Welles mss., 1930-1950 (Bulk
1936-1947)
Summary Information
Repository
Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Lilly Library
Indiana University
1200 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, IN 47405-5500
Phone: 812-855-2452
Fax: 812-855-3143
Email: liblilly@indiana.edu
Creator
Welles, Orson, 1915-1985
TitleWelles mss., 1930-1950 (Bulk
1936-1947)
Collection No.
LMC 2009
Extent
19,875 items
Language
Materials are in English.
Abstract
Consists of the correspondence, papers,
and memorabilia of actor, writer, producer, director Orson Welles.
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
Biographical Note
George Orson Welles, named for his parents' friend George Ade, was born on May 6,
1915, in Kenosha, Wisconsin. A child prodigy aided and encouraged by guardian
Maurice Bernstein and teacher Roger Hill, Welles had considerable writing and acting
experience before the age of twenty. Through the years this multi-talented artist
has acted and directed on the stage, in radio, film and television; has made several
recordings; has authored plays, film scripts, and a newspaper column; and, as a
political activist, contributed considerable energy to the 1944 presidential
campaign in support of Franklin Roosevelt.
Arrangement
The collection principally covers the years 1936-1947. It is arranged in the
following series: Correspondence; speeches and writings; theatre; radio; recordings;
film; research files; miscellaneous materials; tape recordings; photographs and
negatives; bound radio scripts.
Scope and Content Note
Correspondence primarily concerns Welles' varied artistic endeavors, though a small
amount is personal and/or social in nature. Among the correspondents are Reginald
Armour, Richard Barr, Diana Bourbon, Joseph Ignatius Breen, Hadley Cantril, Geneva
(McMath) Cranston, Herbert F. Drake, Norman Foster, William Gordon, Arnold Monroe
Grant, Ross R. Hastings, Bernard Herrmann, Roger Hill, John Houseman, Jack Kapp, Sir
Alexander Korda, Donald D. Lawrence, Jackson Leighter, Sidney L. Lipsitch, J.R.
McDonough, Herman Jacob Mankiewicz, Jack Moss, Jose Noriega, H. Earl Rettig, George
J. Schaefer, George Bernard Shaw, L. Arnold Weissberger, Ward Wheelock, Thornton
Niven Wilder, Richard Alan Wilson, Walter Winchell, Dan Winkler, Robert Wise,
Alexander Woollcott, and Richard Wright.
Speeches and writings include many articles for
Free
World
and other journals, newspaper columns, lecture tours, and the 1944
presidential campaign. There are also scripts and some production materials for the
Shakespeare and Decca recordings that Welles made or planned but did not record.
Welles' stage career is well documented in the collection. Scripts for every
production from the 1936
Macbeth in Harlem through the
1947
Macbeth in Salt Lake City are here. There are also
a number of scripts for plays that were planned but not produced as of 1947. These
include
Marching Song, a play written by Welles during
his teens. Varying amounts and types of production materials for the plays are also
in the collection. A sampling of these are a WPA Audience Survey Report for
Doctor Faustus; set designs, never used, for
The Cradle Will Rock; holograph music scores and
publicity newspapers for
Julius Caesar; set designs and
costume sketches for
Five Kings; and contracts and
financial records for
Around the World. There are also
background materials, press releases, handbills, programs, cast lists, and clippings
for most of the plays. Other Mercury Theatre materials include leases, financial
records, subscriptions, programs, handbills, and press releases.
Documents from Welles' radio career are extensive and include scripts and/or tape
recordings for most of the programs and series in which he appeared. Many drafts of
scripts never used, especially for the Lady Esther series, story reports, profile
studies, background research, and production materials are also present in the
collection. Other radio projects represented include a large number of production
and financial documents for the Fifth War Loan Drive shows, as well as notes,
scripts and recordings for an Eversharp Almanac series that was planned but never
broadcast. Welles also attempted, unsuccessfully, to contract with the Ziv
Transcription Series for radio programs and some production materials associated
with that effort are filed here.
The collection contains voluminous materials for the films Welles planned and
produced. His first project, the unproduced
Heart of
Darkness,
is represented by scripts, planned camera shots, a preliminary
budget, shooting schedule, make-up photos, and other items. There are similar,
though fewer, materials for
Smiler with a Knife. The
first film that Welles did complete for RKO was
Citizen
Kane.
Nine scripts, both complete and partial, including one with the
title American, document the writing of the film. Photographs and negatives of the
storyboard contribute additional details. Other items include shooting schedules,
cast lists, wardrobe list, a Pre-Budget Estimate, lists of receipts and operating
expenses, and summaries of film earnings.
Present in the collection are drafts of scripts for an unnamed Mexican story and for
the proposed film based on
The Way to Santiago. Welles'
second film,
The Magnificent Ambersons, is represented
by four scripts and a storyboard, as well as the production materials and financial
records. In the 1942 correspondence files are telegrams between Welles, Jack Moss,
and Robert Wise regarding the editing of the film.
It's All True, the unfinished film that ended Welles'
career at RKO, has the largest file in the collection. Drafts of scripts, background
and research files, music, financial records, and newspaper clippings are all
present. The materials for
Journey into Fear, begun at
about the same time as
It's All True, include scripts,
storyboard, financial records and assorted production documents.
Although Welles worked on several film projects the next few years, as witnessed by
scripts for
V & W,
The Little Prince, and
Don't
Catch Me,
and acted in
Jane Eyre,
Follow the Boys, and
Tomorrow is
Forever,
he did not direct again until
The
Stranger.
For this production there are scripts, shooting schedules,
sketches of sets and scenes, staff and cast lists, financial records, and a
pressbook.
The Stranger was followed by
Lady from Shanghai for which the collection contains
scripts, dialogue, lists of shots and re-makes, music cues, a plot summary, set
budget, summaries of earnings and accounting reports.
Welles' last Hollywood movie until
Touch of Evil in 1956
was the 1947
Macbeth. In the collection are drafts of
scripts and a cutting continuity for
Macbeth and a
wardrobe plot with photos and lists for wardrobe and make-up. Of particular interest
are the several blueprints and sketches of set designs. The collection's film
section ends with the script and a few related items for the movie
Black Magic and scripts for several undated, unrealized
film projects.
The research files include printed, mimeo, and typescript materials on a variety of
topics that were for Welles' use in preparing speeches, articles, newspaper columns,
radio programs, etc. The miscellaneous series of the collection consists of
materials both personal and professional in nature. These files are arranged
alphabetically by subject and include art work, automobile records, awards,
biographies, contracts, Mercury Productions finances, Welles' personal finances,
lectures, magic trick information, memberships, passports, printed materials, and
writings by people other than Welles.
The tape recordings are almost entirely of radio shows and were made from the
original recordings. They are listed individually in the collection guide.
Photographs and negatives are of the various plays and films in which Welles acted
or directed, and of his family and friends. The largest number of photographs are
publicity stills of Welles and from
Citizen Kane, The
Magnificent Ambersons, It's All True,
and
Journey
into Fear.
The final series of the collection consists of bound radio
scripts which are also listed individually in the collection guide.
Additional Physical Form Available
Some audio materials have been reformatted for use in the repository only.
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Indexing Terms
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-
Names
-
Mercury
Productions.
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Federal
Theatre Project (U.S.).
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Barr,
Richard.
-
Foster,
Norman, 1900-1976.
-
Herrmann,
Bernard, 1911-1975.
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Hill,
Roger, 1895-.
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Houseman,
John.
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Schaefer,
George, 1920-1997
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Wilson,
Richard Alan, 1915-1991.
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Weissberger, L. Arnold.
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Related Material
The
Fanto mss. includes letters from Orson Welles to George Fanto.
The
Weissberger mss. consists of correspondence and legal papers relating
to the financial affairs of Orson Welles and Mercury Theatre, Inc., as handled by
Welle's personal attorney, L. Arnold Weissberg.
The
Welles mss. II, consists of individual items about or relating to
Orson Welles.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Acquired: 1978
Usage RestrictionsPrior arrangements are not necessary before coming to the Library, however,
patrons from out of town are encouraged to communicate with the Library in
advance of their visits to ascertain availability of materials.
Photocopying permitted only with permission of the Curator of Manuscripts, Lilly
Library.
Preferred Citation
[Item], Welles mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Processing InformationProcessed by Lilly Library staff.
Completed in 1980, rev. 1997, 2001
Series:
Boxes
1-4
Correspondence, 1930-1959
Includes 5,687 items, arranged chronologically. The correspondence has been
indexed by sender and recipient. Consult the Manuscripts Department Index
for dates of letters of individual correspondents. See also Oversize 1. A
partial list of correspondents arranged alphabetically is provided
below.
Correspondents, A-D
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View All (108)
- Aalberg, John O.
- Ade, George
- Adler, Stella
- Alicoate, Charles A.
- Amberg, George H.
- American Broadcasting Company
- Amlie, Thomas Ryum
- Armour, Reginald
- Armstrong, Louis
- Arnow, Maxwell
- Asimov, Isaac
- Baerwitz, Herbert G.
- Bagnall, George L.
- Bakaleinikoff, Constantin R.
