Bibliography of Orson Welles

This is a bibliography of books by or about the director and actor Orson Welles.

Books by Orson Welles

Shakespeare studies Hill, Roger and Welles, Orson (eds.). Everybody's Shakespeare. Woodstock, Illinois: Todd Press, 1934. (omnibus volume and three separate volumes, with abridged and annotated scripts of The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar and Twelfth Night) Welles, Orson, and Hill, Roger (eds.). The Mercury Shakespeare. New York: Harper & Row, 1939. (revised version of the above; omnibus volume and three separate volumes, with abridged and annotated scripts of The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar and Twelfth Night) Welles, Orson, and Hill, Roger (eds.). The Mercury Shakespeare: Macbeth. New York: Harper & Row, 1941.

Scripts and screenplays Plays Welles, Orson. Miracle à Hollywood, et À Bon Entendeur. Paris: Gallimard, 1952. (two plays, [The Unthinking Lobster, and Fair Warning], only published in French) Welles, Orson. Moby Dick—Rehearsed. London: Samuel French, Inc., 1965. (play). France, Richard (ed.), Welles, Orson. Orson Welles on Shakespeare: The W.P.A. and Mercury Theatre Playscripts. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. (scripts of 1930s Welles abridgments of Macbeth, Julius Caesar and Five Kings) Tarbox, Todd (ed.); Hill, Roger and Welles, Orson. Marching Song: A Play. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. (first publication of an unperformed play, written in 1932)

Radio plays Welles, Orson. His Honor—The Mayor. New York: The Free Company, 1941. (script of radio play broadcast April 6, 1941)

Screenplays Fry, Nicholas (ed.), Welles, Orson. The Trial. London: Lorrimer, 1970. (screenplay, first published in French by l’Avant scene du cinema in 1963) Kael, Pauline, Mankiewicz, Herman J. and Welles, Orson. The Citizen Kane Book. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1971. (screenplay prefaced by Kael's essay "Raising Kane") Comito, Terry (ed.), Welles, Orson. Touch of Evil. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1985 (screenplay). Pepper, James and Rosenbaum, Jonathan (eds.), Welles, Orson, and Kodar, Oja. The Big Brass Ring. Santa Barbara, California: Santa Teresa Press, 1987. (unproduced screenplay) Gellert Lyons, Bridget (ed.) Welles, Orson. Chimes at Midnight. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1988. (screenplay) Pepper, James and Rosenbaum, Jonathan (eds.), Welles, Orson. The Cradle Will Rock. Santa Barbara, California: Santa Teresa Press, 1994. (unproduced screenplay) Gosetti, Giorgio (ed.), Welles, Orson and Kodar, Oja. The Other Side of the Wind. Locarno, Switzerland: Cahiers du cinéma/ Locarno Film Festival, 2005. (screenplay of a film which was incomplete at the time of publication - subsequently completed in 2018)

Novels and short stories Welles, Orson and others. The Lives of Harry Lime. London: Pocket Books, 1952. (short stories) Welles, Orson. Une Grosse Légume. Paris: Gallimard, 1953. (This novel possibly was ghostwritten by Maurice Bessy and only published in French. An English-language version credited to Welles was rediscovered in 2018 and will be published in English in 2027.) Welles, Orson. Mr. Arkadin. Paris: Gallimard, 1954. (novel ghostwritten by Maurice Bessy, subsequently translated into English)

Interviews Rosenbaum, Jonathan (ed.), Welles, Orson and Bogdanovich, Peter. This is Orson Welles. New York: HarperCollins, 1992. (revised and expanded in 1998) Estrin, Mark W. (ed.), Welles, Orson. Orson Welles Interviews. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 2002.

Conversations Tarbox, Todd. Orson Welles and Roger Hill: A Friendship in Three Acts. Albany, Georgia: BearManor Media, 2013. Biskind, Peter (ed.), Jaglom, Henry. My Lunches With Orson: Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles. New York: Metropolitan Books (Henry Holt and Company), 2013.

Artwork Welles, Orson. Les Bravades. New York: Workman, 1996. Braund, Simon (ed). Orson Welles portfolio: Sketches and drawings from the Welles estate. Titan Books, 2019.

