Cast
Marion Davies
Acting
Cast
Marion Davies
Known for
Acting
Born
1897-01-03
From
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Died
1961-09-22
Also known as Marion Cecelia Douras, Marion Davis, Меріон Дейвіс
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.
Operator 13
as Gail Loveless
That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
as Marion Davies
Show People
as Peggy Pepper
The Patsy
as Patricia Harrington
Citizen Hearst
as Self (archival footage)
Janice Meredith
as Janice Meredith
Quality Street
as Phoebe Throssel
The Pilgrim
as Congregation Member (uncredited)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
Blondie of the Follies
as Blondie McClune
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
as Self
Going Hollywood
as Sylvia Bruce
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
The Big Parade of Comedy
as Tina in 'The Red Mill' (archive footage)
The Casting Couch
Cain and Mabel
as Mabel O'Dare
A Dream Comes True
as Herself (uncredited)
Marianne
as Marianne
Tillie the Toiler
as Tillie Jones
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
as Self
Page Miss Glory
as Loretta
Lights of Old Broadway
as Fely / Anne
The Fair Co-Ed
as Marion
When Knighthood Was in Flower
as Mary Tudor
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
as (archive footage)
It's a Wise Child
as Joyce Stanton
Hearts Divided
as Betsy Patterson
Peg o' My Heart
as Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell
The Red Mill
as Tina
The Florodora Girl
as Daisy Dell
Ever Since Eve
as Marge Winton
The Christmas Party
as Herself
Beverly of Graustark
as Beverly Calhoun
Not So Dumb
as Dulcy
Little Old New York
as Patricia O'Day
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
as Self (archive footage)
Beauty's Worth
as Prudence Cole
Runaway Romany
as Romany
The Dark Star
as Rue Carew
Five and Ten
as Jennifer Rarick
A Trip to Paramountown
as Self
Polly of the Circus
as Polly Fisher
Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies
as (archive footage)
The Cardboard Lover
as Sally
The Young Diana
as Diana May
Zander the Great
as Mamie Smith
Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12
as Self
Murders of Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
April Folly
as April Poole
The Belle of New York
as Violet Gray
Buried Treasure
as Pauline Vandermuellen
The Cinema Murder
as Elizabeth Dalston
The Bachelor Father
as Antoinette "Tony" Flagg
Enchantment
as Ethel Hoyt
Cecilia of the Pink Roses
as Cecilia
The Restless Sex
as Stephanie
Yolanda
as Princess Mary / Yolanda
Adam and Eva
as Eva King
The Wife of the Centaur
as Cameo in chorus line
The Bride's Play
as Enid of Cashell / Aileen Barrett
Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel
as Herself
The Burden of Proof
as Elaine Brooks
Getting Mary Married
as Mary Bussard