“Uncle Charlie (Cotten’s character) feels no guilt at all. It was quite a feat to tell the entire story of a film and leave out the leading man.”Ĭotten told Hitchcock that he was nervous to play a murderer and wasn’t sure how they behaved, he wrote in his autobiography. “What I found personally rather baffling, after Kane, I made several movies in which my name was above the title but Hearst’s newspapers always managed to review these pictures without mentioning my name. “Although people who sneaked in to see the picture raved about it, none of our names were mentioned in the Hearst newspapers or mentioned in Louella Parson’s column,” he said. Schaefer refused to be bullied and was able to get bookings for the film in a couple of independent movie houses, Cotten said. “Hearst’s newspapers would bring skeletons out of the closets, and there were many.” “The whole motion picture industry was threatened if they showed the movie,” Cotten said. The executive producer, George Schaefer, was offered money to destroy the picture and the negative.
“The Radio City Music Hall turned down Citizen Kane because Louella Parsons, Hearst’s right hand, had threatened the theater.” I was to discover just how powerful,” said Cotten. “Of course I knew we’d been treading on thin ice with the obvious similarities between Kane and William Randolph Hearst. The film was originally set to open in Radio City Music Hall in February 1941, until Hearst stepped in, said Joseph Cotten, who played Jedediah Leland in the film.
Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten in Citizen Kane
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