1897-01-03 ( 128 years old ) in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
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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.
Movies
Citizen Hearst
2021-09-27
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
2004-02-03
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
1996-01-29
That's Entertainment! III
1994-07-01
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972-01-10
The Big Parade of Comedy
1964-09-02
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
1960-01-10
Ever Since Eve
1937-07-15
Cain and Mabel
1936-09-26
Hearts Divided
1936-06-20
Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel
1936-01-01
A Dream Comes True
1935-12-31
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
1935-11-20
Page Miss Glory
1935-09-07
Operator 13
1934-06-08
Going Hollywood
1933-12-22
Peg o' My Heart
1933-05-26
Blondie of the Follies
1932-09-01
Polly of the Circus
1932-02-27
The Christmas Party
1931-12-17
Five and Ten
1931-06-13
It's a Wise Child
1931-04-10
The Bachelor Father
1931-01-10
The Florodora Girl
1930-05-31
Not So Dumb
1930-02-02
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
1929-11-23
Marianne
1929-08-24
Show People
1928-11-20
The Cardboard Lover
1928-09-02
The Patsy
1928-04-22
Quality Street
1927-11-01
The Fair Co-Ed
1927-10-22
Tillie the Toiler
1927-06-05
The Red Mill
1927-01-29
Beverly of Graustark
1926-04-18
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
1925-12-25
Lights of Old Broadway
1925-10-31
Zander the Great
1925-05-01
Janice Meredith
1924-12-08
The Wife of the Centaur
1924-12-01
Yolanda
1924-09-15
Little Old New York
1923-08-01
The Pilgrim
1923-02-19
Adam and Eva
1923-02-11
Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12
1922-11-05
When Knighthood Was in Flower
1922-09-15
The Young Diana
1922-08-27
A Trip to Paramountown
1922-07-10
Beauty's Worth
1922-05-14
The Bride's Play
1922-01-22
Enchantment
1921-10-29
Buried Treasure
1921-04-09
The Restless Sex
1920-11-12
April Folly
1920-03-20
The Cinema Murder
1919-12-14
The Dark Star
1919-08-03
Getting Mary Married
1919-04-19
The Belle of New York
1919-03-26
The Burden of Proof
1918-09-21
Cecilia of the Pink Roses
1918-06-02
Runaway Romany
1917-12-23
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