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Too Much Johnson poster

Too Much Johnson

2013 1h 07m 5.4Movie

Comedy

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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Orson Welles

Director, Screenplay

Top Cast

Joseph Cotten

Joseph Cotten

Augustus Billings (uncredited)

Virginia Nicolson

Virginia Nicolson

Lenore Faddish (uncredited)

Arlene Francis

Arlene Francis

Mrs. Dathis (uncredited)

Mary Wickes

Mary Wickes

Mrs. Battison (uncredited)

Orson Welles

Orson Welles

Keystone Kop (uncredited)

John Houseman

John Houseman

Duelist (uncredited)

Edgar Barrier

Edgar Barrier

Leon Dathis (uncredited)

Ruth Ford

Ruth Ford

Mrs. Billings (uncredited)

Eustace Wyatt

Eustace Wyatt

Francis Faddish (uncredited)

Guy Kingsley Poynter

Henry MacIntosh (uncredited)

George Duthie

Purser (uncredited)

Herbert Drake

Keystone Kop (uncredited)

Erskine Sanford

Erskine Sanford

Frederick (uncredited)

Howard Smith

Howard Smith

Joseph Johnson (uncredited)

Richard Wilson

Cabin Boy (uncredited)

Judy Holliday

Judy Holliday

(uncredited)

John Berry

John Berry

(uncredited)

Marc Blitzstein

(uncredited)

Augusta Weissberger

(uncredited)