American Experience The Battle Over Citizen Kane (Season 8, Episode 7)
TV Episode | 108 min | Documentary, Biography, History

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American Experience

The Battle Over Citizen Kane (Season 8, Episode 7)

TV Episode | 108 min | Documentary, Biography, History

Documentary about the battle between Orson Welles and William Randolph Hearst over Welles' Citizen Kane. Features interviews with Welles' and Hearst's co-workers also as a relative complete bio of Hearst.

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38 cast members

Name	Known for
William Alland Self Self See fewer	Citizen Kane (1941)
Thomas Anderson Self Self See fewer	American Experience (1987)
Peter Bogdanovich Self Self See fewer	The Last Picture Show (1971)
Jimmy Breslin Self Self See fewer	Summer of Sam (1999)
Richard Ben Cramer Narrator (voice) Narrator (voice) See fewer	Frontline (1983)
Marion Davies Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Little Old New York (1923)
Leonard de Paur Self Self See fewer	Winged Victory (1944)
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Self Self See fewer	Little Caesar (1931)
Richard France Self Self See fewer	Dawn of the Dead (1978)
William Randolph Hearst Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Zander the Great (1925)
William Herz Self Self See fewer	American Experience (1987)
Sam Leve Self Self See fewer	Invisible Avenger (1958)
Norman Lloyd Self Self See fewer	Dead Poets Society (1989)
Nancy Loe Self Self See fewer	American Experience (1987)
Frank Mankiewicz Self Self See fewer	Dave (1993)
David McCullough Self - Host Self - Host See fewer	Seabiscuit (2003)
David Nasaw Self Self See fewer	American Dynasties: The Kennedys (2018)
Louetta Santucci Self Self See fewer	American Experience (1987)
John Tebbel Self Self See fewer	American Experience (1987)
Ruth Warrick Self Self See fewer	Citizen Kane (1941)
Orson Welles Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Citizen Kane (1941)
Vern Whaley Self Self See fewer	American Experience (1987)
Gloria Widelock Self Self See fewer	American Experience (1987)
Robert Wise Self Self See fewer	West Side Story (1961)
Jack Carter Self - Macbeth (uncredited) Self - Macbeth (uncredited) See fewer	History of the World: Part I (1981)
Charles Chaplin Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	The Great Dictator (1940)
Gary Cooper Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	High Noon (1952)
Cecil B. DeMille Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	The Ten Commandments (1956)
Maurice Ellis Self - Macduff (uncredited) Self - Macduff (uncredited) See fewer	Lost Boundaries (1949)
Joan Fontaine Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Suspicion (1941)
Myrna Loy Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	The Thin Man (1934)
Louis B. Mayer Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	The Great Secret (1917)
Louella Parsons Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Hollywood Hotel (1937)
Dick Powell Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Ginger Rogers Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Kitty Foyle (1940)
Rosalind Russell Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Auntie Mame (1958)
David O. Selznick Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Gone with the Wind (1939)
Norma Shearer Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	The Divorcee (1930)