Is Citizen Kane Based on a Book
With a Story Spanning 60 Year's, the Quasi-Biographical Film Examines the Life and Legacy of Charles Foster Kane, Played by Welles, a Fictional Character Based...
With a story spanning 60 years, the quasi-biographical film examines the life and legacy of Charles Foster Kane, played by Welles, a fictional character based in part upon the American newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst and Chicago tycoons Samuel Insull and Harold McCormick.
Was Citizen Kane ever a book?
Herman J. Mankiewicz co-wrote the script in early 1940. He and Welles separately re-wrote and revised each other’s work until Welles was satisfied with the finished product. Pauline Kael’s controversial essay “Raising Kane” was published in The New Yorker and in The Citizen Kane Book (1971).
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Who was Charles Kane based on?
Newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst is the primary inspiration for CITIZEN KANE’s protagonist, Charles Foster Kane. Mankiewicz created Kane’s dialogue using — almost verbatim —lines from Hearst’s own writings and speeches.
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