Marion Davies
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Marion Davies was an American actress, producer, screenwriter, and philanthropist. Educated in a religious convent, Davies left the school to pursue a career as a chorus girl. As a teenager, she appea
Davies in the 1920s
Davies and Forrest Stanley in When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922).
Marion Davies cover art from Picture-Play Magazine, 1926
During the Jazz Age, Hearst and Davies were known for the extravagant soirées they threw for Hollywood and political elites at Hearst Castle.
William Randolph Hearst
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William Randolph Hearst was an American newspaper publisher and politician. He laid the foundation for the Hearst family's mass media empire via his control of the Hearst Corporation. His extravagant
Marion Davies
…performer in the Ziegfeld Follies. While performing in the 1916 Follies, the nineteen-year-old Marion met the fifty-three-year-old newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst and became his mistress. Hearst took over management of Davies's career and promoted her as a film actress. Hearst financed Davies’s pictures and…
Hearst, c. 1910
Hearst c. 1885
An ad asking automakers to place ads in Hearst chain, noting their circulation
A caricature of Hearst published in The Wasp, November 21, 1896