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Article: Orson Welles' daughter suing Hollywood studios over "Citizen Kane" royalties
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- February 4, 2003
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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 ...