Monday 1 May 2023

rosebud (10. 712)

As our faithful chronicler informs, on this day in 1941, the premier drama directed by and starring Orson Welles had its debut (previously) in Broadway’s Palace Theatre. Consistently rated as among the best films ever made, the quasi-biographical narrative points a lens at a composite figure of the archetypal American media baron to examine the lives and publishing empires of the likes of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, whom prevented its mention, considering the portrayal libellous, in his newspapers.