Press lord, multi-millionaire and would-be politician William Randolph Hearst bestrode the American scene for over 60 years.
Yet at the end of the First World War he left his wife and family for a chorus-girl called Marion Davies. Never a man to do anything by halves, Hearst was determined to transform his mistress into a Hollywood star. In this programme the story of that 30-year very public private love affair is told by some of the people who were closest to them, including movie stars Ben Lyon and Eleanor Boardman, Hearst journalist Adela Rogers St Johns and Hollywood writers Sam Marx and Anita Loos. Narrator ANDREW FAULDS
Executive producer STEPHENPEET
Written and produced by CHRISTOPHER COOK