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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.
Filmography
all 66
Movies 66
self 13
Producer 1
Citizen Hearst (2021)
Checking Out: Grand Hotel (2004)
Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies (2001)
The Battle Over Citizen Kane (1996)
The Casting Couch (1995)
That's Entertainment! III (1994)
Zelig (1983)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory (1972)
The Love Goddesses (1965)
The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood (1960)
Gaslight Follies (1945)
Ever Since Eve (1937)
Cain and Mabel (1936)
Hearts Divided (1936)
Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel (1936)
A Dream Comes True (1935)
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle (1935)
Page Miss Glory (1935)
Seifenblasen (1935)
Operator 13 (1934)
Going Hollywood (1933)
Peg o' My Heart (1933)
Blondie of the Follies (1932)
Polly of the Circus (1932)
The Christmas Party (1931)
Five and Ten (1931)
It's a Wise Child (1931)
The Bachelor Father (1931)
The Florodora Girl (1930)
Not So Dumb (1930)
The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)
Marianne (1929)
Show People (1928)
The Cardboard Lover (1928)
The Patsy (1928)
Quality Street (1927)
The Fair Co-Ed (1927)
Tillie the Toiler (1927)
The Red Mill (1927)
Beverly of Graustark (1926)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
Lights of Old Broadway (1925)
Zander the Great (1925)
Janice Meredith (1924)
The Wife of the Centaur (1924)
Yolanda (1924)
Little Old New York (1923)
Adam and Eva (1923)
Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12 (1922)
When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922)
The Young Diana (1922)
A Trip to Paramountown (1922)
Beauty's Worth (1922)
The Bride's Play (1922)
Enchantment (1921)
Buried Treasure (1921)
The Restless Sex (1920)
April Folly (1920)
The Cinema Murder (1919)
The Dark Star (1919)
Getting Mary Married (1919)
The Belle of New York (1919)
The Burden of Proof (1918)
Cecilia of the Pink Roses (1918)
Runaway Romany (1917)
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1897-01-03
Deathday1961-09-22 (64 years old)
Birth PlaceBrooklyn, United States of America
RelationshipsWilliam Randolph Hearst (1917-01-01 - 1951-01-01)
SiblingsReine Davies, Rosemary Davies
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsMarion Cecelia Douras, Marion Davis, Меріон Дейвіс, Marion Cecilia Douras
Awardsstar on Hollywood Walk of Fame
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