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Lunda2222 — 9 years ago(January 23, 2017 05:29 PM)

Did Welles sneak in a double entendre in the movie?
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'Rosebud' was supposedly the 'pet name' that William Randolph Hearst had for his girlfriend Marion Davies' private parts. There is no direct reference to this in Citizen Kane, although the story goes that Well's (Herman Mankiewiczs) use of the word in the film enraged WR Hearst and was one of the main reasons he blackballed the movie.
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Okay, but first explain why the hell a "euphemism for a clitoris" belongs in the movie, huh?

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