Merrill wyn davies biography definition

American actress (1897–1961)

For the 18th-century English musician, see Marianne Davies. For the British figure skater, see Marion Davies (figure skater).

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. As a teenager, she appeared in several Broadway musicals and one film, Runaway Romany (1917). She soon became a featured performer in the Ziegfeld Follies. While performing in the 1916 Follies, the nineteen-year-old Marion met the fifty-three-year-old newspaper tycoon, William Randolph Hearst, and became his mistress. Hearst took over management of Davies' career and promoted her as a film actress.

Hearst financed Davies’ pictures and promoted her career extensively in his newspapers and Hearst newsreels. He founded Cosmopolitan Pictures to produce her films. By 1924, Davies was the number one female box office star in Hollywood because of the popularity of When Knighthood Was in Flower and Little Old New York, which were among the biggest box-office hits of their respective years. During the zenith of the Jazz Age, Davies became renowned as the hostess of lavish soirees for Hollywood actors and political elites. However, in 1924, her name became linked with scandal when film producer Thomas Ince died at a party aboard Hearst's yacht.

Following the decline of her film career during the Great Depression, Davies struggled with alcoholism. She retired from the screen in 1937 to devote herself to an ailing Hearst and charitable work. In Hearst's declining years, Davies remained his steadfast companion until his death in 1951. Eleven weeks after Hearst's death, she married sea captain Horace Brown. Thei

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Allen A., Guerrero

Published in final edited form as: Hum Dev. 2014 Aug;57(4):241–249. doi: 10.1159/000364919

Abstract

Key terms in research on moral development also exist in everyday language. Tafreshi and her colleagues (2014) propose that researchers should use terms in ways consistent with their usage by non-researchers. This commentary questions this claim, and argues for the importance of providing clear and explicit definitions of terms such as “morality” and “innate,” of showing caution when attributing evaluations and judgments to infants, and of considering developmental processes preceding and succeeding the abilities demonstrated using looking-time and related measures. Progress is unlikely to result from conceptual analysis alone. However, conceptual clarity will make it easier to see what theories agree and disagree about as well as how opposing claims can be tested empirically.

Keywords: moral development, looking time methodology, infancy

Say what you choose, so long as it does not prevent you from seeing the facts. (And when you see them there is a good deal that you will not say.)

Wittgenstein (1953, p. 37)

Key terms used by researchers on early moral development often exist in everyday language. Consequently, when researchers say “innate,” “morality,” or “antisocial,” these terms are subject to interpretations that may stray from the intended meaning. While “innate” probably means “typically present at birth” for most people, some researchers use it to mean “[not] gotten into the head by means of the extraction of information from the environment” (Bloom, 2012, p. 72). In their target article, Tafreshi, Thompson, and Racine (2014) argue that (1) researchers are responsible for using terms in a way consistent with the colloquial usage of these terms and (2) researchers using looking-time measures to support claims about infants’ early socio-moral abilities do not live up to this responsibility. Taf