William Randolph Hearst screamed illegal and slander when he learned that Orson Welles was producing, writing, and starring in a movie which was based upon his life. While Hearst fought to ban the ...

Orson Welles, already an institution at ... All glitzier plans had been scuttled by newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, who believed, correctly, that the film was a thinly veiled indictment ...

Explore the life of William Randolph Hearst, who, by the 1930s, controlled a vast media empire, achieving unprecedented power. A man of prodigious appetites, he was the model for Orson Welles’s ...

Directed by and starring Orson Welles in his feature film debut, Citizen Kane tells the life story of Charles Foster Kane, a ...

What to do with The Magnificent Ambersons, director Orson Welles’ follow ... but newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst did his best to destroy Welles’ career -- Welles opted to direct ...

Joseph Cotten, Orson Welles and Everett Sloane in the ... ever been before,” the New York Times intoned, noting William Randolph Hearst’s angry effort to bury the movie about a rapacious ...

The theme of monkeys runs through “Mank,” most pointedly when William Randolph Hearst (he of newspaper ... screenwriter for Orson Welles’ classic “Citizen Kane” and the protagonist ...