- Baldwin, Calvin Benham
- Baldwin, Roger Nash
- Barr, Richard
- Barrier, Edgar
- Barry, Iris
- Barrymore, Lionel
- Baxter, Lora
- Beaton, Sir Cecil Walter Hardy
- Beck, Martin
- Bell, Charles Stewart
- Bennett, Richard
- Bernstein, Hazel (Moore)
- Bernstein, Leonard
- Bernstein, Maurice A.
- Bernstein, Sidney Lewis
- Berton, Ralph
- Billingsley, Sherman
- Black, Algernon David
- Bland, Schuyler Otis
- Blitzstein, Marc
- Blumenthal, Alfred C.
- Blumenthal, Myron S.
- Bole, George
- Bolm, Adolph
- Bonham, Howard Bryan
- Bourbon, Diana
- Bowles, Chester
- Brady, William Aloysius
- Brand, Harry
- Breen, Joseph Ignatius
- Breen, Robert
- Brown, Arthur William
- Brown, Myra (Berry)
- Bryan, Arthur Q.
- Bryson, Lyman Lloyd
- Burnham, Louis E.
- Burns, Vincent Godfrey
- Button, A. Ronald
- Byng, Edward John
- Bynner, Witter
- Cain, James Mallahan
- Cantor, Eddie
- Cantril, Hadley
- Capehart, Homer Earl
- Carr, Robert Kenneth
- Cassell, Duncan G.
- Castle, William
- Chappell, Ernest E.
- Charney, Wolfe R.
- Chávez, Carlos
- Cheli, Bruno
- Chevigny, Hector
- Chirello, George
- Claggett, Manning
- Clark, Barrett Harper
- Clark, William H.
- Cochran, Sir Charles Blake
- Cohn, Harry
- Collins, Ray
- Comingore, Dorothy
- Compton, Joyce
- Compton, Richard J.
- Connor, Walter X.
- Conried, Hans
- Cornell, Katharine
- Corwin, Norman Lewis
- Cotten, Joseph
- Counts, George Sylvester
- Crampton, Charles Ward
- Crane, John Oliver
- Cranston, Geneva (McMath)
- Crone, J.R.
- Crosby, Floyd
- Cross, George Lynn
- Crum, Bartley Cavanaugh
- Curtis, Margaret (James)
- Curtiz, Michael
- Dandy, Walter Edward
- Daniels, J. Walter
- Daniels, Jonathan Worth
- Dann, Robert H.
- Davidson, Jo
- Davis, Bette
- Del Rio, Dolores
- Denny, George Vernon
- Depinet, Ned E.
- Dolivet, Louis
- Donnell, Forrest C.
- Douglas, Helen Gahagan
- Douglas, Melvyn
- Drake, Herbert F.
- Dreyer, Dave
- Duffield, Brainerd
- Durant, William James
Correspondents, E-H
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View All (96)
- Edington, Harry E.
- Edwards, Hilton
- Eglinton, William
- Einstein, Albert
- Eisenstein, Sergei Mikahailovich
- Eliot, Frederick May
- Ellington, Duke
- Elliott, Bruce
- Ellis, Evelyn
- Ellison, Jerome
- Engel, Lehman
- Ernst, Morris Leopold
- Erstein, Richard
- Farrar, John Chipman
- Feldman, Charles K.
- Ferguson, Homer
- Fernandez, Antonio Manuel
- Field, Marshall
- Fisher, Lois Jeannette
- Fleisher, Sidney R.
- Foley, George F.
- Fontes, Lourival
- Forbes, Brenda
- Ford, John Anson
- Ford, Ruth Elizabeth
- Foster, Norman
- Freedley, George Reynolds
- Freedley, Vinton
- Freeman, Young Frank
- Friedberg, Annie
- Friele, Berent
- Fritchman, Stephen Hole
- Gabel, Martin
- Garde, Betty
- Gardner, Edward Frederic
- Geer, Will
- Geis, Bernard
- Gerstad, John
- Gessner, Robert
- Gilford, Max M.
- Gillmore, Frank
- Gluskin, Lud
- Godfrey, Peter
- Golden, John
- Goldwater, Richard M.
- Gordon, Ruth
- Gordon, William
- Gould, Leslie
- Granger, Walter Kiel
- Grant, Arnold Monroe
- Green, Abel
- Green, Charles Carrol
- Green, Theodore Francis
- Greenstone, Ellison
- Gross, Robert Ellsworth
- Guffey, Joseph Finch
- Hagen, Harold Christian
- Hall, Robert Marshall
- Halleck, Charles Abraham
- Hammett, Samuel Dashiell
- Hampden, Walter
- Haran, Shifra
- Harbin, Vernon
- Harman, Hugh
- Harris, Radie
- Hastings, Ross R.
- Hatch, Carl Atwood
- Havenner, Franck Roberts
- Hayes, Helen
- Hebert, Lolita
- Helburn, Theresa
- Hellyer, David Tirrell
- Helprin, Morris
- Hendee, Harold F.
- Henry, Robert Kirkland
- Hepburn, Katharine
- Heppner, Joseph B.
- Herman, Lewis
- Herrmann, Bernard
- Hill, Roger
- Himber, Richard
- Hirshfeld, Samuel
- Hodge, Frederick Webb
- Holman, Libby
- Holt, Stella
- Hopper, Hedda (Furry)
- Hornsby, Henry Haywood
- Houghton, Norris
- Houseman, John
- Howard, Joseph Kinsey
- Howe, G. B.
- Hull, Josephine
- Huston, John
- Huston, Walter
- Huxley, Aldous Leonard
- Hyde, John
Correspondents, I-L
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- Ince, Alexander
- Isaacs, Edith Juliet (Rich)
- Israels, Carlos Lindner
- Jackson, Henry Martin
- Jarvis, Al
- Jeffrey, Arthur
- Jerome, Edwin
- Jessel, George
- Johnson, Greer
- Johnson, Nunnally
- Johnston, Alva
- Josephs, Ray
- Kahn, Raymond Lee
- Kan, Samuel Ralbe
- Kane, Whitford
- Kann, Maurice
- Kapp, Jack
- Karr, Madeline
- Kaye, Solomon Aaron
- Keith, Ian
- Keller, Helen Adams
- Kent, Amalia
- Kersting, Robert Edward
- Kesten, Paul W.
- Kidder, Kathryn
- Kilpatrick, John Reed
- King, Dennis
- King, Raymond Sherwood
- Kirchwey, Freda
- Kirk, Mark-Lee
- Kirstein, Lincoln
- Klein, Ruth
- Knox, Alexander
- Knubel, Frederick Hermann
- Kobler, John
- Koch, Howard
- Koenig, William
- Koerner, Charles W.
- Kohner, Paul
- Korda, Sir Alexander
- Lamarr, Hedy
- Lanchester, Elsa
- Langner, Lawrence
- Lasky, Jesse L.
- Laughton, Charles
- Lawrence, Donald D.
- Lawrence, Gertrude
- Lawton, Sherman Paxton
- Lear, William Powell
- Le Compte, Karl Miles
- Lederer, Charles
- Lee, Canada
- Leighter, Jackson
- Leighton, George Ross
- Lesser, Sol
- Leventhal, Jules J.
- Lieber, Perry W.
- Lindeman, Eduard Christian
- Link, George
- Lipsitch, Sidney L.
- Liss, Joseph
- Logan, Joshua Lockwood
- Lord, Pauline
- Losey, Joseph
- Lowe, K. Elmo
- Lyons, Leonard
Correspondents, M-P
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- McCambridge, Mercedes
- McCarthy, Charles E.
- McCormick, S. Barret
- McDonough, J. R.
- McFarland, Ernest William
- McGaffey, Elizabeth
- McGee, Henry Wadsworth
- Macgowan, Kenneth
- McLean, Evalyn (Walsh)
- McMahon, James O'Brien
- Macready, George
- Madden, Richard J.
- Magnuson, Warren Grant
- Mallery, Richard P.
- Mankiewicz, Herman Jacob
- Mantle, Robert Burns
- Margetson, Arthur
- Markle, Fletcher
- Marlin, Max
- Mason, Gabriel R.
- Maxwell, Elsa
- Meltzer, Robert
- Mercury Productions, Inc.
- Meredith, Burgess
- Methot, Mayo
- Meyer, Abe
- Miller, Alan J.
- Miller, Arthur
- Millikan, Charles E.
- Millington, Ernest John Oldknow
- Minnelli, Vincente
- Mishkin, Leo
- Mitchell, Gordon S.
- Momsen, Richard Paul
- Monks, John
- Moorehead, Agnes Robertson
- Moraes, Vinicius de
- Morgan, Brewster Bowen
- Morgenthau, Henry
- Morris, William
- Morrison, Adrienne
- Morse, Joseph Laffan
- Moses, Herbert
- Moss, Jack
- Motion picture producers and distributors of
America--Production code administration
- Murray, Sir John
- Murray, William B.
- Napier, Alan
- Napoli, Nicola
- Neely, Matthew Mansfield
- Neilson, Rutgers
- Nevins, Bert
- Newsom, John Dimmock
- Nichols, Dudley
- Nizer, Louis
- Noble, Peter
- Nolan, Joseph
- Noriega, José
- Nova, Barnett J.
