Marion Davies
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 3, 1897
- Died
- September 22, 1961 (aged 64)
- Birthplace
- 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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Filmography
Citizen Hearst
TV · as Self (archival footage) · 2 eps
Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Movie · as (archive footage)
Murders of Hollywood
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies
Movie · as (archive footage)
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Casting Couch
Movie
That's Entertainment! III
Movie · as (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Complete 'Citizen Kane'
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Hollywood
TV · as Self (archive footage, uncredited) · 1 ep
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
The Big Parade of Comedy
Movie · as Tina in 'The Red Mill' (archive footage)
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
Movie · as Self
Ever Since Eve
Movie · as Marge Winton
Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel
Movie · as Self
Cain and Mabel
Movie · as Mabel O'Dare
Hearts Divided
Movie · as Betsy Patterson
Page Miss Glory
Movie · as Loretta
A Dream Comes True
Movie · as Herself (uncredited)
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
Movie · as Marion Davies
Operator 13
Movie · as Gail Loveless
Going Hollywood
Movie · as Sylvia Bruce
Peg o' My Heart
Movie · as Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell
Blondie of the Follies
Movie · as Blondie McClune
Polly of the Circus
Movie · as Polly Fisher
Five and Ten
Movie · as Jennifer Rarick
The Bachelor Father
Movie · as Antoinette "Tony" Flagg
The Christmas Party
Movie · as Herself
It's a Wise Child
Movie · as Joyce Stanton
The Florodora Girl
Movie · as Daisy Dell
Not So Dumb
Movie · as Dulcy
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Movie · as Self
Marianne
Movie · as Marianne
Show People
Movie · as Peggy Pepper
The Patsy
Movie · as Patricia Harrington
The Cardboard Lover
Movie · as Sally
The Red Mill
Movie · as Tina
The Fair Co-Ed
Movie · as Marion
Quality Street
Movie · as Phoebe Throssel
Tillie the Toiler
Movie · as Tillie Jones
Beverly of Graustark
Movie · as Beverly Calhoun
Zander the Great
Movie · as Mamie Smith
Lights of Old Broadway
Movie · as Fely / Anne
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Movie · as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
The Wife of the Centaur
Movie · as Cameo in chorus line
Janice Meredith
Movie · as Janice Meredith
Yolanda
Movie · as Princess Mary / Yolanda
Little Old New York
Movie · as Patricia O'Day
Adam and Eva
Movie · as Eva King
The Pilgrim
Movie · as Congregation Member (uncredited)
Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12
Movie · as Self
When Knighthood Was in Flower
Movie · as Mary Tudor
Beauty's Worth
Movie · as Prudence Cole
A Trip to Paramountown
Movie · as Self
The Bride's Play
Movie · as Enid of Cashell / Aileen Barrett
The Young Diana
Movie · as Diana May
Enchantment
Movie · as Ethel Hoyt
Buried Treasure
Movie · as Pauline Vandermuellen
The Restless Sex
Movie · as Stephanie
April Folly
Movie · as April Poole
The Cinema Murder
Movie · as Elizabeth Dalston
Getting Mary Married
Movie · as Mary Bussard
The Belle of New York
Movie · as Violet Gray
The Dark Star
Movie · as Rue Carew
Cecilia of the Pink Roses
Movie · as Cecilia
The Burden of Proof
Movie · as Elaine Brooks
Runaway Romany
Movie · as Romany