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Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies
Film / 2001

Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies

Directed by Hugh Munro Neely
DocumentaryTV movie

★ 5.0/10Audience rating

Blonde, beautiful and talented, Marion Davies was the first and funniest screwball comedienne. As star of two of the best comedies ever made, Show People and The Patsy, she combined zany slapstick and exuberant mimicry. Glamorous, witty and kind, both on screen and off, Davies was also famous for her 35-year-long love affair with William Randolph Hearst.

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Blonde, beautiful and talented, Marion Davies was the first and funniest screwball comedienne. As star of two of the best comedies ever made, Show People and The Patsy, she combined zany slapstick and exuberant mimicry. Glamorous, witty and kind, both on screen and off, Davies was also famous for her 35-year-long love affair with William Randolph Hearst.

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Charlize TheronSelf - Narrator (voice) Jeanine BasingerSelf Cari BeauchampSelf Robert BoardSelf Kevin BrownlowSelf Charles ChamplinSelf Marion LakeSelf Stanley FlinkSelf Frederick Lawrence GuilesSelf Belinda Vidor HolidaySelf Virginia MadsenSelf Constance MooreSelf
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Suzanne Vidor ParrySelf Carl RoupSelf George SidneySelf Lea SullivanSelf Ruth WarrickSelf Marion Davies(archive footage)

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