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Orson Welles, Dorothy Comingore, and Ruth Warrick in Citizen Kane (1941)

William Alland: Jerry Thompson

Citizen Kane

William Alland credited as playing...

Jerry Thompson

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  • Female reporter: If you could've found out what Rosebud meant, I bet that would've explained everything.
  • Jerry Thompson: No, I don't think so; no. Mr. Kane was a man who got everything he wanted and then lost it. Maybe Rosebud was something he couldn't get, or something he lost. Anyway, it wouldn't have explained anything... I don't think any word can explain a man's life. No, I guess Rosebud is just a... piece in a jigsaw puzzle... a missing piece.
  • Jerry Thompson: He made an awful lot of money.
  • Mr. Bernstein: Well, it's no trick to make a lot of money... if all you want is to make a lot of money.
  • Newsreel Narrator: [at beginning of news reel on Charles Foster Kane's death] In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure-dome decree.
  • The Headwaiter: [Susan coughs as she sits at the table] Miss Alexander? This is Mr. Thompson, Miss Alexander.
  • Susan Alexander Kane: I want another drink, John.
  • The Headwaiter: Right away. Will you have something, Mr. Thompson?
  • Jerry Thompson: I'll have a highball, please.
  • Susan Alexander Kane: Who told you you could sit down?
  • Jerry Thompson: I thought maybe we could have a talk together.
  • Susan Alexander Kane: Well, think again. Can't you people leave me alone? I'm minding my own business, you mind yours.
  • Jerry Thompson: If I could just have a little talk with you, Miss Alexander, I'd like to ask you...
  • Susan Alexander Kane: Get out of here. Get out!
  • Jerry Thompson: Sorry, maybe some other time. She won't talk to nobody. Gino, get her another highball.
  • The Headwaiter: She just won't talk to nobody, Mr. Thompson.
  • Jerry Thompson: Okay.

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