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Orson Welles's cinematographer for the film was Gregg Toland, described by Welles as "just then, the [...]	D
Orson Welles tried to buy out the screen credit of co-writer Herman J. Mankiewicz. Welles actually p [...]	D
Musician Jack White is a major fan of Orson Welles (his label, Third Man Records, is named after ano [...]	D
Was voted the 2nd Greatest film of all time by Entertainment Weekly.	D
The Chicago tycoons Samuel Insull and Harold McCormick were direct inspirations for Kane's relations [...]	D
According to the film's official budget, there were 81 sets built. But the art designer Perry Fergus [...]	D
Susan Alexander Kane's disastrous debut in the opera world is accompanied by a libretto written not [...]	D
Gregg Toland's equipment included the first extensive use of coated lenses for shooting a feature fi [...]	D
Both the appearance and the voice of Charles Kane when he's older were inspired by Victor Moore as " [...]	D
The reporter Jerry Thompson's (William Alland) face is never fully seen. It is always in the shadows [...]	D
Many of the myths concerning this film were later popularized by the semi-fictitious TV movie RKO 28 [...]	D
In the 1970s, film critic Pauline Kael wrote an essay called "Raising Kane". In it, she credited co- [...]	D
Production advisor Miriam Geiger quickly compiled a handmade film textbook for Orson Welles, a pract [...]	D
Much of the music used in the phony newsreel is stock music from RKO's film La tragedia del 'Silver [...]	D
Biblical reference: Cain and Abel.	D
Judy Holliday tested for the role of Susan Alexander (under her real name Judy Tuvim).	D
The movie's line "Rosebud". was voted as the #17 greatest movie quote by the American Film Institute [...]	D
Agnes Moorehead was already 40 years old when she made her motion picture debut in this film.	D
Orson Welles gave an example to the movie industry with this film, that "there is no need of prepara [...]	D
One subplot discarded from the final film concerned Susan Alexander Kane having an affair that Kane [...]	D
Orson Welles came to dislike the Rosebud twist, calling it, "Dollar-book Freud".	D
Alan Ladd makes an uncredited appearance as one of the reporters at the end of the film (the one "wi [...]	D
The technique of flashbacks had been used in earlier films, notably Potenza e gloria (1933), but no [...]	D
The voice of the newsreel announcer at the beginning of the film is provided by William Alland, who [...]	D
Throughout production Orson Welles had problems with various film executives not respecting his cont [...]	D
Raymond, the butler, is one of the last people to see Kane alive. Paul Stewart, who plays Raymond, w [...]	D
Voted #6 in Total Film's 100 Greatest Movies Of All Time list (November 2005).	D
Susan Kane's fixation with jigsaws was a deliberate nod to Marion Davies' penchant for them. However [...]	D
During the scenes where Kane first buys his newspaper and delivers the line about going bankrupt in [...]	D
Orson Welles brought New York actress Ruth Warrick out to Hollywood to test for the part of Emily No [...]	D
For the news footage in the opening newsreel to look suitably grainy, editor Robert Wise came up wit [...]	D
Ombre rosse (1939), the movie that Orson Welles had seen more than forty times while preparing the s [...]	D
The cast and crew include three Oscar winners (Orson Welles, Gregg Toland and Herman J. Mankiewicz) [...]	D
The "newsreel" that opens the film is a perfect skewering of Henry Luce's 'Time Magazine' style of p [...]	D
Co-writer Herman J. Mankiewicz actually knew William Randolph Hearst and his mistress, Marion Davies [...]	D
One line by Kane, "Don't believe everything you hear on the radio", might be construed as a sly wink [...]	D
William Randolph Hearst was so angered by the film that he accused Orson Welles of being a Communist [...]	D
Dispute still rages over ownership of the original idea for the script, with many claiming that it w [...]	D
The film takes place from 1871 to 1941.	D
This film is in the Official Top 250 Narrative Feature Films on Letterboxd.	D
Orson Welles' 156-page personal working copy of the script for the film sold for $97,000 in 2007.	D
Orson Welles was so satisfied with the Spanish dubbed version, that he requested that dubbing direct [...]	D
After production wrapped, William Randolph Hearst forbade any advertisement of the film in any of hi [...]	D
