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Citizen Kane

Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance; 'Rosebud'.

Director

Orson Welles

Year

Genre

Box Office

$1,627,530

Production

Mercury Productions,RKO Radio Pictures

Awards

Won 1 Oscar. 11 wins & 13 nominations total

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Jedediah Leland

Susan Alexander Kane

Dorothy Comingore

Mary Kane

Agnes Moorehead

Emily Monroe Norton Kane

James W. Gettys

Herbert Carter

Erskine Sanford

Mr. Bernstein

Jerry Thompson

Raymond

Walter Parks Thatcher

George Coulouris

Matiste

Fortunio Bonanova

The Headwaiter

Mr. Rawlston

Philip Van Zandt

Miss Anderson

Kane's Father

Kane III

Kane - Age Eight

Kane

Man at Party in Everglades

Dancing Girl

Newsreel Man

Demetrius Alexis

Man in Senate Investigating Committee

Man at Xanadu Great Hall

Newsreel Man

Newsreel Man

T. Lockwood Arbright

Man at Boat Dock

Man in Projection Room

City Room Employee

Man Singing at Inquirer Party

Harry A. Bailey

Hillman

Man in Newsreel

Entertainer

Charles Bennett

Georgia

Man Singing at Inquirer Party

Man Singing at Inquirer Party

Man in Newsreel

Servant

Wedding Guest

Harry Burkhardt

Man Singing at Inquirer Party

William Calkins

Man Singing at Inquirer Party

Man in Newsreel

Man Singing at Inquirer Party

Woman in Front of Chronicle Building

Dorothy Cleveland

Inquirer Reporter

Reporter

Pianist in 'El Rancho'

