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Also by Leslie Johansen Nack:

The Blue Butterfly, May 2022
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The Blue Butterfly
Leslie Johansen Nack

A Novel of Marion Davies
She Writes Press
May 2022
On Sale: May 3, 2022
352 pages
ISBN: 1647423473
EAN: 9781647423476
Kindle: B09CDB1MV8
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Women's Fiction Historical | Historical

New York 1915, Marion Davies is a shy eighteen-year-old beauty dancing on the Broadway stage when she meets William Randolph Hearst and finds herself captivated by his riches, passion and desire to make her a movie star. Following a whirlwind courtship, she learns through trial and error to live as Hearst’s mistress when a divorce from his wife proves impossible. A baby girl is born in secret in 1919 and they agree to never acknowledge her publicly as their own.

In a burgeoning Hollywood scene, she works hard making movies while living a lavish partying life that includes a secret love affair with Charlie Chaplin. In late 1937, at the height of the depression, Hearst wrestles with his debtors and failing health, when Marion loans him $1M when nobody else will. Together, they must confront the movie that threatens to invalidate all of Marion’s successes in the movie industry: Citizen Kane.

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