Former Home of Hollywood Golden Ager and Hearst Mistress Marion Davies Listed for $3.4M

Published: July 31, 2016 | By: American Luxury Staff

The 14,000-square-foot former estate of actress Marion Davies has been listed for $3.4 million.

Davies, a budding comedian in 1920s Hollywood when she began a relationship with newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, had the compound in Rancho Mirage built after purchasing the three-acre property from Hyatt Robert von Dehn, the founder of the Hyatt Hotel chain.

After her 1961 death at the age of 64, the home was eventually sold to Victor Jules Bergeron, the founder of the Polynesian restaurant chain Trader Vic’s.

The sprawling estate includes a palm-shrouded tennis court, a swimming pool with fountain and a navigable pond, as well as a fire pit and a number of patios and terraces, all visible through ceiling height windows on the home’s back side. Counting the guest quarters, it includes nine bedrooms and 11 bathrooms spread over a single story.

The home has a breezy, Mission Revival-meets-Doric style with a nearly-enclosed courtyard and bold white columns spaced across pink-hued patio arcades, while large white tiles dominate the inside floors. Gallery hallways, enormous formal living areas and walk-in closets, mirrored walls and built-in shelves are just a few of the home’s many luxurious amenities. A yellow-tinged kitchen includes unique wall tiling and beamed arches.

Among the other rooms are a home office and a master suite that includes a fireplace, a sitting area, a cordoned make-up station and a jungle-hybrid atrium bathroom.

Although Davies was more well known for her affair with Hearst and her role as host at Hearst’s lavish Hollywood shindigs, her career highlights include roles as a Ziegfield girl in Broadways’s Ziegfield Follies and on screen as Mary Tudor in 1925’s When Knighthood Was In Flower and 1936’s Cain and Mabel.

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