In their enthusiasm for this truly fascinating book, early readers called Marion Davies and William Randolph Hearst “the Jackie and Ari of their day.” And why? Because they had “more glamour, power and money than anyone else.” The truth is that Hearst was never rich in the way that Onassis was rich, and the power of Onassis resided solely in his money. In his foreword, Welles reflects on what people assumed where some of the Hearst like elements in Citizen Kane, and purports that only one scene in Kane “was purely Hearstian.”Ĭomparisons are not invariably odious, but they are often misleading. Shortly after receiving the AFI’s Life Acheivement award in 1975, Orson Welles was asked to contribute a foreword to Marion Davies oral history, The Times We Had.
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