Reine Davies
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Reine Davies (June 6, 1886 – April 5, 1938), born Irene Douras, was an American actress.
Douras was born in Montclair, New Jersey. She was the eldest sister of the actress Marion Davies. Reine was the first of the Douras daughters to start using the name, 'Davies,' the others following suit. She married twice, first to the director George W. Lederer (divorced 1912), and later to the actor George Regas. She had one son with Lederer, the director/writer Charles Lederer (1906-1976), and a daughter, Josephine Rose ("Pepi") Lederer (1910-1935).
Reine Davies lived for many years in Chicago, and was on the Vaudeville circuit as a singer and actress. She appeared in the 1915 movie Sunday as Sunday and in 1917 as Beth Winthrop in The Sin Woman. She was also a popular subject on sheet music covers, most famously for Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland, as well as "The Reine Waltz"(1910); and "Araby"(1915). For many years she edited the gossip column in the Los Angeles Times.
Davies died in Beverly Hills, California from a heart attack in the swimming pool, aged 51.
