One famous shot in the first minutes of the film, showing reflections in a smashed snow globe, anticipates the film’s grand themes of ambition and legacy and the cracked mirror of memory. Welles ...

This resentment is fueled by an absence of emotional security. Despite his wealth, Kane does not care about social norms or become subject to them. What happened to Citizen Kane's second wife? After ...

Citizen Kane tells the story of a newspaper magnate ... muttering his final words to himself. The phrase "Rosebud" is just as ...

Calls subsequent appearance before the Senate’s Select “Rosebud” Committee “the most humble day of my life.” Featured in the Orson Welles film Citizen Kane.