
Marion Davies
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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 | Acting |
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Most Rating | 2.208 |
Birthday | 1897-01-03 |
Place of Birth | Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA |
Also Known As | Marion Cecelia Douras, Marion Davis, Меріон Дейвіс, Marion Cecilia Douras, |

1932

Blondie of the Follies
6/10
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2021

Citizen Hearst
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1928

Show People
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1937

Ever Since Eve
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1936

Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel
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1929

The Hollywood Revue of 1929
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An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
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1933

Going Hollywood
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1922

Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12
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1924

The Wife of the Centaur
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1928

The Patsy
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1931

Five and Ten
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1922

When Knighthood Was in Flower
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1928

The Cardboard Lover
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1972

Hollywood: The Dream Factory
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1934

Operator 13
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1924

Janice Meredith
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1927

The Red Mill
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1919

The Cinema Murder
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1929

Marianne
6.5/6
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1930

The Florodora Girl
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1933

Peg o' My Heart
5.2/4
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1936

Cain and Mabel
6.154/13
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1927

The Fair Co-Ed
5.5/2
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1936

Hearts Divided
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1922

Beauty's Worth
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1935

Page Miss Glory
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1923

Little Old New York
6.4/11
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1932

Polly of the Circus
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1930

Not So Dumb
5.1/7
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1931

The Bachelor Father
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2004

Checking Out: Grand Hotel
7/2
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1922

A Trip to Paramountown
6/2
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1960

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
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1931

The Christmas Party
4.929/7
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1921

Enchantment
5.7/3
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1996

The Battle Over Citizen Kane
7.3/27
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1926

Beverly of Graustark
5.3/13
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1925

Zander the Great
6/3
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1923

Adam and Eva
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1927

Quality Street
6.9/7
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1920

The Restless Sex
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1931

It's a Wise Child
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1923

The Pilgrim
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1919

Getting Mary Married
3.7/5
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1925

Lights of Old Broadway
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1922

The Bride's Play
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1994

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1920

April Folly
7/1
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1919

The Belle of New York
5/0
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1921

Buried Treasure
5/3
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1935

A Dream Comes True
5.5/1
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1935

Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
5.6/8
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1925

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
7.3/103
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1922

The Young Diana
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1927

Tillie the Toiler
0/0
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1924

Yolanda
6/1
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1964

The Big Parade of Comedy
6.3/3
Film clips highlight the funniest scenes and brightest comic stars in MGM's history.
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1917

Runaway Romany
0/0
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1918

Cecilia of the Pink Roses
0/0
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1918

The Burden of Proof
0/0
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1919

The Dark Star
0/0
A fabulous jewel known as the 'Dark Star' is stolen; a pastor's daughter gets involved, falling into the depths of a spy plot concerning war plans and...
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2001

Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies
5.5/2
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