Marion Davies
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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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Movies (66)
Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn
2015 · Self (archive footage)
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
2004 · (archive footage)
Murders of Hollywood
2003 · Self (archive footage)
Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies
2001 · (archive footage)
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
1996 · Self (archive footage)
The Casting Couch
1995
That's Entertainment! III
1994 · (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Complete 'Citizen Kane'
1991 · Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972 · Self (archive footage)
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964 · Tina in 'The Red Mill' (archive footage)
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
1960 · Self
Meet the Family
1954 · Original Story
Ever Since Eve
1937 · Marge Winton
Cain and Mabel
1936 · Mabel O'Dare
Hearts Divided
1936 · Betsy Patterson, Producer
Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel
1936 · Self
A Dream Comes True
1935 · Herself (uncredited)
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
1935 · Marion Davies
Page Miss Glory
1935 · Loretta, Producer
Operator 13
1934 · Gail Loveless
Going Hollywood
1933 · Sylvia Bruce
Peg o' My Heart
1933 · Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell
Blondie of the Follies
1932 · Blondie McClune, Producer
Polly of the Circus
1932 · Polly Fisher
The Christmas Party
1931 · Herself
Five and Ten
1931 · Jennifer Rarick
It's a Wise Child
1931 · Joyce Stanton, Producer
The Bachelor Father
1931 · Antoinette "Tony" Flagg, Producer
The Florodora Girl
1930 · Daisy Dell
Not So Dumb
1930 · Dulcy, Producer
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
1929 · Self
Marianne
1929 · Marianne
Show People
1928 · Peggy Pepper, Producer
The Cardboard Lover
1928 · Sally, Executive Producer
The Patsy
1928 · Patricia Harrington, Producer
Quality Street
1927 · Phoebe Throssel, Producer
The Fair Co-Ed
1927 · Marion
Tillie the Toiler
1927 · Tillie Jones
The Red Mill
1927 · Tina
Beverly of Graustark
1926 · Beverly Calhoun
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
1925 · Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
Lights of Old Broadway
1925 · Fely / Anne
Zander the Great
1925 · Mamie Smith
Janice Meredith
1924 · Janice Meredith
The Wife of the Centaur
1924 · Cameo in chorus line
Yolanda
1924 · Princess Mary / Yolanda
Little Old New York
1923 · Patricia O'Day
The Pilgrim
1923 · Congregation Member (uncredited)
Adam and Eva
1923 · Eva King
Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12
1922 · Self
When Knighthood Was in Flower
1922 · Mary Tudor
The Young Diana
1922 · Diana May
A Trip to Paramountown
1922 · Self
Beauty's Worth
1922 · Prudence Cole
The Bride's Play
1922 · Enid of Cashell / Aileen Barrett
Enchantment
1921 · Ethel Hoyt
Buried Treasure
1921 · Pauline Vandermuellen
The Restless Sex
1920 · Stephanie
April Folly
1920 · April Poole, Producer
The Cinema Murder
1919 · Elizabeth Dalston
The Dark Star
1919 · Rue Carew
Getting Mary Married
1919 · Mary Bussard, Producer
The Belle of New York
1919 · Violet Gray, Producer
The Burden of Proof
1918 · Elaine Brooks
Cecilia of the Pink Roses
1918 · Cecilia, Producer
Runaway Romany
1917 · Romany, Writer
