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Behind Citizen Kane:
Considered one of the best films of all time, Orson Welles' first feature film, Citizen Kane, which he co-wrote, produced, and starred in, was nominated for nine Academy Awards.
Welles was sued by author Ferdinand Lundberg, who accused him of using his biography about William Randolph Hearst as his source for the screenplay for Citizen Kane. Many believed Kane to be a thinly veiled caricature of Hearst, the newspaper tycoon. Welles always denied this and insisted that Kane was a composite of several men. In this disposition, which he signed at the bottom of each page, he describes his main character, Charles Foster Kane, and how "Rosebud" came to be. |