Nat 'King' Cole

Man Singing at Inquirer Party

Newsreel Man

Woman at Boat Deck

Gino

City Editor

Herbert Corthell

Extra

Maurice Costello

Dancer

Man at Opera

Teddy Roosevelt

Thomas A. Curran

Reporter at Xanadu

Boss Printer

Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall

Hireling

Nurse on Hospital Roof

Dancer

Copy Boy

House Maid

Newswoman

Petra R. de Silva

Man Singing at Inquirer Party

Dancer

Man Singing at Inquirer Party

Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall

George DeNormand

Man in Projection Room

Ward Heeler

Photographer

Man at Opera

French Maid

Newsreel Man

Dancer

Pauline Easterday

Solly

Car-Driver

Man Singing at Inquirer Party

Adolf Hitler

Newsreel Man

Leland's Nurse

Hermann Goring

Dancer

Hireling

City Room Employee

Man Singing at Inquirer Party

Opera Singer

Expressman

Susan's Maid

Louise Franklin

Gorilla Man

Man Singing at Inquirer Party

Dancer

General in News on the March

Man at Xanadu Great Hall

Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall

Newsreel Man

Man Singing at Inquirer Party

Nurse

Dancer

Guest

Man at Party in Everglades

Joseph

Man on Hospital Roof

Man on Hospital Roof

Man Singing at Inquirer Party

City Room Employee

Man Singing at Inquirer Party

Newsreel Man

Newspaper Man

Best Man at Wedding

Edward L. Hemmer

Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall

Fish Driver

Bryan 'Slim' Hightower

Man Singing at Inquirer Party

Harlan Hoagland

Man at Xanadu Great Hall

Politician

Mitchell Ingraham

Man at Madison Square Garden

Man in Newsreel

Ward Heeler

Waiter at Inquirer Party

George W. Jimenez

Man Singing at Inquirer Party

Dancer

Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall

Man Singing at Inquirer Party

Alexander Julian

Man on Hospital Roof

Orchestra Leader

Car-Driver / Woman in Loggia Scene

Person in Front of Chronicle Building

Reporter at Wedding

Dancer

Pipe-smoking Reporter

Newsreel Man

Maid in Xanadu Hall

Man in Projection Room

Newsreel Man

Walter Lawrence

City Room Employee

Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall

Man in Newsreel

Druggist

Man Singing at Inquirer Party

Dancer

Ms. Townsend

Man Singing at Inquirer Party

Reporter at Boat Deck

Prompter

Woman at Boat Dock

Man on Roof

Newspaperman

Herman J. Mankiewicz

Man Singing at Inquirer Party

Jennings

Dancer

Newsboy

Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall

Shadowgraph Man

Newsreel Man

Man Singing at Inquirer Party

Civic Leader

Man Singing at Inquirer Party

Hercules Mendez

Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall

Man at Boat Dock

Buddy Messinger

Neville Chamberlain / Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall

Dr. Corey

Irving Mitchell

Man at Xanadu Great Hall

Politician

Butler

Reporter

Ethel

Frances E. Neal

Woman at Opera

Lillian Nicholson

Dancer

Copy Boy

Secretary

Newsreel Man

Opera Spectator

Secretary

William H. O'Brien

Reporter

Arthur O'Connell

Man at Madison Square Garden

Man Singing at Inquirer Party

Woman in Front of Chronicle Building

Lillian O'Malley

Civic Leader

Edward Peil Jr.

Copy Boy Delivering Message in Chicago Hotel Room

Man

Man at Madison Square Garden

Man Singing at Inquirer Party

Man at Boat Dock / Man at Madison Square Garden

Stagehand

Man Singing at Inquirer Party

Reporter

Dancer

Jolane Reynolds

Man Singing at Inquirer Party

City Room Employee

Dancer

Suzanne Ridgway

Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall

Big Governess

Newsreel Man

Man Singing at Inquirer Party

Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall

Newsreel Man

Smather

Hireling

Man in Inquirer City Room

Man at Madison Square Garden

Newsreel Man

Reporter at Xanadu

Man at Xanadu Great Hall

Politician

Opera Spectator

Dancer

Hireling

George Sherwood

Newsreel Man

Newsman

Newsreel Man

Man Singing at Inquirer Party

Newsreel Man

City Room Employee

Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall

Reporter

Hireling

Man at Madison Square Garden

Senate Investigator

Landers Stevens

Newsreel Man

Newsreel Man

Man in Senate Investigating Committee

Man in Newsreel

Jetsam

Man Singing at Inquirer Party

Robert B. Tobin

Interviewer in 1935 Newsreel

Reporter at Xanadu

Kathryn Trosper

Man Singing at Inquirer Party

Fred Trowbridge

Flotsam

Stagehand

Portuguese Laborer

Newsreel Man

Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall

Stage Manager

Man Singing at Inquirer Party

Reporter

Patrick Whitney

Reporter at Xanadu

Man on Roof

Man Singing at Inquirer Party

Chorus Master

Reporter

Dancer

Newspaperman at Trenton Town Hall

Woman in Projection Room

Speaker

Newsreel Man

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Mr. Bernstein Jedediah Leland Charles Foster Kane Walter Parks Thatcher Susan Alexander Kane Jerry Thompson Emily Monroe Norton Kane Raymond Interviewer In 1935 Newsreel Kane, Age Eight Charles Foster Kane Iii Herbert Carter Matiste Reporter 1 Reporter 2 The Headwaiter Mary Kane

I always gagged on the silver spoon - Citizen Kane

I always gagged on the silver spoon

Legendary was the Xanadu where Kubla Khan decreed his stately pleasure dome. - Citizen Kane

Legendary was the Xanadu where Kubla Khan decreed his...

Xanadu's livestock... - Citizen Kane

Xanadu's livestock...

Here in Xanadu, last week, Xanadu is landlord was laid to rest, a potent figure of our century... - Citizen Kane

Here in Xanadu, last week, Xanadu is landlord was laid to...

Then in the first year of the Great Depression, a Kane paper closes. - Citizen Kane

Then in the first year of the Great Depression, a Kane paper...

Is that correct? - Citizen Kane

Is that correct?

Don't believe everything you hear on the radio - Citizen Kane

Don't believe everything you hear on the radio

How did you find uh business conditions in EuropeUh how did I find business conditions in Europe Mr BonesWith great difficulty - Citizen Kane

How did you find uh business conditions in EuropeUh how did...

