Extra features on the two-disc DVD set arriving in stores this week paint Welles as a talented but arrogant young artist handicapped by his incendiary first film. (AP Photo 9/27/01)

William Randolph Hearst

Kane = Hearst
Xanadu = San Simeon
Emily = Millicent
Susan = Marion Davies
Bernstein = Carvalho
Jedediah = Lent/Bierce
Thatcher = J.P. Morgan
Geddes = Boss Murphy
Inquirer = N.Y. Journal
Chronicle = N.Y. World

Links:

• Hearst and Welles
• Clinton pardons Patty Hearst from Reuters, January 3, 2001
• Citizen Kane plot summary from 100 Greatest Films
• The Battle over Citizen Kane from PBS The American Experience 1996 (included on disc 2 of the DVD from Warner Video
• RKO 281 was produced by HBO in 1999
• The Cat's Meow was a feature film directed by Peter Bogdanovich and released by Lion's Gate in 2002, starring Edward Herrmann as Hearst, Kirsten Dunst as Marion Davies, Eddie Izzard as Charlie Chaplin, and set in 1924 on the Hearst yacht Oneida where Thomas Ince (played by Cary Elwes) was killed.

Sources:

• Leaming, Barbara. Orson Welles, a biography. New York: Viking, 1985. 562 p.
• McBride, Joseph. Orson Welles, revised and expanded edition. NY: Da Capo, 1972, 1996 paper.
• Nasaw, David. The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. 687 p.
• Wood, Bret. Orson Welles: a bio-bibliography. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990. 364 p.