353, 401

and WPA, 327, 342, 354, 389–90, 391, 397, 399–402

Feeney, F. X., 723, 746

Felman, Hazel (Buchbinder), 236, 252

Ferber, Edna, 347, 618

Fergus, Phyllis (Hoyt), 83–84, 87, 239, 635n

Ferguson, Perry, 669–70, 672, 673, 682–83, 701, 703, 704

Ferris, Walter, 213

Feuchtwanger, Lion, 197

F for Fake
(film), 419, 596, 668n, 704, 715, 745

Fidler, Jimmie, 582, 586, 608, 702

Fields, W. C., 122, 618

“First Person Singular” (radio series), 458, 459–60, 467–71, 498, 635

Fisher, Bud, 113

Fitzgerald, F. Scott, “Pat Hobby and Orson Welles,” 583

Fitzgerald, Geraldine:

acting roles of, 452, 453, 643