Really cool - Knock on the Window, the Door Is a Jamb movie
Movie Is being made - in 1920.
Color Info: Black and White
Countries: USA
Genres: Short, Animation
Sound Mix: Silent
Release Dates: USA:17 April 1920
In movie played:
William Randolph Hearst (producer)
Grandfather of 'Patricia Hearst' (qv) and 'William R. Hearst III' (qv)., The character Charles Foster Kane in _Citizen Kane (1941)_ (qv) is based on him., Newspaper publisher. Founder of the Hearst newspaper empire., Father of 'Randolph Hearst' (qv)., In the 1920s, Hearst built a castle on a 240,000 acre ranch at San Simeon, California, where he lived with Davies. The mansion had 165 rooms and 127 acres of gardens, terraces, pools, and walkways. The site, which Hearst called La Cuesta Encantada (The Enchanted Hill), hosted countless lavish parties with stars and politicians. Today, is a State Historical Monument and one of the most popular visitor destinations in California., Though Hearst and Millicent stayed married until his death -- they separated in 1926 -- he was devoted to his longtime mistress, the popular actress and comedienne 'Marion Davies' (qv), with whom he had a daughter, 'Patricia Lake' (qv)., Is portrayed by 'Kevin Tighe (I)' (qv) in _Winchell (1998) (TV)_ (qv), by 'Jack Ritschel' (qv) in _Chaplin (1992)_ (qv), by 'Robert Mitchum' (qv) in _The Hearst and Davies Affair (1985) (TV)_ (qv), by 'Edward Herrmann' (qv) in _The Cat's Meow (2001)_ (qv), by 'Peter Gregory (I)' (qv) in _And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003) (TV)_ (qv) and by 'James Cromwell (I)' (qv) in _RKO 281 (1999) (TV)_ (qv)., In 1924, silent film producer 'Thomas H. Ince' (qv) died on a weekend yacht during a trip with Hearst and other Hollywood celebrities. While he officially died of a heart attack, rumors circulated that Hearst shot Ince accidentally because he took him for 'Charles Chaplin' (qv), who had been involved in an affair with his mistress 'Marion Davies' (qv). The film _The Cat's Meow (2001)_ (qv) is based on this rumors.
Nick Names: W.R., The Chief
Death Notes: Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
Biographical Movies: _The Hearst and Davies Affair (1985) (TV)_ (qv), _Hearst Castle: Building the Dream (1996)_ (qv), _William Randolph Hearst and Marion Davies (2001) (TV)_ (qv)
William Randolph Hearst be the maximum daily baron enclosed by the times of yore of the United States and be the life-force whom _Citizen Kane (1941)_ (qv), widely regard via mission of the greatest motion icon ever made, is mainly base next to. While here be oodles identicalness relating Charles Foster Kane, as limned by the magnificent 'Orson Welles' (qv) and his screenwriter, 'Herman J. Mankiewicz' (qv) (who know Hearst), there are many variability also. He was born on April 29, 1863, in San Francisco, California, the lone pubescent of the multi-millionaire miner George Hearst and his wife, Phoebe Apperson Hearst. Mrs. Hearst was a earlier school-teacher beside cultured manners who was over and done with 20 years her husband's junior. Phoebe blemished William Randolph, who was raise with personal tutor and send to the chief fixed prep school vertebrae East. He attend Harvard College but was expelled in 1885. When he was 23 years elderly, William Randolph ask his father if he could hold over the daylight by day operation of the "San Francisco Examiner," a newspaper that George have acquire as fee in help of a have a bet debt. His father relent and William Randolph take over, style himself as its "Proprietor." The "Examiner," which he grandly call "The Monarch of the Dailies" on its masthead, was the most ancient of many the media that the babyish Heart would come to gallop, and the first where on earth he indulge his appetite for sensationalistic, attention-getting, circulation-boosting tittle-tattle parable. When his father George die, Phoebe Hearst liquidate the family component mining ground to fund her son's purchase of the ailing "New York Morning Journal." (The family perpetual to exceptional works products and oil belongings.) Ruthless and driven, the aggressive Hearst will the "Morning Journal" into becoming the talent newspaper in New York City, hire the best executive and finest reporters from the bystander sport. In the method of yellow-news baron Joseph Pulitzer, with whom he immediately go into facade competition, Hearst introduce an in-your-face, unreasonable editorial overjoyed that attracted a unknown bazaar of reader. Though the residence "Yellow Journalism" was originally coin to term the practice of Pulitzer, Hearst prove adept at it. Hearst respond to the behest of illustrator Frederic Remington, who had be detailed to Havana in 1898 in anticipation of something great, to rip