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...who had already made his mark on Broadway. Months after the broadcast, RKO Pictures signed Welles, who would make his film acting and directorial debut with the landmark "Citizen Kane" in 1941. The lessons of Oct. 30, 1938, remain relevant...

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...show. When Welles signed his contract with RKO Radio Pictures in 1940, he considered making films based on Heart of Darkness and on the C. Day Lewis novel The Smiler With a Knife (1939) before deciding on Citizen Kane (1941). The CBS...

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...single word. He may have made the odd change, but it seems certain that the lion's share of the writing was done by Mankiewicz, who was not best pleased when it emerged that RKO was not planning to give him a writing credit. On the finished...

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...demonstrated the spectacular heights to which the cinematic arts can be taken. Stewart left RKO Studios in 1945, when he was hired by David O. Selznick. He was eventually appointed Head of Technical Operations for Selznick International...

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...the completion of the project. Welles eventually managed to purchase some of the footage of the film, but ended up relinquishing ownership back to RKO based on his inability to pay the storage costs of the film. Some footage was eventually...

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...to The Campbell Playhouse. Welles toyed with various ideas for his first project for RKO Pictures, settling on an adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, which he worked on in great detail. He planned to film the action with...

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...improve. Because Welles had conceded his original contractual right to do the final cut in a negotiation with RKO over a film that Welles was obliged to direct but never did, RKO was able to take over the editing of the film once Welles had...

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...RKO Pictures, claiming that the Welles estate is the legal copyright holder of the film. Her attorney said that Orson Welles had left RKO with an exit deal terminating his contracts with the studio, meaning that Welles still had an interest in...

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...release. Welles and the studio, RKO, resisted the pressure, but Hearst and his Hollywood friends succeeded in getting theater chains to limit bookings of Kane, resulting in mediocre box-office numbers and harming Welles' career. Nearly...

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