It's All True research materials

[Tony]

I showed a Brazilian couple "It'sAll True" and "It's All Brazil" yesterday; fascinating experience. They are both about 50, and say that Wells is still a hero in Brazil today.

Here's an interesting link to the Lilly Library material, and I'm particularily interested in the listings for research done and scripts done for "It's All True", especially as the legend is that there was never a script for IAT.

[ToddBaesen]

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Tony:

What link are you talking about? Did you forget to include it?

Meanwhile here's the telegram that led to the mutilation of AMBERSONS, and theoretically at least, the entire downfall of Welles career in Hollywood. Imagine if Welles had never gone to Rio, how different things might have been...


JOHN HAY WHITNEY TO ORSON WELLES:
December 20, 1941

DEAR ORSON:

WE UNDERSTAND YOU ARE WILLING AND MAY BE ABLE TO UNDER TAKE TRIP TO BRAZIL WHERE YOU WOULD PRODUCE MOTION PICTURES IN COOPERATION WITH BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT. IF THIS CAN BE ARRANGED IT WILL BE ENORMOUSLY HELPFUL TO THE PROGRAM OF THIS OFFICE AND ENERGETICALLY SUPPORTED BY IT. WE HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED EXPRESSIONS ENTHUSIASTIC APPROVAL FROM RIO. PERSONALLY BELIEVE YOU WOULD MAKE GREAT CONTRIBUTION TO HEMISPHERIC SOLIDARITY WITH THIS PROJECT.

REGARDS,
JOHN HAY WHITNEY

[Tony]

Sorry, Todd: must have been late when I posted that; here's the link, which looks boring but which is one of the most fascinating things about Welle's actual work I've ever read; in fact I was thinking today that IAT and TOSOTW both have reputations as out of control projects, but as we now know both had scripts, even though OW told PB he always improvised on the set, the opposite of Hitckcock.

http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/guides/welles/film.html