When producer
Irving Thalberg cast his wife,
Norma Shearer, in the role of Elizabeth Barrett,
William Randolph Hearst was enraged that his protégé,
Marion Davies, was not given the role. So Hearst pulled Davies out of MGM and placed her with Warner Brothers for the remainder of her career, and for over a year the name "Norma Shearer" did not appear in any Hearst newspapers.
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