Marion Davies
Age: N/A | From: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Person Details
Birthday:
Aliases: Marion Cecelia Douras , Marion Davis , Меріон Дейвіс , Marion Cecilia Douras
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 55
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
Biography
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.
Most Famous Work
That's Entertainment! III
(1994) (archive footage)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
(1925) Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
(1996) Self (archive footage)
A Dream Comes True
(1935) Herself (uncredited)
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
(1935) Marion Davies (uncredited)
Citizen Hearst
(2021) Self (archival footage)
The Casting Couch
(1995) (archive footage)
The Love Goddesses
(1965) (archive footage)Acting
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Self (archival footage) | |
| 2004 | (archive footage) | |
| 2001 | (archive footage) | |
| 1996 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1995 | (archive footage) | |
| 1994 | (archive footage) | |
| 1972 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1965 | (archive footage) | |
| 1964 | (archive footage) | |
| 1960 | Self | |
| 1937 | Marge Winton | |
| 1936 | Mabel O'Dare | |
| Betsy Patterson | ||
| Herself | ||
| 1935 | Herself (uncredited) | |
| Marion Davies (uncredited) | ||
| Loretta | ||
| 1934 | Gail Loveless | |
| 1933 | Sylvia Bruce | |
| Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell | ||
| 1932 | Blondie McClune | |
| Polly Fisher | ||
| 1931 | Herself | |
| Jennifer Rarick | ||
| Joyce Stanton | ||
| Antoinette "Tony" Flagg | ||
| 1930 | Daisy Dell | |
| Dulcy | ||
| 1929 | Self | |
| Marianne | ||
| 1928 | Peggy Pepper | |
| Sally | ||
| Patricia Harrington | ||
| 1927 | Phoebe Throssel | |
| Marion | ||
| Tillie Jones | ||
| Tina | ||
| 1926 | Beverly Calhoun | |
| 1925 | Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited) | |
| Fely / Anne | ||
| Mamie Smith | ||
| 1924 | Janice Meredith | |
| Cameo in chorus line | ||
| Princess Mary / Yolanda | ||
| 1923 | Patricia O'Day | |
| Eva King | ||
| 1922 | Self | |
| Mary Tudor | ||
| Diana May | ||
| Self | ||
| Prudence Cole | ||
| Enid of Cashell / Aileen Barrett | ||
| 1921 | Ethel Hoyt | |
| Pauline Vandermuellen | ||
| 1920 | Stephanie | |
| April Poole | ||
| 1919 | Elizabeth Dalston | |
| Rue Carew | ||
| Mary Bussard | ||
| Violet Gray | ||
| 1918 | Elaine Brooks | |
| Cecilia | ||
| 1917 | Romany | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1936 | Producer | |
| 1935 | Producer | |
| 1932 | Producer | |
| 1931 | Producer | |
| Producer | ||
| 1930 | Producer | |
| 1928 | Producer | |
| Executive Producer | ||
| Producer | ||
| 1927 | Producer | |
| 1920 | Producer | |
| 1919 | Producer | |
| Producer | ||
| 1918 | Producer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1917 | Writer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |