This compilation film is one of the few Robert Youngson productions to incorporate sound as well as silent excerpts. All the...
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1964
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A lovely stenographer, tired of men falling all over her, tries to make herself homely in this comedy. With her horn rim...
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Marge Winton
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1937
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A remake of 1928's Glorious Betsy (itself based on a stage play by Rida Johnson Young), Hearts Divided is based, believe it...
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Producer, Betsy Patterson
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1936
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Mabel O'Dare
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1936
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William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions moved from MGM to Warners with Page Miss Glory--along with Cosmopolitan's...
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Loretta Dalrymple/"Dawn Glory"
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1935
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If you can accept blonde, blue-eyed Marion Davies disguising herself in blackface, chances are you'll swallow the rest of...
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Gail Loveless
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1934
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Reportedly at the request of Marion Davies herself, Bing Crosby was borrowed from Paramount for the MGM Davies vehicle...
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Sylvia Bruce
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1933
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Peg O`Connell
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1933
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In this romantic drama, a strait-laced preacher creates controversy when he marries a seductive trapeze artist . The two...
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Polly Fisher
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1932
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Producer, Blondie McClune
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1932
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In this comedy, a conservative family becomes alarmed when they begin believing their daughter is pregnant. They frantically...
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Producer, Joyce
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1931
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Producer, Tony Flagg
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1931
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Producer, Jennifer Rarick
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1931
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One of the most delightful of Marion Davies' early talkies, The Floradora Girl is set in New York at the turn of the century....
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1930
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In this comedy, set during the 1900s, a Florodora girl slowly falls for a gentle millionaire. Songs include: "My Kind Of...
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Producer, Daisy
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1930
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Producer, Dulcy
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1930
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With the arrival of talkies, every major studio hopped on the musical bandwagon by turning out lavish "revues," spotlighting...
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1929
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Marion Davies made her talkie debut in this early musical romance set during World War I. Marianne (Davies) is a beautiful...
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Producer, Marianne
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1929
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Patricia Harrington
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1928
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Producer, Peggy Pepper
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1928
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Very loosely based on the stage play by Jacques Deval, this comedy was largely rewritten to give comedienne Marion Davies a...
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Producer, Sally
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1928
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In the spirit of female stars both before and after her, 30-year-old Marion Davies plays a girl a decade younger than herself...
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Marion
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1927
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Marion Davies has the lead role of Tillie in this adaptation of Russ Westover's popular 1920s comic strip. Tillie is bored by...
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Tillie Jones
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1927
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This lavish adaptation of Victor Herbert's operetta The Red Mill proved to be one of Marion Davies' most delightful and...
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Tina
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1927
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A bit more sedate and reserved than the usual Marion Davies vehicle, this 1927 adaptation of James M. Barrie's Quality Street...
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Producer, Phoebe Throssel
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1927
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Beverly Calhoun
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1926
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Although this isn't a top-notch Marion Davies film, she's still very charming in it. Mamie Smith (Davies in pigtails and...
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Mamie Smith
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1925
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Because Little Old New York was so successful, MGM and newspaper/sometime film magnate William Randolph Hearst decided to put...
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Anne,Fely
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1925
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Newspaper magnate and movie producer William Randolph Hearst created this massive epic about the American Revolution to...
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Janice Meredith
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1924
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The talented and beautiful Marion Davies is practically lost under the opulence of this expensive, overdone historical...
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Princess Mary/Yolanda
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1924
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Eva King
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1923
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In the final film of his First National contract (an early working title was The Tail End), Charlie Chaplin spoofs small-town...
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1923
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This charming and expensively made historical romance was one of Marion Davies' best films. She spends much of the picture...
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Patricia O'Day
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1923
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Although it not as elaborate as When Knighthood Was in Flower, which was made later in the year, this Marion Davies romance...
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1922
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1922
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Although it wasn't acknowledged publicly for decades, newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst and actress Marion Davies...
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Prudence Cole
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1922
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Film critics (at least those who weren't employed by the Hearst Corporation) frequently complained about the amount of money...
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1922
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Although William Randolph Hearst had been financing the motion pictures for his mistress Marion Davies for several years,...
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Diana May
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1922
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Pauline Vandermuellen
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1921
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When publisher and producer William Randolph Hearst was putting together a picture for his mistress, the pretty and highly...
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1920
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1920
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Marion Davies' fifth feature film had the mark of William Randolph Hearst all over it. It was produced by his production...
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1920
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Ethel Hoyt
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1920
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Getting Mary Married was tailor-made to the talents of perky Marion Davies. The stepchild (Davies) of a millionaire is...
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Producer
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1919
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1919
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With her "sponsor" William Randolph Hearst pulling the strings, Ziegfeld Follies beauty Marion Davies launched her screen...
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1918
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Surprisingly, Marion Davies' first film was not financed by her companion, William Randolph Hearst, but by her former beau...
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Screenwriter
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1917
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