Name
Marion Davies
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1897-01-03
Deathday
1961-09-22 (64 years old)
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Biography
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.
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- 1932 Blondie of the Follies as Blondie McClune
- 1928 Show People as Peggy Pepper
- 1937 Ever Since Eve as Marge Winton
- 1936 Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel as Herself
- 1929 The Hollywood Revue of 1929 as Self
- 1933 Going Hollywood as Sylvia Bruce
- 1922 Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12 as Self
- 1924 The Wife of the Centaur as Cameo in chorus line
- 1928 The Patsy as Patricia Harrington
- 1931 Five and Ten as Jennifer Rarick
- 1922 When Knighthood Was in Flower as Mary Tudor
- 1928 The Cardboard Lover as Sally
- 1972 Hollywood: The Dream Factory as Self (archive footage)
- 1934 Operator 13 as Gail Loveless
- 1924 Janice Meredith as Janice Meredith
- 1927 The Red Mill as Tina
- 1919 The Cinema Murder as Elizabeth Dalston
- 1929 Marianne as Marianne
- 1930 The Florodora Girl as Daisy Dell
- 1933 Peg o' My Heart as Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell
- 1936 Cain and Mabel as Mabel O'Dare
- 1927 The Fair Co-Ed as Marion
- 1936 Hearts Divided as Betsy Patterson
- 1922 Beauty's Worth as Prudence Cole
- 1935 Page Miss Glory as Loretta
- 1923 Little Old New York as Patricia O'Day
- 1932 Polly of the Circus as Polly Fisher
- 1930 Not So Dumb as Dulcy
- 1931 The Bachelor Father as Antoinette "Tony" Flagg
- 2004 Checking Out: Grand Hotel as (archive footage)
- 1922 A Trip to Paramountown as Self
- 1960 Hedda Hopper's Hollywood as Self
- 1931 The Christmas Party as Herself
- 1921 Enchantment as Ethel Hoyt
- 1996 The Battle Over Citizen Kane as Self (archive footage)
- 1926 Beverly of Graustark as Beverly Calhoun
- 1925 Zander the Great as Mamie Smith
- 1923 Adam and Eva as Eva King
- 1927 Quality Street as Phoebe Throssel
- 1920 The Restless Sex as Stephanie
- 1931 It's a Wise Child as Joyce Stanton
- 1923 The Pilgrim as Congregation Member (uncredited)
- 1919 Getting Mary Married as Mary Bussard
- 1925 Lights of Old Broadway as Fely / Anne
- 1922 The Bride's Play as Enid of Cashell / Aileen Barrett
- 1994 That's Entertainment! III as (archive footage)
- 1920 April Folly as April Poole
- 1919 The Belle of New York as Violet Gray
- 1921 Buried Treasure as Pauline Vandermuellen
- 1935 A Dream Comes True as Herself (uncredited)
- 1935 Pirate Party on Catalina Isle as Marion Davies
- 1925 Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
- 1922 The Young Diana as Diana May
- 1927 Tillie the Toiler as Tillie Jones
- 1924 Yolanda as Princess Mary / Yolanda
- 1964 The Big Parade of Comedy as Tina in 'The Red Mill' (archive footage)
- 1917 Runaway Romany as Romany
- 1918 Cecilia of the Pink Roses as Cecilia
- 1918 The Burden of Proof as Elaine Brooks
- 1919 The Dark Star as Rue Carew
- 2001 Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies as (archive footage)
- 2003 Murders of Hollywood as Self (archive footage)
- 1995 The Casting Couch
- 2015 Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn as Self (archive footage)
- 1991 The Complete 'Citizen Kane'
- 2021 Citizen Hearst ( 2 episodes ) as Self (archival footage)