Kane helped to change the world, but Kane's world now is history and the great yellow journalist himself lived to be history, outlived his power to make it. - Citizen Kane

Kane helped to change the world, but Kane's world now...

You see Thompson it isn't enough to tell us what a man didYou've got to tell us who he was - Citizen Kane

You see Thompson it isn't enough to tell us what a man...

Rosebud - Citizen Kane

Miss AlexanderThis is Mr Thompson Miss AlexanderI want another drink JohnRight awayWill you have something Mr Thompson I'll have a highball pleaseWho told you you could sit downI thought maybe we could have a talk togetherWell think againCan't you people - Citizen Kane

Miss AlexanderThis is Mr Thompson Miss AlexanderI want...

Right away. - Citizen Kane

- Thank you, Jennings. - Citizen Kane

- Thank you, Jennings.

Maybe I'll make some teeth and whiskers - Citizen Kane

Maybe I'll make some teeth and whiskers

I'm sorry Mr Thatcher What that kid needs is a good thrashingThat's what you think is it Jim YesThat's why he's going to be brought up where you can't get at him - Citizen Kane

I'm sorry Mr Thatcher What that kid needs is a good...

I think it would be fun to run a newspaperI think it would be fun to run a newspaper - Citizen Kane

I think it would be fun to run a newspaperI think it would...

I don't know how to run a newspaper Mr ThatcherI just try everything I can think of - Citizen Kane

I don't know how to run a newspaper Mr ThatcherI just...

We have no secrets from our readers Mr BernsteinMr Thatcher is one of our most devoted readersHe knows what's wrong with every copy of the Inquirer since I took over - Citizen Kane

We have no secrets from our readers Mr BernsteinMr Thatcher...

Read the cableGirls delightful in Cuba stopCould send you prose poems about scenerybut don't feel right spending your money stopThere is no war in Cuba Signed WheelerAny answer Yes Dear WheelerYou provide the prose poems I'll provide the war - Citizen Kane

Read the cableGirls delightful in Cuba stopCould send you...

The trouble is you don't realize you're talking to two peopleAs Charles Foster Kane who owns 82 364 sharesof Public Transit preferredYou see I do have a general idea of my holdingsI sympathize with youCharles Foster Kane is a scoundrel His paper should be - Citizen Kane

The trouble is you don't realize you're talking to...

As Charles Foster Kane who owns 82 364 sharesof Public Transit preferredYou see I do have a general idea of my holdingsI sympathize with youCharles Foster Kane is a scoundrel His paper should be run out of townA committee should be formed to boycott - Citizen Kane

As Charles Foster Kane who owns 82 364 sharesof Public...

You're right Mr Thatcher I did lose a million dollars last yearI expect to lose a million dollars this yearI expect to lose a million dollars next yearYou know Mr Thatcher at the rate of a million dollars a yearI'll have to close this place in 60 years - Citizen Kane

You're right Mr Thatcher I did lose a million dollars...

You're too old to call me Mr Thatcher CharlesYou're too old to be called anything else - Citizen Kane

You're too old to call me Mr Thatcher...

We never lost as much as we made - Citizen Kane

We never lost as much as we made

Well... I always gagged on that silver spoon. - Citizen Kane

Well... I always gagged on that silver spoon.

You know Mr Bernsteinif I hadn't been very richI might have been a really great manDon't you think you areI think I did pretty well under the circumstancesWhat would you like to have beenEverything you hate - Citizen Kane

You know Mr Bernsteinif I hadn't been very richI might...

- Oh. - I beg your pardon, sir? - What? - What did you say? - Citizen Kane

- Oh. - I beg your pardon, sir? - What? - What did you say?

Who's a busy man MeI'm chairman of the board I got nothing but timeWhat do you want to know - Citizen Kane

Who's a busy man MeI'm chairman of the board I got...

A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd rememberYou take meOne day back in 1896 I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferryand as we pulled out there was another ferry pulling inand on it there was a girl waiting to get offA white - Citizen Kane

A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't...

Well it's no trick to make a lot of money if all you wantis to make a lot of money - Citizen Kane

Well it's no trick to make a lot of money if all you...

