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Marion Davies

Empresaria, Chica reality (1989) · United States · On the map · Actors · Lived 1897 to 1961 · aged 64

Marion Davies was an American actress, producer, screenwriter, and philanthropist. Educated in a religious convent, Davies left the school to pursue a career as a chorus girl. As a teenager, she appeared in several Broadway musicals and one film, Runaway Romany (1917).

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1961Died22 September 19611937Ever Since EveFilm, Marge Winton1936Cain and MabelFilm, Mabel O'Dare1934Operator 13Film, Gail Loveless1932Blondie of the FolliesFilm, Producer1931Five and TenFilm, Jennifer Rarick1929MarianneFilm, Marianne1927Quality StreetFilm, Producer1926Beverly of GraustarkFilm, Beverly Calhoun1923Little Old New YorkFilm, Patricia O'Day1922A Trip to ParamountownFilm1919Getting Mary MarriedFilm, Producer1897Born3 January 1897
  • Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ 1925
  • Show People 1928
  • The Pilgrim 1923

People around Marion

Also in Deutsch

Filmography 40

83 credits on file

Television 2

Awards

Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

About this person

She soon became a featured performer in the Ziegfeld Follies. While performing in the 1916 Follies, the nineteen-year-old Marion met the fifty-three-year-old newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst and became his mistress. Hearst took over management of Davies's career and promoted her as a film actress.

Country
United States
Category
Actors
Type
Actor
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1897 to 1961 · aged 64