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John Houseman (born Jacques Haussmann; September 22, 1902 – October 31, 1988) was a British-American actor and producer of theatre, film, and television. He became known for his highly publicized collaboration with director Orson Welles from their days in the Federal Theatre Project through to the production of Citizen Kane and his collaboration, as producer of The Blue Dahlia, with writer ...
The Mercury Theatre was an independent repertory theatre company founded in New York City in 1937 by Orson Welles and producer John Houseman. The company produced theatrical presentations, radio programs and motion pictures. The Mercury also released promptbooks and phonographic recordings of four Shakespeare works for use in schools.
After agreeing on the storyline and character, Welles supplied Mankiewicz with 300 pages of notes and put him under contract to write the first-draft screenplay under the supervision of John Houseman. Welles wrote his own draft, [21]: 54 then drastically condensed and rearranged both versions and added scenes of his own. The industry accused ...
Welles's first wife Virginia Nicolson is a sympathetically written key character in the unproduced screenplay, one of Welles's last important pieces of writing. [8]: 384 She read and approved the screenplay during preproduction. John Houseman read it after Welles's death and remarked on the screenplay's accuracy and fairness. [49] Although the ...
Cassius (Martin Gabel) and Brutus (Orson Welles) in Caesar (Act I, Scene 2) Unable to attend on opening night, drama critic John Mason Brown asked to review the matinee preview of Caesar—"a troublesome request", wrote producer John Houseman, but one that was granted. At the end of the performance, Brown asked to be taken backstage.
The Campbell Playhouse (1938–1940) was a live CBS radio drama series directed by and starring Orson Welles.Produced by Welles and John Houseman, it was a sponsored continuation of The Mercury Theatre on the Air.
One nice quality of this period piece about Orson Welles, John Houseman, and their Mercury Theater—set in 1937, four years before Welles’ debut film, Citizen Kane—is that it doesn’t pander ...
Welles discussed his fake newscast idea with producer John Houseman and associate producer Paul Stewart; together, they decided to adapt a work of science fiction. They considered adapting M. P. Shiel 's The Purple Cloud and Arthur Conan Doyle 's The Lost World before purchasing the radio rights to The War of the Worlds .