Lara Gabrielle Presents Captain of Her Soul: The Life of Marion Davies
Wed, Jul 19
|Los Angeles
Enjoy a catered breakfast, silly songs, club traditions, and special presentation each week at the historic Los Angeles Breakfast Club.
Time & Location
Jul 19, 2023, 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Los Angeles, 3201 Riverside Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA
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About the event
ABOUT THE BOOK: From Marion Davies's humble days in Brooklyn to her rise to fame alongside press baron William Randolph Hearst, the public life story of the film star plays like a modern fairy tale shaped by gossip columnists, fan magazines, biopics, and documentaries. Yet the real Marion Davies remained largely hidden from view, as she was wary of interviews and trusted few with her true life story. In Captain of Her Soul, Lara Gabrielle gives Davies back her voice. Through interviews with Davies’s family and friends, and a decade of meticulous research in archives around the world, Gabrielle pulls back layers of myth to show a complex and fiercely independent woman, ahead of her time, who carved her own path.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Lara Gabrielle is a film writer and researcher, whose work on Marion Davies has been featured in Alta, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Missouri Review, The Wall…