Houseman determined that there were no legal restrictions on performing the musical with a new financial backer, and beginning on June 18, Helen Deutsch, press agent for the Theatre Guild, agreed to serve as the financial backer for The Cradle Will Rock ; the actors received a two-week leave of absence from the WPA, and, in an agreement with Actors ' Equity, Deutsch paid the 19 cast members $ 1500 for the two weeks ' performances.

He also appeared in many performances of the American Shakespeare Festival directed by John Houseman and the Phoenix Theatre in New York City, playing both bit roles and major parts in many of Shakespeare's plays, playing opposite Katharine Hepburn in both The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, and one performance in A Midsummer Night's Dream as Oberon before she had to leave the production.

Her first job was as an assistant switchboard operator at the Mercury Theatre run by Orson Welles and John Houseman.

John Houseman ( born Jacques Haussmann ; September 22, 1902October 31, 1988 ) was a Romanian-born British-American actor and film producer who became known for his highly publicized collaboration with director Orson Welles from their days in the Federal Theatre Project through to the production of Citizen Kane.

Houseman produced numerous Broadway productions, including Heartbreak House, Three Sisters, The Beggar's Opera, and several Shakespearean plays, including a famous " Blackshirt " Julius Caesar directed by Orson Welles in 1937.

Although the central figure is a man in his late fifties, Houseman became obsessed by the notion that a young man named Orson Welles he had seen in a Cornell Company production of Romeo and Juliet was the only person qualified to play the leading role.

It was the genesis, though, for the forging of a theatrical team, a fruitful but stormy partnership in which Houseman said Welles "... was the teacher, I, the apprentice.

Houseman immediately hired Welles and assigned him to direct Macbeth for the FTP's Negro Theater Unit, a production that became known as the " Voodoo Macbeth ", as it was set in the Haitian court of King Henri Christophe ( and with voodoo witch doctors for the three Weird Sisters ) and starred Jack Carter in the title role.

That same year, 1937, after detaching themselves from the Federal Theatre Project, Houseman and Welles did The Cradle Will Rock as a full, independent production on Broadway.

During an all night session at Perkins ' Restaurant, Welles and Houseman hashed out a script.

While Houseman was teaching at Vassar College, he produced Welles ’ never-completed second short film, Too Much Johnson ( 1938 ).

Houseman ( right ) with Mankiewicz ( center, as nurse wipes his brow ) as Welles ( left ) visits during the writing of Citizen Kane in the California desert.

Houseman would later, however, play a pivotal role in ushering Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), which starred Welles.

Welles telephoned Houseman asking him to return to Hollywood to " babysit " screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz while he completed the script, and keep him away from alcohol.

Still drawn to Welles, as was virtually everyone in his sphere, Houseman agreed.

Although Welles took credit for the screenplay of Kane, Houseman stated that the credit belonged to Mankiewicz, an assertion that led to a final break with Welles.

After he and Welles went their separate ways, Houseman would go on to direct The Devil and Daniel Webster ( 1939 ) and Liberty Jones and produced the Welles stage version of Native Son ( 1941 ) on Broadway.

Actor Eddie Marsan plays the role of Houseman in Richard Linklater's 2009 film, Me & Orson Welles.

The film was directed by Fritz Lang and produced by John Houseman, a former associate of Orson Welles.

Mankiewicz ( center ,) with Orson Welles ( left ) and John Houseman working on script for Citizen Kane in the California Desert

Arthur Miller, Orson Welles, John Houseman, Martin Ritt, Elia Kazan, Joseph Losey, Marc Blitzstein, Arthur Arent and Abe Feder all became established, in part, through their work in the FTP.

Blitzstein, Houseman and Welles collaborated on the controversial FTP production of The Cradle Will Rock.

in 1935, soon after Denby's return to New York, Orson Welles and John Houseman asked him to adapt Eugène Labiche's Un Chapeau de Paille d ' Italie for the stage.

Despite being canceled, the director, Orson Welles ( Angus Macfadyen ), and producer, John Houseman ( Cary Elwes ), lead the cast to another theater that was secured at the last minute.

Breaking with the Federal Theatre Project in 1937, Welles and Houseman founded the Mercury Theatre and began with a groundbreaking adaption of Julius Caesar that evoked comparison to contemporary Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany.

Jacob Houseman, a wrecker who was at odds with the established wreckers in Key West, moved to Indian Key in 1830 and began buying property on the island.

He was educated in England at Clifton College, became a British subject and worked in the grain trade in London before emigrating to the United States in 1925, where he took the stage name of John Houseman.

Houseman died of spinal cancer in 1988 at his home in Malibu, California, at age 86.

In his memoir, Run-Through, Houseman wrote about the circumstances surrounding the opening night at the Maxine Elliott Theatre.

Houseman wrote of their collaboration at this time:

Houseman was the founding director of the Drama Division at The Juilliard School where his first graduating class included Kevin Kline and Patti LuPone.

Houseman was educated in the national schools of Zeckendorf and Bamberg and finished with a two-year course of study at a commercial school at Munich.

In the summer of 1963, 17-year-old New Yorker Frances " Baby " Houseman ( Grey ) is vacationing with her affluent family at Kellerman's, a resort in the Catskill Mountains.

" Scenes filmed at Mountain Lake included all of the dining scenes, Kellerman's Hotel, the beach games, Penny crying in the kitchen, and the Houseman family's cabins.

During high school, he attended a summer program at the Juilliard School where he studied under John Houseman, and he won a role in an off-Broadway production of The Lion in Winter.

Her Off-Broadway credits include Ron Taylor and Mayor Maggie in Bat Boy The Musical at Union Square Theatre, The Prince and the Pauper at The Lamb's Theatre, O ' Casey Knock at The John Houseman Theatre, Tango Ballad at The Actor's Studio and A Broadway's Diva Christmas at the Julia Miles Theatre.

Houseman was at once arrested and confronted with the bones that had been found.

A commercial that features a John Houseman imitator when Houseman at the time was a spokesperson for McDonald's.

Edward's father is played by John Houseman as the thoughtful, well-to-do patriarch and industrialist whose demeanor starkly contrasts with Edward's and seems more similar to Ricky's ( at first ).

In 1934, Houseman was looking to cast a play he was producing based on a drama by Archibald MacLeish concerning a Wall Street financier whose world crumbles about him when consumed by the crash of 1929.

Houseman had made the mistake of personally threatening to ruin Harrington's career for refusing to abandon Grayson to her enemies ; Harrington lost her temper and slapped Houseman hard enough to fling him across the room with a bloody nose and mouth.

: It was in that year that CBS, remembering Welles ' work on Les Misérables the year before, approached him and Houseman about a series of radio dramas for its summer schedule.

Khumalo went on to become a star player for Kaizer Chiefs and did not play for any other South African soccer club, only leaving them for short overseas playing periods – he signed with FIFA agent Marcelo Houseman who took him to Argentina first Argentinian club Ferrocarril Oeste for six months in 1995 and in 1996 he played for the Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer.

Hitchcock was under contract to David O. Selznick, so he first pitched the idea for the film to him ; Selznick gave the okay for a script to be written, assigning John Houseman to keep an eye on its progress and direction.