The opening scene in a darkened theater (after the newsreel) is played by all the main male characte [...]	D
Despite all the publicity, the film was a box-office flop and was quickly consigned to the RKO vault [...]	D
Orson Welles credited Gregg Toland on the same title card as himself. "It's impossible to say how mu [...]	D
A looped snippet of Kane clapping after Susan's singing performance is currently (2017) being used b [...]	D
Orson Welles met John Ford for the first time on the first day of shooting of "Citizen Kane" when Fo [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 1998 list of the Top 100 Greatest American Movies.	D
Wise said the breakfast table sequence took weeks to edit and get the correct "timing" and "rhythm" [...]	D
The scene outside Ma Kane's boarding house reportedly drove Orson Welles crazy. The director always [...]	D
Approximately 84 minutes into the film, while being interviewed by a reporter Jedediah pokes fun at [...]	D
First film score of Bernard Herrmann. He would go on to be one of Hollywood's top film composers fro [...]	D
Gregg Toland used faster film and much more powerful lighting that made it possible to get deep focu [...]	D
The scene where Kane destroys Susan's room after she's left him was done on the first take. Director [...]	D
In the scene where Charles is told he's leaving his home for a better life, his mother intimates tha [...]	D
For his work in this movie, Orson Welles became the first person to be Oscar nominated for Best Acto [...]	D
Kane knows plenty of magic tricks that amuse Susan. Orson Welles himself was an amateur magician.	D
At 1h 17m 33s there is an extreme closeup of typebars striking the paper. The same kind of shot is u [...]	D
The film represents the feature film debuts of William Alland, Ray Collins, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moo [...]	D
The final day of shooting on November 30 was Kane's death scene. Orson Welles boasted that he only w [...]	D
The character Jedediah Leland is based on celebrated newspaper columnist Ashton Stevens, drama criti [...]	D
In the interview book This Is Orson Welles with Peter Bogdanovich and Orson Welles, Bogdanovich info [...]	D
Orson Welles always claimed that this picture was not the biography of one specific individual, but [...]	D
Although Marion Davies is frequently held up as the model for Susan Alexander Kane, the character wa [...]	D
In April 2021, the film lost its perfect 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes after an 80 year old negative [...]	D
The film's premiere in Chicago coincided with Orson Welles' 26th birthday on May 6, 1941.	D
The snow globe Kane drops and breaks at the beginning of the film reappears in the flashback scene i [...]	D
Charles Foster Kane is described as being born in Colorado. Buddy Swan, who portrays Kane as a child [...]	D
The first draft of the script was simply titled "American."	D
The film's opening with just the title and no star names was unprecedented in 1941. It is now the in [...]	D
In the scene where Kane and his entourage set off for the beach from Xanadu, large birds are seen fl [...]	D
It was widely believed the film would win most of its Academy Award nominations, but it received onl [...]	D
Rebecca - La prima moglie (1940) was a massive influence on this film: Both films use deep focus pho [...]	D
Orson Welles's directorial film debut.	D
During the violent rampage through Susan Alexander's bedroom, Orson Welles badly gashed his left han [...]	D
In 1972, Herrmann said, "I was fortunate to start my career with a film like Citizen Kane, it's been [...]	D
Apparently, holding less of a grudge than anyone might think, William Randolph Hearst's son said in [...]	D
On the newspaper shown near the end, there is a column headed "Stage Views, Jed Leland", with a port [...]	D
Orson Welles' deal with RKO gave him unprecedented freedom for a first-time director. He was to writ [...]	D
Xanadu's design is based on William Randolph Hearst's elaborate homes in San Simeon, CA, and Mont St [...]	D
The credited cast was mainly from the Mercury Theatre troupe, which Orson Welles founded when he was [...]	D
Gregg Toland was really eager to work with the young maverick director Orson Welles as he was keen t [...]	D
In the last scene of the breakfast montage showing the deterioration of Charles's and Emily's marria [...]	D
Xanadu was inspired by Manderley from Rebecca - La prima moglie (1940).	D
The film showcased a technique called "universal focus". To get the image of Kane and the poster pic [...]	D
