Charles Laughton (62 page)
Authors: Simon Callow
Night of the Hunter
USA, 1955, 91 mins, United Artists.
Prod
. Paul Gregory,
dir
. LAUGHTON,
sc
. James Agee,
from the novel by
Davis Grubb,
ph
. Stanley Cortez,
a.d
. Hilyard Brown,
ed
. Robert Golden,
mus
. Walter Schumann. With: Robert Mitchum (Preacher Harry Powell), Shelly Winters (Willa Harper), Lillian Gish (Rachel), Evelyn Varden (Icey), Peter Graves (Ben Harper), Billy Chapin (John), Sally Ann Brice (Pearl), James Gleason (Birdie), Don Beddoe (Walt), Gloria Castillo (Ruby).
Witness for the Prosecution
USA, 1957, 114 mins, United Artists.
Prod
. Arthur Hornblow,
dir
. Billy Wilder,
sc
. Billy Wilder and Harry Kurnitz,
based on the story and play by
Agatha Christie. With: LAUGHTON (Sir Wilfrid Robarts), Tyrone Power (Leonard Vole), Marlene Dietrich (Christine Vole), Elsa Lanchester (Miss Plimsoll), John Williams (Brogan-Moore), Henry Daniell (Mayhew), Ian Wolfe (Carter), Una O’Connor (Janet McKenzie), Torin Thatcher (Mr Myers), Francis Compton (Judge), Norma Varden (Mrs French), Philip Tonge (Inspector Hearne), Ruta Lee (Diana).
Under Ten Flags
USA, 1960, Paramount.
Prod
. Dino de Laurentiis,
dir
. Diulio Coletti,
sc
. Diulio Coletti, Ulrich Mohr. With: LAUGHTON (Admiral Russell), Van Heflin (Commander Reger), Mylene Demongeot (Zizi), John Ericson (Lieut. Kreuger), Liam Redmond (Cpt. Windsor), Cecil Parker (Col. Howard), Alex Nicol (Knocke), John Lee (Aide to Admiral Russell), Gregoire Aslan (Master of the Abdullah), Eleonora Rossi Drago (Sara), Gianmaria Uolonte (Braun), Peter Carsten (Mohr).
Spartacus
USA, 1960, 196 mins. Universal.
Prod
. Edward Lewis,
dir
. Stanley Kubrick,
sc
. Dalton Trumbo,
based on the novel by
Howard Fast,
ph
. Clifford Stine,
a.d
. Eric Orbom,
ed
. Robert Lawrence,
mus
. Alex North. With: LAUGHTON (Gracchus), Kirk Douglas (Spartacus), Laurence Olivier (Marcus Crassus), Tony Curtis (Antoninus), Jean Simmons (Varinia), Peter Ustinov (Batiatus), John Gavin (Julius Caesar), Nina Foch (Helena Glabrus), Herbert Lom (Tigranes), John Ireland (Crixus), John Dall (Glabrus), Charles McGraw (Marcellus), Joanna Barnes (Claudia Marius), Woody Strode (Draba), Harold J. Stone (David).
Advise and Consent
USA, 1962, 139 mins, Columbia Films.
Prod
. Otto Preminger,
dir
. Otto Preminger,
sc
. Wendell Mayes,
based on the novel by
Allen Drury,
ph
. Sam Leavitt,
mus
. Jerry Fielding.
With:
LAUGHTON (Seabright Cooley), Henry Fonda (Robert Leffingwell), Don Murray (Brigham Anderson), Walter Pidgeon (Senator Bob Munson), Peter Lawford (Senator Lafe Smith), Gene Tierney (Dolly Harrison), Franchot Tone (The President), Lew Ayres (Vice President), Burgess Meredith (Herbert Gelman), Eddie Hodges (Johnny Leffingwell), Paul Ford (Senator Stanley Dante), George Gizzard (Senator Van Ackerman) Inga Swenson (Ellen Anderson), Paul McGrath (Hardiman Fletcher), Will Geer (Senate Minority Leader), Betty White (Bessie Adams).
The Discs
CHARLES LAUGHTON
78 rpm discs
Regal Zonophone MR 1234 – ‘Voice of the Stars’, 1934, featuring excerpt from soundtrack of ‘The Private Life of Henry VIII’.
