Orson Welles: Hello Americans (88 page)

Makavejev, Dusan 7

Mallet, Richard 441

Man of Aran
(film) xvi, 9

Man Who Came to Dinner
(Kaufmann and Hart) 201

Mankiewicz, Herman 6

Mann, Thomas 185

Mantle, Burns 306

March of Time, The
388

Margetson, Arthur ‘Shirley’ 289, 294–5, 297, 301, 308, 313–14;
Orson and
291

Markle, Fletcher 404

Marlowe, Christopher 265;
Dr Faustus
385

Marshall, Thurgood 329

Martin, Tony 347

Martins, Pery 129

Marx, Karl 176

Masaryk, Jan 185

Massey, Raymond 391

Master of Ballantrae, The
(Stevenson), film 344–5; radio
production 242, 344–5, 387–8, 397

Maté, Rudolph 360, 366

Mathiessen, F.O. 10

Mature, Victor 196

Maw, Herbert 389

Maxwell, Elsa 177, 179, 309, 362

Mayer, Louis B. 162

Meira, Mandel Olimpio (Jacaré) 81, 83, 112, 113, 120–2, 132

Meltzer, Robert ‘Bob’ 17, 49, 51, 68, 69, 85, 92, 95, 99, 120, 129, 157, 188

Men, Machines and Victory
(film) 140

Mendelssohn, Felix,
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
245

Menjou, Adolphe 412

Mercury Printing Press 254

Mercury Productions 3, 4, 5, 7, 11–12, 16, 17, 25, 29, 46, 49, 78, 79, 87, 91, 93, 100, 115, 122–3, 125–6, 128, 138, 161, 189, 269, 284, 288, 298, 316, 321, 377, 383, 385, 388, 426, 442

Mercury Summer Theatre on the Air 308, 343, 344

Mercury Theatre of the Air 12, 28, 254, 257, 294, 309, 344, 385

Mercury Wonder Show for Service Men, The
194–200

Mercury Wonder Show, The
xiii, 290, 396

Meredith, Burgess 140, 410

Mérimée, Prosper 345, 365

Merivale, Philip 269

Method acting 266

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) 189, 194, 200

Merry, Russell 268, 270

Mexican Hayride
(musical) 281

Mexican Melodrama
(film) 406

Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost
(film) 138

Mexico 32, 33, 136, 146, 229, 234, 258, 285, 356, 357

Mexico City 196

Miami 123,
137, 201

Midsummer Night’s Dream, A
(Shakespeare) 418

Mildred Pierce
(film) 403

Milestone, Lewis 52

Miller, Arthur 157, 257;
Timebends
155–6

Miller, Gilbert 391

Miller, Muriel 176

Minnelli, Vicente 288

Mitchell, Thomas 17

Moat Farm Murder, The
(radio) 343–4

Moby-Dick
(Melville), oratorio version 404; radio version 344, 404

Molnár, Ferenc,
The Guardsman
243

Monroe, Marilyn 443

Monsieur
Beaucaire
(Tarkington) 18

Monster that Changed the World, The
(film) 25

Moonlight in Hawaii
(film) 36

Moonrise
(film) 383

Moorehead, Agnes 28–9, 40–1, 49, 111, 112, 163, 194, 269, 367

Morgan, Michele 13, 16

Morgenthau, 210

Moss, Jack 17, 33, 35, 37, 49, 51, 59, 78, 89, 91, 93, 107, 112, 124, 125, 128, 139

Motion Pictures Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals 408

Mr Arkadin
(film) 184

Mr Moto
(film series) 12

Murnau, F.W. 33

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) (New York) 162, 266

My Friend Bonito
(film)
see Bonito the Bull

My Little Boy
(Ewald) 54

Nagumi, Admiral Chuichi 42

Nanook of the North
(film) 9

Napier, Alan 397, 399, 433

Naremore, James 12, 365

Nathan, George Jean 140, 300

Nation
168

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) 323–4,
327–9, 334, 336–8, 341

National Association for the Promotion of Colored Peoples 172

National Theatre 312

Native Son
265; film 106, 119; theatre play 3

NBC 210

NBC Symphony Orchestra 245

Negro Theatre Project 383

Nellie Bly
(theatre) 311

Neruda, Pablo 196

Neuschul, Peter 54–5

New Haven 296, 298

New Republic
journal 184, 322

New York 26, 35, 116, 123, 228, 256, 285, 296, 299, 336, 348,
384, 417

New York Daily Mirror
307

New York Herald Tribune
17, 301

New York Post
169, 179, 204, 221, 231, 244, 247, 249, 279, 323, 329, 348

New York Post Almanac
349

New York Times
121, 138, 139, 150, 180, 265, 266, 301, 304, 329, 335, 391, 422, 425, 438, 440

