A young woman must resist the charms of a handsome stranger and stay single if she wants to inherit a fortune.A young woman must resist the charms of a handsome stranger and stay single if she wants to inherit a fortune.A young woman must resist the charms of a handsome stranger and stay single if she wants to inherit a fortune.
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- TriviaThis is the oldest Marion Davies film known to exist. This was her fifth starring film.
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Earliest Surviving Marion Davies Movie
One of the most highly regarded films ever produced, 1941's "Citizen Kane," is acklowledged as a loose biography of mega-media owner William Randolph Hearst. Within Orson Welles' narrative is his Hearst-like protagonist, Charles Foster Kane, who has a mistress in an untalented actress/singer by the name of Susan Alexander. Movie viewers at the time felt Welles was parodying Hearst's well-known paramour, actress Marion Davies. The portrayal of Davies was felt by many who knew her talents as totally unfair. Even Welles admitted Susan Alexander was a composite of several actresses and he didn't intend her to be mistaken for that of Ms. Davies.
Modern viewers are able to judge Davies' work in a number of her films today. Her earliest surviving movie is April 1919's "Getting Mary Married." The John Emerson/Anita Loos script provided Davies with her fifth film she appeared in as well as her first comedy. She plays the daughter of a wealthy man who has stipulated she must live with her brother for one entire year before she gets his fortune. When Davies relocates to her brother's, it sets off a series of madcap events involving family and new-found friends.
Early on Davies displayed a talent for entertaining, signing with the Ziegfeld Follies when she was 19 in 1916. Her stunning body attracted a fan-base of young men, one including the married Hearst, who purportedly sat in the front row every night for eight weeks when the Follies was in New York City. When the smitten Hearst saw her in her first film, 1917's "Runaway Romany," he formed a movie company within Paramount Pictures in 1918 and signed Davies to a contract. The 58-year-old Hearst heavily promoted the 21-year-old actress, where both were getting quite intimate with one another. His newsreels played in movie theaters showing her social activities while his Los Angeles Examiner paper assigned a full-time reporter to detail her daily life. In all, while Hearst put her and her family in a posh Manhattan townhouse (corner of Riverside Drive and W. 105th Street), the media tycoon spent over $7 million promoting Davies' movie career.
All the promotions and her talent on screen proved to pay off big dividends as Davies was considered the most popular actress at the box office during the 1922-1923 time period, appearing in a couple of megahit productions.
Modern viewers are able to judge Davies' work in a number of her films today. Her earliest surviving movie is April 1919's "Getting Mary Married." The John Emerson/Anita Loos script provided Davies with her fifth film she appeared in as well as her first comedy. She plays the daughter of a wealthy man who has stipulated she must live with her brother for one entire year before she gets his fortune. When Davies relocates to her brother's, it sets off a series of madcap events involving family and new-found friends.
Early on Davies displayed a talent for entertaining, signing with the Ziegfeld Follies when she was 19 in 1916. Her stunning body attracted a fan-base of young men, one including the married Hearst, who purportedly sat in the front row every night for eight weeks when the Follies was in New York City. When the smitten Hearst saw her in her first film, 1917's "Runaway Romany," he formed a movie company within Paramount Pictures in 1918 and signed Davies to a contract. The 58-year-old Hearst heavily promoted the 21-year-old actress, where both were getting quite intimate with one another. His newsreels played in movie theaters showing her social activities while his Los Angeles Examiner paper assigned a full-time reporter to detail her daily life. In all, while Hearst put her and her family in a posh Manhattan townhouse (corner of Riverside Drive and W. 105th Street), the media tycoon spent over $7 million promoting Davies' movie career.
All the promotions and her talent on screen proved to pay off big dividends as Davies was considered the most popular actress at the box office during the 1922-1923 time period, appearing in a couple of megahit productions.
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