Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane (131 page)

Peer Gynt
(stage play), 583

Pegler, Westbrook, 668

Perlman, Sherman, 136, 145, 150, 157

Perry, Antoinette, 712

Perry, Edward, 334

Peter Absolute
(radio serial), 338

Peter Pan
(stage play), 294

Philadelphia Daily News
, 535

Philadelphia Inquirer
, 137

Philadelphia Story, The
(stage play), 484, 664

Phillips, Wendell, 148, 329

Phoenix Theatre, New York, 308, 317–19, 324, 327, 328

Physician in Spite of Himself, The
(stage play), 180

Pickford, Mary, 88, 576

Pinchot, Rosamond, 369

Playboy
(magazine), 590

Playboy of the Western World, The
(stage play), 583

Polacco, Giorgio, 162–63, 167–68

Polglase, Van Nest, 559, 669, 673

Pollack, Howard, 381, 382, 522

Mark Blitzstein: His Life, His Work, His World
, 415, 492

Aaron Copland: The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man
, 381, 522

Pollard, Sherrard, 420, 480

Pollock, Arthur, 513–14

Powell, William, 643

Power and the Glory, The
(film), 622, 623, 712

Powers, Tom, 443, 448, 452

Preminger, Otto, 543

Price, Natalie Whitted, 84

Price, Victoria,
Vincent Price: A Daughter’s Biography
, 21

Price, Vincent, 21, 434, 444, 446, 451, 452–53, 462, 464

Price, Vincent Leonard (father of Vincent Price), 21

Princip, Gavrilo, 538

Pringle, Jackie (third husband of Virginia Nicolson), 716, 717

Production Code office, 593, 595, 683

Project 891, 354–55, 378, 412n

The Cradle Will Rock
, 384–402

death of, 402

Faustus
, 370, 371–77, 387, 401

Horse Eats Hat
, 356–57, 359–62, 363–65, 368, 373, 401

Provincetown Players, 307

Prussing, Lilian Edgerton, 277

Prussing, Louise, 277, 280, 281, 285, 289, 294, 295

Pryor, Arthur Jr., 358

Pudovkin, V. I.,
Film Technique and Acting
, 478

Purple Joss
(stage play), 166

Quarles Camp, 39

Racine College Grammar School, 20–21

Radio Daily
, 404–5, 432, 512

Raphaelson, Samson, 137, 228–29, 231, 233, 234, 235, 239, 267, 542

Rathbone, Basil, 262, 263, 267, 298, 304

Ravinia Festival (Highland Park, IL), 93–95, 153, 155, 186, 220, 251, 371

Ray, Man, 474

Red Dust
(film), 589

Read, Thomas Buchanan, “Sheridan’s Ride,” 130

Readick, Frank, 405, 502, 504, 506, 521, 587, 616

Reid, Elliott “Ted,” 417, 421, 434

Reinhardt, Max, 160, 439, 490–91, 493, 514–15, 559, 577

Reis, Irving, 369, 379, 380, 422

Remington, Frederic, 654

Renoir, Jean, 587, 615, 702–3

Reuther, Walter, 389

Rhode family (Kenosha), 64, 65

Rhode Opera House, 4, 30, 36, 39, 44, 45, 52, 65, 74

Rice, Elmer, 180, 327–28, 331, 342, 347, 531

Richards, Shelah, 437

Richardson, Ralph, 558

Riis, Jacob, 41

Rivera, Diego, 388, 568

RKO:

and Academy Awards, 736n

budgets in, 702

Citizen Kane
filmed at, 3, 696, 704–6, 735

Citizen Kane
plans in, 628–30, 645, 655, 656, 660, 669, 674

control exercised by, 606, 610, 693

directors in, 588–89

and
Heart of Darkness
,
see Heart of Darkness

and Lundberg lawsuit, 656

and Mercury Theatre, 605, 629–30, 693, 725

Orson’s arrival in, 557–68

Orson’s contract with, 551–52, 559, 561, 562, 565, 569, 582, 583, 587, 595, 597, 606–7, 614, 616, 628, 629, 647, 658, 659, 674, 735