New York University 31

New Yorker
228–9, 304

Newman, Robert ‘Bob’ 416, 417, 419, 425, 436

Newsweek
(radio) 158

Nichols, Lewis
305, 306

Night of the Hunter, The
(film) 320

Nims, Ernest 268

Nolan, Jeanette 388, 389, 390–1, 395, 396, 397–8, 399, 400, 428, 438

Noone, Jimmy 206

Noriega, José 33, 38, 46

North, John Ringling 289

Norton, Eliot 293, 296

Odd Man Out
(film) 388

Oedipus
300

Of Mice and Men
(Steinbeck) (film) 52

Office of Commercial and Cultural Relations 64

Office of Inter-American Affairs (I-AA) 45,
54, 71–2, 74, 97, 114, 141, 143, 147, 160

Officer X (radio) 330–3

Oglobo
newspaper 252

O’Herlihy, Donal 388, 391, 394, 428

Oklahoma!
(musical) 311

Old Vic Company 300, 311, 312

Old Westbury (Long Island) 201

Olivier, Laurence 259, 300, 311, 320, 345, 366, 391, 396, 403–4, 405, 421, 422, 423, 424, 427, 428, 429, 431, 437, 438, 439, 441

On the Town
(musical) 265

O’Neill, Eugene 292

Orozco,
José Clemente 231

Orson Welles Almanac
(newspaper column) 225–37, 408

Orson Welles Almanac, The
(radio series) 63, 201–10, 212, 257, 282

Orson Welles Sees South America
(travelogue) 54

Orson Welles Today
(newspaper column) 237–51

Orson Welles’s Commentary
(radio series) 257–61, 290, 309, 323–43, 425

Orson Welles’s Scrapbook
(television) 342

Otelo, Grande 64, 74, 129

Othello
(Shakespeare)
418, 419–20; film 440

Overseas Press Club 177

Pabst, Georg Wilhelm 344, 418

Pacific Coast Association of Magicians 191

Pacios, Mary 377–8

Padilla, Ezequiel 230

Paley, William S. 156, 172

Pan-American Day
(radio) 98, 155

Panic (theatre play) 10

Pankhurst, Emmeline 234

Paramount film company 4

Paris 212, 404, 442

Parsons, Louella 6, 127–8, 212

Pasadena 88–9, 105

Pascal, Gabriel 148

Pauling, Linus 343

Pearl Harbor 42, 44, 45

Pearson, Bud 379

Pegler, Westbrook 234

Pennsylvania 298

Perkins, Anthony 367

Perry, John 403

Peru 136

Pessao, Dr Albert 95, 99

Pettey, Tom 57, 58, 59, 61, 63, 65, 66, 75, 80–1, 83–4, 91, 92, 93, 97, 99

Philby, Kim 184

Phildelphia 298

Pickford, Mary 37

Pierre, Ray 253

Pinto, Fernando 120, 143

Pirandello, Luigi,
Henry IV
443

Pittsburgh Courier
323

Planchon, Roger 379

‘Please Don’t Kiss Me’ (Roberts and Fisher song) 362, 363, 374

PM
magazine 299

Pomona 86–8, 88, 91

Popular Front 9–10, 43, 75, 147, 174, 176, 202, 229, 407, 410–11

Porter, Cole 281, 284, 288, 289, 292, 294, 298, 301, 305, 310, 321

Porter, Linda 305

Porto, Eladyr 129

Powell, Richard,
Don’t Catch Me
243

President’s Bill of Rights, The
(radio) 47

Presnell, Bob 203

Procter, Samuel 338

Project 891 191, 312

Punch
magazine 441

Pygmalion
(Shaw) 312

Que Viva Mexico!
(film) 5, 133

Quiet Man, The
(film) 383

Racine, Jean 379

racism 323–42

radio broadcasts
see
named shows eg
Cavalcade of America

Raft, George 199

Ragland, Rags 194

Ralston, Vera Hruba 383

Rankin Committee 412

Rankin, John 333

Rathvon, Peter 143, 160–1

Ratoff, Gregory 402–3, 415

Ray,
Man 288

Raynor, Henry 441

RCA 6

Readick, Frank 49

Reagan, Ronald 412

Rebecca
(du Maurier), film 161, 162; radio production 28, 162, 163

Recife 135, 147

Record
298

Redgrave, Michael 348, 367

Redman, Joyce 300

Reed, Alan 289, 293, 297, 300

Reed, Carol 167, 388

Reinhardt, Max 389

Reislor, Leo 99

Reismann, Phil 41, 45, 60, 61, 65, 66, 71, 72, 76, 78, 82, 84, 85, 93, 94, 96, 106, 115–16,
120, 129, 130

