WELLES MSS.
RADIO, 1938-1947 (Box
7, f. 22-Box 13, f. 32)
Arranged chronologically.
Each program series is generally dated from the earliest
broadcast present. Correspondence regarding Welles' radio
activities is interfiled chronologically in the CORRESPONDENCE
section. There are also radio materials in the TAPES and BOUND
RADIO SCRIPTS sections.
Box 8; Box 9;
Box 10; Box 11; Box 12
; Box 13;
Box 7:
folder 22: Mercury Theatre
on the Air, 1938. Publicity releases
See also Tapes; Bound Radio
Scripts
folders 23-24: Campbell
Playhouse, 1938-1940. Miscellaneous script and production
materials
See also Tapes; Bound Radio
Scripts; Oversize 11
folder 25: The Jello Program
Starring Jack Benny (Mar. 17, 1940). Script
See also Tapes
Orson Welles Almanac
(Lady Esther) 1941
folder 26: OWA (LE) -
"Evening Primrose" [not used]. Scripts
folder 27: OWA (LE) -
"Bottle Party" [not used]. Scripts
folder 28: OWA (LE) -
"Little Gentleman," by Booth Tarkington [not used].
Scripts
folder 29: OWA (LE) -
"Boogie Woogie in Boston," by Elliot Paul. Scripts
folder 30: OWA (LE) -
"Variation on a Theme" [not used]. Scripts
folder 31: OWA (LE) -
"Salome" [not used]. Scripts
Box 8:
folder 1: OWA (LE) -
"Another American Tragedy" [not used]. Scripts
folder 2: OWA (LE) -
"Folk Songs of Ibiza," by Elliot Paul [not used].
Scripts
folder 3: OWA (LE) -
"Louise," by Saki [not used]. Scripts
folder 4: OWA (LE) -
"The Music Lesson," by Elliot Paul [not used]. Scripts
folder 5: OWA (LE) -
"The Cask of Amontillado," adapted by Roger Quayle
Denny. [not used]. Scripts
folder 6: OWA (LE) -
"The Open Window," by Saki [not used]. Scripts
folder 7: OWA (LE) -
"Shake Hands with the Dragon," by Carl Glick. Scripts
folder 8: OWA (LE) -
"You Were Perfectly Fine," by Dorothy Parker [not
used]. Scripts
folder 9: OWA (LE) - "A
Question of Approach," by Elliot Paul [not used]. Scripts
folder 10: OWA (LE) -
"The Easter Egg," by Saki, adapted by Roger Quayle
Denny. [not used]. Scripts
folder 11: OWA (LE) -
"The Sexes," by Dorothy Parker [not used]. Scripts
folder 12: OWA (LE) -
"The Lost Sanjak," by Saki, adapted by Roger Quayle
Denny [not used]. Scripts
folder 13: OWA (LE) -
"Table for Two" [not used]. Scripts
folder 14: OWA (LE) -
"An Irishman and a Jew" [not used]. Scripts.
"Hidalgo, Or, Put Down That God Damned Blackjack,
Sweetheart," by Robert Meltzer [not used]. Scripts
folder 15: OWA (LE) -
"Dear Lonely Lady," by Roger Quayle Denny [not used].
Scripts
folder 16: OWA (LE) -
"The Dark Hall," by Roger Quayle Denny [not used].
Scripts
folder 17: OWA (LE) -
"Supper for Cinderella," by Roger Quayle Denny [not
used]. Scripts
folder 18: OWA (LE) -
"Ask the Dust," by John Fante [not used]. Scripts
folder 19: OWA (LE) -
"Benedict Arnold Script" [used for promotional
purposes]. Script
folder 20: OWA (LE) -
"The Golden Honeymoon." Script "Almanac."
Notes
folder 21: OWA (LE) -
"Murder in the Bank," by John Patrick. Originally
titled: "Blood and Thunder." Scripts
folder 22: OWA (LE) -
"The Lumber Room," by Saki, adapted by Roger Quayle
Denny. [not used]. Scripts
folder 23: OWA (LE) -
"Rolls and Salt" [not used]. Scripts
folder 24: OWA (LE) -
"Supper for Two," by Roger Quayle Denny [not used].
