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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, it was made three years before Welles directed Citizen Kane, but it was never publicly screened.
Aug 30, 2014 · Too Much Johnson: Directed by Orson Welles. With Joseph Cotten, Virginia Nicolson, Edgar Barrier, Arlene Francis. A woman has two lovers. When one man finds out about the other, he acts as a villain and chases after the protagonist.
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Oct 9, 2013 · The scenes Welles filmed in New York in 1938 were to be shown as part of a Mercury Theatre production of the 1894 play Too Much Johnson. It’s an elegant solution: replacing pages of expository dialogue with silent prologues, shot slapstick-style to suit the on-stage farce and add a wash of nostalgic charm.
The main challenge now to appreciating Too Much Johnson is putting it in its original context. For the Mercury Theatre’s inventive 1938 stage production, William Gillette’s 1894 marital farce was intended to become a breakneck multimedia comedy, each of its three acts to be prefaced by a silent movie.¹
Posing as wealthy Cuban plantation owner Joseph Johnson, Augustus Billings is having an affair with married Clairette Dathis. Augustus is able to get away just before Clairette's husband, Leon Dathis, comes home. But Leon finds out about the affair.
1938 USA Directed by Orson Welles Featuring Howard Smith, Joseph Cotten, Eustace Wyatt
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Too Much Johnson (1938) - Directed by Orson Welles, produced by John Houseman, Orson Welles, Richard Wilson and starring Joseph Cotten, Virginia Nicholson, Edgar Barrier, Arlene Francis, Ruth Ford, Mary Wickes, Eustace Wyatt, Guy Kingsley,and more...
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