Carringer in his 1978 article “The Scripts of Citizen Kane” (which became absorbed into his riveting book “The Making of Citizen Kane,” published in 1985) and by sources like Peter Bogdanovich in his eye-opening 1972 Esquire magazine piece “The Kane Mutiny.” Both offer definitive evidence that Welles was intimately ...

Is Citizen Kane a novel?

Beatrice Welles, daughter of Orson Welles, has given the go-ahead to Frank Brady to write “Citizen Kane: The Novel.” The Academy Award-winning original screenplay by Welles and Herman Mankiewicz has never been released in book form. ...

Who really wrote Citizen Kane?

The screenplay is credited to the director and star, Orson Welles, and Herman Mankiewicz. But a posthumous memoir by his son Frank Mankiewicz charges that Welles wrote “not one word.” In So As I Was Saying, Frank, who served as Robert F.