Scripts
folder 25: OWA (LE) -
"I'm a Fool." Script. "Almanac." Notes
folder 26: OWA (LE) -
"Gold Mounted Guns," by F.R. Buckley, adapted by Roger
Quayale Denny [not used]. Scripts
folder 27: OWA (LE) -
"The Third Ingredient," by O. Henry, adapted by Roger
Quayle Denny [not used]. Scripts
folder 28: OWA (LE) -
"The Diamond Necklace" [not used]. Script
folder 29: OWA (LE) -
"The Salvation of Pisco Gabar" [not used]. Scripts
folder 30: OWA (LE) -
"The Chaser" [not used] Scripts
folder 31: OWA (LE) -
"Black Marigolds," a free interpretation by John Fante
[not used]. Scripts
folder 32: OWA (LE) -
"The Black Pearl." Script
folder 33: OWA (LE) -
"The Lost Stars," by Catulle Mendes, adapted by John
Fante [not used]. Scripts
folder 34: OWA (LE) -
"The Exact Science of Matrimony," by O. Henry [not
used]. Scripts
folder 35: OWA (LE) -
"The House," by Donald Hough [not used]. Scripts
folder 36: OWA (LE) -
"If in Years to Come," by Earl Reed Silvers, adapted by
Roger Quayle Denny. Script
folder 37: OWA (LE) -
"Parker Poems." Script
folder 38: OWA (LE) -
"The Light in the Valley," by Michael Manning [not
used]. Scripts
folder 39: OWA (LE) -
"The Emperor's New Clothes," by Hans Christian Andersen
[not used]. Script
folder 40: OWA (LE) -
"It's Perfectly True!" by Hans Christian Andersen [not
used]. Script
folder 41: OWA (LE) -
"The Prisoner of Assiout." Script
folder 42: OWA (LE) -
"Romance." Script
folder 43: OWA (LE) -
"The All American Team," by John Fante [not used].
Scripts
folder 44: OWA (LE) -
"The Knife," by Brendan Gill [not used]. Scripts
folder 45: OWA (LE) -
"Mr. Sampson," by Charles Lee, adapted by John Fante
[not used]. Scripts
folder 46: OWA (LE) -
"A Source of Irritation," by Stacy Aumonier, adapted by
Roger Quayle Denny [not used]. Scripts
folder 47: OWA (LE) -
"And Stars in the Sky," by Earl Reed Silvers [not
used]. Scripts
folder 48: OWA (LE) -
"Eye Hath Not Seen," by John Fante [not used]. Script
folder 49: OWA (LE) -
"Purple and Fine Linen," by May Edginton, adapted by
Roger Quayle Denny [not used]. Scripts
folder 50: OWA (LE) -
"The Shirt Collar," by Hans Christian Andersen [not
used]. Scripts
folder 51: OWA (LE) -
"Wild Oranges," by Joseph Hergesheimer, adapted by
Roger Quayle Denny. Scripts
folder 52: OWA (LE) -
"The Maysville Minstrel." Scripts
folder 53: OWA (LE) -
"Kangaroo Loves Me," by Geoffrey Household, adapted by
John Fante [not used]. Scripts
folder 54: OWA (LE) -
"The Lady, Or the Tiger?" by Frank R. Stockton [not
used]. Scripts
folder 55: OWA (LE) -
"The Hitch-Hiker," by Lucille Fletcher. Script
folder 56: OWA (LE) -
"Rebecca" [not used]. Script
folder 57: OWA (LE) -
"The Silver Hilt," by Ferenc Molnar, adapted by Roger
Quayle Denny [not used]. Scripts
folder 58: OWA (LE) -
"Youth," by Joseph Conrad, adapted by Roger Quayle
Denny [not used]. Scripts
folder 59: OWA (LE) -
"The Swing Shift," by Foster Carling [not used].
