Kenneth and his salon reached their apogee in the days leading up to Truman Capote's 1966 Black and White Ball. One client uttered in horror, "I'm getting out of here! It looks like a brothel." After she fled the salon, Kenneth pondered how she knew what one looked like, inquiring, "Do you suppose she's been in one before?" Billy Baldwin's exotic design of the famed New York hair salon owned by Kenneth Battelle was widely praised, but there were of course detractors. Kennedy to Jacqueline Bouvier and the JFK presidential inauguration in 1961. Davies was invited to and attended Kennedy family events, including the 1953 marriage of John F. Kennedy remained devoted to his old pal's longtime mistress. But her personality is most attractive naïve childlike, bon enfant.”Įven after William Randolph Hearst died, Joseph P. In a letter to his wife, Clementine, he said of Marion, “She is not strikingly beautiful nor impressive in any way.
Even a blue-blood like Winston Churchill was enchanted. Yet, she had the natural good manners and affability that appeals to the best people in all social classes. In theory, she might was like many of her peers-a parvenu actress with little formal education and no training in social etiquette. She was a live-in girlfriend of a married man in an era when that was outrageously taboo. To those who never had the pleasure of meeting her, Marion might have seemed common. King Vidor), “I started out a g-g-gold digger and I ended up in love.” The newspaper titan made Marion rich in her own right, and when his empire neared collapse, Marion unblinkingly used her fortune to save the him from ruin. Of their relationship, she, in her endearing stammer, told Eleanor Boardman (Mrs. They met in 1918 and remained together until his death in 1951. Though they never married, Marion Davies was the love of William Randolph Hearst's life. Quipped Marion, "It won't do me any good I'll be down below where I can't see so high." When friends joked it was a memorial to her, she replied that this was not so. One of her lasting achievements was the financing of a children's wing at the UCLA medical school. She also possessed a wry (and self-deprecating) sense of humor. Yes, she had a drinking problem, but Marion Davies was that Hollywood rarity: an actor who remained unspoiled despite fame and fortune.
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