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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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because it seems to me that you reach very different conclusions. And the scholars are all on the side of the independent, I have to say, too, because, you know, the whole idea that Welles didn't write any part of the Citizen Kane script has been definitively and authoritatively disproven. He actually had a very active and creative role in much of the script. There were seven drafts.
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