Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane is a 1941 is a film directed by Orson Welles, who also co-wrote the script and starred. Nominated for nine Academy Awards, the film is a fictionalized account of William Randolph Hearst, and is often considered the greatest film ever made.

The film follows Charles Foster Kane, an enormously wealthy publisher, from his rise to his ultimate fall. The film opens on an elderly Kane, on his deathbed, holding a snow globe. He utters his last words, "Rosebud", and dies. The film then switches to Reporter Jerry Thompson, in his quest to find out about Kane's life, and the meaning behind his last word.

The iconic film has been referenced on occasion by the Muppets. At the end of A Brief History of Motion Pictures, Cookie Monster is shown eating the Rosebud.

On Bear in the Big Blue House, Bear reads in the Woodland Valley Gazette that there is a new movie playing at the multiplex, Citizen Crane, "the story of a young bird's rise to fame and power."