![]() ![]() Photo via Wikipedia.ĬOTTEN: The Philadelphia Story. Joseph Cotten and Katharine Hepburn on Broadway in The Philadelphia Story (1939). I’d married in 1931 and I felt any experience was all right.īAWDEN: Don’t you think it strange you made your movie debut in probably the best American movie of all time. By 1930, I’d made my Broadway debut, but right then the Depression killed off Broadway as a viable option, so I tried to get as many radio gigs as possible. I had other side jobs to keep me going while I acted in amateur stock. So I moved to Miami and was the freelance drama critic for the Washington Herald from 1926 to 1928. I studied acting at the School of Expression in Washington, but no offers came. But I always wanted to act-of course, onstage and not in the flickers. I was born there in 1905, the oldest of three brothers. The InterviewīAWDEN: Did you always think of a life in movies?ĬOTTEN: Never! My parents were well-to-do southerners. The talented stage and radio actor went on to become a leading man in scores of important films, including a number of renowned classics, among them Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Gaslight (1944), Since You Went Away (1944), Duel in the Sun (1946), The Farmer’s Daughter (1947), and The Third Man (1949). Joseph Cotten made a very auspicious screen debut in 1941 in the film most often acclaimed as the greatest-ever American movie: Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane.
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