Article: Orson Welles' daughter suing Hollywood studios over "Citizen Kane" royalties

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Dateline: SAN FRANCISCO The daughter of Orson Welles is suing two Hollywood studios, saying they should either pay her royalties on her father's masterpiece " Citizen Kane" or hand over the rights to the movie.

Beatrice Welles says in the lawsuit filed in federal court that a 1944 agreement discovered by an archivist appears to terminate a 1939 profit-sharing deal the filmmaker signed with RKO Pictures.

Welles' lawyer, Steven Ames ...

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