Harvard Yale Princeton Cornell SwitzerlandHe was thrown out of a lot of colleges - Citizen Kane

Harvard Yale Princeton Cornell SwitzerlandHe was thrown out...

Take a good look at it, Jedediah. - Citizen Kane

Take a good look at it, Jedediah.

There ain't no bedrooms in this joint. - Citizen Kane

There ain't no bedrooms in this joint.

Welcome, Mr. - Citizen Kane

The news goes on for 24 hours a day - Citizen Kane

The news goes on for 24 hours a day

The news goes on for 24 hours a day - Citizen Kane

The news goes on for 24 hours a day

You still eating I'm still hungry - Citizen Kane

You still eating I'm still hungry

Look Mr Carterhere is a three column headline in the ChronicleWhy hasn't the Inquirer a three column headlineThe news wasn't big enough Mm hmmMr Carter if the headline is big enough it makes the news big enoughThat's right Mr Kane - Citizen Kane

Look Mr Carterhere is a three column headline in the...

I'd like to keep that particular piece of paper myselfI have a hunch it might turn out to be something pretty importantA document SureLike the Declaration of Independence and the ConstitutionAnd my first report card at school - Citizen Kane

I'd like to keep that particular piece of paper myselfI...

There's a lot of pictures and statues in Europe you haven't bought yetYou can't blame me Mr BernsteinThey've been making statues for 2 000 yearsand I've only been buying for five - Citizen Kane

There's a lot of pictures and statues in Europe you...

- Oh, mama, here they come. - Citizen Kane

- Oh, mama, here they come.

I said. - Citizen Kane

Are we going to declare war on Spain or are we notThe Inquirer already hasYou long faced overdressed anarchistI am not overdressed You are tooMr Bernstein look at his necktie - Citizen Kane

Are we going to declare war on Spain or are we notThe...

You buy a bag of peanuts in this town you get a song written about you - Citizen Kane

You buy a bag of peanuts in this town you get a song written...

- ♪ What is his name? - Citizen Kane

- ♪ What is his name?

Isn't it wonderful Such a partyYes What's the matterWho says a miss Who says a missWas made to kiss Was made to kissAnd when he meets one Always tries to do exactly thisWho buys the food Who buys the foodWho buys the drinks Who buys the drinksWho thinks - Citizen Kane

Isn't it wonderful Such a partyYes What's the...

Bernstein am I a stuffed shirtAm I a horse faced hypocriteAm I a New England schoolmarmYesIf you thought I'd answer you any differentfrom what Mr Kane tells you well I wouldn't - Citizen Kane

Bernstein am I a stuffed shirtAm I a horse faced hypocriteAm...

Mr Kane on behalf of all the employees of the Inquirer - Citizen Kane

Mr Kane on behalf of all the employees of the Inquirer

President's niece huhBefore he's through she'll be a president's wife - Citizen Kane

President's niece huhBefore he's through...

The way things turned out, I don't need to tell you, Miss Emily Norton was no Rosebud. - Citizen Kane

The way things turned out, I don't need to tell you,...

Maybe that was something he lost. - Citizen Kane

Maybe that was something he lost.

Just old ageIt's the only disease Mr Thompsonthat you don't look forward to being cured of - Citizen Kane

Just old ageIt's the only disease Mr Thompsonthat you...

I can remember absolutely everything young manThat's my curseThat's one of the greatest curses ever inflicted on the human race memory - Citizen Kane

I can remember absolutely everything young manThat's my...

Not that Charlie was ever brutalHe just did brutal thingsMaybe I wasn't his friend but if I wasn't he never had one - Citizen Kane

Not that Charlie was ever brutalHe just did brutal...

I suppose he had some private sort of greatnessbut he kept it to himselfHe never gave himself away He never gave anything awayHe just uh left you a tip - Citizen Kane

I suppose he had some private sort of greatnessbut he kept...

You never should have married a newspapermanThey're worse than sailors - Citizen Kane

You never should have married a newspapermanThey're...

He happens to be the president Charles not youThat's a mistake that will be corrected one of these days - Citizen Kane

He happens to be the president Charles not youThat's a...