- Novo, Salvador
- Nutt, William
- O'Daniel, Wilbert Lee
- O'Malley, Rex
- O'Neal, Emmet
- O'Neal, Frederick
- O'Neal, Samuel Amos
- Operti, Le Roi
- Orr, William Anderson
- O'Shaughnessy, Elim
- O'NealDaniel Thomas
- Osserman, J. C.
- Paley, William Samuel
- Palmer, Charles C.
- Palmer, Robert A.
- Parker, Dorothy (Rothschild)
- Parsons, Louella (Oettinger)
- Patch, Blanche Eliza
- Patrick, Lee Salome
- Paul, Elliot Harold
- Pereira, William Leonard
- Perlman, Ellis Sherman
- Petersen, Cliff
- Pettey, Tom S.
- Phelps, William Lyon
- Piazza, Ben
- Porter, Cole
- Powell, Adam Clayton
- Pringle, Virginia (Nicholson)
- Prinzmetal, I. H.
- Pryor, Arthur
- Pugh, William Barrow
Correspondents, Q-T
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View All (89)
- RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.
- Rabaut, Louis Charles
- Rackin, Al
- Ratoff, Gregory
- Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar
- Reisman, Phil
- Rettig, H. Earl
- Revercomb, Chapman
- Reynolds, Paul Revere
- Riddle, Lawrence Melville
- Riley, John Jacob
- Rizley, Ross
- Roberts, Charles
- Roberts, Kenneth Lewis
- Robeson, Paul
- Robson, William Northrop
- Rockefeller, Nelson Aldrich
- Rogell, Sid
- Rogers, Saul E.
- Rogers, Will
- Roosevelt, Eleanor (Roosevelt)
- Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
- Roosevelt, James
- Rose, Billy
- Rose, Florence
- Rose, Leo
- Rosenthal, Ann
- Rosenwald, William
- Rosten, Norman
- Sacks, Samuel
- Salemson, Harold J.
- Sandburg, Carl
- Sanford, Erskine
- Santesson, Hans Stefan
- Sardi, Vincent
- Savage, Bernard
- Scarborough, Lee Rutland
- Schaefer, George J.
- Schankman, Benjamin M.
- Schary, Dore
- Schnabel, Stefan
- Sengstacke, Max Lincoln
- Serlin, Oscar
- Shaw, George Bernard
- Sheean, James Vincent
- Sheen, Fulton John
- Sherman, Hiram
- Shipler, Guy Emery
- Shor, Bernard
- Shores, Lynn
- Shumlin, Herman
- Shurlock, Geoffrey Manwaring
- Shurr, Louis
- Sillcox, Luise M.
- Sinai, Nathan
- Sinn, John Lawrence
- Sloane, Everett H.
- Smart, J. Scott
- Smith, Charles Edward
- Solórzano Dávalos, Jesús
- Sothern, Ethel Clifton
- Spear, Ivan
- Spiegel, Samuel P.
- Stander, Lionel Jay
- Stewart, Donald Ogden
- Stewart, Paul
- Stoller, Morris
- Stone, Wilson R.
- Stout, Wesley Winans
- Strauss, Helen Marion
- Stroock, James E.
- Sullivan, Ed
- Sumner, Anna Emily
- Sundstrom, Frank Leander
- Swing, Raymond Gram
- Taylor, Davidson
- Thackrey, Theodore Olin
- Thompson, Kay
- Tiss, Wayne
- Titus, Edward Coddington
- Towers, Harry Alan
- Traube, Shepard
- Travers, Douglas
- Trepp, Leo
- Trimble, James William
- Trosper, Kathryn
- Truman, Harry S
- Tucker, Henry St. George
- Tunnell, James Miller
Correspondents, U-Z
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- Umbreit, Kenneth Bernard
- Van Cleve, Edith
- Van Doren, Mark
- Van Rensselaer, Alexander Taylor Mason
- Vaughn, Peggy
- Viereck, George Sylvester
- Veiller, Anthony
- Wald, Jerry
- Wallace, Henry Agard
- Wanger, Walter
- Ward, Donald G.
- Warner, Jack Leonard
- Webster, Margaret
- Weissberger, Anna L.
- Weissberger, Augusta
- Weissberger, Lensen Arnold
- Welles, Orson
- Wells, Herbert George
- Wheelock, Ward
- White, Ruth (Morris)
- White, Wallace Humphrey
- White, Walter Francis
- Whitney, John Hay
- Wilder, Thornton Niven
- Wilkins, Roy
- Wilkinson, Irving James
- Williams, Franklin Hall
- Williams, Rhys
- Williams, Roger John
- Willis, Herbert
- Wilson, Richard Alan
- Winchell, Walter
- Winkler, Dan
- Wise, Jonah Bondi
- Wise, Robert
- Wood, Audrey
- Woollcott, Alexander
- Wright, Loyd Earl
- Wright, Richard
- Wyatt, Eustace George William
- Yates, Herbert John
- Young, Collier
- Young, Scott Alexander
- Yurka, Blanche
- Zanuck, Darryl Francis
- Zanuck, Virginia (Fox)
Series:
Box 4
Speeches and Writings
Includes items by Welles only, arranged alphabetically. Speeches made during
the 1944 presidential campaign are grouped under the heading Presidential
Campaign Speeches and are then arranged chronologically. Multiple drafts,
sometimes incomplete, of a speech or article are often present.
Folder 18
A
American Leadership in '44
[The American theatre]
[Appreciation of theatre]
[Artists' Front to Win the War]
Folder 19
B
The Bolivian Dilemma; the Good Neighbor Policy
Reconsidered
Brotherhood Or the New Hell
Folder 20
Ca-Cok
[California Association for Adult Education]
[Citizen Kane statement]
Folder 21
Col
[Collier's article]
Folder 22
Com-E
[The Connecticut Nutmeg]
[Council for Civic Unity]
[Democracy]
Democracy in Latin America
The Director in the Theatre Today
Experiment
Folder 23
F-G
[Fan mag article]
[Foreign people]
[Free World Congress]
G.I. Bill of Rights
[Glamour Magazine article]
Folder 24
H-K
The Habits of Disunity
[Hero's Oak; Foreword]
[Hollywood Democratic Committee]
[Hollywood Free World Association]
In Memoriam
[International affairs]
[Jack Benny talk]
Jed Dexter Wins His Wings
Folder 25
L-M
[Latin America]
[Leonard Lyons guest columns]
A Letter to Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Life with Hollywood
[Magic as a Hobby; Preface]
Moral Indebtedness
Folder 26
Na-New X
The Nature of the Enemy
The New Actor
See also Correspondence April, 1940
Folder 27-29
New York Post
Column
Background materials, notes, sample columns
Folder 30-32
New York Post Column
Drafts of columns
Folder 33-34
New York Post Column
Clippings, Jan. 22 - Nov. 6, 1945
Folder 35
New York Post Column
Financial accounts
See also Correspondence 1945
Box 5
Folder 1
New York U - O
[New York University]
[Nightmare Alley; Review]
Orson Welles Cut In Special Program
Orson Welles on the Death of President Roosevelt
[Overseas Press Club]
Folder 2
[Poetry and miscellaneous writings]
(30 items)
Folder 3-8
Presidential Campaign Speeches, Sept. 1-Nov. 6,
1944
See also Tapes 43/2, 47/2
Folder 9
R
Race Hate Must Be Outlawed
[Race hate statement]
[Radio Annual]
Folder 10-11
San Francisco
Conference, Apr. - May, 1945
Background materials, notes, sample columns
Folder 12
So-Sz
[Soviet-American Congress]
The Stage as I See It
Survival of Fascism
Folder 13
T-Z
[Testimonial to Robert Meltzer]
Textual Notes and Questions for Class Room
Discussion
The Theatre
[Theatre Arts Monthly]
[Voice of Freedom]
See also Tapes: 37/2, 43/2
War Correspondents
[Wellesian cuffnotes]
Series:
Box 5
Theatre
Filed by production and arranged chronologically by date of first
performance. There is also a group of general Mercury Theatre materials that
files before the first Mercury Theatre production. Correspondence pertaining
to each production is filed chronologically in the Correspondence
section.
Folder 14-15
Macbeth
(Apr. 14, 1936)
Scripts See also Photographs
Folder 16
Horse Eats Hat
(Sept. 26, 1936)
Script
See also Photographs
Folder 17-18
Doctor Faustus
(Jan. 8, 1937)
Scripts, publicity, miscellaneous materials
See also Photographs
Folder 19-22
The Cradle Will Rock
(June 16, 1937)
Scripts, production and publicity materials. Includes set design planned
for original production.
See also Photographs; Oversize 2
Folder 23-31
Mercury Theatre - General
Legal, financial, and promotional materials. Includes script for
The Duchess of Malfi.