VS2 – ‘Voice of the Stars – Jubilee Edition’ – No. 2, 1935, featuring excerpt from ‘The Barratts of Wimpole Street’.
VS3 – ‘Voice of the Stars’ – No. 3, 1936, featuring excerpt from ‘Mutiny on the Bounty’.
VS4 – ‘Voice of the Stars – Coronation Edition’ – No. 4, 1937, featuring excerpt from ‘I Claudius’.
Regal Zonophone MR 2722 – ‘Voice of the Stars’ – VS5, 1938, featuring excerpt from ‘Vessel of Wrath’.
American Columbia S–271–M recorded in Los Angeles, 6 January 1937, Lincoln’s Gettysburgh Address.
American Decca Album DA–379, 29M Personality Series. DA 29151/2, recorded in Hollywood in 1944. ‘Mr Pickwick’s Christmas’ by Charles Dickens with original musical accompaniment composed and conducted by Hanns Eisler; subsequently transferred to LP: Decca DL–8010 (USA); ‘Ace of Hearts’ AH 127 (UK).
American Decca Sets DU-15/16/17/18 ‘Readings from the Bible’. Issued 1948; subsequently transferred to LP:/ Decca DL-8031; Brunswick LAT 8275.
Australian Decca Y 5917 – ‘Oldest Christmas Story’ and ‘Story of the Three Wise Men’ (Reading with Musical Background).
Record No. 45770A – ‘The American Way Contests’, c. 1950, Radio Commercial.
Long-playing Records
AEI 2121 – ‘Greetings from Hollywood’ – from radio broadcast c. 1950, ‘Baby it’s cold outside’ with Elsa Lanchester and orchestral accompaniment.
Decca DL–5146. Decca DL-9071. ‘Moby Dick’.
Decca DL-8010 (from 78rpm listed above). ‘Mr Pickwick’s Christmas’.
Decca DL-8031 (USA); Brunswick LAT 8275 (UK); Coral CP 34, ‘Readings from the Bible’, (from 78rpm listed above).
Columbia OSL–166, 2-disc set recorded 1952, ‘Don Juan in Hell’ by George Bernard Shaw, with Charles Boyer, Cedric Hardwicke and Agnes Moorehead.
Capitol TBO 1650 (mono)/STBO 1650 (stereo) (2-disc set), ‘The Story-Teller: A session with Charles Laughton’ – excerpts on Ember LP CEL 907 m/s.
Pelican 114 – Radio Broadcast of 1945, ‘The Canterville Ghost’ with Margaret O’Brien.
RCA LPM 1136s – ‘Night of the Hunter’, reading based on the 1955 film and book; with chorus and orchestra.
Star-Tone 203 – ‘Calling All Stars’ – Radio Shows.
4-Murray Hill 937239 – ‘Hollywood’s Heroes on the Air’ – Radio Shows.
Vogue VA 160126, Hi-Fi Records 405, 1958, ‘Songs for a Smoke-Filled Room’, Elsa Lanchester, with Ray Henderson (piano) – remarks by Charles Laughton.
Vogue VA 160139, Hi-Fi Records 406, ‘Songs for a Shuttered Parlor’, Elsa Lanchester, with Ray Henderson (piano) – remarks by Charles Laughton.
ELSA LANCHESTER
78 rpm discs
Columbia 4125 – ‘Please sell no more drink to my father’ and ‘He didn’t oughter’ (‘Riverside Nights’), with Harold Scott, piano. Recorded in London on 26 August 1926.
Columbia DB 81 – ‘Don’t tell my mother I’m living in sin’ and ‘The Ladies Bar’ with Harold Scott, piano. Recorded in London on 14 February 1930. (Two takes of each song had already been recorded 14 January 1930 but were rejected.)
LP records
CBS SBRG 72063s – Stravinsky’s ‘The Flood’ (as Noah’s wife) (conducted by the composer) (recorded 1962).
Decca DL 4833/Brunswick LAT 8678 – Features extract from ‘The Bride of Frankenstein’.
Parlophone PMC 7141 – ‘All Talking! All Singing! All Dancing’ – ‘Great Movie Stars of the ’30s’ – features ‘Don’t tell my mother I’m living in Sin’ from 1930 Columbia 78 above.
Verve MG V-15015/HMV CLP 1417 – ‘Cockney London’ – Songs with Ray Henderson (piano).
