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** Denmark: "The Great Man"
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** Denmark: "The Great Man"
** Italy: ''Fourth Estate''
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** Italy: ''Fourth Estate''
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* {{Blooper}}: A scene intended to take place at a jungle-themed party reused some jungle clips from ''Film/TheSonOfKong'', and the producers failed to notice the ''pterodactyls'' in the background on the initial theatrical release. This became a lot more obvious on home video, and later releases would edit them out.
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** Soprano Jean Forward dubbed Dorothy Comingore’s singing voice. Bernard Herrmann deliberately wrote the part in such a high range that even a trained singer would strain to reach the high notes, which is why Susan is audibly struggling.
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** In 1989, UsefulNotes/TedTurner (having secured the home distribution rights for the film in 1986 through Turner Entertainment Co.) announced that the film would receive a {{Colorization}}, but this was cancelled following immense backlash among critics, cinephiles, and the Welles estate (Welles himself was aware of Turner's increasingly controversial pursuit of colorization, allegedly stating in 1985 just weeks before his death: "Don't let Ted Turner deface my movie with his crayons.") Supposedly, an entire reel of the film was fully colorized, but only one minute of it was ever revealed to the public (as part of the 1991 BBC documentary ''The Complete Citizen Kane'').
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** Jedediah Leland was originally named Bradford Leleand.
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!!Subpages
* [[ReferencedBy/CitizenKane Referenced by...]]
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* CopiouslyCreditedCreator: Co-written, directed, produced and starring Creator/OrsonWelles.
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* CopiouslyCreditedCreator: Co-written, directed, produced by and starring Creator/OrsonWelles.
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* UnderageCasting: Creator/OrsonWelles was ''only'' 25 years old when he played Charles Foster Kane from age 25 until his 70s.
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** In the long-run, Hearst's persecution of Welles and sabotage of the film's release permanently linked him with Kane, to the extent that a biography of his life is titled "Citizen Hearst", and Kane's satirical depiction of Hearst as this controlling frustrated politician became how people remember Hearst. Most biographers argue that Hearst was not really as much of a ByronicHero as Kane is, nor such a BastardBoyfriend, likewise, Hearst's good deeds such as his championing of George Herriman's ''ComicStrip/KrazyKat'', E.C. Segar's ''ComicStrip/ThimbleTheater'' (which gave us ''Popeye'') and other comics artists is forgotten in favor of his association with the Yellow Press.
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** In the long-run, Hearst's persecution of Welles and sabotage of the film's release permanently linked him with Kane, to the extent that a biography of his life is titled "Citizen Hearst", and Kane's satirical depiction of Hearst as this controlling frustrated politician became how people remember Hearst. Most biographers argue that Hearst was not really as much of a ByronicHero as Kane is, nor such a BastardBoyfriend, DomesticAbuser, likewise, Hearst's good deeds such as his championing of George Herriman's ''ComicStrip/KrazyKat'', E.C. Segar's ''ComicStrip/ThimbleTheater'' (which gave us ''Popeye'') and other comics artists is forgotten in favor of his association with the Yellow Press.
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* OnSetInjury: While filming, Orson Welles tripped down a staircase and chipped his anklebone, forcing him to use a wheelchair for the next two weeks. He also gashed his own hand during a scene where he destroyed a room. He quickly improvised, grabbing a curtain and using it to cover his bleeding hand while he completed the scene, which appears in the film.
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** To simulate being drunk, Joseph Cotten remained awake for 24 straight hours. You can see Welles break character and grin when Cotten flubs his line and says "dramatic crimiticism." Of course, it was a ThrowItIn moment.
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** To simulate being drunk, Joseph Cotten Creator/JosephCotten remained awake for 24 straight hours. You can see Welles break character and grin when Cotten flubs his line and says "dramatic crimiticism." Of course, it was a ThrowItIn moment.
