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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrote "Native Son" he said something important and worth saying. When he and Paul Green made the book into a play, they didn't pull their punches. They said straight out that a society that wrongs Negroes is responsible when a Negro wrongs a white. The cast assembled by Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre associates believe in what they're doing. But none of them seem to realize that a good idea is no substitute for a good play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, Dorothy Comingore, Joseph Gotten, Everett Sloane; TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Jul. 21, 1941 | 7/21/1941 | See Source »

Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, Dorothy Comingore, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane; TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Jul. 14, 1941 | 7/14/1941 | See Source »

...fine promotion was never sent out, and last week Columnist Lyons switched syndicates from King Features to McNaught. The trouble originated with Publisher Hearst, summering in northern California. He was getting madder & madder at Lyons. Lyons had made friendly mention no less than 41 times since Jan. 1 of Orson Welles, producer of the movie Citizen Kane, allegedly based on Hearst's strange career. That was tactless at least of Columnist Lyons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Lyons' New Den | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, Dorothy Comingore, Joseph Gotten, Everett Sloane; TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 16, 1941 | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

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