Foreword Elliott, Bruce, Magic as a hobby, Gramercy Publishing Company, 1947. O'Brady, Frédéric, Extérieurs à Venise, Gallimard, 1950. Cintrón, Conchita, Memoirs of a bullfighter, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, NY, 1968. Davies, Marion, The Times We Had : Life with William Randolph Hearst, Ballantine Books, 1975.

Books about Orson Welles Biographies Bessy, Maurice. Orson Welles: An investigation into his films and philosophy. Crown, 1971. (abridged translation of French-language biography, first published in Paris in 1963) Brady, Frank. Citizen Welles: A Biography of Orson Welles. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1989. Callow, Simon. Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu. London: Jonathan Cape, 1995; New York: Viking, 1996. (biography covering 1915–41) ______________. Orson Welles, Volume 2: Hello Americans. London: Jonathan Cape, 2006; New York: Viking, 2006. (biography covering 1941–47) ______________. Orson Welles, Volume 3: One-Man Band. London: Jonathan Cape, 2015; New York: Viking, 2016. (biography covering 1947–65) ______________. Orson Welles, Volume 4. (forthcoming biography covering 1965–85) Feeney, F. X. Orson Welles: Power, Heart and Soul. Raleigh, North Carolina: The Critical Press, 2015. Fowler, Roy Alexander. Orson Welles: A First Biography. London: Pendulum Publications, 1946. Heylin, Clinton. Despite the System: Orson Welles Versus the Hollywood Studios. Chicago Review Press, 2005. Higham, Charles. Orson Welles: The Rise and Fall of an American Genius. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. Leaming, Barbara. Orson Welles. New York: Viking, 1985. McBride, Joseph. Orson Welles. Harcourt Brace, 1977. McGilligan, Patrick. Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane. New York: HarperCollins, 2015. Noble, Peter. The Fabulous Orson Welles. London: Hutchinson and Co., 1956. Thomson, David. Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles. New York: Vintage, 1997. Valentinetti, Claudio M. Orson Welles. Florence: La Nuova Italia, 1980. Visdei, Anca. Orson Welles. Éditions de Fallois, 2015. Whaley, Bart. Orson Welles: the man who was magic. Ebook, 2011.

Studies of Citizen Kane (1941) Berthomé, Jean-Pierre and Thomas, François. Citizen Kane. Paris: Flammarion, 1992. Carringer, Robert. The Making of Citizen Kane. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. Gottesman, Ronald (ed.). Focus on Citizen Kane. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1971. ______________________. Perspectives on Citizen Kane. New York: G.K. Hall/Macmillan, 1996. Joxe, Sandra, Citizen Kane, Orson Welles. Paris : Hatier, 1990. Kael, Pauline (ed.). The Citizen Kane Book. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1971. Lebo, Harlan. Citizen Kane: The Fiftieth Anniversary Album. New York: Doubleday, 1990. ____________. Citizen Kane: A Filmmaker’s Journey. New York: WGI Publishing, 2000. ____________. Citizen Kane: A Filmmaker’s Journey. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2016. Merryman, Richard. Mank. The Wit, World and Life of Herman Mankiewicz. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1978. Mulvey, Laura. Citizen Kane. London: BFI, 1992. Naremore, James (ed.). Orson Welles's Citizen Kane: a Casebook. Oxford University Press, 2004. Pizzitola, Louis. Hearst over Hollywood: Power, passion and propaganda in the movies. Columbia University Press, 2002. Roy, Jean. Citizen Kane [de] Orson Welles: étude critique. Paris: Nathan, 1989. Walsh, John Evangelist. Walking Shadows: Orson Welles, William Randolph Hearst and Citizen Kane. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004.

Studies of other individual Welles films Too Much Johnson (unfinished, 1938) Studer, Massimiliano. Alle origini di Quarto potere. Too Much Johnson: il film perduto di Orson Welles. Milano: Mimesis editore, 2018. (about the unfinished film Too Much Johnson). In Italian language

It's All True (unfinished, 1942) Benamou, Catherine L. It's All True: Orson Welles's Pan-American Odyssey. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. (about the unfinished film It's All True)

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) Carringer, Robert. The Magnificent Ambersons: a Reconstruction. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. Perkins, V. F. The Magnificent Ambersons. London: BFI, 1999.

