Hearst financed Davies's pictures and promoted her career extensively in his newspapers and Hearst newsreels.

Hearst took over management of Davies's career and promoted her as a film actress. 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. She soon became a featured performer in the Ziegfeld Follies. As a teenager, she appeared in several Broadway musicals and one film, Runaway Romany (1917). Educated in a religious convent, Davies fled the school to pursue a career as a chorus girl. Marion Davies (born Marion Cecilia Douras Janu– September 22, 1961) was an American actress, producer, screenwriter, and philanthropist. S.William Randolph Hearst (1917–1951 his death) Army Asymmetric Warfare Adaptive Leader Program, RAND Corporation (RR-504-A), 2014Ĭrosson, J. Hallmark, Anna Rosefsky Saavedra, Stoney Trent, and Sean Duggan, Innovative Leader Development: Evaluation of the U.S. Leuschner, Digital Resources for STEM Educators and Recommendations for Cyberlearning Initiatives: Results from the National Science Foundation Digital Library/Distributed Learning Program Evaluation, RAND Corporation (RR-414-NSF), 2017 McArthur, Helen Crompton, Courtney Ann Kase, and Kristin J. Straus, Grace Agnew, Nidhi Kalra, David J. B., 'The Group Matters: A Review of Processes and Outcomes in Intelligence Analysis,' Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, 15(2), 2011īikson, Tora K., Susan G.

Grimm, and Katheryn Giglio, Malleability and Measurement of Army Leader Attributes: Personnel Development in the U.S. G., Byers, A., Kase, C., and Cefalu, M., 'The Role of Online Communities of Practice in Promoting Sociotechnical Capital among Science Teachers,' Educational Technology Research and Development, 66(2), 2018 et al., Effective Game-Based Training for Police Officer Decision-Making: Linking Missions, Skills, and Virtual Content, Proceedings of the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC), 2020 G., Mizel, M., Hollywood, J., Harrison, B., Yeung, D. Donnelly, A New Framework and Logic Model for Using Live, Virtual, and Constructive Training in the United States Air Force, RAND Corporation (RR-A551-2), 2023 Kochhar, Monica Rico, Christine Kistler LaCoste, Matt Strawn, and Brian P. in psychology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. in industrial/organizational psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her B.A. She has published her work in numerous RAND reports as well as in journals such as Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Small Group Research, and Human-Computer Interaction. Straus has extensive experience in program evaluation, experimental and quasi-experimental methods, survey design, qualitative methods including interviews and focus groups, and survey design and analysis.

Current and recent projects address the mix of live, virtual, and constructive training for Air Force aircrews and Army collective training virtual reality training technologies for law enforcement officer training staffing and training needs to support electronic health records adoption in the Coast Guard recruiting, training, and retaining Army Cryptologic Language Analysts distributed communities of practice among K–12 STEM educators evaluation of the National Science Foundations' Digital Library/Distributed Learning Program development of critical thinking skills and adaptive performance in Army leader education and health information exchange in the military health system. Her research focuses on the social and organizational impacts of information and communication technologies, with specific interests in factors that influence adoption and effective use of these technologies in diverse contexts including national security, education, health care, and law enforcement. Susan Straus (she/her) is a senior behavioral scientist at the RAND Corporation.

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