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Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 3, 1897
Died
September 22, 1961
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Marion Cecelia Douras
- Marion Davis
- Меріон Дейвіс
- Marion Cecilia Douras
Marion Davies
0.3 Popularity
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.
Known For
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Self (archival footage)
Citizen Hearst
2021
🎬
7.0
(archive footage)
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
2004
2.0
Self (archive footage)
Murders of Hollywood
2003
4.0
(archive footage)
Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies
2001
7.3
Self (archive footage)
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
1996
7.0
(archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III
1994
6.0
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972
6.3
Tina in 'The Red Mill' (archive footage)
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964
6.0
Self
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
1960
5.5
Marge Winton
Ever Since Eve
1937
Credits
Citizen Hearst
as Self (archival footage)
2021
0.0
🎬
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
as (archive footage)
2004
7.0
Murders of Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
2003
2.0
Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies
as (archive footage)
2001
4.0
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
as Self (archive footage)
1996
7.3
That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)
1994
7.0
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
1972
6.0
The Big Parade of Comedy
as Tina in 'The Red Mill' (archive footage)
1964
6.3
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
as Self
1960
6.0
Ever Since Eve
as Marge Winton
1937
5.5
Cain and Mabel
as Mabel O'Dare
1936
6.1
Hearts Divided
as Betsy Patterson
1936
5.0
Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel
as Herself
1936
6.0
A Dream Comes True
as Herself (uncredited)
1935
5.5
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
as Marion Davies
1935
5.6
Page Miss Glory
as Loretta
1935
6.3
Operator 13
as Gail Loveless
1934
5.8
Going Hollywood
as Sylvia Bruce
1933
5.3
Peg o' My Heart
as Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell
1933
4.4
Blondie of the Follies
as Blondie McClune
1932
6.0
Polly of the Circus
as Polly Fisher
1932
5.2
The Christmas Party
as Herself
1931
4.9
Five and Ten
as Jennifer Rarick
1931
5.8
It's a Wise Child
as Joyce Stanton
1931
0.0
The Bachelor Father
as Antoinette "Tony" Flagg
1931
6.0
The Florodora Girl
as Daisy Dell
1930
5.0
Not So Dumb
as Dulcy
1930
5.1
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
as Self
1929
5.6
Marianne
as Marianne
1929
6.3
Show People
as Peggy Pepper
1928
7.1
The Cardboard Lover
as Sally
1928
5.4
The Patsy
as Patricia Harrington
1928
6.6
Quality Street
as Phoebe Throssel
1927
6.9
The Fair Co-Ed
as Marion
1927
5.5
Tillie the Toiler
as Tillie Jones
1927
0.0
The Red Mill
as Tina
1927
6.4
Beverly of Graustark
as Beverly Calhoun
1926
5.3
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
1925
7.3
Lights of Old Broadway
as Fely / Anne
1925
6.3
Zander the Great
as Mamie Smith
1925
5.8
Janice Meredith
as Janice Meredith
1924
5.0
The Wife of the Centaur
as Cameo in chorus line
1924
1.0
Yolanda
as Princess Mary / Yolanda
1924
6.0
Little Old New York
as Patricia O'Day
1923
6.5
The Pilgrim
as Congregation Member (uncredited)
1923
6.8
Adam and Eva
as Eva King
1923
0.0
Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12
as Self
1922
0.0
When Knighthood Was in Flower
as Mary Tudor
1922
5.7
The Young Diana
as Diana May
1922
0.0
A Trip to Paramountown
as Self
1922
7.3
Beauty's Worth
as Prudence Cole
1922
5.8
The Bride's Play
as Enid of Cashell / Aileen Barrett
1922
4.9
Enchantment
as Ethel Hoyt
1921
5.6
Buried Treasure
as Pauline Vandermuellen
1921
4.3
The Restless Sex
as Stephanie
1920
0.0
April Folly
as April Poole
1920
7.0
The Cinema Murder
as Elizabeth Dalston
1919
0.0
The Dark Star
as Rue Carew
1919
0.0
Getting Mary Married
as Mary Bussard
1919
4.3
The Belle of New York
as Violet Gray
1919
5.0
The Burden of Proof
as Elaine Brooks
1918
0.0
Cecilia of the Pink Roses
as Cecilia
1918
0.0
Runaway Romany
as Romany
1917
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