Orson’s production unit in, 551–54, 561–62, 565–66, 575, 605

Orson’s project proposals to, 563–65, 617–18, 645

Orson’s screen test for, 539–41, 546, 551

Orson’s work in, 577–78, 586, 589, 591–97, 683

publicity for, 560, 562, 583, 609, 614, 617, 646, 689, 690

and
The Stranger
, 133

and World War II, 578–79

RKO 281
(TV movie), 104

Roach, Hal, 615

Roar China!
(stage play), 205

Robbins, Tim, 388, 395

Robeson, Paul, 329

Robin Hood
(film), 88

Robinson, Emma, 54, 75, 77

Rockefeller, Edith, 98, 238

Rockefeller, John D., 238, 368

Romains, Jules, 211

Romero, Cesar, 712

Rooney, Mickey, 584, 584n

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 512

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 388, 502–3, 557, 612, 734

Roosevelt, Theodore, 31

Roots of Heaven, The
(film), 585

Rosenbaum, Jonathan, 739–40

Rosenthal, Jean, 393–94, 395, 411, 414–15, 473, 492–93, 497, 522, 534

Roskie, Tony, 163–64

Ross, Harold, 571

Ross, Madeline, 209

Rostand, Edmond, 563

Rowland, Betty, 521

R.U.R.
(stage play), 165

Russell, Rosalind, 616

Ryskind, Morrie, 226

Safe Place, A
(film), 741

Saint Louis Exposition, 30

Saki (Hector Hugh Monro), 485

Salisbury, Leah, 230

Sandburg, Carl, 8, 28, 184, 252

Sanders of the River
(film), 589

Sanford, Erskine, 116, 308, 452, 473, 492, 497, 521, 586, 616, 666

San Francisco Examiner
, 94

Saturday Evening Post
, 559n, 617

Saturday Review of Literature
, 518

Schaefer, George J.:

and
Citizen Kane
, 628, 656, 660, 669, 674, 693, 702, 703, 724, 735, 736n

and
Heart of Darkness
, 564–65, 578–79, 591, 597, 606–7, 628

offers to Orson, 546, 551, 563

and Orson’s contract, 551–52, 583, 607

and proposed projects, 562–65, 618, 628

and RKO, 540, 551, 562, 596, 603, 627

and
Smiler with the Knife
, 596–97, 607, 627, 628

and World War II, 578–79

Schallert, Edwin, 267, 562, 609, 674

Schilling, Gus, 521, 586, 666

Schnabel, Stefan, 417, 434

Schneider, Albert, 546, 560, 565, 610, 630, 646

Schnitzler, Arthur, 274, 485

Schoedsack, Ernest, 589

Scholey, Matthias J., 42, 51–52, 58

Schumann Quintet, 12

Scourby, Alexander, 318, 369

Screen Actors Guild, 615

Screen Playwrights, 620

Screen Writers Guild, 619, 696

Sears, David, 207

Second Hurricane, The
(opera), 381, 382, 384, 387, 418, 433, 465

Seiderman, Maurice, 678–80, 728

Seldes, Gilbert, 380

Selig, William, 60

Selznick, David O., 407, 408, 467, 517, 540, 552, 587

Selznick, Lewis J., 540

Selznick, Myron, 540

Senber, Henry, 424, 449, 510, 551

Sennett, Mack, 473

Sensenderfer, Robert E. P., 535

Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, 379

Seymour, Dan, 502

“Shadow, The” (radio serial), 109, 405, 413, 414, 430–32, 435, 440, 441, 448, 449, 459, 502, 514

Shakespeare, William:

Antony and Cleopatra
, 428

Coriolanus
, 213, 422

and Katharine Cornell tour, 261–72, 293

Everybody’s Shakespeare
,
see Everybody’s Shakespeare

Five Kings
,
see Five Kings

Hal-Poins relationship in, 419

Hamlet
, 102, 213–14, 261, 276, 277, 278, 279, 284–86, 353, 359, 393, 531, 532

“Hamlet” (radio play), 369–70, 380

Henry IV
, 279, 409, 430, 444–45, 529, 531

Henry V
, 409, 430, 444–45, 529

Julius Caesar
(radio play) 497

Julius Caesar
(stage play), 132, 242, 247, 250, 302, 320, 409, 410, 411–15, 443-44, 486, 496, 671, 714

King Lear
, 113, 320, 390, 403, 408, 409, 445, 532, 660, 712, 741–42

Macbeth
(all-black cast),
see
Voodoo
Macbeth

Macbeth
(film), 452, 618, 679, 717

“Macbeth” (radio), 380

Measure for Measure
, 465

The Merchant of Venice
, 247, 250, 302, 409

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
, 86, 104

Orson’s knowledge of, 148, 156, 198, 240–41

Othello
, 211, 213, 272, 623

Richard III
, 261, 445, 646

Richard III
, Todd School production, 180–81

Romeo and Juliet
, 165, 254, 262–65, 268, 271–72, 293, 295, 297–98, 299–301, 302, 304, 305, 306, 308, 310, 317, 366

