Kurš datēja Viljams Rendolfs Hērsts?

Viljams Rendolfs Hērsts (angļu: William Randolph Hearst; dzimis 1863. gada 29. aprīlī, miris 1951. gada 14. augustā) bija amerikāņu laikrakstu izdevējs, kas izveidoja lielāko laikrakstu ķēdi ASV un kura metodes stipri ietekmēja ASV žurnālistikas vēsturi.

Uzsāka izdevējdarbības biznesu 1887. gadā, kad viņa bagātais tēvs nodeva vadību pār The San Francisco Examiner. Pārceļoties uz Ņujorku, iegādājās The New York Journal. Uzsāka "karu" ar Džozefa Pulicera New York World, kura rezultātā izveidojās dzeltenā žurnālistika. Iegādājoties arvien vairāk laikrakstu, Hērsts izveidoja to ķēdi — kādu laiku viņam piederēja gandrīz 30 laikraksti lielākajās ASV pilsētās. Vēlāk pievērsās žurnāliem, izveidojot lielāko laikrakstu un žurnālu biznesu pasaulē. 20. gadsimta 30. gados viņa vadīto laikrakstu kopējā maksimālā tirāža sasniedza 20 miljonus lasītāju.

Bijis ASV Pārstāvju palātas loceklis, 1905. un 1909. gadā neveiksmīgi kandidēja uz Ņujorkas mēra amatu, 1906. gadā — uz Ņujorkas štata gubernatora amatu.

Orsona Velsa filmas "Pilsonis Keins" galvenais varonis Čārlzs Fosters Keins veidots pēc Hērsta.

Marion Davies (born Marion Cecilia Douras; January 3, 1897 – September 22, 1961) 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 appeared in several Broadway musicals and one film, Runaway Romany (1917). She soon became a featured 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' career and promoted her as a film actress.

Hearst financed Davies’ pictures and promoted her career extensively in his newspapers and Hearst newsreels. He founded Cosmopolitan Pictures to produce her films. By 1924, Davies was the number one female box office star in Hollywood because of the popularity of When Knighthood Was in Flower and Little Old New York, which were among the biggest box-office hits of their respective years. During the zenith of the Jazz Age, Davies became renowned as the hostess of lavish soirees for Hollywood actors and political elites. However, in 1924, her name became linked with scandal when film producer Thomas Ince died at a party aboard Hearst's yacht.

Following the decline of her film career during the Great Depression, Davies struggled with alcoholism. She retired from the screen in 1937 to devote herself to an ailing Hearst and charitable work. In Hearst's declining years, Davies remained his steadfast companion until his death in 1951. Eleven weeks after Hearst's death, she married sea captain Horace Brown. Their marriage lasted until Davies' death at 64 from malignant osteomyelitis (bone cancer) of the jaw in 1961.

By the time of her death, her popular association with the character of Susan Alexander Kane in the film Citizen Kane (1941) already overshadowed Davies' legacy as a talented actress. The title character's second wife—an untalented singer whom he tries to promote—was widely assumed to be based upon Davies. However, many commentators, including writer-director Orson Welles, defended Davies' record as a gifted actress and comedienne to whom Hearst's patronage did more harm than good. In his final years, Welles attempted to correct the widespread misconceptions the film had created about Davies' popularity and talents as an actress.