~Marion Davies~

Born: January 3, 1897 in Brooklyn, New York, USA
Died: September 22, 1961 in Hollywood, CA, USA
Marianne (1929) ...Marianne
Show People (1928) .... Peggy Pepper / Herself
The Cardboard Lover (1928) .... Sally
... aka Her Cardboard Lover
The Patsy (1928) .... Patricia Harrington
... aka The Politic Flapper (UK)
The Five O'Clock Girl (1928) .... Patricia Brown
Quality Street (1927) .... Phoebe Throssel
The Fair Co-Ed (1927) .... Marion
Tillie the Toiler (1927) .... Tillie Jones
The Red Mill (1927) .... Tina
Beverly of Graustark (1926) .... Beverly Calhoun
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) (uncredited) .... Crowd extra in chariot race
... aka Ben-Hur (USA: short title)
Lights of Old Broadway (1925) .... Fely/Anne
... aka Little Old New York (UK)
Zander the Great (1925) .... Mamie Smith
Janice Meredith (1924) .... Janice Maredith
... aka The Beautiful Rebel
Yolanda (1924) .... Princess Mary/Yolanda
Little Old New York (1923) .... Patricia O'Day
The Pilgrim (1923) (uncredited) .... Congregation Member
Adam and Eva (1923) .... Eva King
When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922) .... Mary Tudor
The Young Diana (1922) .... Diana May
Beauty's Worth (1922) .... Prudence Cole
Bride's Play (1922) .... Enid of Cashel/Aileen Barrett ... Movie Still Code: A118-X
Enchantment (1921) .... Ethel Hoyt
Buried Treasure (1921) .... Pauline Vandermuellen
The Restless Sex (1920) .... Stephanie Cleland
April Folly (1920) .... April Poole

The Cinema Murder (1919) .... Elizabeth Dalston
The Dark Star (1919) .... Rue Carew
Getting Mary Married (1919) .... Mary ... aka Marrying Mary (UK)
The Belle of New York (1919) .... Violet Gray
The Burden of Proof (1918) .... Elaine Brooks
Cecilia of the Pink Roses (1918) .... Cecilia
Runaway, Romany (1917) .... Romany
~Silent Filmography~
~Marion Davies goes into the Follies
for her new film "Blondie of the
Follies," in which
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer co-stars her
with Robert Montgomery. This
recalls that Marion rose to fame,
and here is a sketch of Miss Davies
as a Follies girl, drawn by the
celebrated illustrator, Harrison
Fisher.~
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~The Los Angeles Times~
September 1, 2002 &
November 21, 2008
Marion Davies was a former Ziegfeld girl who became a comedic actress and mistress to tycoon
William Randolph Hearst.

Davies created a splash in "Ziegfeld Follies of 1916," during which she met Hearst and became his
mistress for the next 34 years, until his death.

Hearst's wife refused to divorce him to let him marry Davies, so he dove shamelessly into an
extramarital affair. When Davies decided she wanted to act, Hearst founded a movie studio to keep
her working and ordered all his newspapers to give her rave reviews.

Her motion picture career spanned two decades, from 1917 to 1937.

She starred in pictures produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Columbia and Warner Bros., including
"Fair Coed," "Quality Street," "The Cardboard Lover," "Not So Dumb," and "Bachelor Father."
Among her last pictures were "Page Miss Glory," "Hearts Divided," and "Cain and Mable."

Davies shined as a comedian, but Hearst wanted her to be a serious leading lady, and his grousing at
the studios brought her career to a premature demise. She retired in 1937 and died of cancer in 1961.
She's interred in a mausoleum at the Hollywood Forever cemetery marked by her family name,
Douras.

— Paul Zollo and Susan King in the Los Angeles Times Sept. 1, 2002 and Nov. 21, 2008
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