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William Randolph Hearst ( /ˈhərst/; April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American newspaper publisher who built up the nation’s largest newspaper chain and whose methods profoundly influenced American journalism. Hearst entered the publishing business in 1887, after taking control of The San Francisco Examiner from his father. Moving to New York City, he acquired The New York Journal and engaged in a bitter circulation war with Joseph Pulitzer's New York World which led to the creation of yellow journalism—sensationalized stories of dubious veracity. Acquiring more newspapers, Hearst created a chain that numbered nearly 30 papers in major American cities at its peak. He later expanded to magazines, creating the largest newspaper and magazine business in the world.
He was twice elected as a Democrat to the U.S. House of Representatives, and ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of New York City in 1905 and 1909, for Governor of New York in 1906, and for Lieutenant Governor of New York in 1910. Nonetheless, through his newspapers and magazines, he exercised enormous political influence, and is sometimes credited with pushing public opinion in the United States into a war with Spain in 1898.
Actors: Karen Teliha (actress), Don Yanan (actor), Paul Preston (editor), Sam Bologna (actor), CC Perkinson (actress), Jordan Mohr (producer), Jordan Mohr (writer), Jordan Mohr (director), Jordan Mohr (actress), Michael Abruscato (actor), Katy Baker (actress), Barbara Mohr (producer), Francois Frederic Mouflin (composer), Veli Erturk (actor), Jonah Perkinson (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Campbell Scott (actor), Eric Parkinson (producer), Terry Jernigan (actor), John Pagano (actor), Kip Niven (actor), Ed Mantell (actor), Vivian Schilling (actress), Ambrose Bierce (writer), T. Max Graham (actor), Jon McCallum (composer), Robert Baker (actor), Clyde D. Baisey (miscellaneous crew), Clyde D. Baisey (miscellaneous crew), Aaron Jackson (producer), Aaron Jackson (actor),
Plot: Legendary writer Ambrose Bierce was known to be brilliant, cantankerous and romantic in all his life's passions, and was revered as one of the top storytellers of the late 19th Century. In 1890, he presented his recently published collection of Civil War Stories to novelist Gertrude Atherton and fledgling young publisher William Randolph Hearst during an infamous meeting in Sonol, California. This meeting sets the forum for the presentation of three of Bierce's most popular stories including "One Kind Of Officer", "Story Of A Conscience" and "An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge." This acclaimed collection features epic battle sequences, deeply conflicted drama and the signature "surprise endings" that characterized most of the short stories by Ambrose Bierce.
Keywords: 1890s, alabama, ambush, american-civil-war, army, artillery, based-on-short-stories, battle, battle-of-chickamauga, battlefieldActors: Lynnanne Zager (actress), Larry Gelbart (producer), Saul Rubinek (actor), Pedro Armendáriz Jr. (actor), Guillermo Ríos (actor), Anthony Head (actor), Michael McKean (actor), Jim Broadbent (actor), Damián Alcázar (actor), Colm Feore (actor), Antonio Banderas (actor), Alan Arkin (actor), Fernando Becerril (actor), Larry Gelbart (writer), Mark Gordon (producer),
Plot: Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa (Antonio Banderas) finds himself without adequate funding to finance his war against the military-run government. He also finds himself at odds with the Americans because of the Hearst media empire's press campaign against him. To counter both of these, he sends emissaries to movie producers to convince them to pay to film his progress and the actual battles. Producer D.W. Griffith (Colm Feore) becomes interested and sends Frank Thayer (Eion Bailey) with a film crew to develop film reels. Thayer becomes horrified and fascinated by the bandit. He finds an enigmatic individual that is both ghoulishly brutal and charmingly captivating. The resulting film became the first feature length movie, introducing scores of Americans to the true horrors of war that they had never personally seen. Thayer sold the studios on making the film despite their concerns that no one would sit through a movie longer than 1 hour by convincing them that they could raise the price of movies to ten cents, doubling the going price at that time.
Keywords: actor, actress, ambush, assassination, bandit, bare-breasts, battle, battlefield, blood, blood-spatterActors: Ridley Scott (producer), Melanie Griffith (actress), Brenda Blethyn (actress), Fiona Shaw (actress), James Cromwell (actor), Liev Schreiber (actor), Kerry Shale (actor), Jay Benedict (actor), Liam Cunningham (actor), David Suchet (actor), Cyril Shaps (actor), Roy Scheider (actor), John Malkovich (actor), John Altman (composer), Tony Scott (producer),
Plot: Coming to Hollywood as a celebrated boy genius featuring a spectacular career arc in New York including his "War of the Worlds" radio hoax, Orson Welles is stymied on the subject for his first film. After a dinner party at Hearst Castle, during which he has a verbal altercation with Hearst, Welles decides to do a movie about Hearst. It takes him some time to convince co-writer Herman Mankiewicz and the studio, but Welles eventually gets the script and the green light, keeping the subject very hush-hush with the press. When a rough cut is screened, Hearst gets wind of the movie's theme and begins a campaign to see that it is not only never publicly screened, but destroyed.
