Thomas Ince and the Scandal That Never Was

by Brian Taves. For several generations, Citizen Kane (1941) has molded public memory of William Randolph Hearst. For younger filmgoers, however, a newer movie, The Cat’s Meow (2001), has begun to supplant Citizen Kane in etching the business magnate. Citizen Kane implied a fictional side by inventing new names for the characters loosely inspired by [...]