The Orson Welles Show (radio series) debut of "The Hitch-Hiker", an original radio play by Lucille Fletcher (wife of Bernard Herrmann) that has become a classic of suspense. On the broadcast of December 29, 1941, Rita Hayworth was the guest player; this was the first meeting between Welles and Hayworth, who were married in September 1943. Welles concluded the final broadcast of "The Orson Welles Show" February 2, 1942, with a statement: "Tomorrow night the Mercury Theatre starts for South America. The reason, put more or less officially, is that I've been asked by the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs to do a motion
Me and Orson Welles original incidental music and staged in a style as close to that of the 1937 production as is now possible. Teachout wrote that he "was floored by the verisimilitude of the results", and that "you will never get any closer to the Welles "Julius Caesar" than by watching "Me and Orson Welles," whose DVD version also includes a special feature comprising footage of the reconstructed scenes, not all of which made the final cut." In 2015, Mercury actor Norman Lloyd (who is portrayed by Leo Bill in the film) praised Christian McKay's performance as Orson Welles as "the best rendition