Series:
Box 7
Radio
Arranged chronologically. Each program series is generally dated from the
earliest broadcast present. Correspondence regarding Welles' radio
activities is interfiled chronologically in the Correspondence section.
There are also radio materials in the Tapes and Bound Radio Scripts
sections.
Folder 22
Mercury Theatre on the Air,
1938
Publicity releases
See also Tapes; Bound Radio Scripts
Folder 23-24
Campbell Playhouse,
1938-1940
Miscellaneous script and production materials
See also Tapes; Bound Radio Scripts; Oversize 11
Folder 25
The Jello Program Starring Jack
Benny (Mar. 17,
1940)
Script
See also Tapes
Orson Welles Almanac (Lady
Esther)
1941
Folder 26
OWA (LE) - "Evening Primrose" [not
used]
Scripts
Folder 27
OWA (LE) - "Bottle Party" [not used]
Scripts
Folder 28
OWA (LE) - "Little Gentleman," by Booth
Tarkington [not used]
Scripts
Folder 29
OWA (LE) - "Boogie Woogie in Boston," by
Elliot Paul
Scripts
Folder 30
OWA (LE) - "Variation on a Theme" [not
used]
Scripts
Folder 31
OWA (LE) - "Salome" [not used]
Scripts
Box 8
Folder 1
OWA (LE) - "Another American Tragedy" [not
used]
Scripts
Folder 2
OWA (LE) - "Folk Songs of Ibiza," by
Elliot Paul [not used]
Scripts
Folder 3
OWA (LE) - "Louise," by Saki
[not used]
Scripts
Folder 4
OWA (LE) - "The Music Lesson," by Elliot
Paul [not used]
Scripts
Folder 5
OWA (LE) - "The Cask of Amontillado," adapted by
Roger Quayle Denny. [not used]
Scripts
Folder 6
OWA (LE) - "The Open Window," by
Saki [not used]
Scripts
Folder 7
OWA (LE) - "Shake Hands with the Dragon," by
Carl Glick
Scripts
Folder 8
OWA (LE) - "You Were Perfectly Fine," by
Dorothy Parker [not used]
Scripts
Folder 9
OWA (LE) - "A Question of Approach," by
Elliot Paul [not used]
Scripts
Folder 10
OWA (LE) - "The Easter Egg," by
Saki, adapted by Roger Quayle
Denny.[not used]
Scripts
Folder 11
OWA (LE) - "The Sexes," by Dorothy
Parker [not used]
Scripts
Folder 12
OWA (LE) - "The Lost Sanjak," by
Saki, adapted by Roger Quayle
Denny [not used]
Scripts
Folder 13
OWA (LE) - "Table for Two" [not used]
Scripts
Folder 14
OWA (LE) - "An Irishman and a Jew" [not used].
"Hidalgo, Or, Put Down That God Damned Blackjack,
Sweetheart," by Robert Meltzer [not
used]
Scripts
Folder 15
OWA (LE) - "Dear Lonely Lady," by Roger
Quayle Denny [not used]
Scripts
Folder 16
OWA (LE) - "The Dark Hall," by Roger
Quayle Denny [not used]
Scripts
Folder 17
OWA (LE) - "Supper for Cinderella," by
Roger Quayle Denny [not used]
Scripts
Folder 18
OWA (LE) - "Ask the Dust," by John
Fante [not used]
Scripts
Folder 19
OWA (LE) - "Benedict Arnold Script" [used for
promotional purposes]
Script
Folder 20
OWA (LE) - "The Golden Honeymoon."
"Almanac."
Script, Notes
Folder 21
OWA (LE) - "Murder in the Bank," by John
Patrick. Originally titled: "Blood and
Thunder."
Scripts
Folder 22
OWA (LE) - "The Lumber Room," by
Saki, adapted by Roger Quayle
Denny. [not used]
Scripts
Folder 23
OWA (LE) - "Rolls and Salt" [not used]
Scripts
Folder 24
OWA (LE) - "Supper for Two," by Roger
Quayle Denny [not used]
Scripts
Folder 25
OWA (LE) - "I'm a Fool."
"Almanac."
Script, Notes
Folder 26
OWA (LE) - "Gold Mounted Guns," by F.R.
Buckley, adapted by Roger Quayale
Denny [not used]
Scripts
Folder 27
OWA (LE) - "The Third Ingredient," by O.