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* OnSetInjury: While filming, Orson Welles tripped down a staircase and chipped his anklebone, forcing him to use a wheelchair for the next two weeks. He also gashed his own hand during a scene where he destroyed a room. He quickly improvised, grabbing a curtain and using it to cover his bleeding hand while he completed the scene, which appears in the film.
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** Cotten had recently become a Broadway star in ''Film/ThePhiladelphiaStory'', Sloane was well known for his role on ''Radio/TheGoldbergs'' and George Coulouris was a star of the stage in UsefulNotes/NewYork and UsefulNotes/London.
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** Cotten had recently become a Broadway star in ''Film/ThePhiladelphiaStory'', Sloane was well known for his role on ''Radio/TheGoldbergs'' and George Coulouris was a star of the stage in UsefulNotes/NewYork and UsefulNotes/London.UsefulNotes/{{London}}.
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* DarkhorseCasting: Most of the cast were new to film, with ten of them being Creator/OrsonWelles' associates from the Mercury Theatre.
** Creator/OrsonWelles, Creator/JosephCotten, William Alland, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Everett Sloane and Paul Stewart all made their film debuts.
** Cotten had recently become a Broadway star in ''Film/ThePhiladelphiaStory'', Sloane was well known for his role on ''Radio/TheGoldbergs'' and George Coulouris was a star of the stage in UsefulNotes/NewYork and UsefulNotes/London.
** Creator/OrsonWelles, Creator/JosephCotten, William Alland, Ray Collins, Erskine Sanford, Everett Sloane and Paul Stewart all made their film debuts.
** Cotten had recently become a Broadway star in ''Film/ThePhiladelphiaStory'', Sloane was well known for his role on ''Radio/TheGoldbergs'' and George Coulouris was a star of the stage in UsefulNotes/NewYork and UsefulNotes/London.
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** AFIS100Years100Movies: #1
** AFIS100Years100MovieQuotes: #17, "Rosebud".
** AFIS100Years100Movies10THAnniversaryEdition: #1
** AFIS100Years100Movies: #1
** AFIS100Years100MovieQuotes: #17, "Rosebud".
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* DeniedParody:
** Creator/OrsonWelles denied that Kane was based on William Randolph Hearst. It's unclear whether Welles was telling the truth, but Hearst certainly went out of his way to make sure everyone would think Kane was based off him. [[HypocriticalHumor How very Charles Foster Kane of him.]]
** Hearst: "Please remain. You furnish the pictures, and I'll furnish the war." Kane: "Dear Wheeler, You provide the prose poems. I'll provide the war." Completely different!
** Welles actually tried to get around this by including a line in the film in which a journalist makes a reference to both Kane and Hearst, thus indicating that Hearst actually exists as a separate entity in the ''Citizen Kane'' universe. In later interviews, Welles said that Hearst along with Howard Hughes and other industrialists were certainly influences on Kane, but that Kane was never intended as a parody/critique/insult to Hearst specifically or other industrialists, it was meant as a serious exploration of an American mythical hero, the tycoon and capitalist.
** Creator/OrsonWelles denied that Kane was based on William Randolph Hearst. It's unclear whether Welles was telling the truth, but Hearst certainly went out of his way to make sure everyone would think Kane was based off him. [[HypocriticalHumor How very Charles Foster Kane of him.]]
** Hearst: "Please remain. You furnish the pictures, and I'll furnish the war." Kane: "Dear Wheeler, You provide the prose poems. I'll provide the war." Completely different!
** Welles actually tried to get around this by including a line in the film in which a journalist makes a reference to both Kane and Hearst, thus indicating that Hearst actually exists as a separate entity in the ''Citizen Kane'' universe. In later interviews, Welles said that Hearst along with Howard Hughes and other industrialists were certainly influences on Kane, but that Kane was never intended as a parody/critique/insult to Hearst specifically or other industrialists, it was meant as a serious exploration of an American mythical hero, the tycoon and capitalist.
