History Trivia / CitizenKane

** Denmark: "The Great Man"

** Italy: ''Fourth Estate''

* CopiouslyCreditedCreator: Co-written, directed, produced and starring Creator/OrsonWelles.

** 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.

* 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.

* CopiouslyCreditedCreator: Co-written, directed, produced and starring Welles.

** 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.

** 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/AFIS100YearsSeries:
** AFIS100Years100Movies: #1
** AFIS100Years100MovieQuotes: #17, "Rosebud".
** AFIS100Years100Movies10THAnniversaryEdition: #1

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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.

* DescendedCreator: Director Creator/OrsonWelles plays the titular role of Charles Foster Kane.

* 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.

* CompletelyDifferentTitle: In Hungary, the film was called ''Aranypolgár'' ("The Golden Citizen")

* WorkingTitle: ''The American'', ''John Citizen, U. S. A.''