Jed Leland - Career after Kane or before?

[Vidamonte]

HI,

I have wondered why I have never read from anywhere about this. I guess it was an inside joke and I think a nice one.
In " Ambersons" towards the end there is a frontpage of the newspaper and you can see a picture of Joe Cotten in a box and words STAGE and Jed Leland. Is it his father or...?

[ChristopherBanks]

The whole newspaper is an "in-joke" of sorts. It's a Kane newspaper, and on the front page is Jed Leland's Stage Views column.

The suggestion is that the events in Ambersons are taking place in the same universe as Citizen Kane.

[Harvey Chartrand]

Orson was on his way to creating an 'univers Wellesien', as D.W. Griffith had created his own cinematic universe 30 years earlier. Richard Schickel points out that, even if Griffith had been offered a chance to direct in 1947, the year before his death, when he was an elderly alcoholic living in a crummy hotel in downtown L.A., the alternate reality that he had created and his ability to resurrect it were lost forever.