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  Marion Davies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Davies was born Marion Cecilia Douras in Brooklyn, New York, the youngest of five children born to Bernard J. Douras,[1] a lawyer who moved in New York City political circles, and Rose Reilly, formerly of Jersey City, New Jersey.
In the mid-1920s, Davies became involved in an affair with actor Charlie Chaplin, and in the mid-1930s she was involved with actor Dick Powell.
After the death of Davies' niece, Patricia Lake (née Van Cleeve), Lake's family announced that she was in fact the daughter of Marion Davies and William Randolph Hearst; prior to the announcement, it had been said that Lake was the daughter of Rose Davies (Marion's sister) and her first husband, George Van Cleeve.
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 MDThePatsy
Davies was a popular star of the 1920s, either because of, or in spite of, her famous patron, William Randolph Hearst.
Marion dutifully starred in the starchy costume dramas her lover preferred, which almost always included a scene of her in pants, because Hearst thought it was sexy.
Davies was devoted to Hearst throughout the remainder of his life, living with him all over the world in lavish estates and at his California castle, San Simeon, acting there for all intents and purposes as his wife.
www.moviediva.com /MD_root/reviewpages/MDThePatsy.htm   (1452 words)

  
 Marion Davies - Biography
Marion Davies was born Marion Douras in Brooklyn, New York on January 3rd, 1897.
Marion filmed a total of sixteen pictures between 1929 and 1937, an average of two a year, yet she still made time for five or six radio appearances.
Marion's selfless act of selling some of her jewelry enabled her to give Hearst a check for a million dollars to bail his ailing company out of debt.
www.decofilms.com /mariondavies/biography.htm   (603 words)

  
 Marion Davies Tribute at Classic Movie Stars
Marion Davies was born Marion Cecelia Douras on January 3, 1897 in Brooklyn, New York.
Davies starred in a few more films, but her talents were overshadowed by the other actors who were in the movie with her.
Hearst dissolved Cosmopolitan in 1937, and Davies retired to his several homes, including the lavish castle in San Simeon, where she was known as a gracious hostess to Hollywood royalty.
www.angelfire.com /ri2/rebeccastjames/marion.html   (431 words)

  
 Marion Davies
Marion Cecile Douras was born in Brooklyn in 1897.
Davies was so pleased with her costume that she threatened to start a fashion trend by wearing it around town for a week.
Davies died September 22, 1961, leaving an estate of $8 million, which was squandered by her family members.
alt.tcm.turner.com /MONTH_SPOTS/01/02/davies_bio.htm   (1024 words)

  
 Marion Davies
Marion Davies was born Marion Cecilia Douras in Brooklyn, New York on January 3, 1897.
She assumed the stage name of Marion Davies and quickly established herself as a talented actress.
Miss Davies died on September 22, 1961 from cancer and is interred in the Douras family crypt at Hollywood Memorial Park.
www.hearstcastle.org /history/marion_davies.asp   (447 words)

  
 Biography for Marion Davies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Marion Davies, born Marion Cecilea Douras on January 3, 1897, was one of the great comedic actresses of the silent era and early 30's.
Marion was not invited to the funeral or saw the body since it had been removed while she was still asleep.
Davies' films there, including Page Miss Glory (1935), Hearts Divided, Cain and Mabel (both 1936), and Ever Since Eve (1937), were pleasant enough but not sufficiently strong to warrant continued investment in her career.
www.imdb.com /name/nm0203836/bio   (1680 words)

  
 SHOW BUSINESS WEEKLY: REVIEWS: Marion Davies Festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Davies has been swallowed up by history as a no-talent Ziegfeld girl who had films built around her because she was attached to the most powerful press tycoon in the world.
Davies is wonderful in it, as she parodies stars of the time, something that delighted guests at San Simeon.
Davies’ chief virtue is her self-deprecating sense of mischief, but she creates a warm romantic chemistry with William Haines.
www.showbusinessweekly.com /archive/108/film-marion-davies.html   (732 words)

  
 Marion Davies: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Marion Davies (January 3, EHandler: no quick summary.
Marion outshone her siblings with a 20-year movie career, EHandler: no quick summary.
The university of california, los angeles, popularly known as ucla, is a public, coeducational university situated in the neighborhood of westwood within...
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/marion_davies.htm   (1673 words)

