Marion Davies
Biografia
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.
Filmografia
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Citizen Hearst
Serial • 2021
jako Self (archival footage)
Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn
Film • 2015
jako Self (archive footage)
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Film • 2004
jako (archive footage)
Murders of Hollywood
Film • 2003
jako Self (archive footage)
Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies
Film • 2001
jako (archive footage)
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
Film • 1996
jako Self (archive footage)
The Casting Couch
Film • 1995
That's Entertainment! III
Film • 1994
jako (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Complete 'Citizen Kane'
Film • 1991
jako Self (archive footage)
Hollywood
Serial • 1980
jako Self (archive footage, uncredited)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Film • 1972
jako Self (archive footage)
The Big Parade of Comedy
Film • 1964
jako Tina in 'The Red Mill' (archive footage)
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
Film • 1960
jako Self
Ever Since Eve
Film • 1937
jako Marge Winton
Cain and Mabel
Film • 1936
jako Mabel O'Dare
Hearts Divided
Film • 1936
jako Betsy Patterson
Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel
Film • 1936
jako Self
A Dream Comes True
Film • 1935
jako Herself (uncredited)
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
Film • 1935
jako Marion Davies
Page Miss Glory
Film • 1935
jako Loretta
Operator 13
Film • 1934
jako Gail Loveless
Going Hollywood
Film • 1933
jako Sylvia Bruce
Peg o' My Heart
Film • 1933
jako Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell
Blondie of the Follies
Film • 1932
jako Blondie McClune
Polly of the Circus
Film • 1932
jako Polly Fisher
The Christmas Party
Film • 1931
jako Herself
Five and Ten
Film • 1931
jako Jennifer Rarick
It's a Wise Child
Film • 1931
jako Joyce Stanton
The Bachelor Father
Film • 1931
jako Antoinette "Tony" Flagg
Dziewczyna z Florodory
Film • 1930
jako Daisy Dell
Dulcynea
Film • 1930
jako Dulcy
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Film • 1929
jako Self
Marianne
Film • 1929
jako Marianne
Show People
Film • 1928
jako Peggy Pepper
The Cardboard Lover
Film • 1928
jako Sally
The Patsy
Film • 1928
jako Patricia Harrington
Quality Street
Film • 1927
jako Phoebe Throssel
The Fair Co-Ed
Film • 1927
jako Marion
Tillie the Toiler
Film • 1927
jako Tillie Jones
The Red Mill
Film • 1927
jako Tina
Beverly of Graustark
Film • 1926
jako Beverly Calhoun
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Film • 1925
jako Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
Lights of Old Broadway
Film • 1925
jako Fely / Anne
Zander the Great
Film • 1925
jako Mamie Smith
Janice Meredith
Film • 1924
jako Janice Meredith
The Wife of the Centaur
Film • 1924
jako Cameo in chorus line
Yolanda
Film • 1924
jako Princess Mary / Yolanda
Little Old New York
Film • 1923
jako Patricia O'Day
Pielgrzym
Film • 1923
jako Congregation Member (uncredited)
Adam and Eva
Film • 1923
jako Eva King
Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12
Film • 1922
jako Self
When Knighthood Was in Flower
Film • 1922
jako Mary Tudor
The Young Diana
Film • 1922
jako Diana May
A Trip to Paramountown
Film • 1922
jako Self
Beauty's Worth
Film • 1922
jako Prudence Cole
The Bride's Play
Film • 1922
jako Enid of Cashell / Aileen Barrett
Enchantment
Film • 1921
jako Ethel Hoyt
Buried Treasure
Film • 1921
jako Pauline Vandermuellen
The Restless Sex
Film • 1920
jako Stephanie
April Folly
Film • 1920
jako April Poole
The Cinema Murder
Film • 1919
jako Elizabeth Dalston
The Dark Star
Film • 1919
jako Rue Carew
Getting Mary Married
Film • 1919
jako Mary Bussard
The Belle of New York
Film • 1919
jako Violet Gray
The Burden of Proof
Film • 1918
jako Elaine Brooks
Cecilia of the Pink Roses
Film • 1918
jako Cecilia
Runaway Romany
Film • 1917
jako Romany