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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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Filmography (Movies)
Citizen Hearst
Character:Self (archival footage)
Release Date:27/09/2021
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Character:(archive footage)
Release Date:03/02/2004
Murders of Hollywood
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/2003
Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies
Character:(archive footage)
Release Date:14/02/2001
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:29/01/1996
That's Entertainment! III
Character:(archive footage)
Release Date:01/07/1994
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:10/01/1972
The Love Goddesses
Character:(Archive Footage)
Release Date:03/03/1965
The Big Parade of Comedy
Character:Tina in 'The Red Mill' (archive footage)
Release Date:02/09/1964
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
Character:Self
Release Date:10/01/1960
Ever Since Eve
Character:Marge Winton
Release Date:15/07/1937
Cain and Mabel
Character:Mabel O'Dare
Release Date:26/09/1936
Hearts Divided
Character:Betsy Patterson
Release Date:20/06/1936
Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel
Character:Herself
Release Date:01/01/1936
A Dream Comes True
Character:Herself (uncredited)
Release Date:31/12/1935
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
Character:Marion Davies
Release Date:20/11/1935
Page Miss Glory
Character:Loretta
Release Date:07/09/1935
Operator 13
Character:Gail Loveless
Release Date:08/06/1934
Going Hollywood
Character:Sylvia Bruce
Release Date:22/12/1933
Peg o' My Heart
Character:Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell
Release Date:26/05/1933
Blondie of the Follies
Character:Blondie McClune
Release Date:01/09/1932
Polly of the Circus
Character:Polly Fisher
Release Date:27/02/1932
The Christmas Party
Character:Herself
Release Date:17/12/1931
Five and Ten
Character:Jennifer Rarick
Release Date:13/06/1931
It's a Wise Child
Character:Joyce Stanton
Release Date:10/04/1931
The Bachelor Father
Character:Antoinette "Tony" Flagg
Release Date:10/01/1931
The Florodora Girl
Character:Daisy Dell
Release Date:31/05/1930
Not So Dumb
Character:Dulcy
Release Date:02/02/1930
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Character:Self
Release Date:23/11/1929
Marianne
Character:Marianne
Release Date:24/08/1929
Show People
Character:Peggy Pepper
Release Date:20/11/1928
The Cardboard Lover
Character:Sally
Release Date:02/09/1928
The Patsy
Character:Patricia Harrington
Release Date:22/04/1928
Quality Street
Character:Phoebe Throssel
Release Date:01/11/1927
The Fair Co-Ed
Character:Marion
Release Date:22/10/1927
Tillie the Toiler
Character:Tillie Jones
Release Date:05/06/1927
The Red Mill
Character:Tina
Release Date:29/01/1927
Beverly of Graustark
Character:Beverly Calhoun
Release Date:18/04/1926
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Character:Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
Release Date:25/12/1925
Lights of Old Broadway
Character:Fely / Anne
Release Date:31/10/1925
Zander the Great
Character:Mamie Smith
Release Date:01/05/1925
Janice Meredith
Character:Janice Meredith
Release Date:08/12/1924
The Wife of the Centaur
Character:Cameo in chorus line
Release Date:01/12/1924
Yolanda
Character:Princess Mary / Yolanda
Release Date:15/09/1924
Little Old New York
Character:Patricia O'Day
Release Date:01/08/1923
The Pilgrim
Character:Congregation Member (uncredited)
Release Date:19/02/1923
Adam and Eva
Character:Eva King
Release Date:11/02/1923
Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12
Character:Self
Release Date:05/11/1922
When Knighthood Was in Flower
Character:Mary Tudor
Release Date:15/09/1922
The Young Diana
Character:Diana May
Release Date:27/08/1922
A Trip to Paramountown
Character:Self
Release Date:10/07/1922
Beauty's Worth
Character:Prudence Cole
Release Date:14/05/1922
The Bride's Play
Character:Enid of Cashell / Aileen Barrett
Release Date:22/01/1922
Enchantment
Character:Ethel Hoyt
Release Date:29/10/1921
Buried Treasure
Character:Pauline Vandermuellen
Release Date:09/04/1921
The Restless Sex
Character:Stephanie
Release Date:12/11/1920
April Folly
Character:April Poole
Release Date:20/03/1920
The Cinema Murder
Character:Elizabeth Dalston
Release Date:14/12/1919
The Dark Star
Character:Rue Carew
Release Date:03/08/1919
Getting Mary Married
Character:Mary Bussard
Release Date:19/04/1919
The Belle of New York
Character:Violet Gray
Release Date:26/03/1919
The Burden of Proof
Character:Elaine Brooks
Release Date:21/09/1918
Cecilia of the Pink Roses
Character:Cecilia
Release Date:02/06/1918
Runaway Romany
Character:Romany
Release Date:23/12/1917
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