The Stranger (1946) Strobel, Ricarda. Propagandafilm und Melodrama: Untersuchungen zu Alfred Hitchcocks "Lifeboat" und Orson Welles' "The Stranger". Berlin: Eissenschaftler-verlag, 1984.

Othello (1952) Anile, Alberto, L'« Otello » senz'acca. Orson Welles nel Fondo Oberdan Troiani / « Otello » Without the H. Orson Welles in the Oberdan Troiani Collection, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Cineteca Nazionale, Rubbetino, 2015. Del Ministro, Maurizio. Othello di Welles. Rome: Bulzoni, 2000. (about Othello) Mac Liammóir, Micháel. Put Money in Thy Purse: The Making of Orson Welles's Othello. London: Methuen, 1952. (revised edition in 1978)

Don Quixote (unfinished, 1955-73) Cobos, Juan, and Esteve Riambau. Don Quijote: páginas del guión cinematográfico de Orson Welles. Madrid: Asociación de Directores de Escena de España, 1992. (about the unfinished film Don Quixote) Sciortino, Sigismondo Domenico. Don Chisciotte e il Cinema (dell')Invisibile. Rome: La Camera Verde, 2013. (about the unfinished film Don Quixote)

Touch of Evil (1957) Comito, Terry (ed.). Touch of Evil. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1985. (screenplay with literary criticism)

The Trial (1962) Trias, Jean-Phillipe. Le Procès d'Orson Welles. Paris: Cahiers du cinéma / CNDP, 2005. (about The Trial)

Chimes at Midnight (1965) Gellert Lyons, Bridget (ed.) Welles, Orson. Chimes at Midnight. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1988. Riambau, Esteve. Las cosas que hemos visto: Welles y Falstaff. Luces de Gálibo, 2015.

The Deep (unfinished, 1967-70) Kovačić, Duško and Rafaelić Daniel. Orson Welles in Hvar

F for Fake (1973) Thieme, Claudia. F for Fake and the Growth in Complexity of Orson Welles' Documentary Form. New York: Peter Lang, 1997.

The Other Side of the Wind (unfinished, 1970-6; posthumously completed, 2018) Gosetti, Giorgio (ed.). The Other Side of the Wind. Locarno, Switzerland: Cahiers du cinéma/ Locarno Film Festival, 2005. Karp, Josh. Orson Welles's Last Movie: The Making of The Other Side of the Wind. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2015. Yates, Michael. Shoot 'Em Dead: Orson Welles & The Other Side of the Wind. Morrisville, North Carolina: Lulu, 2020. Studer, Massimiliano, Orson Welles e la New Hollywood, il caso di The Other Side of The Wind, Mimesis Edizioni, 2021.

Studies of multiple Welles films Rosenbaum, Jonathan (trans.), Bazin, André. Orson Welles. Harper and Row, 1978. Bogdanovich, Peter. The Cinema of Orson Welles. New York: Film Library of the Museum of Modern Art, 1961. Cowie, Peter. The Cinema of Orson Welles. Da Capo Press, 1973. Drössler, Stefan, (ed.). The Unknown Orson Welles. Munich: Filmmuseum München/belleville Verlag, 2004. (about Welles's unfinished films; text in three languages) Garis, Robert. The Films of Orson Welles. Cambridge University Press, 2004. Gear, Matthew Asprey. At the End of the Street in the Shadow: Orson Welles and the City. Wallflower Press/Columbia University Press, 2016. Gottesman, Ronald (ed.). Focus on Orson Welles. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1976. Hel-Guedj, Johan-Frederik. Orson Welles, la règle du faux. Michalon, 1997. Higham, Charles. The Films of Orson Welles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1970. Howard, James. The Complete Films of Orson Welles. Citadel Press, 1991. McBride, Joseph. Orson Welles. Da Capo Press, 1996. (heavily revised edition of a 1972 monograph) _______________. What Ever Happened to Orson Welles? A Portrait of an Independent Career. Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2006.