![]() “Mine was a heady beginning in the movies,” Cotten wrote with understatement in his poorly received 1987 autobiography, “Joseph Cotten: Vanity Will Get You Somewhere.” “We made a classic without knowing it.”Īt the other end of his film career, he realized a lifelong thrill in “Heaven’s Gate”-opening at Radio City Music Hall. In 1950, he rejoined Welles the actor in the highly successful international thriller “The Third Man.” To follow in the 1940s were memorable roles in “The Magnificent Ambersons,” “Shadow of a Doubt,” and “Portrait of Jenny” for which he won the 1950 Venice Film Festival prize for best actor. Cotten’s earliest films were regarded as his best and his best-known, beginning with “Citizen Kane,” Orson Welles’ thinly veiled biography of William Randolph Hearst in 1941, in which Cotten played Kane’s elderly best friend Jedediah Leland. ![]()
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