See also Oversize 3
Folder 32-34
Julius Caesar
(Nov. 11, 1937)
Scripts, publicity, miscellaneous materials
See also Photographs; Oversize 4, 5
Box 6
Folder 1-2
Shoemakers' Holiday
(Jan. 1, 1938)
Scripts, publicity, miscellaneous materials
See also Photographs
Folder 3-7
Heartbreak House
(Apr. 29, 1938)
Scripts, publicity, miscellaneous materials
See also Photographs
Folder 8-11
Too Much Johnson
(Aug. 16, 1938)
Scripts and miscellaneous materials
See also Photographs
Folder 12-15
Danton's Death
(Nov. 2, 1938)
Scripts, production and publicity materials
See also Photographs; Oversize 6, 7
Folder 16-19
Five Kings
(Feb. 27, 1939)
Scripts
Folder 20-24
Five Kings
Production, research, and publicity materials. Includes preliminary
sketches of set designs
See also Photographs; Oversize 8
Folder 25-26
Green Goddess
(ca. June, 1939)
Scripts and production materials
See also Photographs
Folder 27-28
Native Son
(ca. Mar., 1941)
Script, publicity, miscellaneous materials
See also Photographs
Box 7
Folder 1
Mercury Wonder Show
(1942)
Jokes and comedy routines
See also: Photographs
Folder 2
Symphony: The Airborne
(Apr. 1, 1946)
Printed program
Folder 3-5
Around the World
(1946)
Scripts
Folder 6
Around the World
Production materials
Folder 7-8
Around the World
Legal materials. Includes contracts for Alvin Cole and Cole Porter
Folder 9-12
Around the World
Financial, research, and publicity materials
See also Photographs; Oversize 9, 10
Folder 13-14
Macbeth
(1947)
Scripts, financial and publicity materials
Folder 15-16
Emily Brady
(Unproduced as of 1947)
Scripts
Folder 17
King Lear
(Unproduced as of 1947)
Script
Folder 18
Marching Song
(Unproduced as of 1947)
Script. Includes sketches and instructions for set designs
Folder 19-20
Moby Dick
(Unproduced as of 1947)
Scripts
Folder 21
Untitled play (Unproduced as of
1947)
Script
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
Series:
Box 13
Recordings
Contains materials relating to phonograph recordings.
Arranged in two categories, scripts and production materials, and each
category is arranged chronologically
Folder 35-37
Scripts, 1938-1944
Drafts of scripts for the albums
Twelfth
Night,
Song of Songs,
No Man Is an Island
Box 14
Folder 1-11
Scripts, 1944-1945
Drafts of scripts for the albums
No Man Is an
Island;
The Happy Prince;
In the American Tradition;
Commentary and Translations;
The Bible.
Folder 12-14
Production Materials for the Shakespeare recordings and Decca
Records.
See also Tape
Series:
Box 14
Films, 1939-1947
Arranged chronologically by approximate beginning work date.
Includes projects on which work was begun but never completed. Correspondence
regarding films is interfiled chronologically in the Correspondence
section.
Folder 15-17
Heart of Darkness
[1939]
Scripts
Folder 18-19
Heart of Darkness
Production, financial, and publicity materials
See also
Smiler with a Knife, B. 14, f.
27; Photographs
Folder 20-26
Smiler with a Knife
[1939-1940]
Scripts
Folder 27
Smiler with a Knife
Production and financial materials
Folder 28-29
Citizen Kane,
1940-1941
Scripts
Box 15
Folder 1-6
Citizen Kane
Scripts
Folder 7
Citizen Kane
Photographs of story board
Folder 8-11
Citizen Kane
Production, financial and publicity materials
See also Tapes; Photographs; Oversize 14; Appendix A
Folder 12-15
Unnamed Mexican Story (Jan?
1941)
Drafts of scripts, by Paul Trivers
Folder 16-22
Orson Welles No. 4 ("The Way to Santiago"?)
(Feb., 1941-Mar.,
1942)
Scripts, production and financial materials
Box 16
Folder 1
It's All True; Love Story
(Aug. 8, 1941)
Scripts
Folder 2-5
The Magnificent Ambersons,
Aug. 15,
1941-June 13, 1942
Scripts
Folder 6
The Magnificent
Ambersons
Story board
Folder 7-12
The Magnificent
Ambersons
Production, financial, and publicity materials
See also Photographs
Folder 13-26
It's All True
(Aug. 20,
1941-Jan. 17, 1945)
Scripts, story treatments, etc. Includes materials for "My Friend
Bonito" by Norman Foster and
John Fante, draft of
It's All True by Elliot Paul,
treatment for
Jump for Joy dictated by
Duke Ellington, scripts for "Praça
Onze" sequences, and scripts for "Samba."
Box 17
Folder 1-7
It's All True
Scripts, story treatments, etc. Includes drafts for Charlie's American
Bar, Michael Gard, and the Jangadeiros story.
Folder 8-11
It's All True
Scores and music. Includes holograph scores of "Pan america &
Folgo Nego" and "Carnaval" arranged by
Paul Misraki.
Folder 12-13
It's All True
Production materials. Includes contract materials for Jesús Solórzano and
Jesús Vázquez
Folder 14-16
It's All True
Financial materials
Folder 17-18
It's All True
Scripts and story synopses submitted but not used
Folder 19
It's All True
Miscellaneous
Folder 20-21
It's All True
News stories, many by Tom Pettey
Folder 22-34
It's All True
Clippings
Box 18
Folder 1-10
It's All True
Clippings
Folder 11
It's All True
Translations of newspaper articles folders 12-14:
It's All True. Jangadeiros publicity. Includes news
stories, clippings and translations of articles
Folder 15-33
It's All True
Background materials. Topics include Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Alberto
Santos-Dumont, Oswaldo Gonçalves Cruz, Bertita Harding's Amazon Throne,
Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica,Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua,
Paraguay, Peru and Salvador
Box 19
Folder 1-2
It's All True
Background materials. Topics include Uruguay and Venezuela
Folder 3-40
It's All True
Research materials. Materials include pamphlets, clippings and
typescripts on the topics Amazon; Art; Baia, Sergipe, Alagoas,
Pernambuco & Paraiba; Simón Bolívar; Brazil History; Brazilian
Alphabet; Brazilian Curiosities; Brazilian Independence and Jefferson;
Brazilian Indians; Brazilian Kings; Carnaval in Rio; Catedral de Lima;
Ceará; Coffee; Crime of Doña Carlota; Drought; Fawcett Expedition; Folk
Music; Gaucho; God and Diamonds; Guatemala Heroes of Brazil; Holy Week
in Ouro Preto; Imperatriz Teresa Cristina; Iron and Steel; Jangadeiros;
Latin American Music; Legends and Fables; Matto Grosso; Minas Geraes;
Palmares War; Piaui; Praça Onze; and Revolution of 1835
Box 20
Folder 1-9
It's All True
Research materials. Topics include Rio de Janeiro; Rio Grande do Norte;
Rio Grande do Sul; Romantic Adventurers; Rubber; Salvador (cidade);
Samba; São Paulo, Paraná Y Goyáz; and Sugar and Brazilian Northeast.
See also Photographs; Oversize 15
Folder 10-13
Journey Into Fear
(Aug.,
1942-1943)
Scripts
Folder 14
Journey Into Fear
Storyboard
Folder 15-19
Journey Into Fear
Production, financial, and publicity materials
See also Photographs
Folder 20
V & W
(Aug., 1942)
Scripts and production materials
Folder 21
Jane Eyre
(Dec., 1942)
Partial scripts and production materials
See also Photographs
Folder 22
The Outer Gate
(Aug., 1943)
Script, by John Tucker Battle
Folder 23-27
The Little Prince
(1943)
Scripts
Folder 28-35
Don't Catch Me
(July, 1944)
Scripts. Writers include Les White,
Bud Pearson,
Rose Krebs, and Orson
Welles
Box 21
Folder 1-8
Don't Catch Me
Scripts and publicity materials
Folder 9
Tomorrow Is Forever
(Mar., 1945)
Script
See also Photographs
Folder 10-15
The Stranger
(ca. Aug., 1945)
Scripts and miscellaneous pages of scripts
Folder 16-18
The Stranger
Production, legal, and financial materials
See also Photographs; Oversize 16
Folder 19
Roosevelt Memorial Short (Welles & Colbert) (1945)
Drafts of scripts
Folder 20
Lady from Shanghai
(Aug., 1946-1947)
Annotated book,
If I Die Before I Wake by
Sherwood King
Folder 21-23
Lady from Shanghai
Scripts
Box 22
Folder 1-4
Lady from Shanghai
Scripts
Folder 5-6
Lady from Shanghai
Production and financial materials, and clippings See also Photographs;
Oversize 17
Folder 7-13
Macbeth
(Mar., 1947)
Scripts
Folder 14-18
Macbeth
Production materials, and publicity
See also Photographs; Oversize 18
Folder 19
Black Magic
(July, 1947)
Script and production materials
Folder 20
Bolivar's Idea
(no
date)
Scripts, by John Tucker Battle
Folder 21
Carmen
(n.d.)
Script
Folder 22
Fully Dressed and In His Right
Mind
(n.d.)
Partial scripts
Folder 23
Salome
(n.d.)
Partial scripts. Introduction by Fletcher Markle
Folder 24
[Untitled script about jazz] (n.d.)
Series:
Box 22
Research Files
Includes printed, mimeo, and B for complete list of topics.
Folder 25-51
Academy - Astrology-Predictions
Box 23
Astronomy Interview - February
(102 folders)
Box 24
Federal Debt - Montgomery Ward
(118 folders)
Box 25
Montana - Sun Yat Sen
(108 folders)
Box 26
Folder 1-50
Sunkist - Zionism
Series:
Box 26
Miscellaneous
Arranged alphabetically by subject.
