The Queen of the Screen: Marion Davies

“I Want More”

Since she was a young girl, Marion Cecilia Douras was beyond ambitious. Born to a middle-class family in Brooklyn, Davies and her sisters changed their last names to Davies because they thought it sounded more British. They thought this would help them rub elbows with the upper echelons of New York society, and it sort of worked.

A portrait of Marion Davies.

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As the youngest of five children, she wasn’t the only one in her family who loved performing. Her older sisters Ethel, Rose, and Reine, were all in show business, even as children. Davies grew up desperate to be in the spotlight and determined to do anything to achieve her goals.

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