Dating to 1930, this newsreel short shows actress Marion Davies entertaining William Randolph Hearst (:17) — with whom she was romantically involved — as a guest on the set of Florodora Girl. The film is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed by Harry Beaumont and written by Ralph Spence, Al Boasberg and Robert E. Hopkins. The film starred Davies, Lawrence Gray, Walter Catlett, and Ilka Chase. It was released on May 31, 1930, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. MGM’s Louis B. Mayer can be seen in the film at 1:03.

Louis Burt Mayer was an American film producer and co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios in 1924. Under Mayer’s management, MGM became the film industry’s most prestigious movie studio, accumulating the largest concentration of leading writers, directors and stars in Hollywood.

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