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Article: Orson Welles' daughter files lawsuit claiming rights to `Citizen Kane'
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 4, 2003
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THE DAUGHTER of the late Hollywood actor and director Orson Welles
is locked in a legal battle over the lucrative rights to his most
admired film, Citizen Kane.
Beatrice Welles is pursuing her case through the district court in
San Francisco, which is being asked to decide between two different
agreements signed by Welles, who died in 1985. He entered into a
contract in 1939 to write, produce and star in Citizen Kane, which
was released two years later, and in the 1942 film, The Magnificent
Ambersons.
According to details of the lawsuit reported yesterday, a later
agreement between Welles and the RKO film company in 1944 terminated
the earlier contract and restored the copyrights to ...