Marion Davies

Marion Davies's biography

Marion Davies is 64 years old actor born at Brooklyn. She was born on Sunday 3rd of January 1897. She is often nicknamed as Queen of the Screen. According to year of birth 1897 she belongs to Lost Generation. Birthday on 3rd of January means she is Capricorn. These people are stable in nature. As the sign lord is “Saturn”, the person will be judgemental in his approach.

She is native english speaker. She is citizen of United States of America. Her primary profession is to be actor. You can know her also as film producer, screenwriter, model. She is recently known as film actor.

Marion Davies's career

Her main focus is to be actor.

Marion Davies's partner

William Randolph Hearst

Marion Davies and William Randolph Hearst have been together since 1917 for 34 years. He is known as politician. Her partner was born on Wednesday 29th of April 1863. Her partner died on Tuesday 14th of August 1951. William Randolph Hearst was 54 years old, when this happened.

How did Marion Davies die

She died on on Friday 22nd of September 1961 when he was 64 years old at Hollywood. Marion Daviess death was caused by cancer. It happend like natural causes.

Awards and competitions

Marion Davies's Awards

• She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6326 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
• Amanda Seyfried is the latest actress to portray Davies in the 2020 Netflix film Mank about Herman J. Mankiewicz, the screenwriter of Citizen Kane. Seyfried was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance.

Marion Davies's Rankings

• Marion Davies was listed in the Quigley Top Ten Money-Making Stars poll four times: 1921 (ranked#7) 1923 (#5) 1924 (#2) and1925 (#3).

Marion Davies's quotes

• With me, it was 5% talent and 95% publicity.
• When asked by a reporter about the opulent library of books in her Riverside Drive residence in Manhattan, Davies reportedly said, "I'll r-read all these when I'm an old woman.".
• Silent pictures were right up my alley.
• I did a lot of pictures. I worked harder than I thought I did, but it was a very happy experience. The parties, the dinners, not much rest. But sleep wasn't important. It was one big merry-go-round.
• I didn't know Mr. Hearst then, but he always sat in the front row at the "Follies." [Davies was a featured player in Ziegfeld's 1916 "Follies."
• I really had a good time at MGM. I liked it there. I was very fond of Irving and of L.B. And we had no quarrels, much, except that once i a while I'd go up to the front office and say I thought i should be doing something big ... like washing elephants.
• Ziegfeld thought I looked like the "Spirit of Spring." I was supposed to walk down a staircase in a gorgeous costume of blue tulle with sparkles on it and a marabou hat and say, "I am the spirit of spring."
• [talking about her famous costume parties] We had one at the beach house. I was a character from Little Old New York (1923). Norma Shearer came in her Marie Antoinette costume even though it was supposed to be an All-American party.
• When I was at MGM, I'd leave the beach house early and do my makeup in the automobile. I used very little, just the greasepaint, the powder, and the lipstick. The eyelashes were hard to do while the car was going.
• When I first went into motion pictures, I thought it was very drab and dull. It was nothing like the stage, so I was very unhappy doing pictures. I just kept thinking about the stage, the stage.
• W.R. made me the president of Cosmopolitan Films, and I was supposed to get half of the profits.
• Life in California got to be very gay. There was work and some sort of a party every night. And I got to love MGM, I really did; but I didn't realize it until I left. I was ten years at the studio and I knew everyone.
• We could have made Little Old New York (1923) in less time, but the whole studio had burned down, with my costumes and everything. We had to move over to Fort Lee in New Jersey and I had to get new costumes.
• I would invite the whole cast to luncheon, and the studio executives, and maybe some other stars who were working on other sets--Norma Shearer and Joan Crawford and the rest of them. Not Garbo.
• He [Hearst] thought I should have won an Oscar for Peg o' My Heart (1933), but I thought it was a corny story to begin with.
• I started working at MGM around 1924, and that was the first time I ever went to San Simeon [Hearst Castle]. I think Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon were along, and Constance Talmadge.
• Marie Antoinette (1938) was the straw that broke the camel's back at MGM.
• When we went to San Simeon we'd take the train and then the car from San Luis Obispo. Sometimes we went by plane. W.R. had three planes, and if I was working late on a Saturday I would fly up.
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Marion Davies's body shape

Lets describe how Marion Davies looks. We will focus on her body shape. Body build is average.