Henry, adapted by Roger Quayle Denny
[not used]
Scripts
Folder 28
OWA (LE) - "The Diamond Necklace" [not
used]
Scripts
Folder 29
OWA (LE) - "The Salvation of Pisco Gabar" [not
used]
Scripts
Folder 30
OWA (LE) - "The Chaser" [not used]
Scripts
Folder 31
OWA (LE) - "Black Marigolds," a free
interpretation by John Fante [not used]
Scripts
Folder 32
OWA (LE) - "The Black Pearl."
Script
Folder 33
OWA (LE) - "The Lost Stars," by Catulle
Mendes, adapted by John Fante [not
used]
Scripts
Folder 34
OWA (LE) - "The Exact Science of Matrimony," by
O. Henry [not used]
Scripts
Folder 35
OWA (LE) - "The House," by Donald
Hough [not used]
Scripts
Folder 36
OWA (LE) - "If in Years to Come," by
Earl Reed Silvers, adapted by Roger
Quayle Denny
Script
Folder 37
OWA (LE) - "Parker Poems."
Script
Folder 38
OWA (LE) - "The Light in the Valley," by
Michael Manning [not used]
Scripts
Folder 39
OWA (LE) - "The Emperor's New Clothes," by
Hans Christian Andersen [not used]
Script
Folder 40
OWA (LE) - "It's Perfectly True!" by
Hans Christian Andersen [not used]
Script
Folder 41
OWA (LE) - "The Prisoner of Assiout."
Script
Folder 42
OWA (LE) - "Romance."
Script
Folder 43
OWA (LE) - "The All American Team," by
John Fante [not used]
Scripts
Folder 44
OWA (LE) - "The Knife," by Brendan
Gill [not used]
Scripts
Folder 45
OWA (LE) - "Mr. Sampson," by Charles
Lee, adapted by John Fante [not
used]
Scripts
Folder 46
OWA (LE) - "A Source of Irritation," by
Stacy Aumonier, adapted by Roger
Quayle Denny [not used]
Scripts
Folder 47
OWA (LE) - "And Stars in the Sky," by
Earl Reed Silvers [not used]
Scripts
Folder 48
OWA (LE) - "Eye Hath Not Seen," by John
Fante [not used]
Script
Folder 49
OWA (LE) - "Purple and Fine Linen," by
May Edginton, adapted by Roger Quayle
Denny [not used]
Scripts
Folder 50
OWA (LE) - "The Shirt Collar," by Hans
Christian Andersen [not used]
Scripts
Folder 51
OWA (LE) - "Wild Oranges," by Joseph
Hergesheimer, adapted by Roger Quayle
Denny
Scripts
Folder 52
OWA (LE) - "The Maysville Minstrel."
Scripts
Folder 53
OWA (LE) - "Kangaroo Loves Me," by
Geoffrey Household, adapted by John
Fante [not used]
Scripts
Folder 54
OWA (LE) - "The Lady, Or the Tiger?" by
Frank R. Stockton [not used]
Scripts
Folder 55
OWA (LE) - "The Hitch-Hiker," by Lucille
Fletcher
Script
Folder 56
OWA (LE) - "Rebecca" [not used]
Script
Folder 57
OWA (LE) - "The Silver Hilt," by Ferenc
Molnar, adapted by Roger Quayle
Denny [not used]
Scripts
Folder 58
OWA (LE) - "Youth," by Joseph
Conrad, adapted by Roger Quayle
Denny [not used]
Scripts
Folder 59
OWA (LE) - "The Swing Shift," by Foster
Carling [not used]
Scripts
Folder 60
OWA (LE) - "A Farewell to Arms."
"Gettysburg Address" [not used?]
Script; Incomplete script
Folder 61
OWA (LE) - "Jane Eyre" [not used]
Scripts
Folder 62
OWA (LE) - "Monsieur Beaucaire," by
Booth Tarkington, adapted by Michael
Wilson [not used]
Scripts
Folder 63
OWA (LE) - "Alice Adams" [not used]
Scripts
Folder 64
OWA (LE) - "Original Radio Drama Written for Orson
Welles" [not used]
Script
Folder 65
OWA (LE) - "Something's Going to Happen to Henry,"
by Shore and Solomon, adapted by Robert
Meltzer
Script
Folder 66
OWA (LE) - "Water of Iturrigorri," by
Geoffrey Household, adapted by John
Fante [not used]
Scripts
Folder 67
OWA (LE) - "Rip Van Winkle," by Roger
Quayle Denny [canceled due to war emergency]
Script
Folder 68
OWA (LE) - "Symptoms of Being Thirty-five," by
Ring Lardner, adapted by Vera
Eikel
Scripts
Folder 69
OWA (LE) - "Walt Whitman Poem."
