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Screenwriting

Marion Davies

Citizen Kane is on now. I've always heard about Marion Davies and William Randolph Hearst and how he wanted to make her a star and that she had no talent, blah blah blah.
Okay, so a few months ago I see this documentary footage of Marion Davies and it seems that she is sort of funny, hip, and intelligent. That's the way she came across.
What's the deal?
  

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[nq:1]Citizen Kane is on now. I've always heard about Marion Davies and William Randolph Hearst and how he wanted to ... it seems that she is sort of funny, hip, and intelligent.

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  • [nq:1]Citizen Kane is on now.
  • I've always heard about Marion Davies and William Randolph Hearst and how he wanted to ...
  • it seems that she is sort of funny, hip, and intelligent.
  • That's the way she came across.
  • [/nq] No Marion Davies was quite talented and was famous in her own right, as a silent film star.
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[nq:1]Citizen Kane is on now. I've always heard about Marion Davies and William Randolph Hearst and how he wanted to ... it seems that she is sort of funny, hip, and intelligent. That's the way she came across. What's the deal?[/nq]
No Marion Davies was quite talented and was famous in her own right, as a silent film star. However, she had quite a pronounced speech impediment which made any po
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[nq:1]Citizen Kane is on now. I've always heard about Marion Davies and William Randolph Hearst and how he wanted to ... it seems that she is sort of funny, hip, and intelligent. That's the way she came across. What's the deal?[/nq]
She was all those things. By most accounts she was a bright girl and a lot of fun to be with.

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[nq:2]Citizen Kane is on now. I've always heard about Marion ... intelligent. That's the way she came across. What's the deal?[/nq]
[nq:1]She was all those things. By most accounts she was a bright girl and a lot of fun to be with.[/nq]
We took my in-laws to Xanadu... sorry, San Simeon... a couple of months ago, and one of the things the tour guide mentioned was that Hearst left Davies a c
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[nq:2]Citizen Kane is on now. I've always heard about Marion ... intelligent. That's the way she came across. What's the deal?[/nq]
[nq:1]She was all those things. By most accounts she was a bright girl and a lot of fun to be with.[/nq]
And cute as a button, or so Hearst thought...
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[nq:2]She was all those things. By most accounts she was a bright girl and a lot of fun to be with.[/nq]
[nq:1]And cute as a button, or so Hearst thought... jaybee[/nq]
I for one am waiting for Steven Weller to come and talk about "rosebud".
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[nq:2]And cute as a button, or so Hearst thought... jaybee[/nq]
[nq:1]I for one am waiting for Steven Weller to come and talk about "rosebud".[/nq]
Yes, well, I say let's let Marybones handle that one.

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[nq:2]She was all those things. By most accounts she was a bright girl and a lot of fun to be with.[/nq]
[nq:1]We took my in-laws to Xanadu... sorry, San Simeon... a couple of months ago, and one of the things the ... to the Hearst children for one dollar. She struck me as much more of a class act than Hearst. -ksharp[/nq]
And a classier act than my dad's last wife, who kept everything but
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