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• William Randolph Hearst was born on April 29, 1863, in San Francisco, California, and died on August 14, 1951, in Beverly Hills, California. 
• He was a businessman who established the publishing branch that grew into a massive newspaper network. 
• His methods have influenced the journalism industry in the United States. 
• He was also elected to the House of Representatives (1903–1907). 
• Besides, he ran for Mayor of New York City in 1905 and 1909, as well as Governor of New York State in 1906. 
• At its peak, the businessman’s fortune was estimated to be worth up to $35 billion. 
• His assets included castles in California, the United States, and Wales, the United Kingdom, as well as a large amount of other real estates. 
• William Randolph Hearst was elected to the Democratic House of Representatives twice. 
• In 1905 and 1909, he ran unsuccessfully for mayor of New York, as well as for state governor in 1906 and deputy governor in 1910. 
• Nonetheless, he wielded enormous political power through his newspapers and magazines, and he was accused of sensationalist journalism. 
• Despite representing the Democratic Party’s populist wing for over thirty years, Hearst was a staunch conservative, nationalist, and anti-communist. 
• His life served as the inspiration for the main character in Orson Welles’ 1941 drama film “Citizen Kane,” which he co-wrote, produced, and directed, as well as many other works such as Ayn Rand’s novel “The Fountainhead” and Gore Vidal’s novel “Narratives of Empire.” 
• Finally, in his personal life, Hearst was married to Millicent Veronica Willson from 1903 until his death, though they divorced in the mid-1920s and Hearst lived with his mistress, actress Marion Davies, with whom he had a daughter. 
• Hearst and Millicent had a total of six children, five of whom were boys. 
• Wikipedia $35 billion 1863-4-29 IMDB 6′ 3″ 1951-08-14 (1.91 m) Apollo is a Greek god of the sky (1920) The 29th of April Ayn Rand is an American author. 
• California’s Beverly Hills David Whitmire Hearst is a director and his father is David Whitmire. 
• Hearst, George Harvard University is named after George Randolph Hearst. 
• Hearst, John Randolph Little Old New York, Joseph Pulitzer Jr. (1923) Marion Davies’s formal name is Marion Davies. 
• Millicent Hearst (born 1903–1951) was an American journalist. 

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• [to a staff photographer in Cuba just before the Spanish-American War of 1898, who wired Hearst that “there’s no war down here”] You furnish the pictures, I’ll furnish the war.

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• In 1929, Stanislaus Zbyszko filed suit against Hearst and the New York American, claiming that the newspaper destroyed his wife Anna’s physical affection for him by printing his photograph beside one of a gorilla – as an argument for the theory of evolution. The caption read, “Stanislaus Zbyszko, the wrestler, not fundamentally different from the gorilla in the physique.” Zbyszko was awarded $25,000 by the court.
• Portrayed by Don Yanan in Hollywood Mouth (2008). Yanan also plays Hearst in the 40-minute film that is shown to visitors at Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California (“Hearst Castle Building the Dream”).
• Following his death, he was interred at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma, California.
• Married Millicent Veronica Willson, a 21-year-old chorus girl, in New York City on the day before his 40th birthday.
• Had five sons: George Hearst (born 1904), William Randolph Hearst Jr. (born 1980), John Hearst (born 1910), and twins Randolph Hearst and David Hearst (born 1915).
• Founder of International Film Service Company, a distribution company, in 1916. The company merged with Pathe Exchange later that year.
• President of Cosmopolitan Productions (Cosmopolitan Pictures Corporation), a film production company formed to make movies for Hearst’s mistress, Marion Davies.
• Former father-in-law of Dorothy Hart, first wife of William Paley.
• In 1924, silent film producer Thomas H. Ince 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, who had been involved in an affair with his mistress Marion Davies. The film The Cat’s Meow (2001) is based on these rumors.
• Is portrayed by Kevin Tighe in Winchell (1998), by Jack Ritschel in Chaplin (1992), by Robert Mitchum in The Hearst and Davies Affair (1985), by Edward Herrmann in The Cat’s Meow (2001), by Peter Gregory in And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003) and by James Cromwell in RKO 281 (1999).
• 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, with whom he had a daughter, Patricia Lake.
• 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, the site is a State Historical Monument and one of the most popular visitor destinations in California.
• Newspaper publisher. Founder of the Hearst newspaper empire.
• The character Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane (1941) is based on him.
• Grandfather of Patricia Hearst and William R. Hearst III.

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