Script
Folder 70
OWA (LE) - "I Play Hamlet, a Ghost Story," by
Roger Quayle Denny [not used]
Scripts
Folder 71
OWA (LE) - "Stage 14," by Richard
Carlson [not used]
Scripts
Folder 72
OWA (LE) - "The Curse of the Yehonala; An Historical
Melodrama for Radio," by Roger Quayle
Denny [not used]
Scripts
Folder 73
OWA (LE) - "Young Mrs. Moon," by Nelia
Gardner White, adapted by Roger Quayle
Denny [not used]
Scripts
Folder 74
OWA (LE) - "Christmas Verse," by G.K.
Chesterton
Script
Folder 75
OWA (LE) - "The Happy Prince," by Oscar
Wilde [used] and "The Story-Teller" [not
used]
Scripts
Box 9
Folder 1
OWA (LE) - "St. Luke's Chapter II."
Script
Folder 2
OWA (LE) - "There Are Frenchmen and
Frenchmen."
Script
Folder 3
OWA (LE) - "The Garden of Allah."
Scripts
Folder 4
OWA (LE) - "Someone Else," by Lucille
Fletcher Herrmann [not used]
Scripts
Folder 5
OWA (LE) - "The Apple Tree," by John
Galsworthy, adapted by Roger Quayle
Denny
Script
Folder 6
OWA (LE) - "Little Miss Haley," by Roger
Quayle Denny [not used]
Scripts
Folder 7
OWA (LE) - "My Little Boy," by Carl
Ewald
Scripts
Folder 8
OWA (LE) - "The Happy Hypocrite."
Scripts
Folder 9
OWA (LE) - "August Heat," by W.F.
Harvey [not used]
Script
Folder 10
OWA (LE) - "In the Fog," by Richard
Harding Davis, adapted by John
Latham [not used]
Script
Folder 11
OWA (LE) - "The Invaders" [not used]
Scripts
Folder 12
OWA (LE) - "The Killer," by Stewart
Edward White, adapted by Roger Quayle
Denny [not used]
Scripts
Folder 13
OWA (LE) - "Look Homeward Angel," by
Leonardo Bercovici [not used]
Script
Folder 14
OWA (LE) - "The Man in the Green Necktie," by
Arkady Averchenko [not used]
Scripts
Folder 15
OWA (LE) - "The Mappined Life" [not
used]
Script
Folder 16
OWA (LE) - "Pigs Is Pigs" [not used]
Scripts
Folder 17
OWA (LE) - "Poems" [Ogden
Nash,
"The Rebuffers; John Keats,"
"A Song about Myself (From a Letter to Fanny Keats)" and
"To Autumn"] [not used]
Script
Folder 18-19
OWA (LE) - Miscellaneous background and research materials
Folder 20-28
OWA (LE) - Story reports
Folder 29-31
OWA (LE) - Profile Studies of Programs
See also Tapes; Bound Radio Scripts; Oversize 12
Folder 32
"Between Americans," Gulf Screen Guild Theatre
(Dec. 7, 1941)
Script
See also Tapes
Folder 33
"The Great Man Votes," Cavalcade of America
(Dec. 15, 1941)
Script
See also Tapes
Folder 34
"We Hold These Truths"
(Dec. 15, 1941) by
Norman Corwin
Script
See also Tapes
Folder 35
"American Laughter" (Red Cross Program) (Jan. 25, 1942) by Kenneth
Allen Robinson
Script
Folder 36
[Pan American Day]
(Apr. 14, 1942)
Scripts
See also Tapes
Folder 37
President Vargas' Birthday Broadcast
(Apr. 18, 1942)
Scripts
See also Tapes
Folder 38
"High Flight," Radio Readers Digest (Oct. 11, 1942)
Script
Folder 39
"Admiral of the Ocean Sea"
(Oct. 11, 1942) . Ceiling
Unlimited Oct.