In the scene where Bernstein enters the Inquirer amidst a pile of boxes and luggage, some of the box [...]	D
Principal photography which began in late June 1940, finished just a few days over schedule on Octob [...]	D
Writer Herman J. Mankiewicz was contractually bound not to drink during the film's pre-production. M [...]	D
According to Orson Welles, the nightclub set was available after another film had wrapped and that f [...]	D
The original nitrate negatives were lost in a fire during the 1970s.	D
The American Film Institute's poll ranked the film #1 on its list of greatest American movies of all [...]	D
Superstar Marion Davies said in her memoir, "The Times We Had", which she recorded in 1951, that she [...]	D
Orson Welles thought it an advantage that Dorothy Comingore (Susan) was pregnant when shooting began [...]	D
This film is frequently cited as the best of all time, but it wasn't immediately received as such up [...]	D
According to Ruth Warrick, Orson Welles was not in good shape at the beginning of production. When p [...]	D
Nat 'King' Cole's debut.	D
The reporter interviewing an aged Kane in the newsreel is the film's cinematographer Gregg Toland.	D
The special contact lenses used to make Orson Welles look elderly proved very painful, and a doctor [...]	D
The character of Bernstein was named after Orson Welles' guardian Dr. Maurice Bernstein, a Kenosha ( [...]	D
Just before the shot of Susan leaving for good, a screeching cockatoo is seen in profile. William Ra [...]	D
During production, the film was referred to as RKO 281. Most of the filming took place in what is no [...]	D
It is widely believed that Ted Turner had plans to colorize the film, but that wide public outcry le [...]	D
Selected by the Vatican in the "art" category of its list of 45 "great films".	D
Carole Lombard was offered the lead role in a proposed melodrama, "Smiler with a Knife", to be direc [...]	D
As known, Jack Kerouac was a huge fan of this movie, and of Orson Welles in general. The one time he [...]	D
Orson Welles usually worked 16 to 18 hours a day on the film. He often began work at 4 a.m. since th [...]	D
Film scholars and historians view Citizen Kane as Orson Welles's attempt to create a new style of fi [...]	D
Ruth Warrick (died 2005) was the last surviving member of the principal cast. Sonny Bupp (died 2007) [...]	D
When "Rosebud" was burned, Orson Welles choreographed the scene while he had composer Bernard Herrma [...]	D
When The March of Time narrator Westbrook Van Voorhis asked for $25,000 to narrate the News on the M [...]	D
The audience that watches Kane make his speech is, in fact, a still photo. To give the illusion of m [...]	D
This film was selected into the National Film Registry in 1989 (the first year of inductions) for be [...]	D
Orson Welles drove his cast so hard that Erskine Sanford actually had a nervous breakdown.	D
For this movie Orson Welles, along with cinematographer Gregg Toland, pioneered "deep focus", a tech [...]	D
George Coulouris, who played Kane's legal guardian, posed for two hours for a papier-machÃ© statue [...]	D
The scene with Charles Bennett and the "chorus girls" in the newspaper office was supposed to have t [...]	D
Favorite film of Charlton Heston. He would later collaborate with Orson Welles on L'infernale Quinla [...]	D
The most innovative technical aspect of Citizen Kane is the extended use of deep focus, where the fo [...]	D
When Kane's mother, father and Thatcher walk from the living room into the kitchen, they sit down at [...]	D
The lengthy scene where the older Jedediah Leland is interviewed at the old folks' home was Joseph C [...]	D
The actual site of Hearst Castle, like Kane's palace, is high atop a hill. It overlooks the Pacific [...]	D
The movie's line "Old age . . . it's the only disease, Mr. Thompson, that you don't look forward to [...]	D
Orson Welles told filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich that he regretted how Marion Davies' reputation had su [...]	D
For the opening shot of the "El Rancho" sequence where the camera appears to move through a gap in t [...]	D
Orson Welles reportedly wore out a print of Potenza e gloria (1933) while studying its story constru [...]	D
The Inquirer's bad review of Susan Alexander's opera debut (bylined "Jed Leland" but, in the film, l [...]	D
In a March 1967 Playboy interview, Orson Welles stated that "I've known only one great cameraman, Gr [...]	D
