Lot 126
  • 126

Welles, Orson and Herman J. Mankiewicz

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

  • Citizen Kane. Hollywood, 19 July 1940
  • ink,paper
Folio (11 1/8 x 8 5/8 in.; 280 218 mm), title and 156 leaves, green tinted thick paper as cover signed in pencil on the upper right corner "Barret McCormick"; some corners folded, stains, foxing, slightly browned. Black hard plastic covers, no spine and title label on front cover; lacking parts on the front cover and almost 2/3 of the rear cover. 

Catalogue Note

Carbon copy of the third revised final script of legendary film Citizen Kane.

Actor Barret McCormick's copy. 

Barret McCormick was an writer and actor mostly know for his role in The Disciple (1915), False Fronts (1922). In Citizen Kane, he plays a press representative. 

Given extraordinary freedom by Hollywood studio RKO for his debut film, boy wonder Welles created a modernist masterpiece that is regularly voted the best film ever made.