Mabel Seeley, on writing:

 

The only time I'm pleased with myself is when I'm exhausted and shaking from having written too much.
– Mabel Seeley.

Recommended reading - Citizen Kane

 

Citizen Kane

by Orson Welles & Herman J. Mankiewicz.

Published by Methuen Drama.
Published 2002.
Paperback.

ISBN-10: 0413771873
ISBN-13: 978-0413771872

Description:

"A definitive chronicle of the making of the film" – Sheridan Morley, Films & Filming.

"Citizen Kane revolutionised film-making, and the question of its authorship is as important to the cinema as that of Hamlet to the theatre ... Pauline Kael explains how the picture came to be made and concludes that the man most responsible for its creation was not Welles but Herman J. Mankiewicz" – Kenneth Tynan, Observer.

The complete screenplay of one of the world's most famous and controversial films.

This is the complete companion to Citizen Kane - the film that was "designed to shock" (Kenneth Tynan) - one of the best-loved and best-known movies in the history of Hollywood and still the most staggering film debut ever. Not only was this 

Orson Welles's first film as actor and director but most of the cast were also new to the cinema. Yet so controversial was the subject matter that an $842,000 bribe and the concentrated wrath of the Hearst newspaper empire combined in an attempt to strangle its distribution. And the authorship of the film is still a subject of conflict.

Pauline Kael's long essay, "Raising Kane", dissects a maze of Hollywood lore to re-evaluate these and many other fascinating stories about the making of this remarkable film. Her account is followed by the original screenplay, illustrated with stills and frame enlargements.

Born on this day – Leila Hyams:

 

Leila Hyams

Actress

Vaudevillian

May 1, 1905 – December 4, 1977

Credits:

$1000 a Minute (1935); A Girl in Every Port (1928); Affairs of a Gentleman (1934); Alias Jimmy Valentine (1928); Cinemassacre's Monster Madness (2009); Dancing Mothers (1926); First Aid (1943); Freaks (1932); Gentleman's Fate (1931); Honor Bound (1928); Horse Play (1933); Hurricane (1929); Island of Lost Souls (1932); Land of the Silver Fox (1928); Masquerade (1929); May I Come In (1930); Men Call It Love (1931); New Adventures of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford (1931); No Ransom (1934); One-Round Hogan (1927); People Will Talk (1935); Red-Headed Woman (1932); Ruggles of Red Gap (1935); Sandra (1924); Saturday's Millions (1933); Schlitzie: One of Us; Sing Sinner Sing (1933); Spite Marriage (1929); Stepping Out (1931); Summer Bachelors (1926); Surrender (1931); Sweethearts and Wives (1930); The Big Broadcast (1932); The Big House (1930); The Bishop Murder Case (1929); The Branded Sombrero (1928); The Brute (1927); The Bush Leaguer (1927); The Christmas Party (1931); The Constant Woman (1933); The Crimson City (1928); The Far Call (1929); The Flirting Widow (1930); The Girl Said No (1930); The Idle Rich (1929); The Kick-Off (1926); The Phantom of Paris (1931); The Poor Rich (1934); The Sins of the Children (1930); The Thirteenth Chair (1929); The Wizard (1927); Tod Browning's 'Freaks': The Sideshow Cinema (2004); Way for a Sailor (1930); Way Out West (1930); White Pants Willie (1927); Wonder of Women (1929); Yellow Dust (1936).

Born on this day – Maurice Noble:

Maurice Noble

Cartoonist

Animator

Director

May 1, 1911 – May 18, 2001

Born on this day – Glenn Ford:

 

Glenn Ford

Actor

May 1, 1916 – August 30, 2006

Born on this day – Danielle Darrieux:

Danielle Darrieux

Actress

Singer

Dancer

May 1, 1917 – October 17, 2017

Born on this day – Joseph Heller:

 

Joseph Heller

Writer

May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999

Credits:

Books:

Catch-22 (1961); Closing Time (1994); God Knows (1984); Good as Gold (1979); No Laughing Matter (1986); Now and Then (1998); Picture This (1988); Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man (2000); Something Happened (1974); The Best American Mystery Stories 2014 (2014).

Movies and television:

Bombardovanje Nju Hejvna (1973); Camera Three (1962); Casino Royale (1967); Catch Five: Joseph Heller and Rembrandt (1992); Catch-22 (1970); Catch-22 (1973); Catch-22 (2019); Charlie Rose (1994); Dirty Dingus Magee (1970); Good Morning America (1985); Hier is... Adriaan van Dis (1985); James Jones: Reveille to Taps (1985); Late Night with David Letterman (1986); McHale's Navy (1962); McLean and Company (1971); Pommitamme Pasilasta (1970); Sex and the Single Girl (1964); Something Happened; The Book Programme (1974–1980); The Merv Griffin Show (1968); The South Bank Show (1979–1984); Theatre of the Absurd: Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author (1976); Today (1968–1974); Wogan (1986).