Scripts
folder 60: OWA (LE) -
"A Farewell to Arms." Script; "Gettysburg
Address" [not used?]. Incomplete script
folder 61: OWA (LE) -
"Jane Eyre" [not used]. Scripts
folder 62: OWA (LE) -
"Monsieur Beaucaire," by Booth Tarkington, adapted by
Michael Wilson [not used]. Scripts
folder 63: OWA (LE) -
"Alice Adams" [not used]. Scripts
folder 64: OWA (LE) -
"Original Radio Drama Written for Orson Welles" [not
used]. Script
folder 65: OWA (LE) -
"Something's Going to Happen to Henry," by Shore and
Solomon, adapted by Robert Meltzer. Script
folder 66: OWA (LE) -
"Water of Iturrigorri," by Geoffrey Household, adapted
by John Fante [not used]. Scripts
folder 67: OWA (LE) -
"Rip Van Winkle," by Roger Quayle Denny [canceled due
to war emergency]. Script
folder 68: OWA (LE) -
"Symptoms of Being Thirty-five," by Ring Lardner,
adapted by Vera Eikel. Scripts
folder 69: OWA (LE) -
"Walt Whitman Poem." Script
folder 70: OWA (LE) -
"I Play Hamlet, a Ghost Story," by Roger Quayle Denny
[not used]. Scripts
folder 71: OWA (LE) -
"Stage 14," by Richard Carlson [not used]. Scripts
folder 72: OWA (LE) -
"The Curse of the Yehonala; An Historical Melodrama for
Radio," by Roger Quayle Denny [not used]. Scripts
folder 73: OWA (LE) -
"Young Mrs. Moon," by Nelia Gardner White, adapted by
Roger Quayle Denny [not used]. Scripts
folder 74: OWA (LE) -
"Christmas Verse," by G.K. Chesterton. Script
folder 75: OWA (LE) -
"The Happy Prince," by Oscar Wilde [used] and "The
Story-Teller" [not used]. Scripts
Box 9:
folder 1: OWA (LE) -
"St. Luke's Chapter II." Script
folder 2: OWA (LE) -
"There Are Frenchmen and Frenchmen." Script
folder 3: OWA (LE) -
"The Garden of Allah." Scripts
folder 4: OWA (LE) - "Someone Else," by Lucille Fletcher Herrmann [not
used]. Scripts
folder 5: OWA (LE) -
"The Apple Tree," by John Galsworthy, adapted by Roger
Quayle Denny. Script
folder 6: OWA (LE) -
"Little Miss Haley," by Roger Quayle Denny [not used].
Scripts
folder 7: OWA (LE) -
"My Little Boy," by Carl Ewald. Scripts
folder 8: OWA (LE) -
"The Happy Hypocrite." Scripts
folder 9: OWA (LE) -
"August Heat," by W.F. Harvey [not used]. Script
folder 10: OWA (LE) -
"In the Fog," by Richard Harding Davis, adapted by John
Latham [not used]. Script
folder 11: OWA (LE) -
"The Invaders" [not used]. Scripts
folder 12: OWA (LE) -
"The Killer," by Stewart Edward White, adapted by Roger
Quayle Denny [not used]. Scripts
folder 13: OWA (LE) -
"Look Homeward Angel," by Leonardo Bercovici [not
used]. Script
folder 14: OWA (LE) -
"The Man in the Green Necktie," by Arkady Averchenko
[not used]. Scripts
folder 15: OWA (LE) -
"The Mappined Life" [not used]. Script
folder 16: OWA (LE) -
"Pigs Is Pigs" [not used]. Scripts
folder 17: OWA (LE) -
"Poems" [Ogden Nash, "The Rebuffers; John Keats,
"A Song about Myself (From a Letter to Fanny Keats)" and "To
Autumn"] [not used]. Script
folders 18-19: OWA (LE) -
Miscellaneous background and research materials
folder 20-28: OWA (LE) -
Story reports
folder 29-31: OWA (LE) -
Profile Studies of Programs See also Tapes; Bound Radio Scripts; Oversize 12
folder 32: "Between
Americans," Gulf Screen Guild Theatre (Dec. 7, 1941). Script.
See also Tapes
folder 33: "The Great
Man Votes," Cavalcade of America (Dec. 15, 1941). Script.
See also Tapes
folder 34: "We Hold
These Truths" (Dec. 15, 1941). Script, by Norman Corwin
See also Tapes
folder 35: "American
Laughter" (Red Cross Program) (Jan. 25, 1942). Script, by
Kenneth Allen Robinson
folder 36: [Pan American
Day] (Apr. 14, 1942). Scripts. See also Tapes
folder 37: President Vargas'
Birthday Broadcast (Apr. 18, 1942). Scripts. See also Tapes
folder 38: "High
Flight," Radio Readers Digest (Oct. 11, 1942). Script
folder 39: "Admiral of
the Ocean Sea" (Oct. 11, 1942). Script See also Tapes.
