Overview

Know for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
03 Jan, 1897 (128 years old)

Marion Davies

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.

Known For

Cain and Mabel
HD
90 min 1936

Cain and Mabel

Comedy
Peg o' My Heart
HD
87 min 1933

Peg o' My Heart

Drama
Blondie of the Follies
HD
91 min 1932

Blondie of the Follies

Drama
Five and Ten
HD
89 min 1931

Five and Ten

Drama
The Florodora Girl
HD
79 min 1930

The Florodora Girl

Drama
Show People
HD
79 min 1928

Show People

Comedy

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