As the years passed, Hearst's relentless efforts to promote Davies' career purportedly had a detrimental effect. According to Davies, Hearst grandiosely advertised her latest films with "signs all over New York City and pictures in the papers... I thought it got to be a little too much." Such unceasing publicity irritated the general public. "In New York city there were big signs, blocks and blocks of signs," Davies recalled, "and people go so tired of the name Marion Davies that they would actually insult me." In her published memoirs "The Times We Had", Davies concluded that such over-the-top promotion of her film career likely did more harm than good.