Keywords: 1940s, actress, anti-semitism, bankruptcy, based-on-documentary, based-on-true-story, censorship, director, film-director, film-industryActors: Michael Monks (actor), Sven-Ole Thorsen (actor), Phil Hawn (actor), Rod McCary (actor), Christopher Plummer (actor), Ed Sullivan (actor), Paul Mazursky (actor), Xander Berkeley (actor), Michael Chieffo (actor), Francis X. McCarthy (actor), Michael Greene (actor), James DuMont (actor), Paul Giamatti (actor), Stanley Tucci (actor), Kevin Tighe (actor),
Plot: Biopic of the controversial muckraking journalist Walter Winchell. After spending 12 years in vaudeville, Winchell began writing a column in the New York Mirror. Part gossip, part half-truths, the reporting focused on well-known or prominent individuals and their dalliances. Winchell grew in popularity, particularly when he started his weekly Sunday night radio show. His reporting became more political in the late 1930s when he railed against Hitler. His star began to fall in the 1950's when Josephine Baker was refused service at the Stork Club and Winchell allegedly refused to do anything about it. The end came with his support of Sen. Joseph McCarthy and his own rabid anti-communism. Following McCarthy's style, Winchell accused anyone who stood in his way of being a communist. Soon, he found himself facing lawsuits, a failed attempt at a television show and eventually, the cancellation of his radio show.
Keywords: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, archive-footage, based-on-book, blackmail, career, career-criminal, celebrity, columnistActors: William Katt (actor), Lincoln Lageson (actor), George Hamilton (actor), Sam Elliott (actor), Brian Keith (actor), Greg Krutilek (actor), Gary Busey (actor), R. Lee Ermey (actor), Nick Chinlund (actor), Dale Dye (actor), Stephen Bridgewater (actor), Tom Berenger (actor), Brady Coleman (actor), Jack Lilley (actor), Geoffrey Lewis (actor),
Plot: In 1898 the US government decided to intervene on the side of the Cuban rebels in their struggle against Spanish rule. Assistant Navy Secretary Theodore Roosevelt decides to experience the war first hand by promoting and joining a volunteer cavalry regiment. The regiment, later known as the Rough Riders, brings together volunteers from all corners of the nation and all walks of life. When Roosevelt and his men finally land on Cuba, they face ambush, intense enemy fire, and a desperate, outnumbered charge up a defended hill.
Keywords: 1890s, 19th-century, american-history, american-soldier, americana, apache, artist, battle, battlefield, behind-enemy-linesActors: Sam Cardon (composer), Stephen L. Johnson (editor), Ricky Mabe (actor), Scott Swofford (producer), Karen Teliha (actress), Don Yanan (actor), Vanesa Tomasino (actress), Bruce Neibaur (director), Bruce Neibaur (writer), Patricia Rodriguez (actress), Richard W. James (producer), Ralph Chelli (actor), Jackie Crier (costume designer),
Genres: Documentary, Short,Actors: Kate Nelligan (actress), Irene Litinsky (producer), Arthur Holden (actor), Cedric Smith (actor), Michael Rhoades (actor), Roy Dupuis (actor), Marcel Sabourin (actor), Pierre Curzi (actor), Charles Edwin Powell (actor), Richard Jutras (actor), Beau Bridges (actor), Rémy Girard (actor), Sean McCann (actor), Yves Langlois (editor), Christopher Dedrick (composer),
Plot: The true story that shocked 1930's Canada. When a poor rural Ontario family gives birth to quintuplet, the town doctor doesn't waste a second and takes over the family. He helps to take care of the babies but soon turns the babies into a freak show. Not before long the government gets involved and the babies are a multi-million dollar industry. But how can the uneducated couple regain their babies and their lives?
Keywords: 1930s, baby-nurse, birth, canada, childbirth, country-doctor, dionne-quintuplets, doctor, estrangement, expectant-fatherActors: Anthony Hopkins (actor), David Gant (actor), Charles Chaplin (actor), Michael A. Goorjian (actor), Jackie Coogan (actor), Adolf Hitler (actor), Robert Downey Jr. (actor), David Duchovny (actor), Kevin Dunn (actor), Charles Chaplin (actor), Phil Brown (actor), Dan Aykroyd (actor), Charles Chaplin (actor), Jack Lemmon (actor), Kevin Kline (actor),
Plot: The biography of Charlie Chaplin, filmmaker extraordinaire. From his formative years in England to his highest successes in America, Charlie's life, work, and loves are followed. While his screen characters were extremely hilarious, the man behind "The Little Tramp" was constantly haunted by a sense of loss.
Keywords: 1800s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1960s, 1970s, actor, actor-plays-their-own-ancestor, actressActors: Jack Jessop (actor), J. Winston Carroll (actor), Laurence Rosenthal (composer), Richard Bracken (editor), Fritz Weaver (actor), Robert Mitchum (actor), Jaap Broeker (actor), George Touliatos (actor), David Lowell Rich (director), Virginia Madsen (actress), Paul Pompian (producer), Susanna David (miscellaneous crew), David Clement (actor), Doris Belack (actress), Marc Dassas (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Story of the decades-long affair between married newspaper magnate and movie producer William Randolph Hearst and actress and former "Ziegfeld Follies" showgirl Marion Davies.
Keywords: 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, actress, age-difference, business-tycoon, career, character-name-in-title, extramarital-affair, film-history