Orson Welles, Vol I (104 page)

Orson Welles as Faustus in his production of the Marlowe play

‘Bride of Young Actor’ – Virginia Nicolson’s wedding picture as it appeared in a newspaper announcement

Orson, Virginia and their baby Christopher

Welles and John Houseman confer during a rehearsal of
Horse Eats Hat

Joseph Cotten and horse in
Horse Eats Hat
, the first Project 891 production

Top right:
A scene from Welles’s sensational production of
Macbeth
with an all-black cast
Left:
Ouside the theatre on opening night and
bottom right:
backstage

As Mercutio in
Romeo and Juliet

‘George Orson Welles: Shadow to Shakespeare’

Some of Welles’s costume sketches for
Doctor Faustus
and
Macbeth

Page from
Everybody’s Shakespeare
with drawings by Welles

The man behind
The War of the Worlds

Cartoonist Al Hirschfeld’s view of Welles at work

Hirschfeld on the contrasts in the 1937 Broadway theatre – the medieval with Welles as Faustus and Paula Lawrence as Helen of Troy in
Doctor Faustus
, the modern with Norman Lloyd in
Power

Welles casts a cold eye on his modern dress production
of Julius Caesar
in a
New York Times
cartoon by Hirschfeld