1897-01-03 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 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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Citizen Hearst | Self (archival footage) | 2021-09-27 |
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Checking Out: Grand Hotel | (archive footage) | 2004-02-03 |
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Murders of Hollywood | Self (archive footage) | 2003-01-01 |
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Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies | (archive footage) | 2001-02-14 |
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The Battle Over Citizen Kane | Self (archive footage) | 1996-01-29 |
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That's Entertainment! III | (archive footage) | 1994-07-01 |
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Hollywood: The Dream Factory | Self (archive footage) | 1972-01-10 |
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The Big Parade of Comedy | Tina in 'The Red Mill' (archive footage) | 1964-09-02 |
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Hedda Hopper's Hollywood | Self | 1960-01-10 |
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Ever Since Eve | Marge Winton | 1937-07-15 |
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Cain and Mabel | Mabel O'Dare | 1936-09-26 |
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Hearts Divided | Betsy Patterson | 1936-06-20 |
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Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel | Herself | 1936-01-01 |
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A Dream Comes True | Herself (uncredited) | 1935-12-31 |
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Pirate Party on Catalina Isle | Marion Davies | 1935-11-20 |
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Page Miss Glory | Loretta | 1935-09-07 |
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Operator 13 | Gail Loveless | 1934-06-08 |
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Peg o' My Heart | Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell | 1933-05-26 |
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Going Hollywood | Sylvia Bruce | 1933-12-22 |
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Polly of the Circus | Polly Fisher | 1932-02-27 |
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Blondie of the Follies | Blondie McClune | 1932-09-01 |
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The Christmas Party | Herself | 1931-12-17 |
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It's a Wise Child | Joyce Stanton | 1931-04-10 |
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The Bachelor Father | Antoinette "Tony" Flagg | 1931-01-10 |
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Five and Ten | Jennifer Rarick | 1931-06-13 |
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The Florodora Girl | Daisy Dell | 1930-05-31 |
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Not So Dumb | Dulcy | 1930-02-02 |
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Marianne | Marianne | 1929-08-24 |
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The Hollywood Revue of 1929 | Self | 1929-11-23 |
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The Patsy | Patricia Harrington | 1928-04-22 |
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Show People | Peggy Pepper | 1928-11-20 |
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The Cardboard Lover | Sally | 1928-09-02 |
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Tillie the Toiler | Tillie Jones | 1927-06-05 |
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Quality Street | Phoebe Throssel | 1927-11-01 |
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The Red Mill | Tina | 1927-01-29 |
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The Fair Co-Ed | Marion | 1927-10-22 |
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Beverly of Graustark | Beverly Calhoun | 1926-04-18 |
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ | Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited) | 1925-12-25 |
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Zander the Great | Mamie Smith | 1925-05-01 |
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Lights of Old Broadway | Fely / Anne | 1925-10-31 |
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Janice Meredith | Janice Meredith | 1924-12-08 |
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Yolanda | Princess Mary / Yolanda | 1924-09-15 |
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The Wife of the Centaur | Cameo in chorus line | 1924-12-01 |
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Little Old New York | Patricia O'Day | 1923-08-01 |
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Adam and Eva | Eva King | 1923-02-11 |
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The Pilgrim | Congregation Member (uncredited) | 1923-02-19 |
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The Young Diana | Diana May | 1922-08-27 |
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A Trip to Paramountown | Self | 1922-07-10 |
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When Knighthood Was in Flower | Mary Tudor | 1922-09-15 |
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Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12 | Self | 1922-11-05 |
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The Bride's Play | Enid of Cashell / Aileen Barrett | 1922-01-22 |
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Beauty's Worth | Prudence Cole | 1922-05-14 |
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Buried Treasure | Pauline Vandermuellen | 1921-04-09 |
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Enchantment | Ethel Hoyt | 1921-10-29 |
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The Restless Sex | Stephanie | 1920-11-12 |
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April Folly | April Poole | 1920-03-20 |
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The Dark Star | Rue Carew | 1919-08-03 |
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The Cinema Murder | Elizabeth Dalston | 1919-12-14 |
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The Belle of New York | Violet Gray | 1919-03-26 |
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Getting Mary Married | Mary Bussard | 1919-04-19 |
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The Burden of Proof | Elaine Brooks | 1918-09-21 |
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Cecilia of the Pink Roses | Cecilia | 1918-06-02 |
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Runaway Romany | Romany | 1917-12-23 |