  
 © Marion Davies - Silent and Sound Movie Star - goldensilents.com
Marion Davies was born Marion Cecelia Douras in Brooklyn, New York on January 3rd, 1897, and she attended school at the Convent of the Sacred Heart at Hastings-on-the-Hudson.
For Cosmopolitan, Marion's films of note were mostly costume dramas, including "When Knighthood Was in Flower" (1922), in which she played Mary Tudor, and "Little Old New York" (1923), in which she appeared dressed as a boy through most of the film.
Marion really came into her own when she was signed by M-G-M and began to make comedies, such as the film "Show People" (1928), a nostalgic vehicle which featured many of the stock players and stars of that famous studio in cameo appearances.
www.goldensilents.com /stars/mariondavies.html   (568 words)

  
 Enchantment
Marion Davies plays a pert flapper who fancies herself the Cleopatra of Riverside Drive because she is dating six Harvard seniors.
Davies was a spritely and popular star of the 1920s, either because of, or in spite of, her famous patron, media mogul William Randolph Hearst.
Marion Davies was not his only star, and Cosmopolitan Pictures was not exclusively her production company.
www.moviediva.com /MD_root/reviewpages/MDEnchantment.htm   (1470 words)

  
 Marion Davies - Home Page
Marion Davies was a motion picture star in the teens, twenties and nineteen thirties.
Known in the silent era as one of the screen's most prolific clowns, Marion was one of the few silent stars to survive the transition to talkies.
One of the most loved stars in Hollywood, Marion was the socialite of her era, often hosting grand parties with themes such as the circus, wild west or the baby party in which everyone came dressed as children.
www.decofilms.com /mariondavies   (296 words)

  
 Marion Davies at Classic Actresses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Although Marion was devoted to Hearst she often had affairs with other men including Charlie Chaplin.
In 1924 Marion was involved in a scandal when producer Thomas Ince died mysteriously after attending one of her parties.
Marion was nervous about making the transition to sound films because of a stutter but she was able to overcome this problem.
www.classicactresses.com /marion.html   (318 words)

  
 Marion Davies @ Filmbug UK
Marion Davies was a United States actress best known as the longtime mistress of newspaper publisher and sometime politician William Randolph Hearst.
Of Greek and Irish heritage, she was born Marion Douras in Brooklyn, New York.
Ten weeks after the death of William Randolph Hearst, Marion Davies married for the first time, at the age of 54, on October 31, 1951.
www.filmbug.co.uk /db/22635   (497 words)

  
 Marion Davies
Davies puts her gift for facial clowning to expressive use in lampooning Swanson, and Show People also proves a romp for director King Vidor, noted for such hard-hitting dramas as The Big Parade (1925) and The Crowd (1928).
Davies' romantic relationship with publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst, famously satirized in Citizen Kane (1941), had led to the creation of Cosmopolitan Pictures, established by Hearst for the sole purpose of producing Davies vehicles.
An irony of Davies' relationship with Hearst is that, while her natural gifts lay in the field of comedy, he wanted to see her playing frail, virginal heroines in the Mary Pickford mold.
alt.tcm.turner.com /MONTH_SPOTS/01/02/davies_show.htm   (443 words)

  
 It is possible to happen that Marion Davies has had an interesting journey by reading Style2000 . Marion Davies thought ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
It is possible to happen that Marion Davies has had an interesting journey by reading Style2000.
Marion Davies thought Style2000 to be an interesting thing to read.
Compared to Marion Davies everything is likely to appear as something bad.
www.bad-bad-bad.com /actors/Acsy11141.htm   (314 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Going Hollywood / Movie (1933) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Its major problem is Marion Davies, not to mention dialogue and choreography that's as bland as it is gauche.
Bing plays a crooner gone Hollywood; Davies plays a blonde nutcase who stalks him from coast to coast, insisting that their love was meant to be.
Marion Davies was impressive in her big number, WE'LL MAKE HAY WHILE THE SUN SHINES and there is a funny (if exaggeratted) comic performance by Fifi D'Orsay as a hot-tempered movie star.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6302747279?v=glance   (1007 words)