back to the States with a economical acknowledgment: "Please loiter. You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the time of war." After the U.S.S. Maine was blown-up in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898, Hearst called the Journal capital escritoire and demand that the fascia page prominently performance in the air the event as the sinking of the American battleship designed war. The Journal foundation instantly running ensign headline proclaim "War? Sure!" to inflame the municipal and tautness the act of President 'William McKinley (I)' (qv) to choice war bad-tempered Spain. (Some critic accuse Hearst of person discursively at fault for McKinley's assassination as he had published a couplet by 'Ambrose Bierce' (qv) that seem to chime up for such an lay a hand on.) The Spanish-American War become the Journal's war of charitable as Vietnam was the small screen network's war. Ernest L. Meyer write endow or take a few Hearst's journalistic standards: "Mr. Hearst in his protracted and not laudable income have inflamed Americans against Spaniards, Americans against Japanese, Americans against Filipinos, Americans against Russians, and in the pursuit of his incendiary closing stage in he has printed downright lies, forged documents, fake atrocity stories, inflammatory editorial, sensational cartoon and photograph and other devices by which he abet his jingoistic ends." Hearst added Chicago to his domain, acquire the "Chicago American" in 1900 and the "Chicago Examiner" in 1902. The "Boston American" and the "Los Angeles Examiner" be acquired in 1904, definitely establish the milieu empire that in its heyday during the 1920s, consisted of 20 daily and 11 Sunday newspapers in 13 city, the King Features syndication provision, the International News Service, and the American Weekly (Sunday syndicated supplement). One in four Americans in the '20s read a Hearst newspaper daily. His media empire also built-in International News Reel and the the flicks amount produced collective activity Cosmopolitan Pictures, plus a few national magazine, as capably as "Cosmopolitan," "Good Housekeeping" and "Harper's Bazaar." In 1924, he open the "New York Daily Mirror," a racy tabloid that was an epitome of the advanced "New York Daily News," which run many photographs to illustrate its lurid newspaper journalism. Unlike Charles Foster Kane, Willaim Randolph Hearst never married the niece of the president of the United States. The closest he get to a president excluding socialize with one was marry Millicent Wilson, who shared the moniker of Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921). The nuptials took role the day until that occurrence he turned 40. His family opposed his matrimonial to Millicent, who was a 21-year-old showgirl whom he had particular for many years. Before Millicent, he had been entangled with Tessie Powers, a waitress he had financially support since he had attended Harvard and trysted with her while stagnant sporting the college's beanie. Hearst's personal life span repetitively was feature in stories that his competitor, the tabloid newspapers, ran during his lifetime, the charitable of pinch he would have no fair qualms about if the proverbial shoe were on the other foot and it was someone else's other than his ox being gored. (So substantially for his moral evil over _Citizen Kane (1941)_ (qv).) He and Millicent had five sons, but Hearst took another showgirl, 20-year-old 'Marion Davies' (qv) of the Ziefgeld Follies, as his mistress. She was 34 years his junior. It was a bond that last until the end of his life. Hearst nearly new his media dominance to catch himself double elected to Congress as a accomplice of House of Representatives (1903-1905; and 1905-1907) as a open-minded, if extreme Democrat. However, he erstwhile in his two bid to become mayor of New York City in 1905 and 1909, and was defeated by the Republican nominee Charles Evans Hughes in his crack to become governor of New York State in (1906). He supported the Spanish-American War - many observer comprehend he even was the casus belli of that combat - but opposed the U.S. gangway into World War One as he despised the British Empire. He also opposed President Wilson's start of the League of Nations and American patronage in the machinery. By the time of the First World War, his ambassadorial ambitions frustrated, he contracted to dwell in flexibly with Davies in California and at a castle he wages for in Wales. His wife and litter remain in New York, where Hearst became known as a influential philanthropist, create the Free Milk Fund for the penniless in 1921. They properly distinct in 1926. Hearst spent many years and a destiny promote Marion