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Manuela Gómez
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Empresaria, Chica reality (1989)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Canto de LibÉlulas
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Film & TV
Acting · Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
From Wikipedia Marion Davies (January 3, 1897 – September 22, 1961) was an American film actress, producer, screenwriter, and philanthropist. Davies was already building a solid reputation as a film comedienne when newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, with whom she had begun a romantic relationship, took over management of her career. Hearst financed Davies' pictures, promoted her heavily…
Known for
- Citizen Hearst — Self (archival footage)2021
- Checking Out: Grand Hotel — (archive footage)2004
- Murders of Hollywood — Self (archive footage)2003
- Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies — (archive footage)2001
- The Battle Over Citizen Kane — Self (archive footage)1996
- The Casting Couch1995
- That's Entertainment! III — (archive footage)1994
- Hollywood: The Dream Factory — Self (archive footage)1972
- The Big Parade of Comedy — Tina in 'The Red Mill' (archive footage)1964
- Hedda Hopper's Hollywood — Self1960
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1897
- Active to
- 1961
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 2
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Geant4—a simulation toolkit
· 2003 · cited 21,302x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,989x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,999x
- Blast2GO: a universal tool for annotation, visualization and analysis in functional genomics research
· 2005 · cited 10,128x
- Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 8,020x
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Key facts
- Born
- Marion Cecilia Douras , ( 1897-01-03 ) January 3, 1897, Brooklyn, New York , U.S.
- Died
- September 22, 1961 (1961-09-22) (aged 64), Los Angeles, California , U.S.
- Resting place
- Hollywood Forever Cemetery
- Occupations
- Actress producer screenwriter philanthropist
- Years active
- 1914–1937
- Spouse
- Horace G. Brown ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1951 )
- Partner
- William Randolph Hearst (1917–1951; his death)
- Children
- Patricia Lake (acknowledged at Lake's death)
- Relatives
- Rosemary Davies (sister), Reine Davies (sister), Charles Lederer (nephew), Pepi Lederer (niece)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Marion
- Family name
- Davies
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn
- Place of death
- Hollywood
- Sibling
- Reine Davies
- Occupation
- model
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Image
- Marion Davies, 1928.jpg
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- Commons category
- Marion Davies
- date of birth
- 1897-01-03
- date of death
- 1961-09-22
- medical condition
- poliomyelitis
- cause of death
- stomach cancer
- place of burial
- Hollywood Forever Cemetery
- unmarried partner
- William Randolph Hearst
- manner of death
- natural causes
- start of work period
- 1914-00-00
- writing language
- English language
- name in native language
- Marion Davies
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Encyclopedic overview
Marion Davies (born Marion Cecilia Douras; January 3, 1897 – September 22, 1961) was an American actress, producer, screenwriter, and philanthropist. Educated in a religious convent, Davies left the school to pursue a career as a chorus girl. As a teenager, she appeared in several Broadway musicals and one film, Runaway Romany (1917). She soon became a featured performer in the Ziegfeld Follies. While performing in the 1916 Follies, the nineteen-year-old Marion met the fifty-three-year-old newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst and became his mistress. Hearst took over management of Davies' career and promoted her as a film actress.
Hearst financed Davies’ pictures and promoted her career extensively in his newspapers and Hearst newsreels. He founded Cosmopolitan Pictures to produce her films. By 1924, Davies was the number one female box office star in Hollywood because of the popularity of When Knighthood Was in Flower and Little Old New York, which were among the biggest box-office hits of their respective years. During the zenith of the Jazz Age, Davies became renowned as the hostess of lavish soirees for Hollywood actors and political elites. However, in 1924, her name became linked with scandal when film producer Thomas Ince died at a party aboard Hearst's yacht.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Manuela Gómez” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.