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One was a book by Mrs. Fremont Older. That was the way she signed her name. It was the authorized biography, and it was called William Randolph Hearst, American. And you just saw in the newsreel here, I am only one thing, an American. And the original screenplay for this, the first draft of it, was called American. And the other book was Ferdinand Lundberg's Imperial Hearst, which was a left-wing attack, and that became a foolish lawsuit that Lundberg claimed that they had somehow plagiarized his book.
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Whatever her gifts as a writer was not a scholar. And what she had to say about the authorship of the script and everything was not based on any real research. ...attempted to sway, as he once did,
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At this time, Joseph Breen was in charge of the censorship agency, and I believe, Jonathan, in the book you edited, this is Orson Welles, Welles says, when I was talking to Joe Breen, I accidentally dropped a rosary out of my pocket. Yes, that's when they were talking about possibly burning all the negatives. Yeah, right, right, right, because Breen was a Catholic. But anyway, a lot of filmmakers at this time, and Welles certainly did this, I think the brothel scene was shot in order to give people
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