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Joe McBride’s post of May 9 mentions how he warned Susan Strasberg of a coming slap since he knew that Welles had done something similar to Suzanne Cloutier during the shooting of Othello . Right around the time of this and the other “slap” posts, I happened to be reading Micheál MacLiamóir’s Put Mo...

The post mentions Norman Lloyd, but I think it was Norman Foster that was intended. Lloyd did work with Welles, but it was in theater and radio; he played, for example, the part of Cinna the poet in Welles’s fascist-evoking production of Julius Caesar . Lloyd was, however, almost in a Welles’s film ...

I mentioned on the Too Much Johnson thread that the Mr. Bongo version of the film is available on TubiTV. After running across Johnson , I did a quick site search for “Orson Welles” and found other items that might be of interest to fellow Welles-netters. And at the very least, it’s nice to know tha...

I happened to notice that on the free movie site, TubiTV (movies will have a couple of interspersed advertisements) Too Much Johnson is available. https://tubitv.com/movies/502443/too_much_johnson?start=true This is the 66 minute Mr. Bongo release, which is rather expansive and includes many similar...

I think Le Chiffre’s comparison of TOSOTW to Cubism is really quite illuminating and makes sense when applied to either of the two main phases of the cubist movement. Or put the other way around, both major phases of Cubism throw interesting light on the film. In the first or “analytical” phase of C...

A few posts back, on February 17th, Wellesnet member Le Chiffre relayed an interesting anecdote about a friend who had seen TOSOTW, liked some of the performances, but commented that “it seemed like a bewildering hodgepodge of half-baked ideas.” I had a similar experience when a good friend of mine ...

I think Joseph McBride has identified quite exactly the special strength of Callow’s writing on Welles. “…Callow’s background as an actor helps him immensely in conveying the ambience and excitement of Welles’s stage and radio work....” I’ve read volume 3 of Callow’s biography (with special attentio...

I've been a longtime reader of Wellesnet and even established an account a year or two ago, but sometimes it's a little tricky to know just when and how to jump into an ongoing discussion. This thread, however, seems like just the opportunity since I'd like to join the many other Wellesnet members w...