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Auction History Result 6p0698 CITIZEN KANE pressbook 1941 Orson Welles' masterpiece, great images & content, ultra rare! Date Sold 11/24/2020 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Theatrical Movie Pressbook (pb; measures 12" x 18" [30 x 46 cm]; 16 pages) (Learn More) Citizen Kane, the classic 1941 Orson Welles (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film) biographical newspaper journalism melodrama ("Some called him a hero... Others called him a heel"; "It's Terrific!"; loosely based on the life of William Randolph Hearst; nominated for the Best Picture Academy Award; many people consider it the finest movie ever made) starring Orson Welles (nominated for the Best Actor Academy Award for this film; in the title role as Charles Foster Kane), with the members of Welles' "Mercury Actors", who had previously acted with him on stage, Joseph Cotten (as Jedediah Leland), Dorothy Comingore (as Susan Alexander Kane), Everett Sloane (as Mr. Bernstein), Ray Collins (as Jim W. Gettys), George Coulouris (as Walter Parks Thatcher), Agnes Moorehead (as Mary Kane, Kane's mother), Paul Stewart (as Raymond), Ruth Warrick (as Emily Monroe Norton Kane), Erskine Sanford (as Herbert Carter), William Alland (as Jerry Thompson), Fortunio Bonanova (as Signor Matiste), Buddy Swan (as Kane at age 8), Harry Shannon (as Kane's father), and Alan Ladd (in one of his early incredibly tiny parts, but he does have a single speaking line!) NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. Important Added Info: Note that 20 years ago, we auctioned a different pressbook from this classic movie that has a completely different cover. We don't know if that means that RKO made two pressbooks for the first release of the movie, and if so, whether one predated the other. This one does have a copyright date of 1941, and we sold the other one so long ago that we don't know much about it. THIS pressbook has the "It's terrific" ad campaign and cover that was used at the premiere of the movie, and the other one has a "most talked about film of a decade" tagline. If anyone knows more about this, please e-mail us and we will post it here. Condition: poor, NO CUTS. The pressbook was heavily water stained and there are many stains throughout, more so down the right side and around the edges, and there is deteriorated paper and paper loss scattered throughout. But of course, this still is a pressbook for Citizen Kane, and some degree of restoration could be done, but bear its many, many defects in mind before bidding on it. Learn More about condition grades 
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