Marion Davies - The Cardboard Lover

For many years, Marion Davies was only remembered as the mistress of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, and as the prototype for Susan Alexander in Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane (1941). Over the last twenty years her work as a wonderful comedienne and terrific mimic have been rediscovered. The Cardboard Lover (1928) is a Davies film that has been long unseen due to the rocky shape of surviving prints. Now Undercrank Productions has restored this overlooked gem, and is making it available to fans of silent comedy.