Known for:	Show People, Cain and Mabel, Operator 13
Birth name:	Marion Cecelia Douras
Birthday:	3 January 1897, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Height:	5' 5" (1.65 m)

She was the longtime, and sometimes long distance, mistress of newspaper magnate, William Randolph Hearst. Their life together was dubiously mirrored in the film, Citizen Kane and RKO 281, and more factually in The Cat's Meow. Aunt of actor Arthur Lake ("Dagwood Bumstead") Interred at Hollywood Memorial Cemetery (now called Hollywood Forever), Hollywood, California, USA, in section B, east side of the lake. Sister of actress Reine Davies. Is portrayed by Kirsten Dunst in The Cat's Meow, by Melanie Griffith in RKO 281, by Virginia Madsen in The Hearst and Davies Affair and by Heather McNair in Chaplin The role of "Susan Alexander Kane" played by Dorothy Comingore in Citizen Kane is modeled after her Was a Greek American and spoke Greek fluently. She liked to do puzzles In 1993, the estate of 'Patricia Van Cleve' (wife of Arthur Lake ) revealed, upon her death, that she was actually the child of Marian Davies with William Randolph Hearst. Van Cleve had been raised by Davies' sister Rose and had always been introduced as her niece and Lake as her nephew. Being the practical joker that she was, Marion once got President Calvin Coolidge drunk by feeding him wine and simply telling him it was fruit juice.

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