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 ).

Working at the airport restaurant are African-American cook Wade Cooley ( Robert DoQui ), and his pretty waitress friend, Sueleen Gay ( Gwen Welles ), an aspiring country singer who refuses to recognize that she can't carry a tune.

On his death, fellow director and friend Orson Welles wrote an article for the Los Angeles Times, " Jean Renoir: The Greatest of all Directors ".

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.

Welles married Harriette Appleton Post, a childhood friend, in New York City on January 8, 1952, in the bride's home on Fifth Avenue in New York City.

Coolidge, however, disapproved of Welles ' 1925 marriage to Mathilde Scott Townsend, who had only recently divorced the President's friend, Senator Peter Gerry of Rhode Island.

Roosevelt was embittered by the attack on his friend, believing they were ruining a good man, but he was obliged to accept Welles ' resignation in 1943.

According to the Civil War historian Richard Lowe, Hiram Bond, a former Vanderbilt University functionary and friend of Grant, planned the removal of Pierpont and installation of Welles.

( Screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, who along with Orson Welles won an Oscar for the screenplay of Citizen Kane, was a friend of Sturges.

The production starred Orson Welles, who was " a marvelous friend " of Woollcott's and had been offered the role of Sheridan Whiteside in both the original stage production and the 1942 film ; he later said he was " very smart have declined ; because if you've seen the film you'll know it was awful and there was no way for anybody to be good in it.

In 1939, Orson Welles and the Mercury Players dramatized The Murder of Roger Ackroyd on CBS's Campbell Playhouse.

A radio adaptation starring Orson Welles aired in the USA on November 6, 1938, as part of his Mercury Theatre on the Air program.

The two-picture deal promised full creative control for the young director below an agreed budget limit, and Welles intention was to feature the Mercury Players in his productions.

On October 30, 1938, CBS gained a taste of infamy when Orson Welles and the The Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcast a radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds.

Welles, for his part, summarized the episode as " the Mercury Theater's own radio version of dressing up in a sheet and jumping out of a bush and saying ' Boo!

* 1937: Orson Welles ' famous production at the Mercury Theatre drew fervoured comment as the director dressed his protagonists in uniforms reminiscent of those common at the time in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, as well as drawing a specific analogy between Caesar and Benito Mussolini.

The 2009 movie Me and Orson Welles, based on a book of the same name by Robert Kaplow, is a fictional story centred around Orson Welles ' famous 1937 production of Julius Caesar at the Mercury Theatre.

Due to the famous radio adaptation of the novel by Orson Welles on his show, The Mercury Theatre on the Air, the novel has become one of the best known early apocalyptic works.

* 1938-Orson Welles and The Mercury Theatre on the Air players ( radio ).

It was on Mercury Theatre that Welles presented his celebrated-but-infamous adaptation of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, formatted to sound like a breaking news program.

The radio play was presented on the Orson Welles Show ( 1941 ), Philip Morris Playhouse ( 1942 ), Suspense ( 1942 ), and The Mercury Summer Theater ( 1946 ).

The composer Bernard Herrmann conducted the orchestra for some broadcasts, especially The Mercury Theatre on the Air and The Campbell Playhouse programs presented by Orson Welles.

While at CBS, Herrmann met Orson Welles, and wrote or arranged scores for Welles's Mercury Theatre on the Air and Campbell Playhouse series ( 1938 – 1940 ), which were radio adaptations of literature and film.

Herrmann also created the music for Welles's CBS radio series the Orson Welles Show ( 1941 – 1942 ), which included the debut of his wife Lucille Fletcher's suspense classic, The Hitch-Hiker ; Ceiling Unlimited ( 1942 ), a program conceived to glorify the aviation industry and dramatize its role in World War II ; and The Mercury Summer Theatre on the Air ( 1946 ).

On the night before Halloween in 1938, Orson Welles directed The Mercury Theatre on the Air live radio adaptation of H. G. Wells's classic novel, The War of the Worlds.