Romeo and Juliet
(unproduced Caribbean version), 294–95, 296, 300, 329, 331n

Taming of the Shrew
, 592

Twelfth Night
, 61, 248, 250, 253, 302, 405, 475, 735

Twelfth Night
, Todd School production, 217–20

Shannon, Harry, 116, 117, 667

Shaw, George Bernard, 214–15, 732

Androcles and the Lion
, 172–73

Back to Methuselah
, 214

Candida
, 233, 254, 262–63, 265, 267, 268

The Great Catherine
, 210

Heartbreak House
, 409, 410, 442, 444, 447, 449, 451–53, 458, 461, 463, 466

Major Barbara
, 165

Saint Joan
, 416

and visit from Welles, 214-15, 447

Shealy, George, 279

Shearer, Norma, 267, 560

Sheeog (Sidheoghe) [donkey], 190–91, 206

Sheffield, Charles, 100, 111, 128

Sheldon, Edward “Ned,” 116, 258, 543

Shepherd, Cybill, 743

Sher, Jack, 580, 583

Sheridan, Ann, 647

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley:

The School for Scandal
, 571

The Rivals
, 165

Sherman, Hiram “Chubby,” 377, 406

and “Bright Lucifer,” 313–14

and
The Cradle Will Rock
, 386, 393, 395, 398, 429

and Goodman Theatre, 157, 273

and
Hamlet
, 369

in Hollywood, 586

and
Horse Eats Hat
, 357, 360

and Whitford Kane, 313, 318, 324, 327

and
Les Misérables
, 404

and Mercury Theatre, 416, 429, 434, 435, 436, 446, 457, 458, 460, 463–67, 472

and Phoenix Theatre, 317

and
The Second Hurricane
, 381

and
The Shadow
, 431

and ’
Tis Pity She’s a Whore
, 318, 327

and Virginia Welles, 324, 466

and Woodstock summer theater, 273, 276

Sherwood, William, 203, 210

Shoemaker’s Holiday
,
The
(stage play), 412, 429, 432–37, 444, 446, 447, 452, 461, 462, 463, 464, 465–66

Shor, Toots, 536

“Show Boat” (radio play), 531

Sight and Sound
, 744

Silent Woman, The
[
Epicene
] (stage play), 409

Simmel, Ernst, 697

Skolsky, Sidney, 583, 600, 608

Skum of the Earth
(stage play), 166

Sleepy Lagoon murder case (1942), 352

Slezak, Walter, 456–57

Sloane, Everett, 198, 338–39, 362, 404, 431, 586, 593, 616, 640, 665, 695

Small Miracle
(stage play), 296

Smart, Jack, 358

Smiler with the Knife, The
(unrealized film project), 616–18

cancellation of, 616, 628, 674, 695, 703

casting problems of, 616–17, 642

costs of, 597, 607, 693, 695

initial plans for, 595–97, 608

and Herman Mankiewicz, 609, 618, 621, 624, 629, 634

script for, 596, 609, 618, 621, 624

as substitute for
Heart of Darkness
, 607, 609–10, 616

Smith, Florence, 61

Smith, Fred, 559n, 617

Smith, Howard, 473, 502

Smith, Logan Pearsall,
On Reading Shakespeare
, 260

Smith, Steven C. (Bernard Herrmann biographer), 379, 469–70, 692–93

Smith, Wendy, 335, 342, 346, 347

Sneden’s Landing, New York, 403, 406, 407, 408, 411, 414, 435, 437, 438, 454, 457, 467, 478

Sokoloff, Vladimir, 491, 493, 514, 587, 617

Someone to Love
(film), 741

Sommers, Harry, 72

Spanish-American War, 652, 654

Spanish Civil War, 378, 382, 383, 401, 448

Spanish Earth, The
(documentary), 382, 384

Speaight, Robert, 521, 533

Speicher, Eugene, 233

Spielberg, Steven, 746

Springfield, IL, 7-10, 69, 313-14, 670

Spurin-Calleia, Joseph,
see
Calleia, Joseph

Stagecoach
(film), 590

Stalin, Joseph, 495

Stanley and Livingstone
(film), 576

Stanton, Olive, 386, 397, 429

Stanton, Sanford, 386

Star Is Born, A
(film), 622

“Star-Spangled Banner, The,” 78

Starkie, Walter, 241, 248

Raggle Taggle
, 248

Steffens, Lincoln, 28

Stein, Gertrude, 305, 474

Steinbeck, John,
Of Mice and Men
, 559

Steinmeyer, Jim, 710–13, 714, 718, 738

Stevedore
(stage play), 297

Stevens, Ashton, 309, 322, 449, 472, 535, 549, 648, 743

and
Citizen Kane
, 638, 640, 668, 675, 682, 706, 724, 735

death of, 728

and
Everybody’s Shakespeare
, 303–4

and Goodman Theatre, 186