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Marion Davies, nascuda Marion Cecilia Douras (3 de gener de 1987 - 22 de setembre de 1961), va ser una actriu, productora, guionista i filantropa nord-americana. Educada en un convent religiós, Davies va fugir de l'escola per seguir una carrera com a noia del cor. Quan era adolescent, va aparèixer en diversos musicals de Broadway i en una pel·lícula, Runaway Romany.

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Marion Davies

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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.

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Меріон Дейвіс — американська комедійна актриса німого кіно.

Народилася в Нью-Йорку 3 січня 1897 року. Свою кар'єру розпочала співачкою в хорі, а потім отримала запрошення на участь у шоу «Шаленості Зігфелда». Її кінокар'єра почалася в 1917 році, коли Меріон було 20 років. Через рік вона познайомилася з газетним магнатом Вільямом Рендольфом Герстом, який завдяки своєму впливу допоміг подальшому розвитку її кар'єри. Меріон знялася в багатьох знаменитих фільмах епохи німого кіно, а з приходом звукових фільмів її кар'єра поступово пішла на спад. Останній раз на великому екрані вона з'явилася в 1937 році.

Її любовний зв'язок з Герстом тривав до його смерті в 1951 році. Через пару місяців після його смерті Меріон у віці 54 років вийшла заміж за Хораса Дж. Брауна. Разом з ним вона залишалася до своєї смерті від раку 22 вересня 1961 року.

Меріон Дейвіс удостоєна зірки на Голлівудській алеї слави на Голлівуд-бульвар 6326.

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