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RADIO
| Orson
Welles really reigned while working in the Radio medium. He appeared
on many programs other then his own such as: the American School of
the Air, Cavalcade of America, The March of Time, The Wonder Show,
The Shadow, and others. He was guest host on such shows as the Jack
Benny Program and The Charlie McCarthy program. He showed great abilities
in acting and theatrics in general. He even hired an ambulance to
carry him from theater to radio studio.
His first attempt at producing and directing his own work was his adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic Les Miserables in 1937. Next he started, with John Housman, the Mercury Theater on the Air, its original name was"First Person Singular". The Mercury Theater gave Welles a vehicle to show his multi-faceted abilties as writer, director, actor, and producer. Welles was somewhat a Svengali in that he started such careers as Joseph Cotton, Agnes Morehead and Everett Sloane. The Mercury Theater was well respected and demonstrated a quality that was well needed in radio. Evenso, Mercury Theater didn't do well in the ratings until the now famous broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" on October 31, 1938. War of the Worlds made Welles career by such things as gaining the program a new sponsor in Campbell's Soup, renaming it to be THe Campbell Playhouse was instrumental in gaining Welles his chance at Hollywood.
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Mercury Program List
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