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starring: Marion Davies, Conrad Nagel, Helen Jerome Eddy, Flora Finch, Margaret Seddon directed by: Hugh Munro Neely, Sidney Franklin See Larger Image Used Price: $14.93 Third Party New Price: $19.99 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 0784148008332 Format: Black & White, Color, NTSC Label: Milestone Video Manufacturer: Milestone Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Milestone Video Release Date: January 02, 2002 Running Time: 170 minutes Sales Rank: 75227 Studio: Milestone Video Theatrical Release Date: February 14, 2001 Related Items: The Times We Had : Life with William Randolph Hearst The Cat's Meow The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst Hearst Castle: The Biography of a Country House Mary Pickford - A Life on Film see more Editorial Review: Amazon.com: Tennessee Williams once wrote, 'Marion Davies makes up for the rest of Hollywood,' and this superb documentary demonstrates why the gifted actress was so beloved in high society. Executive produced by Hugh Hefner and narrated by Charlize Theron, Captured on Film corrects the fallacy that obscured Davies's achievements since the release of Citizen Kane in 1941. Orson Welles intended no harm with his masterpiece, but the film's portrayal of a publishing tycoon--loosely based on William Randolph Hearst and his lengthy affair with Davies--painted an unflattering portrait of a talentless, drunken mistress, and Davies was quite the opposite. Among many expert interviewees, film historian Kevin Brownlow observes that Davies was truly the first screwball comedian, and vintage film clips bear him out: watch Davies impersonate such film greats as Lillian Gish and Pola Negri, and you can see her comedic gift in full bloom, undiminished by time. Her 32-year devotion to Hearst (whose wife refused to divorce him) is accurately chronicled as sincere and meaningful, and the 1927 feature Quality Street offers a worthy showcase for Davies's versatile talents. (It was remade in 1937 with Katharine Hepburn; this silent version is arguably superior.) --Jeff Shannon Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - Marion Davies is Amazing! I love Marion Davies' movies (The Patsy 1928, Show People 1928, The Florodora Girl 130, etc) A little shocking to find out about her personal life and that long affair with newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst(--saucy!) Who knew they weren't all prim in proper in the early 1900's? ;) Rating: - very interesting book we loved this book, my husbands grandmother was good friends with Marion Davis, so it was fun to read about her Rating: - You gotta love Marion Davies Captured on Film - The True Story of Marion Davies is a marvellous bio about a truly great comedienne of the 20s and 30s. Marion is known for being the companion of William Randolph Hearst but that is a very small part of who she really was. Her talents are enormous. She is very funny, as well as beautiful but nevertheless she will take a role as a homely girl, no makeup, unattractive clothing, if the part requires it. Her ability to use foreign accents for roles is by far the best I have ever ... Read More Rating: - Fact and Fiction: Either Way She's Great Captured on Film: The True Story of Marion Davies is an insightful look at one of the most talented stars of the silent era. Davies' talent had been overshadowed by the way she was portrayed in the film Citizen Kane years after she had left the screen; many people suffer the misconception that Davies was a gold digging drunk with no merits as an actress. This could not be further from the truth. Paired with interviews with notable fans like Kevin Brownlow, Virginia Madsen, Fred Laurence Guiles, and ... Read More Rating: - Wonderful documentary of an unfairly maligned actress Perhaps the most memorable scene in Orson Welles' Citizen Kane is his talentless, screechy wife's "operatic" debut. Just as Kane was a thinly disguised alter-ego to William Randolph Hearst, Susan Kane was a thinly disguised parody of Marion Davies, Hearst's long-time mistress. The thing was though, the real life Marion Davies was very talented and kind, and nothing like the self-centered, pathetic Susan. This wonderful documentary restores the balance. There are lots of clips of Marion's films, ... Read More Browse for similar items by category: Documentary - Genres - VHS - Video - General