Verve V–15024 – ‘Elsa Lanchester – Herself’ – An Intimate Musical Review (Censored by Charles Laughton).
Vogue VA 160126 (Hi Fi Records) – ‘Songs for a Smoke-Filled Room’ with Charles Laughton’s introductions.
Vogue VA 160139 (Hi Fi Records) – ‘Songs for a Shuttered Parlor’ with Charles Laughton’s introductions.
Sources
While I was writing this book, Elsa Lanchester was dying; just before I finished it, she was dead. I never spoke to her, but I did have access to the twenty-six boxes of material in the Charles Laughton Collection, donated to the University of California, Los Angeles in 1964. I have conducted over fifty personal interviews, and read (I believe) every extant published word written about Laughton, including biographies, scholarly studies, and movie magazines. John Beary and Oscar Lewenstein were kind enough to send me letters written by Laughton. But he was not a prolific letter-writer, and, for his own testimony about himself, I have had to rely largely on the two compilations that he published,
Tell Me A Story
and
The Fabulous Country
, which, both in their choice of material and in their linking commentaries, were held by Elsa Lanchester to give the best impression of what he was really like. I have quoted freely from them, and the one sustained piece of writing by him, from
The Fabulous Country
, is reprinted in the appendix to this book.
Otherwise my invaluable sources have been
Charles Laughton and I
, written by Elsa Lanchester in collaboration with Benita Armstrong, originally in serial form for the
Daily Express
, her second book,
Elsa Lanchester Herself
, and Charles Higham’s
Charles Laughton
. Mr Higham’s book was written, with full access to the papers, under Miss Lanchester’s auspices. These three books thus all reflect her viewpoint, and have therefore been used with respectful caution.
S.C
.
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Index
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Abbot and Costello meet Captain Kid
, 219–20, 317
Advise and Consent
, 149, 232, 274–5, 276, 277, 318
Agate, James, 16, 17, 21, 32, 38, 40, 53, 57, 61, 66, 68, 70, 71, 73, 75, 79, 81–82, 85, 91–2, 104, 112, 130, 133, 156, 165–6, 178
Agee, James, 158, 235
Ainley, Henry, 13
Alibi
, 26–7, 43–4, 308
Allen, John, 78–9
Anderson, Judith, 223–4
Angela
, 307
Arch of Triumph
, 184, 316
Arden, Jane, 248–9, 259
Arnold, Malcolm, 228
Aynesworth, Allan, 13
Badel, Alan, 226
Bagnold, Enid, 258, 259, 269
Bankhead, Tallulah, 29, 50, 51
Banks, Leslie, 130
Banks, Monte, 36
Barnes, Dr. Albert, 107
Barnes, Binnie, 60
Barnes, Kenneth, 11–13
Barnes Theatre, 13
Barrett, Wilson, 52
Barretts of Wimpole Street, The
, 84–6, 313
Barrie, J. M., 112
Barrymore, Ethel, 185
Baylis, Lilian, 58, 67, 68, 72, 79, 83
Bazzi, Maria, 209
Beachcomber, The
, 131
Beaumont, Binkie, 13
Beauty
, 30, 308
Because of Him
, 104, 177, 179
Belita, 34, 206, 207, 286
Bennett, Arnold, 18–20, 47
Bentley, Eric, 189, 194, 195, 197, 198, 201, 216, 230, 233, 259