Folder 51
Actors - Biographies
Folder 52
Actors -Miscellaneous
Folder 53
Ade, George
Folder 54
Addresses
Folder 55
Advances and Loans
Folder 56
Advertising
Folder 57
Airline Information
Folder 58
Art Work - By Welles
See also Oversize 19
Folder 59
Art Work - By Others
See also Oversize 20
Folder 60
Automobile File
Folder 61
Awards
Folder 62-68
Biographies and publicity
See also Oversize 21
Folder 69-70
Christmas Lists
Folder 71
Contracts - MCA
Folder 72
Contracts - Newspaper
Folder 73
Contracts - Radio Guest Shots
Box 27
Folder 1
Contracts - Radio Series
Folder 2
Contracts - Recording
Folder 3
Contracts - Screen
Folder 4
Contracts - Stage
Folder 5
Contracts - Story Properties and Titles
Folder 6
Contracts - William Morris
Folder 7
Contracts - Miscellaneous Personal
Folder 8
Dance
Folder 9
Education
Folder 10
Educational Films
Folder 11
Fabric Samples
Folder 12
Finances - Mercury Productions
Folder 13
Finances - Orson Welles
Folder 14
Finances - Miscellaneous
Folder 15
Foreign Policy Bulletin
Folder 16
Foster Parents' Plan for War Children
Folder 17
Free World
Folder 18
Household Inventories
Folder 19
Insurance
Folder 20
Laage, Barbara
Folder 21
Lectures
Folder 22
Lederer, Mrs. Charles (Virginia Nicholson Welles)
Folder 23
Lehman Engel Singers
Folder 24
Magic
Folder 25
Memberships
Folder 26
Mercury Productions
Folder 27
National Five Arts Award
Folder 28
Passports [for Welles and Rita Hayworth]
Folder 29
PCA-ICC Bulletins
Folder 30-31
Personal
Folder 32
Poetry Submitted
Folder 33
Power of Attorney
Folder 34
Printed
Folder 35
Printed Illustrations
See also Oversize 22
Folder 36
Production Costs
Folder 37
Railway Express Agency
Folder 38
Research
Folder 39
Screen Writers' Guild
Folder 40
Seiderman, Maurice
Folder 41
Shakespeare Fellowship
Folder 42
Soundscriber Discs
[RESTRICTED]
Folder 43
Storage Companies
Folder 44
Subscriptions
Folder 45
Texas
Folder 46
Todd School
Folder 47
U.D.A. Congressional Newsletter
Folder 48
White Radio Bill
Folder 49-54
Writings (By Others)
Series:
Box 28
Tapes
These audiotapes are chiefly of radio programs.
With the exception of later additions, they are arranged chronologically by
the date of the earliest program on the tape. [See Vertical File for list of
tapes in tape number order.]
Abednego the Slave
(Mercury Summer Theatre)
8/16/46
Tape number: 70/2
Abraham Lincoln
(Mercury Theatre on the Air) 8/15/38
Tape number: 4/2
Admiral of the Ocean Sea
(Cavalcade of America) 10/12/42
Tape number: 45/2
Ah, Wilderness
(Campbell Playhouse)
9/17/39
Tape number: 20/1
Air Transport Command
(Ceiling Unlimited)
11/16/42
Tape number: 39/2
Algiers
(Campbell Playhouse)
10/8/39
Tape number: 21/2
Alphabet A-C
(Hello Americans)
12/6/42
Tape number: 49/2
Alphabet C-S
(Hello Americans)
12/13/42
Tape number: 49/2
Andes
(Hello Americans)
11/22/42
Tape number: 49/1
Annabel Lee,
Orson Welles Almanac
(Lady Esther)
10/6/41
Tape number: 40/2
Anti-Submarine Patrol
(Ceiling Unlimited) (Edward G. Robinson
substituting for Welles) 1/4/43
Tape number: 50/2
Anything Can Happen
(This Is My Best)
4/24/45
Tape number: 48/2
The Apple Tree,
Orson Welles Almanac
(Lady Esther)
1/12/42
Tape number: 46/1
The Apple Tree
(Mercury Summer Theatre)
9/6/46
Tape number: 3/1, 73/2
Around the World in Eighty Days
(Mercury Summer Theatre)
6/7/46
Tape number: 61/2
Around the World In Eighty Days
(Mercury Theatre on the Air)
10/23/38
Tape number: 8/1, 9/1
Arrowsmith
(Campbell Playhouse)
2/3/39
Tape number: 13/2
The Bad Man
(Campbell Playhouse)
5/19/39
Tape number: 18/1
The Bad-Will Ambassador
(Hello Americans)
12/27/42
Tape number: 51/1
Beau Geste
(Campbell Playhouse)
3/17/39
Tape number: 15/1
Between Americans
(GulfScreen Guild Theatre)
12/7/41
Tape number: 43/1
Between Americans (Incomplete)
Orson Welles Almanac
(Lady Esther)
2/2/42
Tape number: 46/2
The Black Pearl,
Orson Welles Almanac
(Lady Esther)
10/6/41
Tape number: 40/2
Bolivar's Idea
(Hello Americans)
1/31/43
Tape number: 52/2
Brazil
(Hello Americans)
11/15/42
Tape number: 48/2
Broome Stages
(Campbell Playhouse)
2/4/40
Tape number: 31/2
Campbell Playhouse (Series)
1938/1940
Tape number: 11/2, 12-23, 24/1, 25/1, 26-34, 36
Cavalcade of America
10/12/42
Tape number: 45/2
Cavalcade of America
9/28/40
Tape number: 35/1
Ceiling Unlimited (Series)
1942/1943
Tape number: 37/1, 39/2, 50
Chesterton Christmas Verse,
Orson Welles Almanac
(Lady Esther)
12/22/41
Tape number: 44/2
A Christmas Carol
(Campbell Playhouse)
12/23/38
Tape number: 12/1
A Christmas Carol
(Campbell Playhouse)
12/24/39
Tape number: 29/1
The Citadel
(Campbell Playhouse)
1/21/40
Tape number: 30/2
Citizen Kane Interview 5/28/41
Tape number: 37/1
Counsellor At Law
(Campbell Playhouse)
1/6/39
Tape number: 12/2
Count of Monte Cristo
(Campbell Playhouse)
10/1/39
Tape number: 21/1
Count of Monte Cristo
(Mercury Summer Theatre)
6/14/46
Tape number: 3/1, 61/2
Count of Monte Cristo
(Mercury Theatre on the Air)
8/29/38
Tape number: 5/1
Craig's Wife
(Campbell Playhouse)
3/10/40
Tape number: 34/1
Democratic National Committee
11/1/44
Tape number: 43/2
The Diamond As Big As the Ritz
(This Is My Best)
4/3/45
Tape number: 62/2
Dinner at Eight
(Campbell Playhouse)
2/18/40
Tape number: 32/2
Dodsworth
(Campbell Playhouse)
11/26/39
Tape number: 27/1
Dorothy Parker Poetry,
Orson Welles Almanac
(Lady Esther)
10/13/41
Tape number: 40/2
Dracula
(Mercury Theatre on the Air)
7/11/38
Tape number: 1/1
Epiphany
(Eversharp No. 5)
[1945]
Tape number: 54/2
Escape
(Campbell Playhouse)
10/15/39
Tape number: 22/1
Eversharp (Series) [1944/1945]
Tape number: 41/1, 54
False Issues and the American
Presidency
(Welles'
Herald
Tribune
Speech) 10/18/44
Tape number: 47/2
Feed the World
(Hello Americans)
1/17/43
Tape number: 52/1
Fifth War Bond Drive: Soldiers' Field
Chicago,
6/19/40
Tape number: 35/2
Fifth War Loan Drive: Closed Radio Circuit
Synopsis
Tape number: [5/44?] 59/2
Fifth War Loan Drive: Texarkana,
6/12/44
Tape number: 59/1
Finger in the Wind
(Ceiling Unlimited)
1/11/43
Tape number: 50/2
"The Flying Fortress"
(Ceiling Unlimited)
11/9/43
Tape number: 39/2
"Fred Waring" (Welles' portion
only)
(A tribute to FDR)
4/12/45
Tape number: 43/2
The Free Company (Series)
4/5/41
Tape number: 35/2
Free World Theatre (Series)
no
date
Tape number: 38/2
The Future
(Ceiling Unlimited)
2/1/43
Tape number: 37/1
G.I. Bill of Rights
(Eversharp No. 2)
[1944]
Tape number: 54/2
Garden of Allah,
Orson Welles Almanac
(Lady Esther)
1/5/42
Tape number: 46/1
Garden of Allah
(Campbell Playhouse)
11/19/39
Tape number: 26/2
George Washington, American,
2/22/41
Tape number: 39/1
Glass Key
(Campbell Playhouse)
3/10/39
Tape number: 14/2
Go With Your Red Cross: Slide Film
Disc,
n.d.
Tape number: 47/2
Golden Honeymoon;
Romeo and Juliet Selections
(Mercury Summer Theatre)
8/2/46
Tape number: 70/1
Grable
(Eversharp No. 7)
[1945?]
Tape number: 41/1
The Great Man Votes
(Cavalcade of America)
10/12/41
Tape number: 45/2
Greatest Book in the World
-Genesis,
n.d.
