Acting
Marion Davies
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.
Filmography
Citizen Hearst
Series · 2021
Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn
Film · 2015
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Film · 2004
Murders of Hollywood
Film · 2003
Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies
Film · 2001
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
Film · 1996
The Casting Couch
Film · 1995
That's Entertainment! III
Film · 1994
The Complete 'Citizen Kane'
Film · 1991
Hollywood
Series · 1980
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Film · 1972
The Big Parade of Comedy
Film · 1964
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
Film · 1960
Ever Since Eve
Film · 1937
Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel
Film · 1936
Cain and Mabel
Film · 1936
Hearts Divided
Film · 1936
Page Miss Glory
Film · 1935
A Dream Comes True
Film · 1935
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
Film · 1935
Operator 13
Film · 1934
Going Hollywood
Film · 1933
Peg o' My Heart
Film · 1933
Blondie of the Follies
Film · 1932
Polly of the Circus
Film · 1932
Five and Ten
Film · 1931
The Bachelor Father
Film · 1931
The Christmas Party
Film · 1931
It's a Wise Child
Film · 1931
The Florodora Girl
Film · 1930
Not So Dumb
Film · 1930
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Film · 1929
Marianne
Film · 1929
Show People
Film · 1928
The Patsy
Film · 1928
The Cardboard Lover
Film · 1928
The Red Mill
Film · 1927
The Fair Co-Ed
Film · 1927
Quality Street
Film · 1927
Tillie the Toiler
Film · 1927
Beverly of Graustark
Film · 1926
Zander the Great
Film · 1925
Lights of Old Broadway
Film · 1925
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Film · 1925
The Wife of the Centaur
Film · 1924
Janice Meredith
Film · 1924
Yolanda
Film · 1924
Little Old New York
Film · 1923
Adam and Eva
Film · 1923
The Pilgrim
Film · 1923
Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12
Film · 1922
When Knighthood Was in Flower
Film · 1922
Beauty's Worth
Film · 1922
A Trip to Paramountown
Film · 1922
The Bride's Play
Film · 1922
The Young Diana
Film · 1922
Enchantment
Film · 1921
Buried Treasure
Film · 1921
The Restless Sex
Film · 1920
April Folly
Film · 1920
The Cinema Murder
Film · 1919
Getting Mary Married
Film · 1919
The Belle of New York
Film · 1919
The Dark Star
Film · 1919
Cecilia of the Pink Roses
Film · 1918
The Burden of Proof
Film · 1918
Runaway Romany
Film · 1917