A guest admires a 1932 Packard sport Phaeton during the 119th anniversary of Marion Davies' birthday celebration at the Annenberg Community Beach House on Sunday, January 10, 2016. In honor of Marion's birthday, Santa Monica Conservancy docents turn the spotlight on Marion Davies: actress, philanthropist, famed party hostess and mistress of media tycoon William Randolph Hearst.. Docents highlighted many aspects of Davies’s life and personality that have escaped public notice, such as her business abilities, wide-ranging generosity, and her decades-long devotion as companion to Hearst. Guests came in their favorite Gold Coast era attire or dress as if attending one of Davies’s famed costume parties.
