Young Orson: The Years Of Luck And Genius On The Path To Citizen Kane (2015) - Plot & Excerpts
By the time the Americanized French farce closed in early December, the Wonder Show radio series had finished its limited run and Ten Million Ghosts was a faint memory. Despite his stumbles with Big Sister and the Cornstarch-sponsored show, Orson continued to thrive on the radio. The fall of 1936 found him playing Great Men with increasing frequency on The March of Time and the similarly prestigious Cavalcade of America, a feel-good historical anthology series sponsored by Du Pont. At times he sneaked his politics into his portraits of Great Men: in a mid-November episode of Cavalcade, on “The Story of Rubber,” he portrayed a stentorian John D. Rockefeller. He played the part “rather too unsympathetically for the taste of the Du Ponts,” he recalled laughingly years later. Another of his Great Men was the munitions and arms dealer Sir Basil Zaharoff, the inspiration for the greedy death merchant at the center of Ten Million Ghosts.
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