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, died. 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.
Movie | Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn | Self (archive footage) | 2015-08-18 |
Movie | The Battle Over Citizen Kane | Self (archive footage) | 1996-01-29 |
Movie | That's Entertainment! III | (archive footage) | 1994-07-01 |
Movie | Zelig | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1983-07-15 |
Movie | The Big Parade of Comedy | Tina in 'The Red Mill' (archive footage) | 1964-09-02 |
Movie | Hollywood Without Make-Up | Self (archive footage) | 1963-07-01 |
Movie | Ever Since Eve | Marge Winton | 1937-07-15 |
Movie | Hearts Divided | Betsy Patterson | 1936-06-20 |
Movie | Cain and Mabel | Mabel O'Dare | 1936-09-26 |
Movie | Pirate Party on Catalina Isle | Marion Davies | 1935-11-20 |
Movie | Page Miss Glory | Loretta | 1935-09-07 |
Movie | A Dream Comes True | Herself (uncredited) | 1935-12-31 |
Movie | Operator 13 | Gail Loveless | 1934-06-08 |
Movie | Peg o' My Heart | Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell | 1933-05-26 |
Movie | Going Hollywood | Sylvia Bruce | 1933-12-22 |
Movie | Polly of the Circus | Polly Fisher | 1932-02-27 |
Movie | Blondie of the Follies | Blondie McClune | 1932-09-01 |
Movie | The Bachelor Father | Antoinette "Tony" Flagg | 1931-01-10 |
Movie | It's a Wise Child | Joyce Stanton | 1931-04-10 |
Movie | The Christmas Party | Herself | 1931-12-17 |
Movie | Five and Ten | Jennifer Rarick | 1931-06-13 |
Movie | Not So Dumb | Dulcy | 1930-02-02 |
Movie | The Florodora Girl | Daisy Dell | 1930-05-31 |
Movie | Marianne | Marianne | 1929-08-24 |
Movie | The Hollywood Revue of 1929 | Self | 1929-11-23 |
Movie | Show People | Peggy Pepper | 1928-11-20 |
Movie | The Patsy | Patricia Harrington | 1928-04-22 |
Movie | The Cardboard Lover | Sally | 1928-09-02 |
Movie | The Fair Co-Ed | Marion | 1927-10-22 |
Movie | The Red Mill | Tina | 1927-01-29 |
Movie | Quality Street | Phoebe Throssel | 1927-11-01 |
Movie | Beverly of Graustark | Beverly Calhoun | 1926-04-18 |
Movie | Zander the Great | Mamie Smith | 1925-05-01 |
Movie | Lights of Old Broadway | Fely / Anne | 1925-10-31 |
Movie | Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited) | 1925-12-25 |
Movie | Janice Meredith | Janice Meredith | 1924-12-08 |
Movie | Adam and Eva | Eva King | 1923-02-11 |
Movie | Little Old New York | Patricia O'Day | 1923-08-01 |
Movie | The Pilgrim | Congregation Member (uncredited) | 1923-02-19 |
Movie | The Bride's Play | Enid of Cashell / Aileen Barrett | 1922-01-22 |
Movie | A Trip to Paramountown | Self | 1922-07-10 |
Movie | Beauty's Worth | Prudence Cole | 1922-05-14 |
Movie | When Knighthood Was in Flower | Mary Tudor | 1922-09-15 |
Movie | The Young Diana | Diana May | 1922-08-27 |
Movie | Enchantment | Ethel Hoyt | 1921-10-29 |
Movie | The Restless Sex | Stephanie | 1920-11-12 |
Movie | Getting Mary Married | Mary Bussard | 1919-04-19 |
Movie | The Cinema Murder | Elizabeth Dalston | 1919-12-14 |
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