Orson Welles adapted the story for his Mercury Theatre players for a January 14, 1940 episode of The Campbell Playhouse, with Loretta Young starring as Theodora.

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

In July 1937 came the premiere of a seven-part adaptation of Les Misérables, produced, written, and directed by Orson Welles and featuring many of his Mercury Theatre performers — Mercury's first appearance on the air.

1937 also saw a ten minute made-for-TV extract from Richard III, directed by Stephen Thomas, and starring Ernest Milton as Richard and Beatrix Lehm as Lady Anne ( 9 April ); a one-hundred minute abridged version of Orson Welles ' legendary modern dress Mercury Theatre production of Julius Caesar, starring Welles himself as Caesar and George Coulouris as Mark Antony ; and a thirty minute extract from André van Gyseghem's Embassy Theatre production of Cymbeline starring George Woodbridge as Cymbeline and Joyce Bland as Imogen ( 29 November ).

Moorehead met Orson Welles and by 1937 was one of his principal Mercury Players, along with Joseph Cotten.

She performed in his The Mercury Theatre on the Air radio adaptations, and had a regular role opposite Welles in the serial The Shadow as Margo.

In 1939, Welles moved the Mercury Theatre to Hollywood, where he started working for RKO Pictures.

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.

In 1977, Rolle portrayed Lady Macbeth in Orson Welles ' Haitian-influenced version at the Henry Street New Federal Theater in Manhattan.

The Mercury Theatre on the Air — which eventually made Orson Welles a force to be reckoned with, especially with his broadcast of The War of the Worlds ( 30 October 1938 ) provoked — was initially a summer replacement series for Lux Radio Theater in 1938.

His radio work in the 1930s as a writer for the CBS Mercury Theater of the Air included the Orson Welles radio drama The War of the Worlds ( 1938 ), which caused nationwide panic among some listeners for its documentary-like portrayal of an invasion of spaceships from Mars.

Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles and Everett Sloane in Citizen Kane

Along with Welles, the cast includes Charlton Heston, Janet Leigh, Joseph Calleia, Akim Tamiroff, and Marlene Dietrich.

Police Chief Pete Gould ( Harry Shannon ) and District Attorney Adair ( Ray Collins ) arrive on the scene, followed by police Captain Hank Quinlan ( Orson Welles ) and Quinlan's longtime partner, Pete Menzies ( Joseph Calleia ).

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.

After that came a successful career in Europe, including the role of Joseph K. in Orson Welles ' 1962 adaptation of Kafka's The Trial ( both 1962 ).

* 1937 – Too Much Johnson, Mercury Theatre Company, Director: Orson Welles ; Writers: William Gillette and Orson Welles ; Starring Joseph Cotton as Augustus Billings and Ruth Ford as Mrs. Billings.

For his motion picture debut, Welles first considered adapting Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness for the screen.

The film stars Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles and Dick Miller, all of whom had worked for Corman on previous films.

On Los Angeles's skid row, penny-pinching Gravis Mushnick ( Mel Welles ) owns a florist shop and employs sweet but simple Audrey Fulquard ( Jackie Joseph ) and clumsy Seymour Krelboyne ( Jonathan Haze ).

Instead, it suggests that Josef Mengele was recruited by the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to produce " grotesque, child-size aviators " to be remotely piloted and landed in America to cause hysteria in the likeness of Orson Welles ' 1938 radio drama War of the Worlds, but that the aircraft crashed and the incident was hushed up by the Americans.

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.

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.

She was scheduled to appear in the proposed Orson Welles production of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness for RKO Radio Pictures.

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.

* Castle, William and Joseph, Robert, with introduction by Orson Welles ( 1945 ).

Welles hired her again for his film Journey into Fear alongside fellow Kane actor Joseph Cotten.

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.

Such stars as the iconic Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten and many other members of the Mercury Players performed there.