Marion Davies
Acting
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.
Citizen Hearst
Self (archival footage)
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
(archive footage)
Murders of Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies
(archive footage)
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III
(archive footage)
Hollywood: The Dream Factory
Self (archive footage)
The Big Parade of Comedy
Tina in 'The Red Mill' (archive footage)
Hedda Hopper's Hollywood
Self
Ever Since Eve
Marge Winton
Cain and Mabel
Mabel O'Dare
Hearts Divided
Betsy Patterson
Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel
Herself
A Dream Comes True
Herself (uncredited)
Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
Marion Davies
Page Miss Glory
Loretta
Operator 13
Gail Loveless
Going Hollywood
Sylvia Bruce
Peg o' My Heart
Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell
Blondie of the Follies
Blondie McClune
Polly of the Circus
Polly Fisher
The Christmas Party
Herself
Five and Ten
Jennifer Rarick
It's a Wise Child
Joyce Stanton
The Bachelor Father
Antoinette "Tony" Flagg
The Florodora Girl
Daisy Dell
Not So Dumb
Dulcy
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Self
Marianne
Marianne
Show People
Peggy Pepper
The Cardboard Lover
Sally
The Patsy
Patricia Harrington
Quality Street
Phoebe Throssel
The Fair Co-Ed
Marion
Tillie the Toiler
Tillie Jones
The Red Mill
Tina
Beverly of Graustark
Beverly Calhoun
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
Lights of Old Broadway
Fely / Anne
Zander the Great
Mamie Smith
Janice Meredith
Janice Meredith
The Wife of the Centaur
Cameo in chorus line
Yolanda
Princess Mary / Yolanda
Little Old New York
Patricia O'Day
The Pilgrim
Congregation Member (uncredited)
Adam and Eva
Eva King
Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12
Self
When Knighthood Was in Flower
Mary Tudor
The Young Diana
Diana May
A Trip to Paramountown
Self
Beauty's Worth
Prudence Cole
The Bride's Play
Enid of Cashell / Aileen Barrett
Enchantment
Ethel Hoyt
Buried Treasure
Pauline Vandermuellen
The Restless Sex
Stephanie
April Folly
April Poole
The Cinema Murder
Elizabeth Dalston
The Dark Star
Rue Carew
Getting Mary Married
Mary Bussard
The Belle of New York
Violet Gray
The Burden of Proof
Elaine Brooks
Cecilia of the Pink Roses
Cecilia
Runaway Romany
Romany