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Too Much Johnson (2013)

5.3 | Oct 09, 2013 (US) | Comedy | 01:06

This film was not intended to stand by itself, but was designed as the cinematic aspect of Welles' Mercury Theatre stage presentation of William Gillette's 1894 comedy about a New York playboy who flees from the violent husband of his mistress and borrows the identity of a plantation owner in Cuba who is expecting the arrival of a mail order bride. The film component of the performance was ultimately never screened due to the absence of projection facilities at the venue. Long-believed to be lost, a workprint was discovered in 2008 and the film had its premiere in 2013.

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Director of Photography
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Cast

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Joseph Cotten
Augustus Billings
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Virginia Nicolson
Lenore Faddish
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Arlene Francis
Mrs. Dathis
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Mary Wickes
Mrs. Battison
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Orson Welles
Keystone Kop
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Judy Holliday
(uncredited)
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Edgar Barrier
Leon Dathis
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Ruth Ford
Mrs. Billings
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Eustace Wyatt
Francis Faddish