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Citizen Hearst

as Self (archival footage)

2021
The Battle Over Citizen Kane

as Self (archive footage)

1996
Ever Since Eve

as Marge Winton

1937
Cain and Mabel

as Mabel O'Dare

1936
Hearts Divided

as Betsy Patterson

1936
Page Miss Glory

as Loretta

1935
Operator 13

as Gail Loveless

1934
Going Hollywood

as Sylvia Bruce

1933
Peg o' My Heart

as Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell

1933
Five and Ten

as Jennifer Rarick

1931
The Christmas Party

as Herself

1931
The Bachelor Father

as Antoinette "Tony" Flagg

1931
The Florodora Girl

as Daisy Dell

1930
Marianne

as Marianne

1929
Show People

as Peggy Pepper

1928
The Cardboard Lover

as Sally

1928
The Red Mill

as Tina

1927
Little Old New York

as Patricia O'Day

1923
When Knighthood Was in Flower

as Mary Tudor

1922
The Restless Sex

as Stephanie

1920
Marion Davies Marion Davies

Birthday

1897-01-03

Place of Birth

Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

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, died. 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.
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