18, 1942-Feb. 1, 1943
Script
See also Tapes
Folder 40
CU - Background materials
Folder 41-43
CU - "The Flying Fortress."
Background materials and scripts
Folder 44-46
CU - "Air Transport Command."
Scripts
Folder 47
CU - "The Navigator," by Hector
Chevigny and Milton
Geiger
Background materials and scripts
Folder 48
CU - "Wind, Sand & Stars," by Hector
de St. Exupery
Background materials and scripts
Folder 49
CU - "Ballad of Bataan"
Background materials and scripts
Box 10
Folder 1-5
CU - "War Workers"
Background materials and scripts
Folder 6-9
CU - "Gremlins"
Background materials and scripts
Folder 10-13
CU - "Pan American Airlines"
Background materials and scripts
Folder 14
CU - "Anti-Submarine Patrol"
Background materials and scripts
Folder 15-18
CU - "Finger in the Wind"
Background materials and scripts
Folder 19
CU - "Letter to Mother"
Scripts
Folder 20-21
CU - "Mrs. James and the Pot of Tea" and
"With Your Wings"
Background materials and scripts
Folder 22-23
CU - "The Future"
Scripts
Folder 24
CU - "Aviation Cadet Training," [not
used]
Background materials and scripts, some by Burgess Meredith
Folder 25
CU - "Swami Haroun," [not used]. Story treatments
by John Tucker Battle
Folder 26
CU - Incomplete scripts
Folder 27
CU - Production materials
Folder 28
CU - Publicity,
Hello Americans
Nov. 15,
1942-Jan. 31, 1943
See also Tapes; Bound Radio Scripts
Folder 29-30
HA - "Brazil"
Scripts
Folder 31-32
HA - "The Andes"
Scripts
Box 11
Hello Americans
(continued)
Folder 1
HA - Background materials
Scripts
Folder 2
HA - Background materials; "The Blue Crucible," by
Milton Geiger [not used]; "West
Indies," by John Tucker Battle [not
used]
Scripts
Folder 3-4
HA - "The Islands"
Scripts
Folder 5
HA - "Alphabet A-C"
Scripts
Folder 6-8
HA - "Alphabet C-S"
Scripts
Folder 9-13
HA - "Slavery - Abednego"
Scripts
Folder 14-17
HA - "The Bad-Will Ambassador"
Background materials and scripts by Milton Merlin,
Milton Geiger,
Richard Brooks,
Myron Dutton
Folder 18-21
HA - "Mexico"
Background materials and scripts by Richard Brooks,
Maurice Clark,
John Tucker Battle,
Myron Dutton,
Norman Rosten,
Norman Foster
Folder 22-25
HA - "Feed the World"
Background materials and scripts by John Tucker
Battle,
Myron Dutton,
Richard Brooks,
Maurice Clark,
Milton Geiger
Box 12
Folder 1-6
HA - "Bolivar's Idea"
Scripts by Maurice Clark,
Richard Brooks,
John Tucker Battle,
Myron Dutton,
Norman Rosten,
Milton Geiger,
Cyril Enfield,
Waldo Salt
Folder 7-8
HA - "Communications," [not used]
Scripts by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E.
Lee,
John Tucker Battle,
Myron Dutton
Folder 9
HA - Production materials
See also Tapes; Bound Radio Scripts
Folder 10
[Alô Americanos]
[1942]
Script
Folder 11
Jack Benny Show (Grape Nuts Flakes Program)
(Mar.
14-Apr. 11, 1943)
Scripts
See also Tapes
Folder 12
Bob Hope (The Pepsodent Show) (Sept. 27, 1943)
Script
Folder 13
Duffy's (Oct. 12,
1943)
Script
Folder 14
"Notes for Round Table Discussion..." (Oct., 1943)
Notes
Folder 15-19
Orson Welles Almanac (Mobiloil)
(Jan.
