Marion Cecelia Douras (Marion Davies) was born in the borough of Brooklyn, New York on January 3, 1897. She had been bitten by the show biz bug early as she watched her sisters perform in local stage productions. She wanted to do the same. As Marion got older, she tried out for various school plays and did fairly well. Once her formal education had ended, Marion started out as a chorus girl in New York City and eventually found herself in the famed Ziegfeld Follies. But she wanted more than ...[Read Story]
A Trip to Paramountown
(1922)