Berlau, Ruth, 185, 190, 191, 194, 198
Bernstein, Sidney, 19
Bickford, Charles, 64
Big Clock, The
, 186–8, 316
Birò, Lajos, 60, 102, 104
Blakemore, Michael, 255, 257, 263, 264, 265, 271
Blue Bottles
, 306
Blue Veil, The
, 311
Bogeaus, Benedict, 178, 200
Boland, Mary, 89
Boleslavsky, Richard, 93–4
Boyer, Charles, 152, 153, 215, 216
Brecht, Bertolt, 56, 84, 106, 168–81, 181–200
Bribe, The
, 204–5, 317
Byam Shaw, Glen, 252, 253, 254, 257, 263, 264, 265, 267, 270
Caine Mutiny Court Martial, The
, 230–3, 311
Canterville Ghost, The
, 158–9, 316
Captain Kidd
, 177–9, 316
Carter, Ken, 266–9
Casson, Lewis, 16, 17
Checkmate
, 274, 276
Cherry Orchard, The
, 15, 65, 66–7, 207–9, 306, 310
Cheston, Dorothy, 19
Chevalier, Maurice, 107, 108
Christie, Agatha, 26, 246
Chu-Chin-Chow
, 8
Clair, René, 92, 113
Clements, John, 109, 217
Cochran, C. B., 15, 30
Cohn, Harry, 225, 226
Comets
, 45, 46
Cooper, Gary, 50, 51, 56, 98, 203
Cortez, Stanley, 206, 220, 235–6, 239–40, 241, 242
Cotrell, Bill, 201
Cukor, George, 86, 87, 88
Cyrano de Bergerac
, 96, 102–4, 179
Dane, Clemence, 124, 127, 128, 130
Daniell, Henry, 167, 178, 246
Dassin, Jules, 158
David Copperfield
, 86
Day Dreams
, 312
Dean, Basil, 29
Dell, Jeffrey, 38
Devil and the Deep
, 48, 50–1, 312
Dharma Bums, The
, 212
Dieterle, William, 134–5, 137, 225
Dietrich, Marlene, 113, 114, 246, 247
Disney, Walt, 63, 101
Don Juan In Hell
, 215–9, 311
Donat, Robert, 60, 229
Doubleday, Nelson, 42
Douglas, Kirk, 252
Douglas, Melvyn, 48
Down River
, 46, 312
Drake, Fabia, 69–70, 75
Drama Quartette, The, 215–19
Dudgeon, Elspeth, 49
Dull, Leonard & Orville, 157
Dupont, Ewald A., 46
Durbin, Deanna, 150, 158, 179, 283
Duvivier, Julien, 153
Eisler, Hanns, 173, 181, 184, 193
Elsa Lanchester – Herself
, 272–3
Epic That Never Was, The
, 118
Evans, Edith, 16, 258
Fabulous Country, The
, 43, 293–305
Fagan, J. B., 16–17
Farquharson, Robert, 67
Farrow, John, 187
Fatal Alibi
, 43–4
Fenby, Eric 7, 132
Fields, W. C. 56, 86, 90
Finney, Albert, 248, 251, 257, 262, 290
Fonda, Henry, 152, 230–2
Forever and a Day
, 156, 315
Franklin, Sidney, 84, 85, 86, 227
Frazin, Gladys, 36–7
French Leave
, 32, 309
Gable, Clark, 97–8, 100, 101
Gachet, Alice, 12, 107
Galileo, The Life of
, 171, 172, 174–6, 177, 181–200, 269, 310
Gardner, Ava, 204
Gargan, William, 144, 147–8
Garmes, Lee, 104
Gielgud, John, 73, 206, 254, 258, 266
Girl from Manhattan, The
, 200–1, 317
Gish, Lilian, 234–5, 236, 237–8
Gordon, Ruth, 43, 208, 209
Goring, Marius, 47, 65, 66, 68, 70, 76, 78, 79, 109
The Government Inspector
, 13, 306
Granger, Stewart, 225, 226
Graves, Robert, 122
The Greater Love
, 16–17, 306
Green, Dorothy, 11, 12
Gregory, Paul, 209–10, 213, 214–15, 221–2, 229, 230, 231, 233–4, 237, 241, 242, 243–4, 284
Guinness, Alec, 66, 83, 244, 247
Guthrie, Tyrone, 19, 57, 65–81, 84, 113, 124, 128
Hall, Peter, 257, 259, 262, 263, 264, 269, 271
Hambleton, Edward, 185, 186, 189, 269
Happy Husband, The
, 307
Hardwicke, Cedric, 84, 92, 156, 215, 217, 226
Harris, Jed, 44, 217
