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Marion Davies
Marion Davies
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She was the original Billion Dollar Baby -- When she was 19 and he 52, William Randolph Hearst, the most powerful man in America, picked her out of a Ziegfeld Follies chorus line and showered her with riches -- among them, San Simeon, the multi-million-dollar pleasure palace he built for her on the California coast. — She... more »in Orson Welles' film classic "Citizen Kane", but George Bernard Shaw chose her to play Eliza in his first film "Pygmalion," and Winston Churchill, Joseph P. Kennedy, Albert Einstein, Lord Mountbatten, Charlie Chaplin and the King of Siam were among those captivated by her wit.
She was the gold digger with a heart of gold -- When her billionaire lover was in financial trouble, she pawned her jewels to present him with a check for a million dollars. Then, when Hearst died, his sons snatched his body from her home while she slept...
Marion Cecilia Davies (née Douras January 3, 1897 - September 22, 1961) was an American film actress, producer, screenwriter, and philanthropist.
Author:
She was the original Billion Dollar Baby -- When she was 19 and he 52, William Randolph Hearst, the most powerful man in America, picked her out of a Ziegfeld Follies chorus line and showered her with riches -- among them, San Simeon, the multi-million-dollar pleasure palace he built for her on the California coast. — She... more »in Orson Welles' film classic "Citizen Kane", but George Bernard Shaw chose her to play Eliza in his first film "Pygmalion," and Winston Churchill, Joseph P. Kennedy, Albert Einstein, Lord Mountbatten, Charlie Chaplin and the King of Siam were among those captivated by her wit.
She was the gold digger with a heart of gold -- When her billionaire lover was in financial trouble, she pawned her jewels to present him with a check for a million dollars. Then, when Hearst died, his sons snatched his body from her home while she slept...
Marion Cecilia Davies (née Douras January 3, 1897 - September 22, 1961) was an American film actress, producer, screenwriter, and philanthropist.
ISBN-13: 9780070251144
ISBN-10: 0070251142
Publication Date: 1972
Pages: 419
Rating: 2
ISBN-10: 0070251142
Publication Date: 1972
Pages: 419
Rating: 2
2.8 stars, based on 2 ratings
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