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Marion Davies
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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…
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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.
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2021
Citizen Hearst
TV show Self (archival footage)
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2015
Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2004
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Movie (archive footage)
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2003
Murders of Hollywood
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2001
Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies
Movie (archive footage)
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1996
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1995
The Casting Couch
Movie
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1994
That's Entertainment! III
Movie (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1991
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1972
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1964
The Big Parade of Comedy
Movie Tina in 'The Red Mill' (archive footage)
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1960
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
Movie Self
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1954
Meet the Family
Movie Original Story
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1937
Ever Since Eve
Movie Marge Winton
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1936
Cain and Mabel
Movie Mabel O'Dare
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1936
Hearts Divided
Movie Betsy Patterson
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1936
Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel
Movie Herself
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1935
A Dream Comes True
Movie Herself (uncredited)
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1935
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
Movie Marion Davies
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1935
Page Miss Glory
Movie Loretta
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1934
Operator 13
Movie Gail Loveless
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1933
Going Hollywood
Movie Sylvia Bruce
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1933
Peg o' My Heart
Movie Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell
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1932
Blondie of the Follies
Movie Blondie McClune
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1932
Polly of the Circus
Movie Polly Fisher
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1931
The Christmas Party
Movie Herself
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1931
Five and Ten
Movie Jennifer Rarick
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1931
It's a Wise Child
Movie Joyce Stanton
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1931
The Bachelor Father
Movie Antoinette "Tony" Flagg
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1930
The Florodora Girl
Movie Daisy Dell
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1930
Not So Dumb
Movie Dulcy
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1929
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Movie Self
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1929
Marianne
Movie Marianne
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1928
Show People
Movie Peggy Pepper
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1928
The Cardboard Lover
Movie Sally
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1928
The Patsy
Movie Patricia Harrington
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1927
Quality Street
Movie Phoebe Throssel
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1927
The Fair Co-Ed
Movie Marion
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1927
Tillie the Toiler
Movie Tillie Jones
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1927
The Red Mill
Movie Tina
