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Cotten and made
Cotten made his film debut in the Welles-directed short Too Much Johnson, a comedy that was intended to complement an aborted 1938 Mercury stage production of William Gillette's 1890 play.
Many of leading names in stage and film appeared in the series, most in the roles they made famous on the screen, including Abbott and Costello, Jean Arthur, Lauren Bacall, Lucille Ball, Ethel Barrymore, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Ingrid Bergman, Humphrey Bogart, Charles Boyer, James Cagney, Claudette Colbert, Ronald Colman, Gary Cooper, Joseph Cotten, Joan Crawford, Bing Crosby, Bette Davis, Dan Duryea, Frances Farmer, Errol Flynn, Ava Gardner, Judy Garland, Greer Garson, Janet Gaynor, Cary Grant, Lillian Gish, Charlton Heston, Bob Hope, Vivien Leigh, Ida Lupino, Fredric March, Agnes Moorehead, Paul Muni, Vincent Price, Donna Reed, Ginger Rogers, Mickey Rooney, Frank Sinatra, Ann Sothern, Barbara Stanwyck, James Stewart, Shirley Temple, Gene Tierney, Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner, John Wayne, Jane Wyman, Orson Welles, Loretta Young and Robert Young.
Cotten was magnificent, and I immediately made plans to edit it and send it to Joe as a birthday present.

Cotten and Broadway
Cotten achieved prominence on Broadway, starring in the original stage productions of The Philadelphia Story and Sabrina Fair.
In 1937 Cotten became an inaugural member of Welles's Mercury Theatre company, starring in Broadway productions of Julius Caesar, The Shoemaker's Holiday and Danton's Death, and in radio dramas presented on The Mercury Theatre on the Air and The Campbell Playhouse.
Cotten returned to Broadway in 1939, creating the role of C. K. Dexter Haven opposite Katharine Hepburn's Tracy Lord in the original production of Philip Barry's The Philadelphia Story.
In 1953 Cotten created the role of Linus Larrabee, Jr., in the original 1953 Broadway production of Sabrina Fair.
Credits include The Philadelphia Story on Broadway opposite Katharine Hepburn and Joseph Cotten, and the Arthur Miller plays A Memory of Two Mondays and A View From the Bridge.

Cotten and 1930
He appeared in more than 200 films, including The Big Trail ( 1930 ), with John Wayne ; The Scarlet Letter ( 1934 ), with Colleen Moore ; Sitting Bull ( 1954 ), as Crazy Horse ; The Light in the Forest ( 1958 ) as Cuyloga ; " The Great Sioux Massacre " ( 1965 ), with Joseph Cotten ; Nevada Smith ( 1966 ), with Steve McQueen ; A Man Called Horse ( 1970 ), with Richard Harris ; and Ernest Goes to Camp ( 1987 ), as Chief St.

Cotten and became
However, Cotten was the only one of the four to find major success as a lead in Hollywood outside of Citizen Kane ; Moorehead and Collins became successful character film actors.
Among the students were a number of performance artists and musicians, including Karen Finley, whose performances challenged notions of femininity and political power, and Prairie Prince and Michael Cotten, who presented their first performance as the Tubes in the SFAI lecture hall, and became pioneers in the field of music video.

