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Rep. James Cotten of Weatherford insisted that a water development bill passed by the Texas House of Representatives was an effort by big cities like Dallas and Fort Worth to cover up places like Paradise, a Wise County hamlet of 250 people.
Most of the fire was directed by Cotten against Dallas and Sen. Parkhouse.
Joseph Cheshire Cotten ( May 15, 1905 – February 6, 1994 ) was an American actor of stage and film.
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.
Joseph Cotten was born in 1905 in Petersburg, Virginia, son of Joseph Cheshire Cotten, Sr., an assistant postmaster, and his wife Sally Willson Cotten.
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.
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.
Despite the critical accolades Cotten received for his performance, he was again snubbed by the Academy.
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 ).
The film was a considerable success and brought renewed attention to its veteran cast, which also included Joseph Cotten, Mary Astor and Agnes Moorehead.
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.
Then, she receives wonderful news: her uncle ( for whom she was named ), Charlie Oakley ( Joseph Cotten ), her mother's younger brother, is arriving for a visit.
Bachelor Mother was adapted as a radio play on several occasions, including five broadcasts of The Screen Guild Theater: the first starred Laraine Day, Henry Fonda and Charles Coburn ( February 1, 1942 ); the second starred Ann Sothern and Fred MacMurray ( November 23, 1942 ); the third starred Ginger Rogers, Francis X. Bushman and David Niven ( May 6, 1946 ); the fourth starred Lucille Ball, Joseph Cotten and Charles Coburn ( April 28, 1949 ); the fifth starred Ann Sothern and Robert Stack ( April 20, 1952 ).
On two occasions, Spellbound was adapted to the radio program Lux Radio Theater, each starring Joseph Cotten: the first on March 8, 1948, the second on January 25, 1951.
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.
This was followed a year later by the first American video album, The Completion Backward Principle by The Tubes, directed by the group's keyboard player Michael Cotten, which included two videos directed by Russell Mulcahy (" Talk To Ya Later " and " Don't Want To Wait Anymore ").
* Joseph Cotten, actor, was born and raised here.
For the 1956 film, the role of Prince Albert was originally offered to Rex Harrison, then to Joseph Cotten, before being given to Alec Guinness.
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.
It was directed by William Dieterle and stars Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ann Richards, Cecil Kellaway, Gladys Cooper and Anita Louise.
It stars Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, and Charles Bickford, and was adapted by Allen Rivkin and Laura Kerr from the play Juurakon Hulda by Hella Wuolijoki, using the pen name Juhani Tervapää.
Due to rumours of Joseph Cotten and Ingrid Bergman having an affair, Bergman's role in the film was taken by Loretta Young.

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The film featured Cotten prominently in the role of Kane's best friend Jedediah Leland, eventually a drama critic for one of Kane's papers.
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.

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Shadow of a Doubt is a 1943 American drama / thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, and starring Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotten.
In the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode titled " Breakdown ", the sole survivor of a violent collision ( Joseph Cotten ) finds himself in a locked-in state, unable even to move an eyelid.
Teresa Wright and Joseph Cotten in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943 )
In 1943, Wright appeared in the acclaimed Universal film Shadow of a Doubt, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, playing an innocent young woman who discovers her beloved uncle ( played by Joseph Cotten ) is a serial murderer.
After appearing in two British films, including the starring role of Flora MacDonald opposite David Niven in Bonnie Prince Charlie ( 1948 ), the tall willowy actress played second female lead in Alfred Hitchcock's Under Capricorn ( 1949 ) starring Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, and Michael Wilding.
Sloane also worked extensively in television ; in November 1955 he starred in the Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode " Our Cook's A Treasure "; he appeared on the NBC anthology series The Joseph Cotten Show, also known as On Trial, in the 1956 episode " Law Is for the Lovers ", with co-star Inger Stevens.

Cotten and Hitchcock
Devlin with Cotten notwithstanding, he was very much right about a different casting decision: Hitchcock " had oddly wanted the epicene Clifton Webb " to play Alexander Sebastian.

Cotten and Ronald
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.
Among the movies Cromwell directed are Little Lord Fauntleroy ( 1936 ) starring Freddie Bartholomew and Dolores Costello ; The Prisoner of Zenda ( 1937 ) starring Ronald Colman and Madeleine Carroll, with Raymond Massey, Mary Astor, David Niven, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr .; Algiers ( 1938 ) starring Charles Boyer and Hedy Lamarr ; Abe Lincoln in Illinois ( 1940 ) starring Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, and Ruth Gordon ; Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake ( 1942 ) starring Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney ; Since You Went Away ( 1944 ) starring Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Shirley Temple, Robert Walker, and Monty Woolley, with Hattie McDaniel, Agnes Moorehead, Alla Nazimova, Lionel Barrymore and Keenan Wynn ; Anna and the King of Siam ( 1946 ) starring Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Lee J. Cobb, and Gale Sondergaard ; Dead Reckoning ( 1947 ) starring Humphrey Bogart and Lizabeth Scott ; the women's prison drama Caged ( 1950 ) and the noir crime / drama The Racket ( 1951 ) starring Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, and Robert Ryan, which Cromwell had appeared in onstage in New York and on tour.

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Cotten construed this as a veiled effort by Parkhouse to help Dallas and other large cities get money which Cotten felt could better be spent providing water for rural Texas.
Cotten achieved prominence on Broadway, starring in the original stage productions of The Philadelphia Story and Sabrina Fair.
Cotten made his Broadway debut in 1930, and soon became friends with Orson 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 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.
Cotten went to Hollywood, but discovered there that his stage success in The Philadelphia Story translated to, in the words of his agent Leland Hayward, " spending a solid year creating the Cary Grant role.
Cotten starred a year later in Welles's adaptation and production of The Magnificent Ambersons.
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.
In 1953 Cotten created the role of Linus Larrabee, Jr., in the original 1953 Broadway production of Sabrina Fair.

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