 When producer Irving Thalberg (qv) cast his wife,  Norma Shearer (qv), in the role of Elizabeth Barrett,  William Randolph Hearst (qv) was enraged that his protégé,  Marion Davies (qv) , 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.