Movies by the Decade

The McFaddin-Ward House will host their second, Movies by the Decade, on Thursday, July 7, with the 1941 Academy Award-winning classic, “Citizen Kane.”

Seventy-year-old newspaper tycoon Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles) dies in his palatial Florida home, after uttering the single word, “Rosebud.” While watching a newsreel summarizing the years during which Kane built a dying newspaper into a major empire, married and divorced twice, ran unsuccessfully for governor and saw the collapse of his newspaper empire during the Depression, a newspaper editor decides they have not captured the essence of the controversial newspaperman and assigns reporter to discover the meaning of Kane’s last word.

The movie is Rated PG and is 1 hour and 59 minutes.

Gates will open at 7:30 p.m. Food and libations from the likes of Boss Burger, Mabel’s and A&A Food Company will be on site. Attendees are encouraged to bring blankets, chairs, food, and drink as they gather on the historic home’s lawn at 1906 Calder Ave. in Beaumont.