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, ΠΠ΅ΡΡΠΎΠ½ ΠΠ΅ΠΉΠ²ΡΡ
Biography
From Wikipedia Marion Davies (January 3, 1897 β 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 wifeβan untalented singer whom he tries to promoteβwas 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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Show People
as Peggy Pepper
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That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)
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MOVIE1925
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
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The Pilgrim
as Congregation Member (uncredited)
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It's a Wise Child
as Joyce Stanton
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Blondie of the Follies
as Blondie McClune
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Five and Ten
as Jennifer Rarick
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The Casting Couch
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Marianne
as Marianne
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MOVIE1934
Operator 13
as Gail Loveless
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MOVIE1929
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
as Self
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MOVIE1964
The Big Parade of Comedy
as Tina in 'The Red Mill' (archive footage)
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The Bride's Play
as Enid of Cashell / Aileen Barrett
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Tillie the Toiler
as Tillie Jones
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The Young Diana
as Diana May
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Murders of Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
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Going Hollywood
as Sylvia Bruce
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The Red Mill
as Tina
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Peg o' My Heart
as Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell
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The Christmas Party
as Herself
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Ever Since Eve
as Marge Winton
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The Belle of New York
as Violet Gray
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The Patsy
as Patricia Harrington
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The Florodora Girl
as Daisy Dell
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Checking Out: Grand Hotel
as (archive footage)
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Quality Street
as Phoebe Throssel
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MOVIE1960
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
as Self
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The Battle Over Citizen Kane
as Self (archive footage)
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Zander the Great
as Mamie Smith
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A Dream Comes True
as Herself (uncredited)
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MOVIE1936
Hearts Divided
as Betsy Patterson
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Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn
as Self (archive footage)
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When Knighthood Was in Flower
as Mary Tudor
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Page Miss Glory
as Loretta
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Cain and Mabel
as Mabel O'Dare
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A Trip to Paramountown
as Self
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The Wife of the Centaur
as Cameo in chorus line
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Not So Dumb
as Dulcy
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MOVIE1932
Polly of the Circus
as Polly Fisher
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MOVIE2001
Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies
as (archive footage)
MOVIE1991
The Complete 'Citizen Kane'
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MOVIE1931
The Bachelor Father
as Antoinette "Tony" Flagg
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MOVIE1936
Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel
as Herself
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MOVIE1972
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
as Self (archive footage)
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MOVIE1924
Janice Meredith
as Janice Meredith
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MOVIE1919
The Dark Star
as Rue Carew
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MOVIE1927
The Fair Co-Ed
as Marion
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MOVIE1923
Little Old New York
as Patricia O'Day
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Adam and Eva
as Eva King
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Lights of Old Broadway
as Fely / Anne
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MOVIE1935
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
as Marion Davies
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The Cinema Murder
as Elizabeth Dalston
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Beverly of Graustark
as Beverly Calhoun
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The Restless Sex
as Stephanie
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The Cardboard Lover
as Sally
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Beauty's Worth
as Prudence Cole
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Buried Treasure
as Pauline Vandermuellen
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MOVIE1921
Enchantment
as Ethel Hoyt
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Getting Mary Married
as Mary Bussard
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April Folly
as April Poole
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Yolanda
as Princess Mary / Yolanda
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Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12
as Self
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Cecilia of the Pink Roses
as Cecilia
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Runaway Romany
as Romany
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The Burden of Proof
as Elaine Brooks