Relph, George 300

Republic Pix 382–3, 393, 397, 400, 402, 412, 416, 417, 418, 419, 420, 425, 436

Reyher, Ferdinand 315

Rice, Vernon 303

Richard III
(Shakespeare) 300

Ride, Kelley, Ride
(film) 13

Rio Cine-Radio Jornal
113

Rio de Janeiro 45, 52, 58–67, 99, 103, 113, 130, 135, 136, 137, 146, 196, 369

Rio Grande (film) 383

Ritter, Fred 393, 399

Rivas, Darlene 64

Rivera, Diego
196, 231

RKO film studios 3–7, 13, 18, 34, 45, 46, 48, 53, 58–9, 74, 77, 81, 87, 162, 224, 340, 357, 402, 442, 443; anxieties over
The Magnificent Ambersons, Journey into Fear
and
It’s All True
86–103; archive xv; and compensation for death of Jacaré 121; and funding of films 141–3; and re-editing of
Journey into Fear
160–1; relationship with Welles 19–20, 115–17, 123–9, 146–7, 149–50

Roach,
Hal 412

Robeson, Paul 10, 175

Robins, A. 307

Robinson, Edward G. 31, 47, 269, 270, 276–7, 348, 410, 411

Robson, Mark 34, 91, 111

Rockefeller, John D., Junior 6

Rockefeller, Nelson 6, 45, 64, 97, 142–3

Rodgers, Richard 307

Roemheld, Heinz 355, 362, 363, 368, 417

Rogers, Roy 383

Rogers, Will 253

Rome 418, 419, 438

Roosevelt, Eleanor 333, 388, 409

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano 43, 44, 47,
53, 64, 98, 148, 183, 185, 211, 227, 229, 238–9, 334, 407; election campaign 213–21

Rose, Billy 218, 307

Rostand, Edmond,
Cyrano de Bergerac
405

Royal Albert Hall (London) 321

Rubinsten, Artur 200

Russell, Bertrand 185

Russell, John L. 399, 432

Russian Life
267

Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de 158;
The Little Prince
189

Salomé
(Wilde) 345, 404; film 345, 411

Salt Lake City 382, 386, 389, 389–92,
393, 394, 395

Saludos Amigos
(film) 146

Salzburg Festival 419

Samish, Adrian 339, 340

San Diego 255

San Francisco 357, 359, 374, 440

San Francisco Conference 238, 239–40, 255

San Francisco Theatre Association 404

Sanford, Erskine 163, 356, 388, 391, 430

Santa Fe Waiters’ Union 333

Sarnoff, David 6

Saunders, Lloyd F. 286

Sausalito 357

Schaefer, George J. 3–6, 18, 20, 41, 60, 76, 77,
78, 81, 82, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88–9, 93, 94, 96, 106–7, 119, 122, 124–8, 131, 132, 142, 148, 161, 364

Schary, Dore 343

Schif, Dorothy 249

Schilling, Gus 194, 356, 397

Schnabel, Stefan 289, 309

Scott, George C. 366

Scott, Ned 59

Screen Actors’ Guild (SAG) 412

Second World War 42, 44, 45, 149, 173, 208–10

Seidermann, Maurice 224

Selznick, David O. 30, 161–4, 364

Serlin, Oscar 391

Sforza,
Count 185

Shadow, The
(radio play) 28

Shakespeare Memorial Theatre (Stratford-upon-Avon) 403

Shakespeare, William 233, 265, 300, 422, 423, 427, 429, 440, 441

Sherwood, Robert E. 391

Shirer, William L, 239

Shirley
see
Margetson, Arthur

Shoemaker’s Holiday, The
(Dekker) 31, 442

Shore, Dinah 200

Shores, Lynn 58–9, 66–7, 75, 76, 79, 80, 81, 82, 84, 92, 93, 94–5, 99–100, 101, 120, 121, 122,
130, 131–2, 135

Short, Elizabeth 377

Show Tunes
306

Shubert, Lee 301, 314

Shubert Theatre (New Haven) 296–7

Shull, Lynwood Lanier 338, 341, 342

Sight and Sound
441, 442

Silvers, Phil 194

Simon, Michel 366

Simonson, Lee 391

Sinatra, Frank 234, 343, 368

Since You Went Away
(film) 30

Sinclair, Upton 133

Sing Your Worries Away
(film) 77, 149

Singleton, Zutty 206

Siodmak, Robert 258

Siqueiros, David 231

Sleepy Lagoon incident (1942) 254

Sloane, Everett 17, 49, 107, 356, 367

Small, Edward 402, 415, 418, 425

Smiler with a Knife, The
(film) 14

Smith, Fred 209

Smith, Oliver 265, 290

Snow White
(film) 243

Snowball
172

Society of Amateur Magicians 191

Socony-Vacuum Company 201

Solorzáno, Jesús 32

Something Borrowed, Something New
192

Something for the Boys
(film) 281

Soviet-American Congress 177–8

Spanish Aid 44

Spaull, Guy 289

Specter of the Rose
(film) 383

Spellbound
(film) 276

Spiegel, Sam 245, 267, 268, 269

Spitz, Leo 267

Sprawls, Police Chief 333

Stalin, Josef 334

Standard Oil 64