Cotten and with
He first gained worldwide fame in the Orson Welles films Citizen Kane ( 1941 ), The Magnificent Ambersons ( 1942 ), and Journey into Fear ( 1943 ), for which Cotten was also credited with the screenplay.
Cotten starred with Jennifer Jones in four films: the wartime domestic drama Since You Went Away ( 1944 ), the romantic drama Love Letters ( 1945 ), the western Duel in the Sun ( 1946 ), and the critically acclaimed Portrait of Jennie ( 1948 ), in which he played a melancholy artist who becomes obsessed with a girl who may have died many years ago.
Cotten with his second wife, Patricia Medina
After some time away from film, Cotten returned in the horror classic Hush … Hush, Sweet Charlotte ( 1964 ), with Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, and Agnes Moorehead.
Later in the decade, Cotten was in several all-star disaster films, including Airport ' 77 ( 1977 ) with James Stewart and again with Olivia de Havilland, and the nuclear thriller Twilight's Last Gleaming ( 1977 ).
This led to a long-term MGM contract and a sequence of films, which included the musical The Glass Slipper ( 1955 ) and the drama Man with a Cloak ( 1956 ), with Joseph Cotten and Barbara Stanwyck.
Further highlights of this period included Tom, Dick, and Harry, a 1941 comedy in which she dreams of marrying three different men ; I'll Be Seeing You, with Joseph Cotten ; La Cava's 5th Avenue Girl ( 1939 ), where she played an out-of-work girl sucked into the lives of a wealthy family ; and especially the sharp and highly successful comedies: Bachelor Mother ( 1939 ), with David Niven, in which she played Polly Parrish, a shop girl who is falsely thought to have abandoned her baby ; and Billy Wilder's first Hollywood feature film: The Major and the Minor ( 1942 ), in which she played a woman who masquerades as a 12-year-old to get a cheap train ticket and finds herself obliged to continue the ruse for an extended period.
The version shown in American cinemas replaced this with narration by Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins.
The Third Man was adapted as a one-hour radio play on two broadcasts of Lux Radio Theater, first on 9 April 1951 with Joseph Cotten, then on 8 February 1954 with Ray Milland.
* Interview with Tim " Draconi " Cotten, Designer for Ultima Online.
The Reverend Doctor ( Joseph Cotten ) speaks to the graduates on the association of " the cultivated mind with the uncultivated ," and the importance of " the education of a nation.
It was also presented as an hour-long drama on Lux Radio Theater, first on April 27, 1942 with Robert Taylor and Barbara Stanwyck, then on May 8, 1944 with Joseph Cotten and Irene Dunne.
Among his numerous television roles, Carmichael guest starred with Keenan Wynn, Anthony George, and Olive Carey in the 1956 episode " Death in the Snow " of the NBC anthology series, The Joseph Cotten Show.
Although 44 at the time she played the chauffeur's 23-year-old daughter, Sabrina Fairchild, co-starring with Joseph Cotten.
Moorehead met Orson Welles and by 1937 was one of his principal Mercury Players, along with Joseph Cotten.
Non-Hitchcock thriller of the 50's include, the film-noirish Niagara ( 1953 ) by Henry Hathaway, with Marilyn Monroe as the trashy femme fatale who schemes to kill her unstable husband ( Joseph Cotten ), director Robert Aldrich's violent and fast-paced film Kiss Me Deadly ( 1955 ) featured Ralph Meeker as fictional detective Mike Hammer encountering nuclear apocalypse, The Night of the Hunter ( 1955 ), director Charles Laughton's only film, with Robert Mitchum playing a Bible-thumping, homicidal preacher victimizing two young children with a secret about the location of stolen money.

Cotten and Orson
Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles and Everett Sloane in Citizen Kane
The Third Man is a 1949 British film noir, directed by Carol Reed and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles and Trevor Howard.
The writing was taut, and the casting, which had always been a strong point of the series ( featuring such film stars as Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Henry Fonda, Humphrey Bogart, Judy Garland, Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, Eve McVeagh, Lena Horne, and Cary Grant ), took an unexpected turn when Lewis expanded the repertory to include many of radio's famous drama and comedy stars — often playing against type — such as Jack Benny.
The Third Man ( 1949 ), told the story of a writer ( Joseph Cotten ) in post-World War II Vienna who found out that his old friend ( Orson Welles ), a black marketeer, was not dead after all.
The story was adapted three times as a radio play for the series Suspense, on September 23, 1943 with Orson Welles as Zaroff and Keenan Wynn as Rainsford, on February 1, 1945 with frequent Welles collaborator Joseph Cotten portraying Rainsford, and on October 1, 1947 for the CBS radio program Escape.
Orson Welles notably spoke in a mid-Atlantic accent in the 1941 film Citizen Kane, as did many of his co-stars, such as Joseph Cotten.
Such stars as the iconic Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten and many other members of the Mercury Players performed there.
A 1943 film adaptation starred Joseph Cotten, with Orson Welles acting and producing.
It refers to Carol Reed's The Third Man starring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles.

Cotten and Welles
Cotten had his first starring role in Welles's second production for the Federal Theatre Project — the farce Horse Eats Hat, adapted by Welles and Edwin Denby from Eugène Labiche's play, Un Chapeau de Paille d ' Italie.
In The Third Man ( 1949 ), Cotten portrays a writer of pulp fiction who travels to post-war Vienna to meet his friend Harry Lime ( Welles ).
Welles ' friend and Mercury Theater colleague, Joseph Cotten, appears uncredited as a police officer.
In addition to Welles and Houseman, the Mercury Theatre troupe included Carl Frank, Joseph Cotten, Martin Gabel, Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins, Hans Conried, Paul Stewart, Will Geer, George Coulouris, Peggy Lloyd, Olive Stanton, Geraldine Fitzgerald, and Everett Sloane.
Welles hired her again for his film Journey into Fear alongside fellow Kane actor Joseph Cotten.
Welles cast Joseph Cotten in the lead role, with other parts going to Mercury Theatre actors including Eustace Wyatt, Edgar Barrier, Ruth Ford, Arlene Francis and Mary Wickes.

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