Douglas Urbanski on Orson Welles

Producer Douglas Urbanski describes how Orson Welles shared his Directing credit in a way most people would have thought uncharacteristic of him.

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00:00when citizen kane was being finished here's where orson's head actually was at

00:08you may not remember but an hour or so ago two hours ago you saw the opening credits

00:13and orson does not have single card directing credit

00:18he shares it with the director of photography greg toland and he wrote about this and talked

00:23about this for the rest of his life that greg toland co-directed the movie with him and that's

00:27why he gave him the credit so we hear a lot about orson's ego and then we hear a lot of other

00:33things that sort of contradict this he was very generous with people as well so he puts he chooses

00:38he has approval over the cards he puts greg toland's name there on his card and he does something else

00:46they hand him the approvals and it says screenplay by orson wells and herman mankiewicz

00:54and orson has a red crayon and he takes it and he draws an arrow to put herman's name above his

01:03and that was really what happened