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David Fincher’s Mank credits Herman J. Mankiewicz for Citizen Kane script — at the expense of Orson Welles – ABC News
Mank uses the story of alcoholic journalist-turned-screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz and his battles with Orson Welles and MGM to tell a far more sinister tale.
Though Citizen Kane has come to be regarded as one of the greatest films ever made a bravura feat of technical and formal innovation, and a given on any self-respecting ‘best of’ list or introductory film history course Orson Welles’s provocative Hollywood debut was greeted with scattered boos each time it was announced at the 1942 Oscars.
For all its nine nominations, Kane would only bag a single shiny statuette: Best Original Screenplay.
This was to be split between Welles and his co-author, Herman…
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