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  1. 2 days ago · Joe Chong on The innovative genius of Citizen Kane; Joe Chong on The Puzzle of Citizen Kane: A First-Time Viewer’s Reflection; William Shaulis on Orson Welles on Citizen Kane Interview; William Shaulis on Reality Imitates Art: Hearst and Kane; Tai Jackson on The Role of Transitional Elements in Citizen Kane

  2. 3 days ago · One thing I found from this interesting review was the comparison of Charles Kane to a real-life person that was William Randolph Hearst. Like the main character, Hearst was a multi-millionaire newspaper publisher and many events that happened to Kane also happened to Hearst in his life.

  3. 4 days ago · The real-life Charles Foster Kane, a man by the name of William Randolph Hearst, had a similar life to that of Kane, but the fascination truly begins when we look at Hearst’s reaction to the film Orson Welles made on his story. Prior to watching Citizen Kane, I knew that the film had been based on the life of an actual person, though I did ...

  4. 1 day ago · Welles’ career arc casts a shadow over “Citizen Kane.” What makes the film so compelling, beyond its technical innovation­s, is how it now feels like an unintentio­nal autobiogra­phy. Kane was based, in part, on the real-life figure of publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst.

  5. 4 days ago · The larger than life character of Kane was based on the larger than life young publisher of the New York Journal William Randolph Hearst. In 1896 Hearst had hired the artist and sculptor Frederic Remington and sent him to Cuba to draw sketches that he intended to print in his newspaper of the insurgency he thought was raging against Spain’s colonial rule.

  6. 3 days ago · According to Welles's biographer, Simon Callow, the director screened Ford's film, which made John Wayne a star, up to 40 times, usually after dinner and "often with some different technician or ...

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  8. 3 days ago · Hearst Castle, known formally as La Cuesta Encantada (Spanish for "The Enchanted Hill"), is a historic estate in San Simeon, located on the Central Coast of California. Conceived by William Randolph Hearst, the publishing tycoon, and his architect Julia Morgan, the castle was built between 1919 and 1947. Today, Hearst Castle is a museum open to ...

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