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• Author/Creator:Welles, Orson, 1915-1985.
  
• Title:Orson Welles notes and screenplay relating to Citizen Kane, 1940.
  
• Physical Description:0.21 linear feet (1 box)
  
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  • Location:LSF- BEINECKE
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: YCAL MSS 1192
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Notes:Stamped on front covers: "Please return to RKO Story files" and "1239."
  In English.
  Purchased from Cloud Hill Books on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2018.
  
• Organization:Arranged alphabetically.
  
• Access and use:This material is open for research.
• Biographical / Historical note:Orson Welles (1915-1985), American actor, writer, director, and producer in theater, radio, and film.
  
• Summary:"Notes on first draft script of 'Kane'," typescript carbon, dating from 30 April through 2 May, 1940, and screenplay, typescript carbon, "2nd draft continuity," dated 16 May, 1940 on cover, but including revision pages through 15 June, 1940 for the 1941 film, Citizen Kane. Screenplay written in collaboration with Herman J. Mankiewicz for the film produced and directed by Welles, distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, and starring Welles, Joseph Cotton, Dorothy Comingore, and others.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Orson Welles Notes and Screenplay Relating to Citizen Kane. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
  
• Subjects:Comingore, Dorothy, 1913-1971.
  Cotten, Joseph, 1905-1994.
  Mankiewicz, Herman J. (Herman Jacob), 1897-1953.
  Welles, Orson, 1915-1985.
  Welles, Orson, 1915-1985. Citizen Kane.
  RKO Radio Pictures.
  American literature--20th century.
  Motion picture producers and directors--United States.
  Motion pictures--Production and direction.
  Motion pictures--United States.
  Screenwriters--United States--Archives.
  
• Genre/Form:Screenplays.
  
• Occupation:Motion picture producers and directors United States 20th century.
  Screenwriters United States 20th century.