Citizen Hearst
2021 · TV Show
as Self (archival footage)
Marion Davies
1897-01-03
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Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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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.
Filmography
Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn
2015 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
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Checking Out: Grand Hotel
2004 · Movie
as (archive footage)
Murders of Hollywood
2003 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies
2001 · Movie
as (archive footage)
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
1996 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
The Casting Couch
1995 · Movie
That's Entertainment! III
1994 · Movie
as (archive footage)
The Complete 'Citizen Kane'
1991 · Movie
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972 · Movie
as Self (archive footage)
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964 · Movie
as Tina in 'The Red Mill' (archive footage)
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
1960 · Movie
as Self
Ever Since Eve
1937 · Movie
as Marge Winton
Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel
1936 · Movie
as Herself
Cain and Mabel
1936 · Movie
as Mabel O'Dare
Hearts Divided
1936 · Movie
as Betsy Patterson
Page Miss Glory
1935 · Movie
as Loretta
A Dream Comes True
1935 · Movie
as Herself (uncredited)
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
1935 · Movie
as Marion Davies
Operator 13
1934 · Movie
as Gail Loveless
Going Hollywood
1933 · Movie
as Sylvia Bruce
Peg o' My Heart
1933 · Movie
as Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell
Blondie of the Follies
1932 · Movie
as Blondie McClune
Polly of the Circus
1932 · Movie
as Polly Fisher
Five and Ten
1931 · Movie
as Jennifer Rarick
The Bachelor Father
1931 · Movie
as Antoinette "Tony" Flagg
The Christmas Party
1931 · Movie
as Herself
It's a Wise Child
1931 · Movie
as Joyce Stanton
The Florodora Girl
1930 · Movie
as Daisy Dell
Not So Dumb
1930 · Movie
as Dulcy
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
1929 · Movie
as Self
Marianne
1929 · Movie
as Marianne
Show People
1928 · Movie
as Peggy Pepper
The Patsy
1928 · Movie
as Patricia Harrington
The Cardboard Lover
1928 · Movie
as Sally
The Red Mill
1927 · Movie
as Tina
The Fair Co-Ed
1927 · Movie
as Marion
Quality Street
1927 · Movie
as Phoebe Throssel
Tillie the Toiler
1927 · Movie
as Tillie Jones
Beverly of Graustark
1926 · Movie
as Beverly Calhoun
Zander the Great
1925 · Movie
as Mamie Smith
Lights of Old Broadway
1925 · Movie
as Fely / Anne
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
1925 · Movie
as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
The Wife of the Centaur
1924 · Movie
as Cameo in chorus line
Janice Meredith
1924 · Movie
as Janice Meredith
Yolanda
1924 · Movie
as Princess Mary / Yolanda
Little Old New York
1923 · Movie
as Patricia O'Day
Adam and Eva
1923 · Movie
as Eva King
The Pilgrim
1923 · Movie
as Congregation Member (uncredited)
Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12
1922 · Movie
as Self
When Knighthood Was in Flower
1922 · Movie
as Mary Tudor
Beauty's Worth
1922 · Movie
as Prudence Cole
A Trip to Paramountown
1922 · Movie
as Self
The Bride's Play
1922 · Movie
as Enid of Cashell / Aileen Barrett
The Young Diana
1922 · Movie
as Diana May
Enchantment
1921 · Movie
as Ethel Hoyt
Buried Treasure
1921 · Movie
as Pauline Vandermuellen
The Restless Sex
1920 · Movie
as Stephanie
April Folly
1920 · Movie
as April Poole
The Cinema Murder
1919 · Movie
as Elizabeth Dalston
Getting Mary Married
1919 · Movie
as Mary Bussard
The Belle of New York
1919 · Movie
as Violet Gray
The Dark Star
1919 · Movie
as Rue Carew
Cecilia of the Pink Roses
1918 · Movie
as Cecilia
The Burden of Proof
1918 · Movie
as Elaine Brooks
Runaway Romany
1917 · Movie
as Romany
Crew Credits
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Meet the Family
1954 · Movie
Original Story
Hearts Divided
1936 · Movie
Producer
Page Miss Glory
1935 · Movie
Producer
Blondie of the Follies
1932 · Movie
Producer
The Bachelor Father
1931 · Movie
Producer
It's a Wise Child
1931 · Movie
Producer
Not So Dumb
1930 · Movie
Producer
The Cardboard Lover
1928 · Movie
Executive Producer
Show People
1928 · Movie
Producer
The Patsy
1928 · Movie
Producer
Quality Street
1927 · Movie
Producer
April Folly
1920 · Movie
Producer
Getting Mary Married
1919 · Movie
Producer
The Belle of New York
1919 · Movie
Producer
Cecilia of the Pink Roses
1918 · Movie
Producer
Runaway Romany
1917 · Movie
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