  
 MARION DAVIES Mondays previously at Film Forum in New York City
If both were mistresses of publishing magnates (Hearst's wife wouldn't give him a divorce), Hearst and Davies were a devoted couple who remained together till his death, with Davies dipping into her own fortune when he hit financial storms.
Reproductions of original Marion Davies movie posters are available at our concession stand only, for $15 each, or 3 for $40, tax included.
(1925, Monta Bell) Marion in dual role as rich and poor twins separated as children, in delightful period piece, set in lavishly-recreated 19th century Manhattan, when Union Square was the center of town.
www.filmforum.org /archivedfilms/mariondavies.html   (1141 words)

  
 Marion Davies
Comic actress whose career bridged the silent era and the emergence of “ talkies,” and was continuously promoted by her long-time lover, the publisher
Davies originally followed her sisters into Vaudeville, but then went on to appear in more than 50 films, including
Hearst's life with Davies is ostensibly the basis for
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 Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies Movie: Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies DVD is ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Brooklyn-born Ziegfield girl Marion Davies met William Randolph Hearst in the early 1920s.
As star of two of the best comedies ever made, "Show People" and "The Patsy," she combined zany slapstick and exuberant mimicry; she was also famous for her 35-year-long love affair with William Randolph Hearst.
This loving and insightful combination of archival film clips, interviews, and rare home movies explores her life and work, from her days dancing in the Ziegfield Follies through her relationship with Hearst, which led to Hearst creating for her a movie studio and a legendary castle where she reigned over the elite of Hollywood.
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 Alibris: Marion Davies
The was the unofficial empress of Hollywood and she spent a lifetime as the mistress of one of America's richest men.
Gathered from tapes recroded a decade before Marion Davie's death, read, in her own words, the story of a fantastic and glittering life, as never told before.
Exploring the poetry, drama, and prose of the period, Marion Wynne-Davies combines theory and practice, providing a helpful introduction to key theoretical concepts and close readings of individual texts by both canonical and less...
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Marion_Davies   (574 words)

  
 eBay - marion davies, Movie Memorabilia, Photographic Images items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Marion Davies 8 1/2 X 11 sexy photo
MARION DAVIES, MATT MOORE "Tillie The Toiler" 1927!
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 Marion Davies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Marion Davies, born Marion Cecilea Douras on January 3, 1897, was one...
Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies (2001) (TV) (uncredited)....
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 CMSU - Marion Davies Piano Scholarships
Marion Davies, Central Missouri State University is able to award several renewable scholarships which range in size from a minimum award of $2000/year to awards covering full tuition for students pursuing a bachelor's degree in piano performance, piano pedagogy, music education (with piano as primary instrument), or music technology (with piano as primary instrument).
In addition to the Davies Scholarships, numerous other academic and service awards in collaborative piano, and ensemble keyboard (orchestra, band, keyboard) are available and may be combined with the Davies scholarships to form a financial assistance package that will be of maximum benefit to students.
Interested students should apply to the university, and then schedule an audition time with the Department of Music.
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 Marion Davies
Olympic Games: Athletics: One day I'll take you on, Marion!; Birchfield sprinter's pledge.
If I was put in the witness box tomorrow, I would say the evidence points to murder.
Not a day's passed since I carried out the autopsy on Annie Davies that I haven't been haunted by it; THE HUNT FOR ANNIE'S KILLER Investigating pathologist Dr Alan Cromie.(News)
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 MARION DAVIES Autograph
MARION DAVIES - INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH SIGNED - DOCUMENT 256876
Featured on Broadway in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1916, Davies made her screen debut in 1917's Runaway Romany.
It was about that time that she met newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, who took an immediate personal interest in her career and vowed to make her Hollywood's greatest star.
www.historyforsale.com /html/prodetails.asp?documentid=256876   (159 words)

  
 - SHOP.COM
Art Poster Metal Framed Print - Marion Davies - Artist: Hoch Hollywood Collection- Poster Size: 10 X 8
This Poster is framed using a Black metal frame with no matte.
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