Harrison, Rex, 127
Hayworth, Rita, 225
Henry VIII
, 67–8, 309
Hitchcock, Alfred, 19, 56, 130–2, 185
Hobson’s Choice
, 10, 90, 227–9, 318
Hobson, Harold, 268
Holm, Ian, 264, 269
Horner, Harry, 209
Houseman, John, 186, 190–1, 216, 217
Howard, Sidney, 144
Hubley, John, 189
Hunchback of Notre Dame, The
, 134–9, 314
Hunt, Martita, 14
Huntley, Raymond, 109
I, Claudius
, 113–22, 314
If I Had A Million
, 55–6, 312
Importance of Being Earnest, The
, 73, 310
In the Presence of Mine Enemies
, 272
Isherwood, Christopher, 28, 213, 269, 277, 279, 287, 289–91
Island of Lost Souls
, 54, 313
It Started With Eve
, 150–1, 315
Jamaica Inn
, 124, 130–2, 314
Jeans, Ursula, 65
Jenkins, Terry, 287–9, 291–2
John Brown’s Body
, 221–5, 311
Kanin, Garson, 85, 89, 145–9, 208–9
Karloff, Boris, 49, 214
Keaton, Buster, 156
Kenton, Earle, 54
King Lear
, 83, 179, 252–71, 311
Kipling, Rudyard, 35
Knoblock, Edward, 19
Komisarjevsky, Theodore, 13–15, 19–22
Korda, Alexander, 59–63, 96, 102–16, 120–22, 227, 279
Koster, Henry, 150, 155, 179, 220
Kubrick, Stanley, 252–3
Lanchester, Elsa, 5, 21–2, 27, 37–41, 44, 52, 54, 60, 69–81, 108–9, 124, 143, 153, 187, 218, 244, 251, 256–7, 263, 278–85, 289, 290, 295
Lasky, Jesse, 45, 50–1
Laughton, Elizabeth, 3–7, 29, 281
Laughton, Frank, 3–5, 281, 289–90
Laughton, Robert, 3–5, 7, 11
Laughton, Tom, 3–5, 7, 11, 131, 289
Lawrence, Gertrude, 109, 111
Lean, David, 227–9, 244
Leigh, Vivien, 127–8
Leonard, Robert Z., 157, 204
Leontovich, Eugénie, 207
Levy, Benn, 22–4, 45–8, 51
Life of Galileo, The
, 171–2, 174–8, 180–200, 269, 310
Liliom
, 15, 306
Livesey, Roger, 69, 71–2, 76, 79, 81, 108–9
Lloyd, Frank, 97
Lloyd, Norman, 169–70, 184, 186, 190, 192, 210
Lombard, Carole, 63, 144–7
Losey, Joseph, 44, 184–5, 190–1, 197, 199–200
Love For Love
, 72, 80, 310
Lubitsch, Ernst, 55
Lugosi, Bela, 55
Lupino, Richard, 208, 245–6
Macbeth
, 73–6, 78, 80, 82, 310
Macrae, Arthur, 88
Mailer, Norman, 242–3
Major Barbara
, 244–5, 311
Making of an Immortal, The
, 26, 307
Manessier, Albert, 56, 264
Man from Down Under, The
, 157, 315
Man on the Eiffel Tower, The
, 205–6, 317
Man with Red Hair
, A, 22–5, 307
Mannin, Ethel, 281–2
March, Frederic, 84, 92
Marshall, Norman, 14
Mason, James, 65–71, 79, 81
Massey, Raymond, 31, 48–9, 117, 222–4
Maugham, Somerset, 124
du Maurier, Daphne, 124
du Maurier, Gerald, 8, 27, 51, 57, 79, 112
Maxwell, John, 124, 131
Measure For Measure
, 68–71, 309
Medea
, 18, 307
Mendes, Lothar, 53
Meredith, Burgess, 200, 206, 245, 278
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A
, 259–63, 311
Milestone, Lewis, 184
Milland, Ray, 187
de Mille, Cecil B., 52–3
Miracle Can Happen, A
, 200, 201
Misérables, Les
, 92–6, 101, 314
Mitchum, Robert, 234, 236, 237–40, 285
Monroe, Marilyn, 220
Moore, Eva, 49
Moore, Henry, 56, 212
Moorehead, Agnes, 215
Morahan, Tom, 104, 124, 127, 130
Morgan, Henry, 187
Mr. Pickwick
, 308
Mr. Prohack
, 18–21, 307
Muggeridge, Malcolm, 35
Mutiny On The Bounty
, 96–101, 314
McCarey, Leo, 88, 89
