MGM Stories Part 2: Marion Davies, William Randolph Hearst, and Citizen Kane
- Podcast Episode
- 2015
- 41m
Marion Davies is enshrined in memory as the gorgeous but questionably talented mistress of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst -- thanks in part to the depiction of a Davies-esque cha... Read allMarion Davies is enshrined in memory as the gorgeous but questionably talented mistress of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst -- thanks in part to the depiction of a Davies-esque character in Orson Welles' Citizen Kane. But Davies' involvement with the much older Hearst b... Read allMarion Davies is enshrined in memory as the gorgeous but questionably talented mistress of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst -- thanks in part to the depiction of a Davies-esque character in Orson Welles' Citizen Kane. But Davies' involvement with the much older Hearst both ensured she would have a movie career, and perhaps doomed Davies to ridicule and limit... Read all