Marion Davies

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1897-01-03

Deathday 1961-09-22 (64 years old)

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

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

Actor

2021
Citizen Hearst

as Self (archival footage)

2004
Checking Out: Grand Hotel

as (archive footage)

1996
The Battle Over Citizen Kane

as Self (archive footage)

1994
That's Entertainment! III

as (archive footage)

1972
Hollywood: The Dream Factory

as Self (archive footage)

1965
The Love Goddesses

as (archive footage)

1964
The Big Parade of Comedy

as Tina in 'The Red Mill' (archive footage)

1937
Ever Since Eve

as Marge Winton

1936
Cain and Mabel

as Mabel O'Dare

1936
Hearts Divided

as Betsy Patterson

1935
A Dream Comes True

as Herself (uncredited)

1935
1935
Page Miss Glory

as Loretta

1934
Operator 13

as Gail Loveless

1933
Going Hollywood

as Sylvia Bruce

1933
Peg o' My Heart

as Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell

1932
Blondie of the Follies

as Blondie McClune

1932
Polly of the Circus

as Polly Fisher

1931
1931
Five and Ten

as Jennifer Rarick

1931
It's a Wise Child

as Joyce Stanton

1931
The Bachelor Father

as Antoinette "Tony" Flagg

1930
The Florodora Girl

as Daisy Dell

1930
Not So Dumb

as Dulcy

1929
Marianne

as Marianne

1928
Show People

as Peggy Pepper

1928
1928
The Patsy

as Patricia Harrington

1927
Quality Street

as Phoebe Throssel

1927
The Fair Co-Ed

as Marion

1927
Tillie the Toiler

as Tillie Jones

1927
The Red Mill

as Tina

1926
Beverly of Graustark

as Beverly Calhoun

1925
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)

1925
Lights of Old Broadway

as Fely / Anne

1925
Zander the Great

as Mamie Smith

1924
Janice Meredith

as Janice Meredith

1924
The Wife of the Centaur

as Cameo in chorus line

1924
Yolanda

as Princess Mary / Yolanda

1923
Little Old New York

as Patricia O'Day

1923
The Pilgrim

as Congregation Member (uncredited)

1923
Adam and Eva

as Eva King

1922
The Young Diana

as Diana May

1922
Beauty's Worth

as Prudence Cole

1922
The Bride's Play

as Enid of Cashell / Aileen Barrett

1921
Enchantment

as Ethel Hoyt

1921
Buried Treasure

as Pauline Vandermuellen

1920
The Restless Sex

as Stephanie

1920
April Folly

as April Poole

1919
The Cinema Murder

as Elizabeth Dalston

1919
The Dark Star

as Rue Carew

1919
Getting Mary Married

as Mary Bussard

1919
The Belle of New York

as Violet Gray

1918
The Burden of Proof

as Elaine Brooks

1917
Runaway Romany

as Romany

Producer

1936
Hearts Divided

as Producer

1935
Page Miss Glory

as Producer

1932
1931
1931
It's a Wise Child

as Producer

1930
Not So Dumb

as Producer

1928
The Cardboard Lover

as Executive Producer

1928
Show People

as Producer

1928
The Patsy

as Producer

1927
Quality Street

as Producer

1920
April Folly

as Producer

1919
1919

Writer

1917
Runaway Romany

as Writer