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

In the most dazzling debut feature in cinema history, twenty-five-year-old writer-producer-director-star Orson Welles crafted ... magnate Charles Foster Kane's (Welles) dying words, his ...

Later, he worked as an editor on films like The Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring Charles Laughton. His big break came in 1941 when Orson Welles hired him to edit Citizen Kane for which Wise received ...

A man of prodigious appetites, he was the model for Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane and conducted a decades-long affair with actress Marion Davies. By the time he died, he had transformed the role ...