Acting · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA · Born January 3, 1897
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.
TVCitizen Hearst
2021
as Self (archival footage)
MovieLeslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn
2015
as Self (archive footage)
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
2004
as (archive footage)
MovieMurders of Hollywood
2003
as Self (archive footage)
MovieCaptured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies
2001
as (archive footage)
MovieThe Battle Over Citizen Kane
1996
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThe Casting Couch
1995
MovieThat's Entertainment! III
1994
as (archive footage)
MovieThe Complete 'Citizen Kane'
1991
MovieHollywood: The Dream Factory
1972
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThe Big Parade of Comedy
1964
as Tina in 'The Red Mill' (archive footage)
MovieHedda Hopper's Hollywood
1960
as Self
MovieEver Since Eve
1937
as Marge Winton
MovieCain and Mabel
1936
as Mabel O'Dare
MovieHearts Divided
1936
as Betsy Patterson
MovieBehind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel
1936
as Herself
MovieA Dream Comes True
1935
as Herself (uncredited)
MoviePirate Party on Catalina Isle
1935
as Marion Davies
MoviePage Miss Glory
1935
as Loretta
MovieOperator 13
1934
as Gail Loveless
MovieGoing Hollywood
1933
as Sylvia Bruce
MoviePeg o' My Heart
1933
as Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell
MovieBlondie of the Follies
1932
as Blondie McClune
MoviePolly of the Circus
1932
as Polly Fisher
MovieThe Christmas Party
1931
as Herself
MovieFive and Ten
1931
as Jennifer Rarick
MovieIt's a Wise Child
1931
as Joyce Stanton
MovieThe Bachelor Father
1931
as Antoinette "Tony" Flagg
MovieThe Florodora Girl
1930
as Daisy Dell
MovieNot So Dumb
1930
as Dulcy
MovieThe Hollywood Revue of 1929
1929
as Self
MovieMarianne
1929
as Marianne
MovieShow People
1928
as Peggy Pepper
MovieThe Cardboard Lover
1928
as Sally
MovieThe Patsy
1928
as Patricia Harrington
MovieQuality Street
1927
as Phoebe Throssel
MovieThe Fair Co-Ed
1927
as Marion
MovieTillie the Toiler
1927
as Tillie Jones
MovieThe Red Mill
1927
as Tina
MovieBeverly of Graustark
1926
as Beverly Calhoun
MovieBen-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
1925
as Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
MovieLights of Old Broadway
1925
as Fely / Anne
MovieZander the Great
1925
as Mamie Smith
MovieJanice Meredith
1924
as Janice Meredith
MovieThe Wife of the Centaur
1924
as Cameo in chorus line
MovieYolanda
1924
as Princess Mary / Yolanda
MovieLittle Old New York
1923
as Patricia O'Day
MovieThe Pilgrim
1923
as Congregation Member (uncredited)
MovieAdam and Eva
1923
as Eva King
MovieScreen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12
1922
as Self
MovieWhen Knighthood Was in Flower
1922
as Mary Tudor
MovieThe Young Diana
1922
as Diana May
MovieA Trip to Paramountown
1922
as Self
MovieBeauty's Worth
1922
as Prudence Cole
MovieThe Bride's Play
1922
as Enid of Cashell / Aileen Barrett
MovieEnchantment
1921
as Ethel Hoyt
MovieBuried Treasure
1921
as Pauline Vandermuellen
MovieThe Restless Sex
1920
as Stephanie
MovieApril Folly
1920
as April Poole
MovieThe Cinema Murder
1919
as Elizabeth Dalston
MovieThe Dark Star
1919
as Rue Carew
MovieGetting Mary Married
1919
as Mary Bussard
MovieThe Belle of New York
1919
as Violet Gray
MovieThe Burden of Proof
1918
as Elaine Brooks
MovieCecilia of the Pink Roses
1918
as Cecilia
MovieRunaway Romany
1917
as Romany
