 Tickets were free to servicemen, and more than 48,000 of them had seen show by September 1943.In late 1943, Cotten visited Welles's office and said that producer David O. Selznick wanted to make two or three films with him, but that he wanted him under his own contract.Welles then tore up Cotten's contract with Mercury Productions, saying, "He can do more for you than I can.