Marion Davies

Known for ActingBorn 1897-01-03Died 1961-09-22Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

From Wikipedia Marion Davies (January 3, 1897 – September 22, 1961) was an American film actress, producer, screenwriter, and philanthropist. Davies was already building a solid reputation as a film comedienne when newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, with whom she had begun a romantic relationship, took over management of her career. Hearst financed Davies' pictures, promoted her heavily through his newspapers and Hearst Newsreels, and pressured studios to cast her in historical dramas for which she was ill-suited. For this reason, Davies is better remembered today as Hearst's mistress and the hostess of many lavish events for the Hollywood elite. In particular, her name is linked with the 1924 scandal aboard Hearst's yacht where one of his guests, film producer Thomas Ince, became ill. Despite the legend surrounding Ince's death, likely from alcohol consumption, he did not die on the Hearst yacht. The producer died a few days later in the arms of his wife. In the film Citizen Kane (1941), the title character's wife—an untalented singer whom he tries to promote—was widely assumed to be based on Davies. But many commentators, including Citizen Kane writer/director Orson Welles himself, have defended Davies' record as a gifted actress, to whom Hearst's patronage did more harm than good. She retired from the screen in 1937, choosing to devote herself to Hearst and charitable work. In Hearst's declining years, Davies provided financial as well as emotional support until his death in 1951. She married for the first time eleven weeks after his death, a marriage which lasted until Davies died of stomach cancer in 1961 at the age of 64.Read more

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The Casting Couch

The Dark Star

The Battle Over Citizen Kane

Tillie the Toiler

Yolanda

Adam and Eva

April Folly

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

Checking Out: Grand Hotel

A Trip to Paramountown

That's Entertainment! III

The Big Parade of Comedy

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Show People

Janice Meredith

The Young Diana

The Restless Sex

The Cinema Murder

Quality Street

The Pilgrim

Page Miss Glory

A Dream Comes True

Lights of Old Broadway

The Patsy

The Fair Co-Ed

The Red Mill

The Bachelor Father

Marianne

Cain and Mabel

Little Old New York

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood

Blondie of the Follies

The Cardboard Lover

It's a Wise Child

Pirate Party on Catalina Isle

Zander the Great

Five and Ten

Enchantment

Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel

Operator 13

Ever Since Eve

The Hollywood Revue of 1929

Beauty's Worth

Murders of Hollywood

When Knighthood Was in Flower

Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies

Polly of the Circus

Going Hollywood