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**DeniedParody: Creator/OrsonWelles denied that Kane was based on William Randolph Hearst. It's unclear whether Welles was telling the truth, truth or just was trying to avoid getting sued to Hell and back by Hearst,[[note]]Especially considering things such as Kane's line "You provide the prose poems. I'll provide the war." being strikingly similar to a phrase famously attributed to Hearst, "You furnish the pictures, and I'll furnish the war."[[/note]] but Hearst certainly went out of his way to make sure everyone would think Kane was based off him. [[HypocriticalHumor How very Charles Foster Kane of him.]]
** Hearst: "Please remain. You furnish the pictures, and I'll furnish the war." Kane: "Dear Wheeler, You provide the prose poems. I'll provide the war." Completely different!
**]] Welles actually tried to get around this by including a line in the film in which a journalist [[ExpyCoexistence makes a reference to both Kane and Hearst, Hearst]], thus indicating that Hearst actually exists as a separate entity in the ''Citizen Kane'' universe. In later interviews, Welles said that Hearst along with Howard Hughes and other industrialists were certainly influences on Kane, but that Kane was never intended as a parody/critique/insult to Hearst specifically or other industrialists, it was meant as a serious exploration of an American mythical hero, the tycoon and capitalist.
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** Hearst: "Please remain. You furnish the pictures, and I'll furnish the war." Kane: "Dear Wheeler, You provide the prose poems. I'll provide the war." Completely different!
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* DescendedCreator: Director Creator/OrsonWelles plays the titular role of Charles Foster Kane.
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* DescendedCreator: Director Creator/OrsonWelles plays the titular role of Charlie Kane except when he is shown as a child. In those scenes, Buddy Swan played him.
* DuelingMovies: For a long time, ''Citizen Kane'' competed for #1 on a film list with Creator/JeanRenoir's ''Film/TheRulesOfTheGame''. The 2012 list saw it finally replaced from Sight and Sound's Best Film List. The critics list placed ''Film/{{Vertigo}}'' ahead of it, while the directors list placed ''Film/TokyoStory'' ahead of it.
* DuelingMovies: For a long time, ''Citizen Kane'' competed for #1 on a film list with Creator/JeanRenoir's ''Film/TheRulesOfTheGame''. The 2012 list saw it finally replaced from Sight and Sound's Best Film List. The critics list placed ''Film/{{Vertigo}}'' ahead of it, while the directors list placed ''Film/TokyoStory'' ahead of it.
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Charles Foster Kane.
*DuelingMovies: DuelingWorks: For a long time, ''Citizen Kane'' competed for #1 on a film list with Creator/JeanRenoir's ''Film/TheRulesOfTheGame''. The 2012 list saw it finally replaced from Sight and Sound's Best Film List. The critics list placed ''Film/{{Vertigo}}'' ahead of it, while the directors list placed ''Film/TokyoStory'' ahead of it.
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** Welles originally intended for Kane to basically be a different person in each flashback, since each narrator would remember him differently. Welles admits that although there is some of this present in the movie, it doesn't actually work as he intended. What could be written off as one person's biased remembrance could also be explained as Kane himself changing as he got older, which is what most people assume is the case.
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* CompletelyDifferentTitle: In Hungary, the film was called ''Aranypolgár'' ("The Golden Citizen")
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** Hungary: ''The GoldenCitizen")Citizen''
** Portugal: ''The World At His Feet''
** Italy: ''Fourth Estate''
** Sweden: ''A Sensation''
** Taiwan: ''Great Nation''
** Hungary: ''The Golden
** Portugal: ''The World At His Feet''
** Italy: ''Fourth Estate''
** Sweden: ''A Sensation''
** Taiwan: ''Great Nation''
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* WorkingTitle: ''The American'', ''John Citizen, U. S. A.''
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* WorkingTitle: ''The American'', American''; ''John Citizen, U. S. A.''