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Reine Davies (born Irene Douras; June 6, 1883 – April 5, 1938) was an American singer and actress.


Life and career

Davies was born on June 6, 1883, in
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, the daughter of Bernard J. Douras, a lawyer and judge in New York City; and Rose Reilly. Her father performed the civil marriage of socialite
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. The eldest sister of actress
Marion Davies 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 ...
, Reine was the first of the Douras daughters to start using the name Davies. One day she was driving through the Brooklyn neighborhood, and saw the office sign of Valentine Davies. She liked the name and adopted it, and the other sisters followed suit. Davies married twice, first to director
George Lederer George Washington Lederer (c. 1862, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania − October 8, 1938) was an American producer and director on Broadway from 1894 to 1931. He was the husband of actresses Reine Davies and Jessie Lewis and the father of Charles Leder ...
from January 12, 1908; until they divorced in 1912, and later to actor
George Regas George Thomas Regas ( Greek: Γεώργιος Θωμάς Ρεγάκος; November 9, 1890 – December 13, 1940) was a Greek American actor. Biography Regis was born in the village of Goranoi near Sparta, Greece, the brother of actor Pedro R ...
. She had a son with Lederer, director/writer
Charles Lederer Charles Davies Lederer (December 31, 1910 – March 5, 1976) was an American screenwriter and film director. He was born into a theatrical family in New York, and after his parents divorced, was raised in California by his aunt, Marion Davies, ...
, and a daughter, Josephine Rose ("Pepi") Lederer. She was known as "The New American Beauty," and, by her friends as, "The True Blue Girl". Reine Davies lived for many years in
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, and was on the
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circuit as a singer and actress. She appeared in the 1915 movie '' Sunday as Sunday'' and in 1917 as Beth Winthrop in ''
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''. She was also a popular subject on sheet music covers, most famously for " Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland" (which she introduced), as well as "The Reine Waltz" (1910), "When I Kissed Your Tears Away" (1911), "Leaf by Leaf the Roses Fall" (1911), "When I Met You Last Night in Dreamland" (1912), "In the Palace of Dreams" (1914), and "Araby" (1915). For many years she edited the gossip column in the ''
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''. In 1935, Davies began writing a column about Hollywood social events for ''
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''. Davies died on April 5, 1938, in
Beverly Hills Beverly Hills is a city located in Los Angeles County, California. A notable and historic suburb of Greater Los Angeles, it is in a wealthy area immediately southwest of the Hollywood Hills, approximately northwest of downtown Los Angeles. ...
,
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, from a heart attack in a swimming pool. She was buried with a Requiem Mass at St. Augustine's Church in Culver City, California, and interred in the Douras Mausoleum in what is now
Hollywood Forever Cemetery Hollywood Forever Cemetery is a full-service cemetery, funeral home, crematory, and cultural events center which regularly hosts community events such as live music and summer movie screenings. It is one of the oldest cemeteries in Los Angel ...
.


See also

* 1886 in film


References


External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Davies, Reine 1886 births 1938 deaths American silent film actresses Actresses from Beverly Hills, California Actresses from Chicago Actresses from New York City Vaudeville performers 20th-century American actresses Singers from Chicago Singers from New York City Musicians from Brooklyn 20th-century American singers