Ceiling Unlimited Oct. 18, 1942-Feb. 1, 1943
folder 40: CU - Background
materials
folders 41-43: CU -
"The Flying Fortress." Background materials and scripts
folders 44-46: CU -
"Air Transport Command." Scripts
folder 47: CU - "The
Navigator." Background materials and scripts, by Hector
Chevigny and Milton Geiger
folder 48: CU - "Wind,
Sand & Stars." Background materials and scripts, by
Hector de St. Exupery
folder 49: CU - "Ballad
of Bataan." Background materials and scripts
Box 10
folders 1-5: CU - "War
Workers." Background materials and scripts
folders 6-9: CU -
"Gremlins." Background materials and scripts
folders 10-13: CU -
"Pan American Airlines." Background materials and
scripts
folder 14: CU -
"Anti-Submarine Patrol." Background materials and
scripts
folders 15-18: CU -
"Finger in the Wind." Background materials and scripts
folder 19: CU - "Letter
to Mother." Scripts
folders 20-21: CU -
"Mrs. James and the Pot of Tea" and "With Your
Wings." Background materials and scripts
folders 22-23: CU -
"The Future." Scripts
folder 24: CU -
"Aviation Cadet Training," [not used]. Background
materials and scripts, some by Burgess Meredith
folder 25: CU - "Swami
Haroun," [not used]. Story treatments by John Tucker Battle
folder 26: CU - Incomplete
scripts
folder 27: CU - Production
materials
folder 28: CU - Publicity
See also Tapes; Bound Radio Scripts. Hello Americans Nov. 15, 1942-Jan. 31,
1943
folders 29-30: HA -
"Brazil." Scripts
folders 31-32: HA -
"The Andes." Scripts
Box 11: Hello Americans
(continued)
folder 1: HA - Background
materials
folder 2: HA - Background
materials; "The Blue Crucible," by Milton Geiger [not
used], scripts; "West Indies," by John Tucker Battle [not used],
scripts
folders 3-4: HA - "The
Islands," Scripts
folder 5: HA -
"Alphabet A-C." Scripts
folders 6-8: HA -
"Alphabet C-S." Scripts
folders 9-13: HA -
"Slavery - Abednego." Scripts
folders 14-17: HA -
"The Bad-Will Ambassador." Background materials and
scripts by Milton Merlin, Milton Geiger, Richard Brooks, Myron Dutton
folders 18-21: HA -
"Mexico." Background materials and scripts by Richard Brooks,
Maurice Clark, John Tucker Battle, Myron Dutton, Norman Rosten, Norman Foster
folders 22-25: HA -
"Feed the World." Background materials and scripts by
John Tucker Battle, Myron Dutton, Richard Brooks, Maurice Clark, Milton
Geiger
Box 12
folders 1-6: HA -
"Bolivar's Idea." Scripts by Maurice Clark, Richard
Brooks, John Tucker Battle, Myron Dutton, Norman Rosten, Milton Geiger,
Cyril Enfield, Waldo Salt
folders 7-8: HA -
"Communications," [not used]. Scripts by Jerome
Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, John Tucker Battle, Myron Dutton
folder 9: HA - Production
materials See also Tapes; Bound Radio Scripts
folder 10: [Alô Americanos]
[1942]. Script
folder 11: Jack Benny Show
(Grape Nuts Flakes Program) (Mar. 14-Apr. 11, 1943). Scripts See also Tapes
folder 12: Bob Hope (The
Pepsodent Show) (Sept. 27, 1943). Script
folder 13: Duffy's (Oct. 12,
1943). Script
folder 14: "Notes for
Round Table Discussion..." (Oct., 1943). Notes
folders 15-19: Orson Welles
Almanac (Mobiloil) (Jan. 26-July 19, 1944). Scripts See also Tapes; Photographs;
Bound Radio Scripts
folder 20: Edgar Bergen (The
Chase and Sanborn Program) (Apr. 2, May 28, 1944); "Three of a Kind"
(U.S. Treasury Dept.) (Apr. 27, 1944). Scripts
folder 21-26: Fifth War Loan
Drive Shows (June 12-19, 1944). Scripts for Texarkana, Hollywood Bowl,
and Soldier Field (Chicago) shows, and production and financial materials
See also Tapes; Bound Radio Scripts
folder 27: Edgar Bergen (The
Chase and Sanborn Program) (Aug. 13, 1944). Scripts
folder 28: "The
Dream" (Inner Sanctum) (Sept. 23, 1944). Script
folder 29: "Now Is the
Time" by Norman Corwin (Oct. 6, 1944). Scripts
folder 30: "Program
2" (Philco Radio Hall of Fame) (Oct. 8, 1944). Script
folder 31: "The Dark
Hours" (Kate Smith Show) (Oct. 15, 1944); Edgar Bergen (Chase and Sanborn Program)
(Oct. 29, 1944); and [Round Table political broad cast] (Nov. 1, 1944).