Tape number: 47/2
Green Goddess
(Campbell Playhouse)
2/10/39
Tape number: 14/1
Gremlins
(Ceiling Unlimited)
12/21/42
Tape number: 50/1
Gulf Screen Guild Theatre (Series)
12/7/41
Tape number: 43/1
The Happy Hypocrite (Incomplete)
Orson Welles Almanac
(Lady Esther)
1/26/42
Tape number: 46/2
The Happy Prince,
Orson Welles Almanac
(Lady Esther)
12/22/41
Tape number: 39/1, 44/2
The Happy Prince (Philco Radio
Hall of Fame) 12/24/44
Tape number: 45/1
Heart of Darkness
(This Is My Best)
3/13/45
Tape number: 62/1
Heart of Darkness;
Life with Father
(Mercury Theatre on the Air)
11/6/38
Tape number: 8/2, 9/2
Hell On Ice
Tape number: 7/1
Hell On Ice
(Mercury Summer Theatre)
8/9/46
Tape number: 70/2
Hello Americans (Series) 1942/1943
Tape number: 48/2, 49, 51, 52
His Honor, The Mayor
(The Free Company)
4/5/41
Tape number: 35/2
Hollywood Democratic Committee
(Welles not on this program; Rita Hayworth is)
Tape number: 5?/44 43/1
Huckleberry Finn
(Campbell Playhouse)
3/17/40
Tape number: 34/2
Hurricane
(Campbell Playhouse)
11/5/39
Tape number: 23/2
I Lost My Girlish Laughter
(Campbell Playhouse)
1/27/39
Tape number: 13/1
I Will Not Go Back
(This Is My Best) (On FDR's death)
4/17/45
Tape number: 48/1
I'm a Fool
(Mercury Summer Theatre)
8/23/46
Tape number: 38/1
I'm a Fool,
Orson Welles Almanac
(Lady Esther)
9/29/41
Tape number: 40/1
I'm a Fool;
The Open Window;
My Little Boy
(Mercury Theatre on the Air)
8/8/38
Tape number: 4/1
If in Years To Come,
Orson Welles Almanac
(Lady Esther)
10/13/41
Tape number: 40/2
Inauguration
(Eversharp No.8)
[1945?]
Tape number: 41/1
The Interlopers,
Orson Welles Almanac
(Lady Esther)
9/29/41
Tape number: 40/1
The Islands
(Hello Americans)
11/29/42
Tape number: 49/1
It Happened One Night
(Campbell Playhouse)
1/28/40
Tape number: 31/1
Jack Benny Show (Welles is guest
star) 3/17/40
Tape number: 35/1
Jack Benny Show with Orson Welles
3/14/43
Tape number: 53/1
Jack Benny Show with Orson Welles
3/21/43
Tape number: 53/1
Jack Benny Show with Orson Welles
4/11/43
Tape number: 53/2
Jack Benny Show with Orson Welles
4/4/43
Tape number: 53/2
Jane Eyre
(Campbell Playhouse)
3/31/40
Tape number: 36/2
Jane Eyre
(Mercury Summer Theatre)
6/28/46
Tape number: 69/1
Julius Caesar
(Mercury Shakespeare)
Tape number: 6/39, Welles mss. II
Julius Caesar - Rehearsal
(Mercury Theatre on the Air)
9/11/38
Tape number: 6/2, 72/2
June Moon
(Campbell Playhouse)
3/24/40
Tape number: 36/1
King Lear
(Mercury Summer Theatre)
9/13/46
Tape number: 3/1, 73/2
Lady Esther (Series) 1941/1942
Tape number: 39/1, 40, 41/2, 42, 44/2, 46
Latin Music
(Hello Americans) (Welles ill; music by
Lud Gluskin and his orchestra)
Tape number: 1/3/43 51/2
Lear (Series) 1945/1946
Tape number: 37/2, 40/1, 52/2, 54/1, 63-68
Letter to Mother
(Ceiling Unlimited)
1/18/43
Tape number: 50/2
Life with Adam
(Mercury Summer Theatre)
7/19/46
Tape number: 69/2
Life with Father
(Mercury Theatre on the Air)
11/6/38
Tape number: 8/2
Lilliom
(Campbell Playhouse)
10/22/39
Tape number: 22/2
Lobbying
(Eversharp No. 1)
[1944]
Tape number: 54/1
Lost Horizon
(Campbell Playhouse)
12/3/39
Tape number: 27/2
Macbeth Follies,
4/27/40
Tape number: 37/2
The Magnificent Ambersons
(Campbell Playhouse)
10/29/39
Tape number: 23/1, 24/1, 25/1
The Man Who Was Thursday
(Mercury Theatre on the Air)
9/5/38
Tape number: 6/1
The Master of Ballantrae
(This Is My Best)
4/10/45
Tape number: 48/1
The Maysville Minstrel,
Orson Welles Almanac
(Lady Esther)
11/10/41
Tape number: 42/1
Mercury Shakespeare
Tape number: 6/38, Welles mss. II
Mercury Shakespeare
Tape number: 6/39, Welles mss. II
Mercury Summer Theatre (Series)
1946
Tape number: 3/1, 6/1, 38/1, 61/2, 69, 70, 73/2
Mercury Theatre on the Air
(Series) 1938
Tape number: 1, 2, 3/2, 4-9, 10/1, 11/1, 72/2
Mercury Wonder Show Interview
9/7/43
Tape number: 38/2
Mexico
(Hello Americans)
1/10/43
Tape number: 51/2
Miss Dilly Says No
(This Is My Best)
3/20/45
Tape number: 62/1
Moat Farm Murder
(Mercury Summer Theatre)
7/26/46
Tape number: 6/1, 70/1
Mobiloil (Series) 1944
Tape number: 55-58, 60, 61/1
Moby Dick
(Mercury Summer Theatre)
8/30/46
Tape number: 38/1
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
(Campbell Playhouse)
2/11/40
Tape number: 32/1
Mrs. James and the Pot of Tea
(Ceiling Unlimited)
1/25/43
Tape number: 50/2
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
(Campbell Playhouse)
11/12/39
Tape number: 26/1
My Little Boy
(Mercury Theatre on the Air)
8/8/38
Tape number: 4/1
My Little Boy
Orson Welles Almanac (Lady Esther)
1/19/42
Tape number: 46/2
The Navigator
(Ceiling Unlimited)
11/23/42
Tape number: 39/2
Only Angels Have Wings
(Campbell Playhouse)
2/25/40
Tape number: 33/1
The Open Window;
My Little Boy
(Mercury Theatre on the Air)
8/8/38
Tape number: 4/1
Orson Welles Almanac
(Lear) (Series) 1945/1946
Tape number: 37/2, 40/1, 52/2, 54/1, 63-68
Orson Welles Almanac
(Mobil oil) Guest: Groucho Marx 1/26/44
Tape number: 55/1
Orson Welles Almanac
(Mobil oil) Guest: Robert Benchley.
2/16/44
Tape number: 55/2
Orson Welles Almanac
(Mobil oil) Guest: Lionel Barrymore
2/2/44
Tape number: 55/1
Orson Welles Almanac
(Mobil oil) Guest: Hedda Hopper 2/23/44
Tape number: 56/1
Orson Welles Almanac
(Mobil oil) Guest: Ann Sothern 2/9/44
Tape number: 55/2
Orson Welles Almanac
(Mobil oil) Guest: Victor Moore 3/1/44
Tape number: 56/1
Orson Welles Almanac
(Mobil oil) Guest: Charles Laughton
3/15/44
Tape number: 56/2
Orson Welles Almanac
(Mobil oil) Guest: Betty Hutton 3/22/44
Tape number: 57/1
Orson Welles Almanac
(Mobil oil) Guest: Mary Boland 3/29/44
Tape number: 57/1
Orson Welles Almanac
(Mobil oil) Guest: Lucille Ball 3/8/44
Tape number: 56/2
Orson Welles Almanac
(Mobil oil) Guest: Monty Woolley
4/12/44
Tape number: 57/2
Orson Welles Almanac
(Mobil oil) Guest: Dennis Day 4/5/44
Tape number: 57/2
Orson Welles Almanac
(Mobil oil) Guest: Ann Sothern 5/17/44
Tape number: 58/1
Orson Welles Almanac
(Mobil oil) Guest: Wilde Twins, Lois
Collier 5/24/44
Tape number: 58/1
Orson Welles Almanac
(Mobil oil) Guest: Marjorie Reynolds
5/31/44
Tape number: 58/2
Orson Welles Almanac
(Mobil oil)
6/14/44
Tape number: 60/1
Orson Welles Almanac
(Mobil oil) Guest: Martha O'Driscoll
6/21/44
Tape number: 60/1
Orson Welles Almanac
(Mobil oil) Guest: Lynn Bari 6/28/44
Tape number: 60/2
Orson Welles Almanac
(Mobil oil) Special D-Day Show 6/7/44
Tape number: 58/2
Orson Welles Almanac
(Mobil oil) Guest: Susan Hayward
7/12/44
Tape number: 61/1
Orson Welles Almanac
(Mobil oil) Guest: Ruth Terry 7/19/44
Tape number: 61/1
Orson Welles Almanac
(Mobil oil) Guest: Lana Turner 7/5/44
Tape number: 60/2
Our Town
(Campbell Playhouse)
5/12/39
Tape number: 17/2
Pan-American Airlines
(Ceiling Unlimited)
12/28/42
Tape number: 50/1
Pan-American Day
4/14/42
Tape number: 47/1
Passenger to Bali
(Mercury Summer Theatre)
7/5/46
Tape number: 69/1
Passenger to Bali
(Mercury Theatre on the Air)
11/13/38
Tape number: 11/1
Peter Ibbetsen
(Campbell Playhouse)
9/10/39
Tape number: 19/2
Philco Radio Hall of Fame (Series)
12/24/44
Tape number: 45/1
Post War (Eversharp No. 4)
[1944]
Tape number: 54/2
President Vargas' Birthday
(Brazil)
4/18/42
Tape number: 47/1
President's Bill of Rights Program
(We Hold These Truths)
12/15/41
Tape number: 44/1
Private Lives
(Campbell Playhouse)
4/21/39
Tape number: 16/2
Rabble in Arms
(Campbell Playhouse)
3/3/40
Tape number: 33/2
Readers' Digest
3/31/46
Tape number: 59/2
Reading Out Loud9/3/43
Tape number: 41/2, 47/1
Rebecca
(Campbell Playhouse)
12/9/38
Tape number: 11/2
Ritmos de las Americas (Welles
ill; music by Lud Gluskin and his orchestra). 1/24/43
Tape number: 52/1
Romance
Orson Welles Almanac (Lady Esther)
10/20/41
Tape number: 41/2
Romeo and Juliet Selections
(Mercury Summer Theatre)
8/2/46
Tape number: 70/1
Search for Henri Le Fevre
(Mercury Summer Theatre)
7/12/46
Tape number: 69/2
Seventeen
(Mercury Theatre on the Air)
10/16/38
Tape number: 7/2
Sherlock Holmes
(Mercury Theatre on the Air)
9/25/38
Tape number: 5/2
Show Boat
(Campbell Playhouse)
3/31/39
Tape number: 16/1
Shut Eye
(Eversharp No. 6)
[1945?]
