Joseph Cotten

Written by Cliff Aliperti and originally published on Immortal Ephemera

Joseph Cotten (1905-1994)

Petersburg, VA born Cotten came to the stage in the 1920s, made it to Broadway in the early 1930s and remained busy throughout the decade, capping it off with his portrayal of C.K. Dexter Haven in The Philadelphia Story on Broadway. A few years earlier Cotten began a lifelong friendship with Orson Welles and was an original member of Welles' Mercury Theatre company when it was founded in 1937. It...