Citizen Kane (perhaps you've heard of it?) is a lodestar for technical and creative innovation in mainstream cinema, and the guy did it at the age of 25.
Not too shabby.Welles's thinly veiled and highly unauthorized biography of William Randolph Hearst, a media titan the likes of which there is no parallel for today, was immediately controversial.
Hearst's fruitless battle to keep Kane out of cinemas is a well-known story; indeed, the 1999 making-of-Kane film RKO 281 focuses primarily on this.
But "true heads" know of a second struggle, the argument over who deserves credit for writing the screenplay. Kane's sole Oscar win was a shared writing award to both Welles and one Herman J.
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