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Marn Davies is known for his work as a Writer on the feature films The Gentlemen, Wrath of Man, Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre, and The Covenant, as well as being an Executive Producer on 'The Gentlemen' TV series.
- Writer, Producer
- 3 min
- She Was Hungry For More
- She Was Born to Be A Star
- They Lost One of Their Own
- She Was Self-Made
- They Were in High Demand
- Their Audience Was Terrible
- They Didn’T Give Her A Chance
- She Had A Serious Fan
- He Scared Her
- He Set It All Up
Marion Davies was ambitious from the very beginning of her life. Born Marion Cecilia Elizabeth Brooklyn Douras to a middle-class family in Brooklyn, Marion and her sisters soon changed their name to “Davies” because it sounded more British, which they thought would help them gain entry into the upper echelons of New York society. It worked, in a se...
Marion Davies wasn’t the only one in the family with a penchant for performing. She was the youngest of five children, and her older sisters Ethel, Rose, and Reine were all involved in show business even as kids. Little Marion grew up with a desperate desire to be in the limelight—and she’d do just about anything to achieve it. Still, that doesn’t ...
Aside from her three sisters, Marion Davies also had a beloved older brother named Charles. Sadly, when she was very young, tragedy struck. In 1906, Charles, then 15, drowned. The loss devastated the Davies family, but years later, they made a heartbreaking tribute to their fallen sibling. Reine named her son Charles—and he was Marion’s favorite of...
Marion Davies didn't wait for anyone to come around and discover her. As soon as she finished school, she began to appear as a chorus girl, eventually making her way up to the famous Ziegfeld Follies. But Davies had much bigger ambitions—she desperately wanted to be an actress. The Follies just weren’t enough for her—but there may have been a sinis...
All kinds of young actresses and singers wanted a position in the Ziegfeld Follies—but they actually had a disturbing dark side. The girls, including Davies, were in high demand. Male fans relentlessly pursued them, and many went to extreme lengths to get to them. Crowds would gather at the stage door where the girls entered and exited. While Davie...
Davies later revealed that some audience members at the Follies were worse than others. She loathed college students, and Yale men in particular. On one particularly disastrous night, a group of Yale students actually threw tomatoes and rotten eggs at Davies and her co-stars when they didn’t like the show. However, rude audience members weren’t the...
Davies may have been determined to be an actress—but there was one heartbreaking factor holding her back. She suffered from a strong stammer. It affected her ability to perform, and her bosses at the Follies wouldn’t give her any speaking parts as a result. Still, she was able to take part in the dancing routines—and soon enough, she’d catch the ey...
One evening, a very special guest visited the Follies and set his sights directly on Davies. Newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst had sat front row at a number of Ziegfeld Follies performances before, and had taken a shining to many of the girls on the chorus line, but this time was different. While he had many favorites that he would shower wi...
Hearst absolutely terrified Davies, who was then still just a teenager. The other girls warned her about him, calling him a “wolf in sheep’s clothing”—and then it got worse. Every night for eight weeks, Hearst sat front row at the Follies so that he could watch Davies. While he sent her gifts, he didn’t really approach her. Perhaps it was because h...
While appearing in the Follies, Davies also modeled on the side. One day, a Broadway studio hired her to appear in a series of photos where she wore elaborate costumes, including one of a Japanese geisha and another of a virginal bride. As she posed, she made a horrifying realization. Hearst, her low-key stalker, was lurking in the background of th...
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Marn Davies is known for his work as a Writer on the feature films The Gentlemen, Wrath of Man, Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre, and The Covenant, as well as being an Executive Producer on 'The Gentlemen' TV series.
Apr 19, 2021 · Orson Welles, Herman Mankiewicz, Marion Davies, and more appear in David Fincher's Netflix film 'Mank'. See the full cast list and how the show's depiction compares to the real people.
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- Deputy Features Director
Dec 5, 2020 · Amanda Seyfried co-stars as Marion Davies, an actress who had a relationship with William Randolph Hearst. Davies is best known for starring in the late-'20s films Quality Street and Show People. Seyfried portrayed Karen Smith in Mean Girls and stars as Sophie in the Mamma Mia! movie franchise.
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Sep 27, 2022 · This is an intimate and well-researched biography of film actress Marion Davies. The author did quite a bit of research on the people surrounding Davies and includes an afterward explaining what happened to many of Marion's relatives, close friends, Hearst's family and some of their former property.
