Fwd: Re: The Kenosha Kid

[David Andignac]

>>This was said (I forget by whom)-
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>>Welles was born in Kenosha Wisc. I don't know think anyone knows for
>>sure what Welles intended by Rosebud but I have heard a story that
>>`Rosebud' had a somewhat special significance for WR Hearst, on whom
>>Kane is partly modelled. Apparently, it was Hearst's pet name for his
>>girlfriend's private parts (excuse the object-oriented parlance). I'd
>>love to have been a fly on the wall when Hearst first saw the film.
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>Apparently Hearst had a cow, and I think, but am not sure, that he sued the
>film company.
>                                                Ethan
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I just saw a documentary on PBS about this struggle between Hearst and 
Welles. Apparently the origin of "Rosebud" was true and Welles and his 
screenwriter put it in to rile Hearst. 

Hearst claimed he never saw the film, but exerted enough pressure on the 
Hollywood community to block it's widespread release. Theater chains refused 
to show it. Welles basically lost the battle for widespread release when 
Kane lost all of its Oscar nominations. Hearst's influence was so great that 
Academy members actually booed when Citizen Kane was announced as a nominee. 
According to the documentary Kane didn't gain the recognition it know holds 
until the sixties when it began appearing on foreign lists of the greatest 
movies of all time.

A Little Trivia,

David A.>