One famous shot in the first minutes of the film, showing reflections in a smashed snow globe, anticipates the film’s grand themes of ambition and legacy and the cracked mirror of memory. Welles ...

Orson Welles was summoned to Hollywood by the executives at RKO, who granted him an unprecedented amount of freedom to direct his debut feature, Citizen Kane. It was a surprising move for many ...

Orson Welles directed, co-wrote and starred in Citizen Kane when he was just 25, but it has gone down in history as one of ...

But Mankiewicz has never gained the fame of “Citizen Kane,” nor its director and star, Orson Welles. And it’s likely that only the most zealous of film buffs are aware of the Jewish sides to ...

In 1941, Orson Welles co-wrote, directed, and starred in Citizen Kane, still regarded by many critics as the greatest movie of all time.He was 26 years old. For such a remarkable beginning, Welles ...

Ron Howard has won Oscars for his directing prowess, but none of that would have happened if he'd turned down a truly terrible film.

Polish-born Ganna Walska was an operatic singer so unsuccessful that her failure as a vocalist is near-legendary: it inspired a theme of Orson Welles' Citizen Kane and has been described in numerous ...

His big break came in 1941 when Orson Welles hired him to edit Citizen Kane for which Wise received his first Oscar nomination. He transitioned into directing with The Curse of the Cat People and soon ...

A man of prodigious appetites, he was the model for Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane and conducted a decades-long affair with actress Marion Davies. By the time he died, he had transformed the role ...

Mank tells the story of screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz attempting to finish the script for Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane in 1930s Hollywood. A drinker and gambler who regularly pursues affairs ...