26-July 19, 1944)
Scripts
See also Tapes; Photographs; Bound Radio Scripts
Folder 20
Edgar Bergen (The Chase and Sanborn Program)
(Apr. 2,
May 28, 1944);
"Three of a Kind" (U.S. Treasury Dept.) (Apr. 27, 1944)
Scripts
Folder 21-26
Fifth War Loan Drive Shows (June 12-19,
1944)
Scripts for Texarkana,
Hollywood Bowl, and Soldier Field
(Chicago) shows, and production and financial materials
See also Tapes; Bound Radio Scripts
Folder 27
Edgar Bergen (The Chase and Sanborn Program)
(Aug. 13, 1944)
Scripts
Folder 28
"The Dream" (Inner Sanctum) (Sept. 23, 1944)
Script
Folder 29
"Now Is the Time" by Norman
Corwin
(Oct. 6, 1944)
Scripts
Folder 30
"Program 2" (Philco Radio Hall of Fame) (Oct. 8, 1944)
Script
Folder 31
"The Dark Hours" (Kate Smith Show) (Oct. 15, 1944) ; Edgar
Bergen (Chase and Sanborn Program) (Oct. 29, 1944) ; and [Round Table
political broad cast] (Nov. 1,
1944)
Scripts
Folder 32
Edgar Bergen (Chase and Sanborn Program)
(Nov. 5, 1944) and
"Around the World in Eighty Days," (This Is My Best)
(Nov. 21, 1944)
Scripts
Folder 33
"Program 13" Philco Radio Hall of Fame (Dec. 24, 1944)
Scripts
Folder 34-42
Orson Welles Almanac (Eversharp)
(planned for Dec.,
1944-Jan., 1945, but never broadcast?)
Production notes and drafts of scripts
See also Tapes
Folder 43
"In Reply to Cecil B. DeMille"
(Mar. 31, 1945)
Script
Folder 44
This Is My Best (Mar. 13-Apr. 24,
1945)
Script of "Don't Catch Me" and production materials for
series
See also Correspondence; Tapes; Bound Radio Scripts
Folder 45
Orson Welles Insert ... (Apr. 12,
1945) ; Forum Broadcast (May
6, 1945); Special VE Day Program (May 7, 1945); [San Francisco
broadcast] (May, 1945)
Scripts
Folder 46
"New York - A Tapestry for Radio," Columbia
Presents Corwin (July 10,
1945)
Scripts
Folder 47
"What does the British election mean to us,"
America's Town Meeting (Aug. 9,
1945)
Background material and scripts
Box 13
Folder 1
"Fourteen August," by Norman
Corwin
(August 14, 1945) ; "God
and Uranium Were on Our Side," by Norman
Corwin
(Aug. 19, 1945)
Scripts
Folder 2
"Special Victory Program," Command Performance,
USA (Aug., 1945)
Script
Folder 3-17
Lear -
Orson Welles Almanac
(Sept. 16,
1945-Oct. 6, 1946)
Scripts and production materials
See also Tapes; Oversize 13
Folder 18
Request Performance No. 3 (Oct. 21, 1945); Pearl Harbor Script
(Dec. 7, 1945);
Esquire Magazine's "All-American
Jazz Concert"
(Jan. 16, 1946 )
Scripts
Folder 19
"Airborne" (Apr., 1946),
June 7-Sept.
13, 1946
Script and clipping Mercury Summer Theatre
Folder 20
MST - "Around the World in Eighty Days,"
"The Count of Monte Cristo," and "The Hitch
Hiker"
Scripts
Folder 21
MST - "Jane Eyre"
Scripts
Folder 22
MST - "A Passenger to Bali" and "The Search
for Henri LeFevre"
Scripts
Folder 23
MST - "Life with Adam" and "The Moat Farm
Murder"
Scripts
Folder 24
MST - "Golden Honeymoon and Romeo and Juliet
Excerpt,"
"Hell on Ice,"
"Abednego the Slave"
Scripts
Folder 25
MST - "I'm a Fool and Tell-Tale Heart"
Scripts
Folder 26
MST - "Moby Dick" and "The Apple
Tree"
Scripts
Folder 27
MST - "King Lear"
Scripts
Folder 28
MST - Production materials
See also Tapes; Bound Radio
Folder 29
Undated Radio Scripts. "Command Performance No.
156,"
"Frank Sinatra Show," and "Kate Smith
Show"
Scripts
Folder 30-33
Unproduced scripts for "Carmen,"
"Years of Jazz," and "Orson Welles'
Almanac" for Oct. 1,
1935
Includes planned production materials for Ziv transcription series
Folder 34
Miscellaneous radio materials; includes audience survey
reports
See also Photographs
