
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.
64 acting credits
Acting · 64

Operator 13
1934

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
1925

The Pilgrim
1923

Show People
1928

Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
1935

That's Entertainment! III
1994

Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
1960

Blondie of the Follies
1932

The Big Parade of Comedy
1964

When Knighthood Was in Flower
1922

The Hollywood Revue of 1929
1929

Hollywood: The Dream Factory
1972

Marianne
1929

Not So Dumb
1930

Hearts Divided
1936

The Battle Over Citizen Kane
1996

Five and Ten
1931

The Christmas Party
1931

Little Old New York
1923

Cain and Mabel
1936

Ever Since Eve
1937

Lights of Old Broadway
1925
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
2004

Going Hollywood
1933

Beauty's Worth
1922

Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies
2001

The Bachelor Father
1931

Quality Street
1927

Tillie the Toiler
1927

A Dream Comes True
1935

It's a Wise Child
1931

The Florodora Girl
1930

The Patsy
1928

Yolanda
1924

The Casting Couch
1995

Page Miss Glory
1935

Zander the Great
1925

Runaway Romany
1917

A Trip to Paramountown
1922

Peg o' My Heart
1933

The Fair Co-Ed
1927

The Belle of New York
1919

The Restless Sex
1920

The Bride's Play
1922

Murders of Hollywood
2003

Getting Mary Married
1919

Adam and Eva
1923

Cecilia of the Pink Roses
1918

Citizen Hearst
2021

The Red Mill
1927

Buried Treasure
1921

The Dark Star
1919

Janice Meredith
1924

Enchantment
1921

April Folly
1920

Beverly of Graustark
1926

Polly of the Circus
1932

The Cardboard Lover
1928

The Young Diana
1922

Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel
1936

Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12
1922

The Wife of the Centaur
1924

The Cinema Murder
1919

The Burden of Proof
1918