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Joseph Cotten "Jedediah Leland" Chicago Inquirer Underwood No. 5 typewriter from Citizen Kane....
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Joseph Cotten "Jedediah Leland" Chicago Inquirer Underwood No. 5 typewriter from Citizen Kane. (RKO, 1941) Used in the memorable sequence when "Charles Foster Kane" (Orson Welles) finds "Jedediah Leland" (Joseph Cotten) passed out drunk over his typewriter while writing a very negative review of Kane's wife's operatic performance. The following scene shows Kane finishing the negative review using the same model typewriter (most likely the same prop typewriter) as he fires Leland. A scene still showing Cotten slumped over this typewriter was used in the 1956 re-issue lobby card for Citizen Kane above the Time Magazine quote: "Most sensational product of the U.S. Movie Industry." Acquired at the 1970 MGM Auction with other RKO assets, this typewriter was among Debbie Reynolds' most revered pieces and was prominently displayed at her Las Vegas museum alongside the fur coat worn by Welles in the same scene that sold for $120,000 in Profiles in History's Debbie Reynolds: The Auction Finale (Lot #814). In vintage fine condition.Auction Info
Profiles in History: The Personal Property Auction of Carrie Fisher & Debbie Reynolds #997044 (go to Auction Home page)
Auction Dates
October, 2017
7th
Saturday
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