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Article: Welles' Citizen Kane' goes for $97,000 at auction
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- December 12, 2007
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Welles' 'Citizen Kane' goes for $97,000 at auction
NEW YORK (AP) - Orson Welles'personal working script of "Citizen
Kane" sold for almost $100,000 Tuesday, but his Oscar for the 1941
film was withdrawn after bidding failed to rise above the seller's
minimum price.
Sotheby's auction house said it immediately received inquiries
about the Oscar and might consider selling it privately. The Academy
Award for best screenplay had been estimated to fetch $800,000 to
$1.2 million.
The Oscar for "Citizen Kane," considered one of the greatest
movies of all time, was believed to have been lost by Welles
himself. It resurfaced in 1994 and was eventually acquired by the ...