Davies' film career. According to the great reviewer 'Pauline Kael' (qv), Davies was a superlative restrained comedienne, but Hearst considered necessary her to play the classical role of a tragedienne, with the after effects that he hard-pressed her into pictures that were ill-suited for her, and that made her gawp nonsensical. She was not, in hostility, the talentless drunk that Charles Foster Kane's second wife, Susan Alexander was. ('Orson Welles' (qv) said that his only be remorseful over _Citizen Kane (1941)_ (qv) was the backlash and desolation cause to Davies, who was a female adored by all and sundry who knew her. Davies nephew in actuality was the step-father of Welles' first child.) Phoebe Hearst died in 1919, and Hearst moved onto the family's 268,000-acre San Simeon Ranch in southern California. On 127 acres overlook the California shores north of Cambria, he build what is now called Hearst Castle but that he called "La Cuesta Encantada." Starting in 1922, and not complete until 1947, the 165-room mansion was built by an army of craftsmen and laborers. The mansion -- which outlay solidly $37 million to elevate -- was unawares for full-time contract until 1927, and additions to the key construction continued for another 20 years. At La Cuesta Encantada, Hearst entertain the creme de la creme of Hollywood and the world, whom he treat to his friendliness among his personal art uninformed collection valued at over $50 million, the largest ever assemble by any sheltered peculiar. He could live openly in California with Davies. Along with his sensationalism and jingoism, William Randold Hearst was a racist who detested minorities, markedly Mexicans, both native-born and immigrant. He used his newspaper cuff to again and again get up up up tribal tension. Hearst's newspapers portray Mexicans as inactive, no-good and furious, marijuana-smokers who stole job from "real Americans." Hearst's disgust of Mexicans and his hyping of the "Mexican threat" to America practicable was rooted in the 800,000 acres of timberland that had been confiscate from him by Pancho Villa during the Mexican revolution. The Great Depression indignant Hearst financially, and he never recovered from it. At one vertebral column, his economic disappoint was by this means great, his mistress, Marion Davies, had to forfeit one of her rings to get him the dosh to hang on to him afloat. The Hearst media empire has reach its zenith in lingo of circulation and revenues the year before the Stockmarket Crash of October 1929, but the mammoth over-extension of the Hearst media empire ultimately cost him breed conform of his holdings. Hearst's newspaper chain likely had never been lucrative, but had been supported by the returns from his mining, ranching and forest products interests. All of Hearst's decisive interests were adversely spurious by the financial downturn, but the newspapers were drop off to sauce particularly unyielding in the red to the decline in selling revenues, the life's blood of any newspaper. His bellicose and out of the normal run of things behavior only made matter worse. By the time 'Franklin Delano Roosevelt' (qv) exert himself over the U.S. discount, Hearst had become a intransigent. He had produced a film, _Gabriel Over the White House (1933)_ (qv) starring 'Walter Huston' (qv) as a presidential messiah, but Roosevelt, on the apparent, wasn't his kind of Christ-figure. In the movie, President 'Judd' Hammond exercise implicit dictatorial power, including apparently order rewording execution of gangster; this may have gone over well in corporate America, but barely was a government paradigm for a valid democracy. However, Roosevelt's attempt to centralize power in government and industry cartel to combat the Depression were eventually repudiate by Hearst. His anti-Roosevelt stance, trumpet by his papers, proved not accepted with the prevailing man who was his foremost readership. Once, he had serve as the self-appointed tribune of the common man, and his progressive politics was denounce by the plutocrat as radical, but by the 1930s, Hearst was flirting with Fascism. The Hearst papers carried paid-for column by both 'Adolf Hitler' (qv) and 'Benito Mussolini' (qv), in spite of this Hearst claim that he was only an anti-Communist. However, during a continental pleasure journey with Marion Davies, Hearst actually attended the Nuremberg assemble of 1934. He following completed a newsreel operate with Hitler during the trip. 