Rosemary Davies (born Rose Douras; June 8, 1895 – September 20, 1963) was an American actress.
Life
Born Rose Douras in
Brooklyn
Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...
,
New York, she was the sister of the actresses
Marion Davies
Marion Davies (born Marion Cecilia Douras; January 3, 1897 – September 22, 1961) was an American actress, producer, screenwriter, and philanthropist. Educated in a religious convent, Davies fled the school to pursue a career as a chorus girl ...
and
Reine Davies
Reine Davies (born Irene Douras; June 6, 1883 – April 5, 1938) was an American singer and actress.
Life and career
Davies was born on June 6, 1883, in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Bernard J. Douras, a lawyer and judge in New York City; ...
but did not reach the same fame as her two sisters. However, her name was mentioned in different circles briefly when she was said to be the mother of
Patricia Lake
Patricia Douras Van Cleve (June 8, 1919 – October 3, 1993), known as Patricia Lake, was an American actress and radio comedian. Presented as the niece of actress Marion Davies, she was long suspected of being her natural daughter, fathered ...
by her first husband, George Barnes Van Cleve. After the death of Patricia Lake, Lake's family announced that Lake was in fact the daughter of Marion Davies and
William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst Sr. (; April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American businessman, newspaper publisher, and politician known for developing the nation's largest newspaper chain and media company, Hearst Communications. His flamboya ...
, born secretly during a trip abroad between 1920 and 1923.
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Davies, who had little film experience, was selected to play the title role in the film ''Alice'', which began production in 1924.
Davies married
Louis Adlon who was an American, German-born motion picture actor. He died March 31, 1947. She died in 1963 in
Bel Air,
California
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. She is buried beside her sister Marion in the Douras mausoleum along with Marion's husband Horace Brown, as well as with Patricia Lake and her husband, actor
Arthur Lake.
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American film actresses
American silent film actresses
People from Brooklyn
1895 births
1963 deaths
20th-century American actresses