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Synopsis Multimillionaire newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane dies and his last utterance is the single word 'rosebud'; a curious reporter attempts to unlock the riddle of its meaning by interviewing Kane's friends and business partners. Within that frame, the film reveals events in Kane's life through flashbacks, from the beginnings of his career in the publishing world – born of idealistic social service – but gradually evolving into a ruthless pursuit of power.

History of The Film The film premiered at the R.K.O. Palace Theatre in New York City on 1 May 1941, but was unsuccesful in its first run. Due to threats to industry members by [purported] subject Wm. Randolph Hearst [1863-1951], each mention of the film at the 1942 Academy Awards ceremony was roundly booed by the audience. Nonetheless, the film won an Oscar for Best Original Script, having been also nominated for eight other awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor [Welles], Best B&W Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Art Direction, Best Sound & Best Music Score.
Release in Europe in 1946 brought much acclaim, followed by re-release in the U.S.A. in the 1950s; the film was restored by Turner Entertainment in 1991. "Citizen Kane" is number one on the Top 100 List of the American Film Institute, listed on the National Film Registry (1989), and listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Movies (5/2005)

Produced, co-written & directed by Orson Welles [1915-85]; co-written by Herman J. Mankiewicz;
cinematography by Gregg Toland; music by Bernard Herrmann; co-starring Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore,
Agnes Moorehead, Ruth Warrick, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Everett Sloane, William Alland, Thomas
Anderson, Paul Stewart & George Coulouris

"Mank" [Netflix DUE Oct 2020] 10/2020

Herman Mankiewicz biofilm by David Fincher

a film about "Citizen Kane" screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz, written by director Fincher’s late father, Jack Fincher • Co-produced & directed by David Fincher; written years ago by Jack Fincher; music by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross; starring Amanda Seyfried {as Marion Davies}, Lily Collins {as Rita Alexander}, Gary Oldman {as Herman Mankiewicz}, Tuppence Middleton {as Sara Mankiewicz}, Tom Burke {as Orson Welles}, Tom Pelphrey {as Joseph Mankiewicz}, Charles Dance {as Wm. Randolph Hearst}, Leven Rambin, Arliss Howard {as Louis B. Mayer}, Jamie McShane, Toby Leonard Moore {as David O. Selznick}, Sam Troughton {as John Houseman}, Joseph Cross, Elvy (Yost), Adam Shapiro, Ferdinand Kingsley {as Irving Thalberg}, Paul Fox {as Josef von Sternberg}, Natalie Denise Sperl {as Greta Garbo}, Rick Pasqualone, Paul Carafotes, Christian Prentice, John Patrick Jordan, Anne Beyer, Cailan Robinson, John Lee Ames, Kingston Vernes, Amie Farrell {as Margaret Mayer}, Mark Fite, Randy Davison, Craig Robert Young {as Charlie Chaplin}, Jessie Cohen {as Norma Shearer Thalberg}, Jaclyn Bethany, Camille Montgomery & Isabel Dresden {as Carole Lombard}, Craig Welzbacher, Madison West, Cary Christopher, Flo Lawrence, Joanne Thomson, Sean Persaud, John Churchill {as Charles MacArthur}, Dana Lyn Baron, Stewart Skelton, Wylie Small, Allen Kepler, Christopher Bustos, Jenny Marie Mitchell, Ali Axelrad, Monika Gossmann, Benjamin Schnau, Tom Simmons, Kaytlin Borgen, Michelle Twarowska {as Joan Crawford}, Keith Barber, Tanner Stymeist, Shann Ihde, Emily Joy Lemus {as Billie Dove}, Lou George, Christian Roberts, Roslyn Cohn, Scarlet Cummings {as Bette Davis}, Benjamin Keller, Trevor Wooldridge {as Darryl F. Zanuck}, Jeff Harms {as Ben Hecht}, Jeff Hartley, Nick Job {as actor John Gilbert}, Mila Murashko, Larissa LaRenne, K.C. Schlossberg, Sean Michael McGrory, Desiree Louise {as Irene Mayer Selznick}, Kyle Langdon-Weyrich, Mark Deliman, Gary Teitelbaum, Sebastian Faure {as Clark Gable}, Jack Romano, Nicholas Leiting, Cooper Tomlinson, Malachi Rivers, Tyler Schweer, John Patrick Shulak, Glenn Edward, James Patrick Duffy, Eden Wattez, Derek Petropolis {as Eddie Cantor}, Alex Leontev, Brett Matthew Davidson, Marcus Marcelli, Matteo Menzies {as Frank Mankiewicz}, Zane Garcia, Luke Teerling, Francesco Capussela, Zachary Chicos, Julie Collis, Kenward Cooper, Sean Donnellan, Matt Freeman, Amy Goddard, Brendan Haines, Serena Hendrix, Jaden Hoff, Daniel Hoffman, Kyleigh Hoye, Rachel Karp, Steve Luchsinger, T. Wade Martin, Jordan Matlock, Marisa Mendelson, Arlo Mertz, Anthony Molinari, Gabriela Rae, Victoria Rafael, Waide Aaron Riddle, Mark Roman, Lucy Schmidt, Stephen Sherman, Christine Tucker, Sebastian Twohey-Jacobs, Adam Woldtvedt
DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb •

Gottesman, Ronald, ed. Focus on Citizen Kane. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1971.

	"The Making of Citizen Kane" [1985] by Robert L. Carringer Univ CA Press 2nd edition 9x6 pb [10/96] for $19.95 Univ CA Press 9x6 pb [6/85] out of print/used Univ CA Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [6/85] out of print/used
	"Citizen Kane: The 50th Anniversary Album" [1990] by Harlan Lebo illustrated with over 100 never-before-published photographs Doubleday 11x8¾ hardcover [10/90] for $29.95 "Citizen Kane: A Filmmaker’s Journey" [2016] by Harlan Lebo Thomas Dunne Books 9½x6½ hardcover [4/2016] for $22.99
	"Hollywood Classics: Citizen Kane" [1991] by Lynne Piade Smithmark Publrs 14½x10¾ pb [8/91] out of print/used
	"Raising Kane and Other Essays" [1996] by Pauline Kael Marion Boyars pb [6/96] for $27.57 "The Citizen Kane Book: Raising Kane" [1971] critical text by Pauline Kael includes the screenplay by Orson Welles & Herman J. Mankiewicz Limelight Editions pb [3/88] out of print/used "Ciudadano Kane: La Historia Detras de La Pelicula" [2001] Grupo Editorial Norma Spanish-language pb [6/2001] out of print/scarce
	"Orson Welles's Citizen Kane: A Casebook" [2004] Edited by James Naremore Oxford Univ Press 8¼x5½ pb [7/2004] for $21.95 Oxford Univ Press 8½x5½ hardcover [7/2004] for $74.00
	"Walking Shadows: Orson Welles, William Randolph Hearst & Citizen Kane" [2004] by John Evangelist Walsh Popular Press 8¼x6 hardcover [11/2004] for $28.70 see also Spirit of America Bookstore's Wm. Randolph Hearst [1863-1951] Page

yellow Kane standing retail source not found	color one-sheet 27"x40" poster from Amazon	color Kane standing 24"x36" poster from Amazon 11"x17" poster from Amazon	German art print 20"x28" poster from Amazon
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	"Citizen Kane" [1993] critical text by Laura Mulvey British Film Institute 7½x5½ pb [1/93] for $10.46
	"Citizen Kane" screenplay [2002] by Orson Welles & Herman J. Mankiewicz includes the essay "Raising Kane" by Pauline Kael Methuen Drama pb [5/2002] for $18.42

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