She Never Signed The DIVORCE. His Mistress Never Said Goodbye. One DOLLAR Ended It: Millicent Hearst

She Never Signed The DIVORCE. His Mistress Never Said Goodbye. One DOLLAR Ended It: Millicent Hearst Officially, she was the wife of the most powerful publisher in America for forty-eight years, and when he died, she was his widow. But for most of those years William Randolph Hearst lived three thousand miles away with Marion Davies, and everyone who mattered in New York knew it. Millicent Willson had been a teenage dancer in a bicycle costume on Broadway. She married Hearst at Grace Church in 1903, raised five sons, built a milk fund for the babies of the Lower East Side, and refused, year after year, to give him the divorce he wanted. In 1950 he signed a secret paper that would have handed his empire to his mistress. In 1951 the widow walked around his casket while the other woman sat alone in Beverly Hills. Then came a deal worth one dollar a year. It all started in a church called Grace. Chapters: 00:00 — Grace Church, April 1903 02:38 — ACT I — THE STAGE DOOR 06:43 — ACT II — THE FACADE 11:01 — ACT III — THE CRACK 16:32 — ACT IV — THE RECKONING 21:00 — ACT V — THE AFTERMATH Source Material Visual material used in this production is obtained from publicly accessible archives, including Wikimedia Commons and Europeana. Copyright & Fair Use Notice This channel incorporates copyrighted material under the principles of Fair Use as recognized by U.S. law. Under Section 107 of the United States Copyright Act, certain uses of copyrighted works such as for analysis, commentary, educational purposes, research, and reporting are permitted without prior authorization from the copyright holder. Sources TIME, The Press: Hail and Farewell (1951) — https://time.com/archive/6617578/the-... TIME, The Press: Hearst's Bombshell (1951) — https://time.com/archive/6886329/the-... TIME, Placating Mr. Hearst (1923) — https://time.com/archive/6649548/plac... Millicent Willson Hearst papers, Bancroft Library — https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13... The Clarendon, 137 Riverside Drive, Daytonian in Manhattan — http://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com... #documentary #history #Hearst #oldmoney