Marion Davies
(1897-1961), ActressSitter in 2 portraits
Marion Davies (née Douras) began her career as a dancer, first at the Globe Theatre in New York and then in the notorious Ziegfeld Follies. Her first film The Runaway Romany (1917) was a success and in 1918 she became the mistress of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst who became her life-long patron. Davies was one of five American women selected for inclusion in Hoppé's The Book of Fair Women. A public figure as much for her sometimes scandalous private life as for her acting ability, Davies was nevertheless one of the silent era actresses who continued to work in the talking pictures of the 1930s, before retiring from the industry in 1937.
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