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
Rhinoceros (Orson Welles production) a lot of money out of that production, and the critics liked it." In 1999, Austin Pendleton (who had worked as an actor with Welles on the 1969 film "Catch-22"), wrote the play "Orson's Shadow" about the 1960 production of "Rhinoceros", focussing on the rival egos of Olivier and Welles. The play premiered in Chicago in January 2000, and has subsequently had numerous revivals in Britain and America, most notably in an off-Broadway production directed by David Cromer in 2005 which ran to 349 performances. Rhinoceros (Orson Welles production) Rhinoceros was a 1960 production of Eugène Ionesco's surrealist play of