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Too Much Johnson is a 1938 American silent comedy film written and directed by Orson Welles. An unfinished film component of a stage production, the film was made three years before Welles directed Citizen Kane, but it was never publicly screened. The film was shot to be integrated into Welles's Mercury Theatre stage presentation of William Gillette's 1894 comedy, but the motion picture sequences could not be shown due to the absence of projection facilities at the venue, the Stony Creek Theatre in Connecticut. The resulting plot confusion reportedly contributed to the stage production's failure.
Original Release
10/01/1938
US Release
10/01/1938
Cast
Name | Character |
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Joseph Cotten | Augustus Billings |
Virginia Nicolson | Lenore Faddish |
Edgar Barrier | Leon Dathis |
Arlene Francis | Mrs. Clairette Dathis / Mrs. Dathis |
Ruth Ford | Mrs. Billings |
Mary Wickes | Mrs. Upton Battison / Mrs. Battison |
Eustace Wyatt | Francis Faddish |
Guy Kingsley Poynter | Henry MacIntosh |
George Duthie | Purser |
Marc Blitzstein | Extra |
Directors
Writers
William Gillette, Orson Welles
Cast
Name | Character |
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Joseph Cotten | Augustus Billings |
Virginia Nicolson | Lenore Faddish |
Edgar Barrier | Leon Dathis |
Arlene Francis | Mrs. Clairette Dathis / Mrs. Dathis |
Ruth Ford | Mrs. Billings |
Mary Wickes | Mrs. Upton Battison / Mrs. Battison |
Eustace Wyatt | Francis Faddish |
Guy Kingsley Poynter | Henry MacIntosh |
George Duthie | Purser |
Marc Blitzstein | Extra |
Herbert Drake | Keystone Kop |
John Houseman | Keystone Kop / Duelist |
Erskine Sanford | Frederick |
Howard Smith | Joseph Johnson |
Augusta Weissberger | |
Judy Holliday | Extra |
John Berry | |
Richard Wilson | Cabin boy |
Orson Welles | Keystone Kop |
Producers
Name | Role |
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John Berry | Producer |
John Houseman | Producer |
Orson Welles | Producer |
Richard Wilson | Producer |