The Real Citizen Kane? | Citizen Hearst | American Experience

The Real Citizen Kane? | Citizen Hearst | American Experience | PBS

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@junesilvermanb2979 2 жыл бұрын

Hearst was renowned for his extensive collection of international art that spanned centuries. Most notable in his collection were his Greek vases, Spanish and Italian furniture, Oriental carpets, Renaissance vestments, an extensive library with many books signed by their authors, and paintings and statues. In addition to collecting pieces of fine art, he also gathered manuscripts, rare books, and autographs. His guests included varied celebrities and politicians, who stayed in rooms furnished with pieces of antique furniture and decorated with artwork by famous artists. Beginning in 1937, Hearst began selling some of his art collection to help relieve the debt burden he had suffered from the Depression. The first year he sold items for a total of $11 million. In 1941 he put about 20,000 items up for sale; these were evidence of his wide and varied tastes. Included in the sale items were paintings by van Dyke, crosiers, chalices, Charles Dickens's sideboard, pulpits, stained glass, arms and armor, George Washington's waistcoat, and Thomas Jefferson's Bible. When Hearst Castle was donated to the State of California, it was still sufficiently furnished for the whole house to be considered and operated as a museum.

@REH714 11 ай бұрын

Kane: "Crossword puzzles again?" Susan Alexander: 'makes a lot more sense than collecting statues."

@christophercasey7388 Жыл бұрын

Hearst also had a zoo at San Simeon, as Kane did at Xanadu.

@fabianogolgo9592 Жыл бұрын

My biopic should be with Stephen Dorff

@ittonohara5327 7 ай бұрын

Jean Paul Getty was competing with Hearst on collecting ancient stoneware from Rome and Greek at the time. And ancient European furniture as well. On one part of California Pacific coast, they even have been neighbours. And it was Getty, that had a wife, that was a singer at a nightclub. He turned her into an opera singer, but untalented one. She can be heard in a movie about a drunkard. The movie is playing through a weekend. Was a successful movie at the time. But she is not credited for it in the movie for her singing performance. So the mistress in the movie citizen cane might be inspired by Gettys wife.

@jeffweed3947 Жыл бұрын

"...in the movie, Kane lives in a castle with its own zip code..."? 1919-1947 Hearst's castle was built. 1963 beginning of zip codes. Inaccurate information disappointing from PBS.

@cameronjones7747 Жыл бұрын

I was gonna say that. Clearly she has not seen the zip code song