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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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- wc Gender: Female
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1897-01-03
- event Death Date 1961-09-22
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 3.4
- info Birth Place Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Marion Davies
6
Blondie of the Follies
1932-09-01
0
Citizen Hearst
2021-09-27
7.1
Show People
1928-11-20
5.8
Ever Since Eve
1937-07-15
6
Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel
1936-01-01
5.7
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
1929-11-23
5.5
Going Hollywood
1933-12-22
0
Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12
1922-11-05
1
The Wife of the Centaur
1924-12-01
6.8
The Patsy
1928-04-22
6.3
Five and Ten
1931-06-13
5.7
When Knighthood Was in Flower
1922-09-15
5.7
The Cardboard Lover
1928-09-02
6
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972-01-10
5.7
Operator 13
1934-06-08
5
Janice Meredith
1924-12-08
6.6
The Red Mill
1927-01-29
0
The Cinema Murder
1919-12-14
6.5
Marianne
1929-08-24
6.3
The Florodora Girl
1930-05-31
5.2
Peg o' My Heart
1933-05-26
6.2
Cain and Mabel
1936-09-26
5.5
The Fair Co-Ed
1927-10-22
5
Hearts Divided
1936-06-20
6.1
Beauty's Worth
1922-05-14
6.3
Page Miss Glory
1935-09-07
6.4
Little Old New York
1923-08-01
5.1
Polly of the Circus
1932-02-27
5.2
Not So Dumb
1930-02-02
6
The Bachelor Father
1931-01-10
7
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
2004-02-03
9
The Casting Couch
1995-01-01
6
A Trip to Paramountown
1922-07-10
6
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
1960-01-10
5.4
The Christmas Party
1931-12-17
5.7
Enchantment
1921-10-29
7.3
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
1996-01-29
5.4
Beverly of Graustark
1926-04-18
6
Zander the Great
1925-05-01
7.5
Zelig
1983-07-15
0
Adam and Eva
1923-02-11
6.9
Quality Street
1927-11-01
0
The Restless Sex
1920-11-12
0
It's a Wise Child
1931-04-10
6.9
The Pilgrim
1923-02-19
3.7
Getting Mary Married
1919-04-19
6
Lights of Old Broadway
1925-10-31
5.1
The Bride's Play
1922-01-22
6.9
That's Entertainment! III
1994-07-01
7
April Folly
1920-03-20
5
The Belle of New York
1919-03-26
5
Buried Treasure
1921-04-09
5.5
A Dream Comes True
1935-12-31
5.6
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
1935-11-20
7.4
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
1925-12-25
0
The Young Diana
1922-08-27
0
Tillie the Toiler
1927-06-05
6
Yolanda
1924-09-15
6.3
The Love Goddesses
1965-03-03
6.3
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964-09-02
0
Runaway Romany
1917-12-23
0
Cecilia of the Pink Roses
1918-06-02
0
The Burden of Proof
1918-09-21
0
The Dark Star
1919-08-03
5.5
Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies
2001-02-14
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5.5
Blondie of the Follies
1932-09-01
5.5
Not So Dumb
1930-02-02
5.5
The Bachelor Father
1931-01-10
5.5
Quality Street
1927-11-01
5.5
The Cardboard Lover
1928-09-02
5.5
Show People
1928-11-20
5.5
The Patsy
1928-04-22
5.5
Getting Mary Married
1919-04-19
5.5
April Folly
1920-03-20
5.5
The Belle of New York
1919-03-26
5.5
It's a Wise Child
1931-04-10
5.5
Hearts Divided
1936-06-20
5.5
Page Miss Glory
1935-09-07
5.5
Runaway Romany
1917-12-23
5.5
Cecilia of the Pink Roses
1918-06-02