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” The Blue Butterfly” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read.New York 1915, Marion Davies is a shy eighteen-year-old beauty dancing on the Broadway stage when she meets William Randolph Hearst and finds herself captivated by his riches, passion and desire to make her a movie star. Following a whirlwind courtship, she learns through trial and error to live as Hearst’s mistress when a divorce from his wife proves impossible. A baby girl is born in secret in 1919 and they agree to never acknowledge her publicly as their own. In a burgeoning Hollywood scene, she works hard making movies while living a lavish partying life that includes a secret love affair with Charlie Chaplin. In late 1937, at the height of the depression, Hearst wrestles with his debtors and failing health, when Marion loans him $1M when nobody else will. Together, they must confront the movie that threatens to invalidate all of Marion’s successes in the movie industry:

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Anyone who has visited Hearst Castle and wondered what it was like to live in such lavish luxury will be fascinated by this page-turning story of Marion Davies, the lifelong mistress of William Randolph Hearst. Marion’s mother pushed her daughters to find a rich man to marry by working as show girls in theaters where they might meet one. Marion surpassed her mother’s dreams except for the marriage part – she found the richest man in America to love her, make her a movie star, and support her and her family for their whole lives. Beautifully told like a memoir in the first person, Leslie Johansen Nack expertly guides us behind the events of Marion’s life into her thoughts and feelings as she slips into, protests, and then adjusts to being the mistress, not the wife. Besides empathy for Marion and how she manages to create sporadic contentment out of her gilded cage, we learn about the relentless silent movie-making business, the rough transition of many actors into the ‘speakies’ and what it’s like to live when money is unlimited.