Marion Davies made her screen debut in 1917 in Runaway Romany. ..Around that time she met newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, who took an immediate personal interest in her career, vowing to maker her Hollywood's greatest star. He formed a company, Cosmopolitan Pictures, for the sole purpose of producing her films, and mobilized the immense resources of the Hearst press to publicize her film appearances and praise them to the sky. Between 1919 and 1923 Cosmopolitan films were released by Paramount and in 1924 Cosmopolitan and Davies moved over to M.G.M. ...Louis B.Mayer...was quick to realize the potential value of associating with Hearst, both in terms of free publicity and social prestige...As Hearst's paramour, Miss Davies ranked high on the Hollywood social scale. She lavishly entertained society and royalty in her studio bungalow and in the several homes she shared with Hearst including...their famous San Simeon castle-by-the-sea. The Hearst-Davies affair, caricaturized by Orson Welles in the controversial 'Citizen Kane' (1941) was sincere and lasting. They would have married had Mrs Hearst consented to a divorse..