Joseph Cotten shot the interview scene in one day, but had to return a few days later to re-shoot th [...]	D
Orson Welles later said that casting character actor Gino Corrado in the small part of the waiter at [...]	D
To keep studio execs off his back, Orson Welles claimed the cast and crew were "in rehearsal" during [...]	D
Many scenes were shot during arduous, all night shoots. Many times after pulling a difficult all-nig [...]	D
The ice sculptures at the Inquirer party behind Mr. Bernstein are caricatures of Bernstein and Lelan [...]	D
Final film of Margaret Davis.	D
Despite the enormous controversy surrounding the film, it actually passed the review of the Hays Off [...]	D
The film is included on Roger Ebert's "Great Movies" list.	D
William Randolph Hearst was infuriated by this movie, obviously based on his life. According to an e [...]	D
In 1982, film director Steven Spielberg bought a "Rosebud" sled for $60,500; it was one of three bal [...]	D
Screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz wrote the balance of the screenplay for this film from a hospital [...]	D
In an attempt to recoup some of its losses after its initial box-office flop, RKO distributed this f [...]	D
At the beginning of "News on the March" the several shots of buildings with Spanish architecture wer [...]	D
Both Orson Welles' and Herman J. Mankiewicz's Oscar statuettes were auctioned by Nate D. Sanders Mem [...]	D
In 1971, shortly after Pauline Kael's infamous "Raising Kane" essay first appeared in "The New Yorke [...]	D
For the final scene, a stage at the Selznick studio was equipped with a working furnace, and multipl [...]	D
Cinematographer Gregg Toland used a Mitchell BNC-2 camera to shoot the film.	D
The camera looks up at Charles Foster Kane and his best friend Jedediah Leland and down at weaker ch [...]	D
Included among the American Film Institute's 2005 list of 250 movies nominated for AFI's 100 Years o [...]	D
The first official scene to be shot was the breakfast montage sequence between Kane and his first wi [...]	D
Although some of the Susan Alexander character was based on superstar Marion Davies, the great major [...]	D
On the night the movie opened in San Francisco, Orson Welles found himself alone with William Randol [...]	D
In a 1948 interview, D. W. Griffith said, "I loved Citizen Kane and particularly loved the ideas he [...]	D
The opera in which Susan Alexander Kane stars was, originally, to have been based upon, and titled, [...]	D
In the scene where Jedediah confronts Kane, Joseph Cotten had stayed awake for 24 hours before the s [...]	D
During filming Orson Welles received a warning that William Randolph Hearst had arranged for a naked [...]	D
The favorite film of "Peanuts" cartoonist Charles M. Schulz. He incorporated many references to it i [...]	D
In the 1980's, a group of statues from the dismantling of Xanadu scene were still to be found in an [...]	D
The movie's line "Rosebud". was voted as #3 of "The 100 Greatest Movie Lines" by "Premiere" magazine [...]	D
During an appearance in 1970 on The Dick Cavett Show (1968), Orson Welles said he didn't believe his [...]	D
It was RKO head George Schaefer who suggested the title change from "American" to "Citizen Kane". Or [...]	D
Orson Welles often arrived on the set at 2:30 a.m., as application of the sculptural make-up took 3� [...]	D
Originally, the movie was going to be based on the life of Howard Hughes with Joseph Cotten in the l [...]	D
The piece of music that Susan is repeatedly shown singing is "Una voce poco fa" from "Il barbiere di [...]	D
Orson Welles chipped his anklebone halfway through production and had to direct for 2 weeks from a w [...]	D
Mr. Bernstein's first name is never revealed.	D
Prior to deciding on Citizen Kane, Orson Welles considered adapting the novel The Smiler With A Knif [...]	D
In the original script, Kane's son survives into adulthood and joins a radical group attempting to o [...]	D
During filming, Orson Welles started treating Dorothy Comingore terribly, deliberately humiliating h [...]	D
Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.	D
Susan's singing voice was provided by a professional opera singer who, under Orson Welles' direction [...]	D
Features Orson Welles's only Oscar nominated acting performance.	D
Final film of Vivian Wilson.	D
The sled that Thatcher gives Kane for Christmas has "THE CRUSADER" written on it. (In addition, the [...]	D

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