'Franklin Delano Roosevelt' (qv), of length, was as staunchly anti-fascist as Hearst was anti-communist. His pro-intervention belief on the cross of Britian during the precipitate days of World War Two rankle the philo-German Hearst. Hearst had a drawn-out relationship with Roosevelt, whom he help buy the 1932 Democratic presidential nomination (as a moderate). Hearst fluctuate between endorse and attacking F.D.R. and his New Deal. In public, Roosevelt, on his bit, would woo Hearst with invitation to the White House, obtain a pro tem truce, while in private, Roosevelt complain of Hearst's power and had his income taxes investigate. In 1934, Hearst launch a virulent anti-communist witch-hunt that would last for 20 years where he tarred New Deal supporters as reds, later terminated up labeling F.D.R. himself a communist. In rejoinder to his red-baiting, liberals and leftists retaliate with a boycott of Hearst newspapers. Hearst had become a principal liability to the Hearst Corp. by the mid-1930s as he became more noxious. He had started out as a populist, but had veer correct in the 1920s, then tack vanished in the early 1930s, only to skid to the far right environment up in the mid-'30s. Always a maverick, Hearst believably will have been emotionally not sufficiently expert to keep up a complete posting; unable or loath to reign in his ego and support those in power, he could never be allies with everyone for long, and thus consistently shift position. As Roosevelt went left, Hearst went right. Apparently, as his flirtation with fascism elucidate, he had protest himself as the savior of America in his individual be bothered. The economic result of Hearst's relocation to the right (which also may have been influenced by his entail to cajole financier, who decidedly were anti-Roosevelt) was that advertising sale and circulation decline, just as millions over your curb come due and had to be refinanced. In 1936, Hearst's activity to raise more assets by buoyant a new knob print was stymied by his creditors, with the result that he was unable to service the Hearst Corp.'s debts. The Hearst Corp. went into receivership and was reorganized, and William Randolph Hearst was reduced to the reputation of an member of following, with a court-appointed overseer. A liquidation of Heart Corp. assets began, and newspapers were implant, Cosmopolitan Pictures was terminated, and there was an auctioning rank of his art and antiquities. Hearst, the media baron of exceptional power, was through as a major sovereign power in American politics and nation. However, he still retained all right clout with his enduring newspapers (and their means to publicize movies) in the early 1940s to make life murky for 'Orson Welles' (qv) after the supreme vilify of his roman a clef _Citizen Kane (1941)_ (qv). Allegedly, Hearst wasn't so much incensed at Welles as he was at Mankiewicz, a soul mate who had betray his secret. ("Rosebud," the name of the Charles Foster Kane's early life sled that ostensibly is the propel button to his psychology but is actually a "McGuffin" in the parish of which to skeleton the movie's plan, was allegedly Hearst's label for Davies' private parts.) The economic reclamation that came with war production during World War II (which he opposed, just as he had America's entry into the First World War) buoy the Hearst newspapers' circulation and advertising revenues, but he never return to the prominence he had enjoy in the old days. He complete, still, have the be keen on of Marion Davies, who was with him to the end, steadfast in her love. Hearst died in 1951, aged eighty-eight, at Beverly Hills, California, and is dig in at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma, California. More than 50 years after his ratification away, Hearst's stature has diminish while the reputation of _Citizen Kane (1941)_ (qv) lees support. Interestingly, Hearst's own common, largely gloomy carving has largely been bent by the film, which is considered a high point in cinematic freshness. Perhaps it was just a bag of Hearst alive as well long, of outlive his own innovative time of year. As a newspaper publisher, Hearst promote innovative writers and cartoonists not considering the denial of colour of his readers. 'George Herriman' (qv), the dramatist of the slapstick comedian shed "Krazy Kat," was a Hearst favorite; Hearst even produced Krazy Kat movie shorts. "Krazy Kat" was not completely uncultured with readers, but it is now considered to be a classic and a watershed of that getting bigger honoured art contour. On the negative side, the sensationalistic, border-line fabricated, over-hyped journalistic paradigm that Hearst champion through his perfection of present-day wan journalism, a paradigm he made normal newspaper fare for over half-a-century, live on in today's media.
Rudolph Dirks (writer)
Burt Gillett (director)
Gregory La Cava (director)
Grim Natwick (director)
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