Editor’s note. This article first appeared on New York Arts on December 4, 2013 and is reprinted here with their kind permission. By MICHAEL MILLER Simon Callow, in his biography of Orson Welles, cites the Mercury actor, William Alland, on Welles’ personal devastation caused by the failure the company’s 1938 revival of William Gillette’s (1853-1937) … Continue reading ‘Too Much Johnson’ – Detailed look at the recovery of this lost Orson Welles film