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Lake lived with Marion Davies for the major portion of her life, and Hearst financially supported Lake all of her life. After Lake's marriage, Davies continued to support both Patricia and her husband Arthur. When Davies died in 1961, half of her $20 million estate was left to Lake as an inheritance.
Marion Davies (born Marion Cecilia Douras; [a] January 3, 1897 – September 22, 1961) was an American actress, producer, screenwriter, and philanthropist. Educated in a religious convent, Davies fled 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).
3 de dez. de 2020 · In 1982, just three years before his death, Welles reflected on Marion Davies, the Hollywood actor who allegedly inspired Citizen Kane ’s talentless blonde opera singer, Susan Alexander Kane ...
6 de dez. de 2020 · When the media mogul eventually passed away in 1951, Davies decided to live on her own money from investments, and sold her inheritance to the Hearst Corporation for $1. Despite being a business-savvy woman, Davies struggled with alcoholism and later had a cerebral stroke in 1956.
4 de dez. de 2020 · Davies passed away due to malignant osteomyelitis on September 22, 1961, in Hollywood, California. She was 64 years old at the time. She devoted herself to extensive charity work in the later years of her life. Her accomplishment as an actress somewhat has been overshadowed by the character Susan Alexander (Dorothy Comingore) in ‘Citizen Kane ...
11 de mai. de 2022 · Published May 11, 2022. Updated August 1, 2023. A member of the Ziegfeld Follies and a box office star in the 1920s, Marion Davies's legacy was overshadowed by her extramarital relationship with William Randolph Hearst. In the Roaring Twenties, Marion Davies was a superstar.
In her will Davies bequest her “niece” a large inheritance of half of her 20 million dollar fortune. It would be sign of what was to come in the public life of Patricia Van Cleeve Lake with the connection between her and Davies revealed over 30-years later. Lake died October 3, 1993.
