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In 1940, film studio RKO 1940 hires 24-year-old wunderkind Orson Welles under a contract that gives him full creative control of his movies. For his first film, he calls in washed-up alcoholic Herman J. Mankiewicz to write the screenplay. That film is "Citizen Kane," and this is the story of how it was written.
Holed up in the secluded North Verde Ranch in the middle of the Mojave Desert, bedridden American screenwriter has 60 short days to turn in the first draft of the screenplay. Grappling with alcohol addiction, collaborates with , Hollywoods 24-year-old golden boy, and gets to work. As RKO had already given carte blanche, decides to draw inspiration from his days working for MGM, his friendship with newspaper magnate , and Hearsts 20-year-old girlfriend, actress of the Ziegfeld Follies.
Gary Oldman
Herman Mankiewicz
Amanda Seyfried
Marion Davies
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Rita Alexander
Tom Pelphrey
Joe Mankiewicz
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Louis B. Mayer
Tuppence Middleton
Sara Mankiewicz
Monika Gossmann
Fraulein Freda
Joseph Cross
Charles Lederer
Sam Troughton
John Houseman
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David O. Selznick
Tom Burke
Orson Welles
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William Randolph Hearst
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Irving Thalberg
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