Marion Davies

Marion Cecilia Davies was an American film actress, producer, screenwriter, and philanthropist. Davies had appeared in several Broadway musicals and one film, Runaway Romany before newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, with whom she had begun a romantic relationship, took over management of her career. Hearst financed Davies' pictures and promoted her heavily through his newspapers and Hearst Newsreels. He founded Cosmopolitan Pictures to produce her films.