Orson Welles budget for his aborted ‘Cradle Will Rock’ film

By RAY KELLY Among Orson Welles’ final unrealized projects, perhaps none came closer to fruition than The Cradle Will Rock. The autobiographical film would have been a retelling of Welles’ fabled 1937 Federal Theatre Project production of the controversial Marc Blitzstein musical on the labor movement. The government pulled support for the left-wing play before … Continue reading Orson Welles budget for his aborted ‘Cradle Will Rock’ film