The Mercury Wonder Show
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The Mercury Wonder Show for Service Men was a 1943 magic-and-variety stage show by the Mercury Theatre, produced by Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten as a morale-boosting entertainment for US soldiers in
Advertising herald for The Mercury Wonder Show (August 1943)
Orson Welles leaving his Army physical examination after being judged unfit for military service (May 6, 1943)
Joseph Cotten, Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles in a publicity photo for The Mercury Wonder Show
George (Shorty) Chirello, Joseph Cotten, Eleanor Counts and Orson Welles
Mercury Theatre
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The Mercury Theatre was an independent repertory theatre company founded in New York City in 1937 by Orson Welles and producer John Houseman. The company produced theatrical presentations, radio progr
Poster for the Mercury Theatre's three spring 1938 productions—Caesar, The Shoemaker's Holiday, and The Cradle Will Rock—running simultaneously in two Broadway theaters
Orson Welles at age 22 (1938), Broadway's youngest impresario
Orson Welles as Brutus in Caesar (1937–38)
Marian Warring-Manley (Margery), Whitford Kane (Simon Eyre) and George Coulouris (The King) in The Shoemaker's Holiday (1938)