Helen Chandler

Her remains were cremated in accordance with her wishes but remained unclaimed at the Chapel of the Pines Crematory. However, Patricia and her husband are buried with Marion Davies. She died April 30, 1965 from cardiac arrest during surgery for a stomach ulcer in Hollywood, California. (Patricia married Arthur Lake, who played Dagwood in numerous films.) After Patricia's death, her family announced that she was in fact the daughter of Marion Davies and William Randolph Hearst, though this claim does not appear to have been verified independently. Her alcoholism continued unabated. During the lifetime of Davies' niece Patricia Lake (née Van Cleeve), the latter was said to be the daughter of Marion Davies's sister Rose Davies and her first husband, George Van Cleeve. She survived but her face was badly scarred, and ruled out any chance of a comeback. She is buried in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood.

In 1950, Chandler was severely burned in an apartment fire, caused by her falling asleep while smoking. Her funeral was attended by old-time Hollywood legends and President Herbert Hoover. She was hospitalised several times but was unable to gain control over her life. Marion Davies died in Hollywood, California. By this time she was battling alcoholism and her acting career declined. She also fought childhood diseases through the Marion Davies Foundation. Among her stage successes of the 1930s were Pride and Prejudice in 1935, and a reprise of her role in Outward Bound in 1938. In 1952, Davies donated $1.9 million to establish a children's clinic at UCLA, which still bears her name.

She achieved more successes in A House Divided (1931) and Christopher Strong (1932) and began dividing her time between Hollywood and Broadway. Brown. It was not a happy marriage: Marion filed divorce papers twice but no divorce was ever finalized. Once again, Chandler received plaudits for her performance. Her husband was a former sea captain and policeman and sometime actor, Horace G. Chandler did not want to play the role for which she is probably best remembered, as Mina Harker in Dracula as she wanted to play Alice in Alice in Wonderland, but this part was given to Charlotte Henry, and Chandler, disappointed, joined David Manners and Bela Lugosi in "Dracula". Ten weeks after the death of William Randolph Hearst, Marion Davies married for the first time, at the age of fifty-four, on October 31, 1951. Chandler, with her blonde hair and ethereal quality was considered to be perfectly cast, and she received critical praise for her performance. Davies commented that the gold digger had fallen in love.

The unusual story told of a group of passengers on an ocean liner who gradually realise that they are all dead. Over Hearst's objections, Davies sold millions of dollars of the gifts Hearst had given her over the years to raise money to bail him out. She made her film debut in 1927 in The Music Master and in 1930 joined Leslie Howard, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Beryl Mercer for the film version of the stage success Outward Bound. At one point Hearst's empire crumbled and he was about to lose everything. Within a few years she was playing Shakespearean roles opposite such highly regarded performers as John Barrymore. But there's little similarity between the fictional character and real woman. Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Chandler began her acting career on Broadway in 1917. She is sometimes confused with the shrill, talentless Susan Alexander character portrayed in Citizen Kane, which was based loosely on Hearst's life.

Helen Chandler (February 1, 1906 – April 30, 1965) was an American film and theater actress. Her last was in 1937. She was producer of ten of them. In all she played in fifty movies. Her career, however, was hampered by Hearst's insistence that she play distinguished, dramatic parts, as opposed to the comic roles that were her forte, as well as her increasing dependence on alcohol (she used to hide bottles of liquor in San Simeon's toilet tanks).

These facts are still overshadowed by her relationship with William Randolph Hearst, who was married to former showgirl turned society grande dame Millicent Veronica Willson, and Davies' fabulous life as hostess at San Simeon and Ocean House in Santa Monica. Marion outshone her siblings with a 20-year movie career, playing light comedic roles well into the 1930s and giving generous financial assistance to her family and friends. Even as New York was the melting pot for new immigrants, having a WASP surname greatly helped one's prospects. The girls changed their surname to Davies, which one of them spotted from a realtor's sign in the neighborhood.

These shows were considered the high end of Vaudeville. They all became showgirls on the Great White Way, where Florenz Ziegfeld was beginning his spectacular annual "Ziegfeld Follies" shows. The Douras family lived near Prospect Park in Brooklyn, but already the bright lights of Manhattan beckoned to the sisters. A brother, Charles, died at the age of fifteen from drowning in 1906.

Her elder siblings included Rose, Reine, and Ethel. Of Greek and Irish heritage, she was born Marion Douras in Brooklyn, New York, the youngest of five children born to Herbert Douras, a lawyer who moved in New York City political circles, and Rose Reilly, formerly of Jersey City, New Jersey. Marion Davies (January 3, 1897 - September 23, 1961) was a United States actress.