Marion Davies

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	Acting
Most Rating	3.259
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,

Blondie of the Follies

Citizen Hearst

Show People

Ever Since Eve

Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel

The Hollywood Revue of 1929

Going Hollywood

Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12

The Wife of the Centaur

The Patsy

Five and Ten

When Knighthood Was in Flower

The Cardboard Lover

Hollywood: The Dream Factory

Operator 13

Janice Meredith

The Red Mill

The Cinema Murder

Marianne

Peg o' My Heart

The Florodora Girl

Cain and Mabel

The Fair Co-Ed

Hearts Divided

Beauty's Worth

Page Miss Glory

Little Old New York

Polly of the Circus

Not So Dumb

The Bachelor Father

Checking Out: Grand Hotel

A Trip to Paramountown

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood

The Christmas Party

Enchantment

The Battle Over Citizen Kane

Beverly of Graustark

Zander the Great

Adam and Eva

Quality Street

The Restless Sex

It's a Wise Child

The Pilgrim

Getting Mary Married

Lights of Old Broadway

The Bride's Play

That's Entertainment! III

April Folly

The Belle of New York

Buried Treasure

A Dream Comes True

Pirate Party on Catalina Isle

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

The Young Diana

Tillie the Toiler

Yolanda

The Big Parade of Comedy

Runaway Romany

Cecilia of the Pink Roses

The Burden of Proof

The Dark Star

Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies