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Re: Orson Welles and "The March of Time"
From:
Leo Enticknap <[log in to unmask]>
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Film and TV Studies Discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 30 May 1997 18:03:32 +0100
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On Wed, 28 May 1997 21:17:03 -0100 David Ezell <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
 
> I'm not sure if many of you are up on your radio history, so I thought I
> mention the fact that Orson Welles worked on the radio version of THE MARCH
> OF TIME throughout the mid-1930s.  He played a wide variety of
> personalities in reenactments of the news of the day.
 
And not only Welles: according to Fielding ("The March of Time, 1945-51", New
York, Oxford UP, 1978) a significant number of other Mercury Theatre stalwarts
were involved in the MoT radio version between 1931 and 1935, notably Alland
and Agnes Moorehead, who apparently specialised in Eleanor Roosevelt
impersonations.
 
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Leo Enticknap
Univ. of Exeter, UK
 
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