McLeod, Norman Z., 158
Naked
, 18, 307
Naked and the Dead, The
242–3
Newton, Robert, 124, 130
Nichols, Dudley, 159, 163
Night of the Hunter
, 234–43, 318
Nolte, Charles, 230–1
Novello, Ivor, 15
Oberon, Merle, 60, 114, 121–2
O’Brien, Margaret, 150, 158, 283
O’Casey, Sean, 30–1
O’Connor, Una, 160
O’Hara, Maureen, 130, 132, 133, 150, 158, 160, 161, 163, 283
O. Henry’s Full House
, 220, 317
Old Dark House, The
, 48–50, 312
Olivier, Laurence, 8, 18, 26, 43, 48, 77, 84, 138, 143, 171, 192, 206, 217–18, 240–1, 248, 252, 253–5, 258, 266, 271, 294
On Our Merry Way
, 200, 201, 317
On The Spot
, 32–8, 42, 309
O’Sullivan, Maureen, 54, 86, 187, 283
Owen, Reginald, 178
Paradine Case, The
, 185, 316
Party, The
, 248–52, 258, 311
Paul I
, 19, 307
Payment Deferred
, 38–40, 42, 53–4
Périnal, Georges, 60, 108
Peter Pan
, 111–13, 310
Phaedrus
, 213
Piccadilly
, 46, 312
Pickwick Papers, The
, 29, 308
Pillars of Society
, 306
Pitts, Zasu, 87
Pommer, Erich, 122, 123–33, 149–50, 279
Powell, Dick, 230–1
Power Tyrone, 221–3, 246, 247
Preminger, Otto, 19, 56, 274–5, 290
Priestley, J. B. 48, 130, 216
Private Life of Henry VIII, The
, 25, 59–63, 309
Quartermaine, Leon, 65
Raft, George, 56
Rains, Claude, 11–13
Redford, Robert, 272
Remarque, Erich Maria, 184
Rembrandt
, 104, 107, 109–11, 154, 165, 314
Renoir, Jean, 56, 155, 157, 160, 163–4, 290
Reyher, Ferdinand, 174
Richardson, Ralph, 117
Ridgeway, Philip, 13
Riverside Nights
, 308
Robertson, Sir Johnston Forbes, 13
Robson, Flora, 23, 57, 65–9, 72–5, 79, 98, 117
Ruggles, Charles, 56, 89
Ruggles of Red Gap
, 88–92, 101, 154, 313
St Martin’s Lane
, 87, 124, 127–31, 314
Salome
, 225–6, 318
Sanders, Terry & Denis, 236, 242, 257, 285
Schumann, Walter, 223, 239
Selznick, David O., 86, 185, 200
Seyler, Athene, 65, 72
Shaw, George Bernard, 13, 215, 244–6
Shearer, Norma, 85, 86
Sidewalks of London, The
, 128
Silver Tassie, The
, 30–1, 160, 308
Sign of the Cross, The
, 52–4, 312
Simmons, Jean, 226, 252
Siodmak, Robert, 19, 167
Sitwell, Osbert, 4, 7, 11, 19
Slezak, Walter, 159, 162, 164–5
Spartacusj
, 252–5, 318
Stand by for Action
, 156–7, 315
Sternberg, Josef von, 90, 113–22
Strange Door, The
, 214
Struss, Karl, 54, 209
Suspect, The
165, 316
Tales of Manhattan
, 152–3, 315
Taylor, Kent, 64
Taylor, Robert, 204
Tell Me A Story
, 210, 232
Tempest, The
, 71–2, 309
Thalberg, Irving, 53, 84, 87, 97, 101, 134
Thesiger, Ernest, 48, 49
They Knew What They Wanted
, 144–9, 315
This Land Is Mine
, 109, 149, 159–64, 316
Thompson, Hepsebiah, 9
Thorndike, Sybil, 13, 16, 17, 18, 26
Three Sisters
, 15, 306
Todd, Ann, 185
Todd, Mike, 182–3
Tone, Franchot, 101, 206, 275
Tuttles of Tahiti, The
, 151, 152, 315
Tynan, Kenneth, 218–19, 250, 251, 260
Under Ten Flags
, 271–2, 318
Ustinov, Peter, 53, 158, 252, 253, 256, 286
Vanbrugh, Irene, 13
Vessel of Wrath
, 124–7, 131, 314
Viertel, Salka, 168, 181
Wagon Train
, 274
Wallace, Edgar, 32, 33, 34
Walpole, Hugh, 22, 26
Wanted Men
, 46
Weigel, Helene, 189–190, 191
Welles, Orson, 181–3, 192, 240, 277