Tape number: 41/1
Silver Theatre
(Series)
Tape number: 73
Slavery - Abednego
(Hello Americans)
12/20/42
Tape number: 51/1
Snow White
(This Is My Best)
3/27/45
Tape number: 62/2
Something about Joe
(Free World Theatre)
n.d.
Tape number: 38/2
Something's Going to Happen to
Henry
Orson Welles Almanac (Lady Esther)
12/1/41
Tape number: 42/2
Song of Solomon
Orson Welles Almanac (Lady Esther)
9/29/41
Tape number: 40/1
St. Luke, Chap. II.
Orson Welles Almanac (Lady Esther)
12/22/41
Tape number: 44/2I
Stars in Their Courses, Part 1
(Silver Theatre)
11/13/38
Tape number: 73/1
Stars in Their Courses, Part 2
(Silver Theatre)
11/20/38
Tape number: 73/2
Symptoms of Being 35.
Orson Welles Almanac
(Lady Esther)
12/8/41
Tape number: 42/2
Tale of Two Cities
(Mercury Theatre on the Air)
7/25/38
Tape number: 2/1
Tale of Two Cities -Rehearsal
(Lux) 3/26/45
Tape number: 75/2
Tale of Two Cities -Rehearsals
(Mercury Theatre on the Air)
7/25/38
Tape number: 2/1
Tell-Tale Heart
(Mercury Summer Theatre)
8/23/46
Tape number: 38/1
That's Why I Left You.
Orson Welles Almanac
(Lady Esther)
11/10/41
Tape number: 42/1
Theodora Goes Wild
(Campbell Playhouse)
1/14/40
Tape number: 30/1
There Are Frenchmen and Frenchmen.
Orson Welles Almanac
(Lady Esther)
12/29/41
Tape number: 44/2
There's Always a Woman
(Campbell Playhouse)
12/17/39
Tape number: 28/2
The Things We Have
(An American Cavalcade)
(Campbell Playhouse)
5/26/39
Tape number: 18/2
The 39 Steps
(Mercury Theatre on the Air)
8/1/38
Tape number: 2/2
The 39 Steps - Rehearsal
(Mercury Theatre on the Air)
8/1/38
Tape number: 3/2, 72/1
This Is My Best (Series) 1945
Tape number: 48, 62
Thunder from the Mountains
(Cavalcade of America)
9/28/40
Tape number: 35/1
Treasure Island
(Mercury Theatre on the Air)
7/18/38
Tape number: 1/2
Treasure Island - Rehearsals
(Mercury Theatre on the Air)
7/18/38
Tape number: 71/1
Twelfth Night
(Mercury Shakespeare)
Tape number: 6/38 Welles mss. II
[Twentieth] 20th Century
(Campbell Playhouse)
3/24/39
Tape number: 15/2
University of Chicago Roundtable
n.d.
Tape number: 37/1
Vanessa
(Campbell Playhouse)
12/10/39
Tape number: 28/1
Vanity Fair
(Campbell Playhouse)
1/7/40
Tape number: 29/2
Victoria Regina
(Campbell Playhouse)
6/2/39
Tape number: 19/1
Voice of Freedom Speech
5/8/47
Tape number: 37/2, 43/2
War of the Worlds
(Mercury Theatre on the Air)
10/30/38
Tape number: 10/1
War Workers
(Ceiling Unlimited)
12/14/42
Tape number: 50/1
We Hold These Truths
(President's Bill of Rights Program)
12/15/41
Tape number: 44/1
Welles - H. G. Wells Interview
10/28/40
Tape number: 38/2
What Every Woman Knows
(Campbell Playhouse)
9/24/39
Tape number: 20/2
Whitman poetry.
Orson Welles Almanac
(Lady Esther)
12/8/41
Tape number: 42/2
Wickford Point
(Campbell Playhouse)
5/5/39
Tape number: 17/1
Wilbur Brown, Habitat: Brooklyn.
Orson Welles Almanac
(Lady Esther)
12/1/41
Tape number: 42/2
Wild Oranges.
Orson Welles Almanac
(Lady Esther)
11/3/41
Tape number: 42/1
Wind, Sand & Stars
(Ceiling Unlimited)
11/30/42
Tape number: 39/2
With Your Wings
(Ceiling Unlimited)
1/25/43
Tape number: 50/2
Series:
Box 30
Photographs
Primarily theatre, radio, production, paralleling the arrangement of Boxes
5-22.
See also Oversize 23
Horse Eats Hat
23 Photographs
Doctor Faustus
69 Photographs
The Cradle Will Rock
3 Photographs
Shoemakers' Holiday
26 Photographs
Heartbreak House
9 Photographs
Too Much Johnson
1 Photograph
Box 31
Danton's Death
4 Photographs
Five Kings
36 Photographs
The Green Goddess
9 Photographs
Native Son
28 Photographs
Around the World
191 Photographs
Radio - General
14 Photographs
Heart of Darkness
18 Photographs
Box 32
Citizen Kane
257 Photographs
Box 33
The Magnificent
Ambersons
355 Photographs
Box 34
The Magnificent
Ambersons
146 Photographs
Box 35
It's All True
341 Photographs
Box 36
Journey Into Fear
472 Photographs
Box 37
Jane Eyre
6 Photographs
Follow the Boys
18 Photographs
Tomorrow Is Forever
14 Photographs
The Stranger
14 Photographs
Lady From Shanghai
55 Photographs
Orson Welles - Youth
17 Photographs
Box 38
Orson Welles - General
97 Photographs
Box 39
Family: Parents - Guardians
17 Photographs
See also Oversize 23
Virginia (wife)
17 Photographs
Christopher (daughter)
47 Photographs
Box 40
Other people
2 Photographs
unidentified
24 Photographs
Series:
Box
Bound Radio Scripts, 1938-1946
147 radio program scripts arranged chronologically.
