Marion Davies (Fred Lawrence Guiles Hollywood Collection) Turner Frank Taylor

Frank Taylor

The inability of well-off blacks to lift up others

Ellis Island

—from Aryeh Kaplan’s Translator’s Introduction

part Romance (in the old sense)

Marion Davies (Fred Lawrence Guiles Hollywood Collection) Turner Frank TaylorIn this detailed biography of film star Marion Davies (nee Douras) who was in so many ways created by and for William Randolph Hearst the symbiotic relationship spanned from 1915 when W. R. first ogled her chorus girl charms to his death in 1951. But she was much more quickly superannuated cinema historically speaking by the Orson Welles Herman Mankiewicz dumb blond caricature in Citizen Kane, paradoxically the most important Film in her life. Fred