Really Charles people will thinkWhat I tell them to think - Citizen Kane

Really Charles people will thinkWhat I tell them to think

That's all he really wanted out of life was loveThat's Charlie's story How he lost itYou see he just didn't have any to give - Citizen Kane

That's all he really wanted out of life was...

What are you laughing at, young lady? - Citizen Kane

What are you laughing at, young lady?

Ow! - Ah! - Do I look any better now? - Citizen Kane

Ow! - Ah! - Do I look any better now?

Excuse me, but my landlady prefers me to keep this door open when I have a gentleman caller. - Citizen Kane

Excuse me, but my landlady prefers me to keep this door open...

It took me two solid years in the best boys' school in the world to learn that trick. - Citizen Kane

It took me two solid years in the best boys' school in...

I had a toothache and I don't know many peopleI know too many peopleI guess we're both lonely - Citizen Kane

I had a toothache and I don't know many peopleI know...

I run a couple of newspapers What do you do - Citizen Kane

I run a couple of newspapers What do you do

There is only one man who can rid the politics of this state of the evil domination of Boss Jim Gettys. - Citizen Kane

There is only one man who can rid the politics of this state...

Every straw vote, every independent poll shows that I'll be elected. - Citizen Kane

Every straw vote, every independent poll shows that...

The working man... - Citizen Kane

The working man...

Mother, is Pop governor yet? - Citizen Kane

Mother, is Pop governor yet?

But here's one promise I'll make, and Boss Jim Gettys knows I'll keep it. - Citizen Kane

But here's one promise I'll make, and Boss Jim...

Hello, Bill. - Citizen Kane

Why did you send Junior home in the car, Emily? - Citizen Kane

Why did you send Junior home in the car, Emily?

I had no idea you had this flair for melodrama, Emily. - Citizen Kane

I had no idea you had this flair for melodrama, Emily.

Charlie, he forced me to send your wife the letter. - Citizen Kane

Charlie, he forced me to send your wife the letter.

Mrs. Kane. I don't suppose anybody would introduce us. I'm Jim Gettys. Yes? - Citizen Kane

Mrs. Kane. I don't suppose anybody would introduce us....

I made Miss, uh, Miss Alexander send you the note, Mrs. - Citizen Kane

I made Miss, uh, Miss Alexander send you the note, Mrs.

I am not a gentleman - Citizen Kane

I am not a gentleman

I'd rather Mr. - Citizen Kane

So would you, Mrs. - Citizen Kane

So would you, Mrs.

Are you coming, Charles? - Citizen Kane

Are you coming, Charles?

- I can fight this all alone. - Citizen Kane

- I can fight this all alone.

There's only one person in the world to decide what I'm gonna do and that's me - Citizen Kane

There's only one person in the world to decide what...

You decided what you were going to do, Charles, some time ago. - Citizen Kane

You decided what you were going to do, Charles, some time...

You're making a bigger fool of yourself than I thought you would, Mr. - Citizen Kane

You're making a bigger fool of yourself than I thought...

Don't worry about me GettysDon't worry about meI'm Charles Foster KaneI'm no cheap crooked politiciantrying to save himself from the consequences of his crimesGettys I'm gonna send you to Sing SingSing Sing Gettys Sing Si - Citizen Kane

Don't worry about me GettysDon't worry about...

Hey, all, read all about it! - Citizen Kane

Hey, all, read all about it!

With a million majority already against him and the church counties still to be heard from... - Citizen Kane

With a million majority already against him and the church...

Well, good night again. - Citizen Kane

Well, good night again.

- Is there anything I... - Citizen Kane

- Is there anything I...

Citizen Kane poster

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Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance; 'Rosebud'.

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Director: Orson Welles

Writer: Herman J. Mankiewicz, Orson Welles, John Houseman

Production: Mercury Productions,RKO Radio Pictures

Genre: drama, mystery

Year: 1941

MetaScore: 100/100

ImdbRating: 8.3

BoxOffice: $1,627,530

Released: 05 Sep 1941

Awards: Won 1 Oscar. 11 wins & 13 nominations total

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