Scripts
folder 32: Edgar Bergen
(Chase and Sanborn Program) (Nov. 5, 1944) and "Around the World in Eighty
Days," (This Is My Best) (Nov. 21, 1944). Scripts
folder 33: "Program
13" Philco Radio Hall of Fame (Dec. 24, 1944). Scripts
folders 34-42: Orson Welles
Almanac (Eversharp) (planned for Dec., 1944-Jan., 1945, but never broadcast?).
Production notes and drafts of scripts. See also Tapes
folder 43: "In Reply to
Cecil B. DeMille" (Mar. 31, 1945). Script
folder 44: This Is My Best
(Mar. 13-Apr. 24, 1945). Script of "Don't Catch Me" and
production materials for series. See also Correspondence; Tapes; Bound Radio Scripts
folder 45: Orson Welles
Insert ... (Apr. 12, 1945); Forum Broadcast (May 6, 1945); Special VE Day Program (May
7, 1945); [San Francisco broadcast] (May, 1945). Scripts
folder 46: "New York -
A Tapestry for Radio," Columbia Presents Corwin (July 10, 1945). Scripts
folder 47: "What does
the British election mean to us," America's Town Meeting (Aug. 9, 1945). Background
material and scripts
Box 13:
folder 1: "Fourteen
August," by Norman Corwin (August 14, 1945); "God and
Uranium Were on Our Side," by Norman Corwin (Aug. 19, 1945). Scripts
folder 2: "Special
Victory Program," Command Performance, USA (Aug., 1945). Script
folders 3-17: Lear - Orson
Welles Almanac (Sept. 16, 1945-Oct. 6, 1946). Scripts and production materials.
See also Tapes; Oversize 13
folder 18: Request
Performance No. 3 (Oct. 21, 1945); Pearl Harbor Script (Dec. 7,
1945); Esquire Magazine's "All-American Jazz Concert" (Jan. 16, 1946
). Scripts
folder 19: Airborne (Apr.,
1946). Script and clipping Mercury Summer Theatre June 7-Sept. 13, 1946
folder 20: MST -
"Around the World in Eighty Days," "The Count of
Monte Cristo," and " The Hitch Hiker." Scripts
folder 21: MST - "Jane
Eyre." Scripts
folder 22: MST - "A
Passenger to Bali" and "The Search for Henri LeFevre."
Scripts
folder 23: MST - "Life
with Adam" and "The Moat Farm Murder." Scripts
folder 24: MST - "Golden Honeymoon and Romeo and Juliet Excerpt,"
"Hell on Ice," "Abednego the Slave." Scripts
folder 25: MST - "I'm a
Fool and Tell-Tale Heart." Scripts.
folder 26: MST - "Moby
Dick" and "The Apple Tree." Scripts
folder 27: MST - "King
Lear." Scripts
folder 28: MST - Production
materials. See also Tapes; Bound Radio Scripts
folder 29: Undated Radio
Scripts. "Command Performance No. 156," "Frank
Sinatra Show," and "Kate Smith Show." Scripts
folders 30-33: Unproduced
scripts for "Carmen," "Years of Jazz," and
"Orson Welles' Almanac" for Oct. 1, 1935; includes planned production
materials for Ziv transcription series
folder 34: Miscellaneous
radio materials; includes audience survey reports. See also Photographs
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