The beach at Santa Monica

Still more Marion Davies

Photo attributed to George Hurrell (1904-1992), Ruth Harriet Louise’s successor at MGM

I think this photo shows Marion Davies at the beach house she shared with William Randolph Hearst in Santa Monica — when they weren’t staying at (and entertaining in) one of a half dozen other residences.

Fun in the sand

Beach antics

Wayne Ehler

Wayne Ehler works out in front of Marion Davies’s beach house in Santa Monica, September 1944.