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Hollywood in 1941

Citizen Kane, The Maltese Falcon, and a darkening global mood point toward a more anxious cinematic decade.

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1941 · Screwball comedy

The Lady Eve

Stanwyck plays a con artist who turns romance into an elaborate revenge plot.

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1941 · Drama

Citizen Kane

Welles’s debut uses fractured chronology, deep-focus photography, and competing testimony to examine power and self-invention.

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