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
This is Orson Welles of Welles's career; a summary of the alterations made in Welles's 1942 masterpiece, "The Magnificent Ambersons"; and notes on each chapter by film scholar Jonathan Rosenbaum, who edited the volume. A second edition of "This is Orson Welles" was published in paperback in 1998, with a new introduction by Bogdanovich and excerpts of a 58-page memo Welles wrote Universal Pictures about the editing of his 1958 film "Touch of Evil". The memo was used to create a director's cut of the film released in 1998. The 1992 audiobook version of "This is Orson Welles" was nominated for a Grammy Award