Similarities Between Kane And Hearst

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“Citizen Kane” was produced in 1941. In the year 1941 there was a lot going on throughout America such as getting over the great depression with FDR. Hitler’s run in Germany also affected the US with WWII, but that didn’t stop the young director Orson Welles. “Citizen Kane” was Welles first Hollywood film and he was only 26 years old when he directed it and acted in it. Welles was known before this film because he had a popular radio broadcast called “War of the Worlds.” Orson Welles wrote this film with lots of similarities of Charles Kane with William Hearst. William Hearst was a newspaper giant like Kane. That’s just the main similarity, but there are lots of other details that Kane and Hearst share together. “Citizen Kane” is know to be

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