On this day in movie history - The Battle Over Citizen Kane (1996):

The Battle Over Citizen Kane,

documentary directed by Thomas Lennon and Michael Epstein,

written by Thomas Lennon and Richard Ben Cramer,

was released in the United States on January 29, 1996.
Episode from season 8 of the PBS documentary series American Experience.
Narrated by Richard Ben Cramer.
Music by Brian Keane.

Cast:
William Alland, Thomas Anderson, Peter Bogdanovich, Jimmy Breslin, Richard Ben Cramer, Marion Davies, Leonard de Paur, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Richard France, William Randolph Hearst, William Herz, Sam Leve, Norman Lloyd, Nancy Loe, Frank Mankiewicz, David McCullough, David Nasaw, Louetta Santucci, John Tebbel, Ruth Warrick, Orson Welles, Vern Whaley, Gloria Widelock, Robert Wise, Jack Carter, Charles Chaplin, Gary Cooper, Cecil B. DeMille, Maurice Ellis, Joan Fontaine, Myrna Loy, Louis B. Mayer, Louella Parsons, Dick Powell, Ginger Rogers, Rosalind Russell, David O. Selznick, Norma Shearer.

Born on this day – Marion Davies:

Marion Davies

Actress

Producer

Writer

Philanthropist

January 3, 1897 – September 22, 1961

Credits:

Ever Since Eve (1937); Cain and Mabel (1936); Hearts Divided (1936); Catalina Isle (1935); Page Miss Glory (1935); Operator 13 (1934); Going Hollywood (1933); Peg o' My Heart (1933); Blondie of the Follies (1932); Polly of the Circus (1932); The Christmas Party (1931); Five and Ten (1931); It's a Wise Child (1931); The Bachelor Father (1931); The Florodora Girl (1930); Not So Dumb (1930); Marianne (1929); The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929); The Five O'Clock Girl (1928); Show People (1928); The Cardboard Lover (1928); The Patsy (1928); Quality Street (1927); The Fair Co-Ed (1927); Tillie the Toiler (1927); The Red Mill (1927); Beverly of Graustark (1926); Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925); Lights of Old Broadway (1925); Zander the Great (1925); The Wife of the Centaur (1924); Janice Meredith (1924); Yolanda (1924); Little Old New York (1923); The Pilgrim (1923); Adam and Eva (1923); When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922); The Young Diana (1922); Beauty's Worth (1922); The Bride's Play (1922); Enchantment (1921); Buried Treasure (1921); The Restless Sex (1920); April Folly (1920); The Cinema Murder (1919); The Dark Star (1919); Getting Mary Married (1919); The Belle of New York (1919); The Burden of Proof (1918); Cecilia of the Pink Roses (1918); Runaway Romany (1917).