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Marion Davies

Marion Davies

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.

Citizen Hearst

2021

as Self (archival footage)

Checking Out: Grand Hotel

2004

as (archive footage)

Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies

2001

as (archive footage)

The Battle Over Citizen Kane

1996

as Self (archive footage)

That's Entertainment! III

1994

as (archive footage)

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

1972

as Self (archive footage)

The Love Goddesses

1965

as (archive footage)

The Big Parade of Comedy

1964

as Tina in 'The Red Mill' (archive footage)

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood

1960

as Self

Ever Since Eve

1937

as Marge Winton

Cain and Mabel

1936

as Mabel O'Dare

Hearts Divided

1936

as Betsy Patterson

Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel

1936

as Herself

A Dream Comes True

1935

as Herself (uncredited)

Pirate Party on Catalina Isle

1935

as Marion Davies

Page Miss Glory

1935

as Loretta

Operator 13

1934

as Gail Loveless

Going Hollywood

1933

as Sylvia Bruce

Peg o' My Heart

1933

as Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell

Blondie of the Follies

1932

as Blondie McClune

Polly of the Circus

1932

as Polly Fisher

The Christmas Party

1931

as Herself

Five and Ten

1931

as Jennifer Rarick

It's a Wise Child

1931

as Joyce Stanton

The Bachelor Father

1931

as Antoinette "Tony" Flagg

The Florodora Girl

1930

as Daisy Dell

Not So Dumb

1930

as Dulcy

The Hollywood Revue of 1929

1929

as Self

Marianne

1929

as Marianne

Show People

1928

as Peggy Pepper

The Cardboard Lover

1928

as Sally

The Patsy

1928

as Patricia Harrington

Quality Street

1927

as Phoebe Throssel

The Fair Co-Ed

1927

as Marion

Tillie the Toiler

1927

as Tillie Jones

The Red Mill

1927

as Tina

Beverly of Graustark

1926

as Beverly Calhoun

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

1925

as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)

Lights of Old Broadway

1925

as Fely / Anne

Zander the Great

1925

as Mamie Smith

Janice Meredith

1924

as Janice Meredith

The Wife of the Centaur

1924

as Cameo in chorus line

Yolanda

1924

as Princess Mary / Yolanda

Little Old New York

1923

as Patricia O'Day

The Pilgrim

1923

as Congregation Member (uncredited)

Adam and Eva

1923

as Eva King

Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12

1922

as Self

When Knighthood Was in Flower

1922

as Mary Tudor

The Young Diana

1922

as Diana May

A Trip to Paramountown

1922

as Self

Beauty's Worth

1922

as Prudence Cole

The Bride's Play

1922

as Enid of Cashell / Aileen Barrett

Enchantment

1921

as Ethel Hoyt

Buried Treasure

1921

as Pauline Vandermuellen

The Restless Sex

1920

as Stephanie

April Folly

1920

as April Poole

The Cinema Murder

1919

as Elizabeth Dalston

The Dark Star

1919

as Rue Carew

Getting Mary Married

1919

as Mary Bussard

The Belle of New York

1919

as Violet Gray

The Burden of Proof

1918

as Elaine Brooks

Cecilia of the Pink Roses

1918

as Cecilia

Runaway Romany

1917

as Romany