1938, July 25
Tale of Two Cities
(Mercury Theatre on the Air)
1938, Oct. 2
Oliver Twist
(MTOA)
1938, Oct. 23
Around the World in Eighty Days
(MTOA)
1938, Dec. 9
Rebecca
(Campbell
Playhouse)
1938, Dec. l6
Call it a Day
(CP)
1938, Dec. 23
A Christmas Carol
(CP)
1939, Jan. 6
Counsellor At Law
(CP)
1939, Jan. l3
Mutiny on the Bounty
(CP)
1939, Jan. 20
The Chicken Wagon Family
(CP)
1939, Jan. 27
I Lost My Girlish Laughter
(CP)
1939, Feb. 3
Arrowsmith
(CP)
1939, Feb. 10
The Green Goddess
(CP)
1939, Feb. 17
Burlesque
(CP)
1939, Feb. 24
State Fair
(CP)
1939, Mar. 3
Royal Regiment
(CP)
1939, Mar. 10
The Glass Key
(CP)
1939, Mar. 17
Beau Geste
(CP)
1939, Mar. 24
Twentieth Century
(CP)
1939, Mar. 31
Show Boat
(CP)
1939, Apr. 7
Les Miserables
(CP)
1939, Apr. 14
The Patriot
(CP)
1939, Apr. 21
Private Lives
(CP)
1939, Apr. 28
Black Daniel
(CP)
1939, May 5
Wickford Point
(CP)
1939, May 12
Our Town
(CP)
1939, May 19
The Bad Man
(CP)
1939,
May 26 American Cavalcade; The Things We
Have
(CP)
1939, June 2
Victoria Regina
(CP)
1939, Sept. 9
Peter Ibbetsen
(CP)
1939, Sept. 17
Ah Wilderness
(CP)
1939, Sept. 24
What Every Woman Knows
(CP)
1939, Oct. 1
The Count of Monte Cristo
(CP)
1939, Oct. 8
Algiers
(CP)
1939, Oct. 15
Escape
(CP)
1939, Oct. 22
Lilliom
(CP)
1939, Nov. 5
The Hurricane
(CP)
1939, Nov. 12
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
(CP)
1939, Nov. 19
The Garden of Allah
(CP)
1939, Nov. 26
Dodsworth
(CP)
1939, Dec. 3
Lost Horizon
(CP)
1939, Dec. 10
Vanessa
(CP)
1939, Dec. 17
There's Always a Woman
(CP)
1939, Dec. 31
Come and Get It
(CP)
1940, Jan 7
Vanity Fair
(CP)
1940, Jan. 14
Theodora Goes Wild
(CP)
1940, Jan. 21
The Citadel
(CP)
[1940, Jan. 28]
It Happened One Night
(CP)
1940, Feb. 4
The Broome Stages
(CP)
1940, Feb. 11
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
(CP)
1940, Feb. 18
Dinner at Eight
(CP)
[1940, Feb. 25]
Only Angels Have Wings
(CP)
1940, Mar. 3
Rabble in Arms
(CP)
1940, Mar. 17
Huckleberry Finn
(CP)
1940, Mar. 24
June Moon
(CP)
1940, Mar. 31
Jane Eyre
(CP)
1941, Sept. 15
Shredni Vashtar, AND
Hidalgo, AND
An
Irishman and a Jew
(Lady
Esther)
1941, Sept. 22
The Right Side, AND
The Sexes, AND
Murder
in the Bank,
AND
Golden
Honeymoon
(LE)
1941, Sept. 29
The Interloper, AND
Song of Solomon, AND
I'm a Fool
(LE)
1941, Oct. 6
The Black Pearl, AND
Annabel Lee
(LE)
1941, Oct. 13
If in Years to Come, AND
Parker Poetry
(LE)
1941, Oct. 20
Romance, AND
Kubla
Khan,
AND
Prisoner of Assiout
(LE)
1941, Nov. 3
Wild Oranges
(LE)
1941, Nov. 10
The Maysville Minstrel, AND
That's Why I Left You
(LE)
1941, Nov. 17
The Hitch Hiker
(LE)
1941, Nov. 24
A Farewell to Arms
(LE)
1941, Dec. 1
Something's Going to Happen to Henry, AND
Wilbur Brown, Habitat: Brooklyn
(LE)
1941, Dec. 8
Symptoms of Being 35 AND
Walt Whitman Poetry
(LE)
1941, Dec. 22
The Happy Prince, AND
Chesterton Poem
(LE)
1941, Dec. 29
There are Frenchmen and Frenchmen
(LE)
1942, Jan. 12
The Apple Tree
(LE)
1942, Jan. 19
My Little Boy
(LE)
1942, Jan. 26
The Happy Hypocrite
(LE)
1942, Feb. 2
Between Americans
(LE)
1942, Oct. 2
Passage to More than India
(Cavalcade of
America)
1942, Oct. 12
Admiral of the Ocean Sea
(CA)
1942, Nov. 9
Flying Fortress
(Ceiling
Unlimited)
1942, Nov. 15
Brazil
(Hello Americans)
1942, Nov. 16
Air Transport Command
(CU)
1942, Nov. 22
Andes
(HA)
1942, Nov. 23
The Navigator
(CU)
1942, Nov. 29
The Islands
(HA)
1942, Dec. 6
Alphabet A to C
(HA)
1942, Dec. 7
Ballad of Bataan
(CU)
1942, Dec. 13
Alphabet C to S
(HA)
1942, Dec. 14
War Workers
(CU)
1942, Dec. 20
Abednego
(HA)
1942, Dec. 21
Gremlins
(CU)
1942, Dec. 27
The Bad-Will Ambassador
(HA)
1942, Dec. 28
Pan American Airlines
(CU)
1943, Jan. 10
Mexico
(HA)
1943, Jan. 11
Finger in the Wind
(CU)
1943, Jan. l7
Feed the World
(HA)
1943, Jan. 18
Letter to Mother
(CU)
1943, Jan. 25
Flyer Come Home
(CU)
1943, Jan. 25
Mrs. James and the Pot of Tea
(CU)
1943, Jan. 31
Bolivar's Idea
(HA)
1943, Feb. 1
The Future
(CU)
1944, Jan. 26
Groucho Marx
(Orson Welles
Almanac)
1944, Feb. 2
Lionel Barrymore
(OWA)
1944, Feb. 9
Ann Sothern
(OWA)
1944, Feb. 16
Robert Benchley
(OWA)
1944, Feb. 23
Hedda Hopper
(OWA)
1944, Mar. 1
Victor Moore
(OWA)
1944, Mar. 8
Lucille Ball
(OWA)
1944, Mar. 15
Charles Laughton
(OWA)
1944, Mar. 22
Betty Hutton
(OWA)
1944, Mar. 29
Mary Boland
(OWA)
1944, Apr. 5
Dennis Day
(OWA)
1944, Apr. 12
Monty Woolley
(OWA)
1944, Apr. 19
George Jessel
(OWA)
1944, Apr. 26
Carole Landis
(OWA)
1944, May 3
Lucille Ball
(OWA)
1944, May 10
Jimmy Durante & Aurora
Miranda
(OWA)
1944, May 17
Ann Sothern
(OWA)
1944, May 24
Wilde Twins (Lee & Lyn),
Lois Collier
(OWA)
1944, May 31
Marjorie Reynolds
(OWA)
1944, June 7
D-Day Program
(OWA)
1944, June 12
Fifth War Loan Drive, Texarkana,
Texas
1944, June 14
Tex-Ark Program
(OWA)
1944, June 19
Fifth War Loan Drive, Soldier Field,
Chicago
1944, June 21
Martha O'Driscoll
(OWA)
1944, June 28
Lynn Bari
(OWA)
1944, July 5
Lana Turner
(OWA)
1944, July 12
Susan Hayward
(OWA)
1944, July 19
Ruth Terry
(OWA)
1945, Mar. 13
Heart of Darkness
(This is My
Best)
1945, Mar. 20
Miss Dilly Says No
(TIMB)
1945, Mar. 27
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
(TIMB)
1945, Apr. 3
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz
(This is My
Best)
1945, Apr. 10
The Master of Ballantrae
(TIMB)
1945, Apr. 17
I Will Not Go Back
(TIMB)
1945, Apr. 24
Anything Can Happen
(TIMB)
1946, June 7
Around the World in 80 Days
(Mercury Summer Theatre)
1946, June 14
The Count of Monte Cristo
(MST)
1946, June 21
The Hitchhiker
(MST)
1946, June 28
Jane Eyre
(MST)
1946, July 5
A Passenger to Bali
(MST)
1946, July 12
The Search for Henri Le Fevre
(MST)
1946, July 19
Life with Adam
(MST)
1946, July 26
Moat Farm Murder
(MST)
1946, Aug. 2
Golden Honeymoon and
Selections from Romeo and Juliet
(MST)
1946, Aug. 9
Hell on Ice
(MST)
1946, Aug. 16
Abednego - The Slave
(MST)
1946, Aug. 23
I'm a Fool AND
>The Tell-Tale Heart
(MST)
1946, Aug. 30
Moby Dick
(MST)
1946, Sept. 6
The Apple Tree
(MST)
1946, Sept. 13
King Lear
(MST)
Series:
Folders
1-23
Oversize
There are 23 oversize folders. Numbers 3, 18, and part of 19 are in the map
case.
Oversize 1
Correspondence
Oversize 2
The Cradle WillRock
4 photos
Oversize 3
Mercury Theatre
General; publicity
Oversize 4
Julius Caesar
Scores by Marc Blitzstein; photograph
Oversize 5
Julius Caesar
Publicity
Oversize 6
Danton's Death
Score by Marc Blitzstein
Oversize 7
Danton's Death
Background materials
Oversize 8
Five Kings
Setdesigns, costume sketches
Oversize 9
Around the World
Set designs, costume sketches
Oversize 10
Around the World
Publicity
Oversize 11
The Christmas Carol
Background material
Oversize 12
Orson Welles Almanac
(Lady Esther)
Publicity
Oversize 13
Orson Welles Almanac
(Lear)
Background materials
Oversize 14
Citizen Kane
Pressbook
Oversize 15
It's All True
Scores by Paul Misraki
Oversize 16
The Stranger
Pressbook
Oversize 17
Lady fromShanghai
Dialogue
Oversize 18
Macbeth
Setdesigns
Oversize 19
Miscellaneous
Art work by Welles
Oversize 20
Miscellaneous
Art work by others
Oversize 21
Miscellaneous
Biographies
Oversize 22
Miscellaneous
Printed illustrations
Oversize 23
Photographs
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