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.

Filmography

• 2004Checking Out: Grand Hotel — (archive footage)
• 2001Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies — (archive footage)
• 1995The Casting Couch
• 1994That's Entertainment! III — (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Hollywood — Self (archive footage, uncredited)
• 1964The Big Parade of Comedy — Tina in 'The Red Mill' (archive footage)
• 1954Meet the Family — Original Story
• 1937Ever Since Eve — Marge Winton
• 1936Cain and Mabel — Mabel O'Dare
• 1936Hearts Divided — Betsy Patterson, Producer
• 1935Page Miss Glory — Loretta, Producer
• 1935Pirate Party on Catalina Isle — Marion Davies
• 1934Operator 13 — Gail Loveless
• 1933Going Hollywood — Sylvia Bruce
• 1933Peg o' My Heart — Margaret 'Peg' O'Connell
• 1932Blondie of the Follies — Blondie McClune, Producer
• 1932Polly of the Circus — Polly Fisher
• 1931Five and Ten — Jennifer Rarick
• 1931It's a Wise Child — Joyce Stanton, Producer
• 1931The Bachelor Father — Antoinette "Tony" Flagg, Producer
• 1930Not So Dumb — Dulcy, Producer
• 1930The Florodora Girl — Daisy Dell
• 1929Marianne — Marianne
• 1928Show People — Peggy Pepper, Producer
• 1928The Cardboard Lover — Sally, Executive Producer
• 1928The Patsy — Patricia Harrington, Producer
• 1927Quality Street — Phoebe Throssel, Producer
• 1927The Fair Co-Ed — Marion
• 1927The Red Mill — Tina
• 1927Tillie the Toiler — Tillie Jones
• 1926Beverly of Graustark — Beverly Calhoun
• 1925Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ — Chariot Race Spectator (uncredited)
• 1925Lights of Old Broadway — Fely / Anne
• 1925Zander the Great — Mamie Smith
• 1924Janice Meredith — Janice Meredith
• 1924The Wife of the Centaur — Cameo in chorus line
• 1924Yolanda — Princess Mary / Yolanda
• 1923Adam and Eva — Eva King
• 1923Little Old New York — Patricia O'Day
• 1923The Pilgrim — Congregation Member (uncredited)
• 1922Beauty's Worth — Prudence Cole
• 1922The Bride's Play — Enid of Cashell / Aileen Barrett
• 1922The Young Diana — Diana May
• 1922When Knighthood Was in Flower — Mary Tudor
• 1921Buried Treasure — Pauline Vandermuellen
• 1921Enchantment — Ethel Hoyt
• 1920April Folly — April Poole, Producer
• 1920The Restless Sex — Stephanie
• 1919Getting Mary Married — Mary Bussard, Producer
• 1919The Belle of New York — Violet Gray, Producer
• 1919The Cinema Murder — Elizabeth Dalston
• 1919The Dark Star — Rue Carew
• 1918Cecilia of the Pink Roses — Cecilia, Producer
• 1918The Burden of Proof — Elaine Brooks
• 1917Runaway Romany — Romany, Writer

Appearances as themselves (13)

• Citizen Hearst — Self (archival footage)
• 2015Leslie Howard: The Man Who Gave a Damn — Self (archive footage)
• 2003Murders of Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
• 1996The Battle Over Citizen Kane — Self (archive footage)
• 1991The Complete 'Citizen Kane' — Self (archive footage)
• 1972Hollywood: The Dream Factory — Self (archive footage)
• 1960Hedda Hopper's Hollywood — Self
• 1936Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel — Self
• 1935A Dream Comes True — Herself (uncredited)
• 1931The Christmas Party — Herself
• 1929The Hollywood Revue of 1929 — Self
• 1922A Trip to Paramountown — Self
• 1922Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 12 — Self