Dorothy Davenport

Dorothy Davenport

Dorothy Davenport (March 13, 1895 – October 12, 1977) was an American actress, screenwriter, film director, and producer who appeared in silent film for Biograph Studios under the direction of D.W. Griffith. While filming on location in Oregon for The Valley of the Giants (1919), Wallace Reid was injured in a train wreck. As a remedy for the pain from this injury, studio doctors administered large doses of morphine to Reid to which he became addicted. Reid's health slowly grew worse over the next few years, and he died of the addiction in 1923. After Reid's death, Davenport and Thomas Ince co-produced the film Human Wreckage (1923) with James Kirkwood, Sr., Bessie Love and Lucille Ricksen, a film that dealt with the dangers of narcotics addiction. Davenport took Human Wreckage on a roadshow engagement, followed up with another "social conscience" picture about excessive mother-love called Broken Laws in 1924, again billed as "Mrs. Wallace Reid" to capitalize on her husband's notorious death. She then produced The Red Kimona (1925) about white slavery. On screen she opens the film in silent narration or prologue. The details of the latter film were so realistic that Davenport was successfully sued. She would later direct Linda (1929), Sucker Money (1933), Road to Ruin (1934), and The Woman Condemned (1934) and worked as a producer, writer, and dialogue director. Among her last credits are co-author of the screenplay for Footsteps in the Fog (1955), and as dialogue director for The First Traveling Saleslady (1956) with Ginger Rogers. She and husband Wallace Reid had two children. She was married to him until his death on January 18, 1923. She never remarried. Dorothy Davenport died at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in 1977 in Woodland Hills, California. She is interred with her husband in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dorothy Davenport, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 1895-03-13

Died: 1977-10-12

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1910	A Gold Necklace	A Friend	55
2	1910	The Golden Supper	Flower Girl	45
3	1912	A Brave Little Woman	Clara Lyttell	40
4	1912	Her Indian Hero	Veda Mead	47
5	1912	His Only Son	Jessie Carter	0
6	1913	Pierre of the North	Mary McKenzie - the Factor's Daughter	0
7	1913	The Spark of Manhood		0
8	1913	The Revelation	Mrs. Burns	0
9	1913	The Cracksman's Reformation	Dorothy	0
10	1913	The Fires of Fate	Dot - Wally's Sweetheart	0
11	1913	Retribution	Dorothy	0
12	1913	A Cracksman Santa Claus	Dot	0
13	1913	The Lightning Bolt	Dot	0
14	1913	A Hopi Legend		0
15	1914	The Intruder	The Woodsman's Sweetheart	0
16	1914	The Countess Betty's Mine	Countess Betty Ardmore	0
17	1914	The Wheel of Life	The Prospector's Wife	0
18	1914	Fires of Conscience	Ethel	0
19	1914	The Greater Devotion		0
20	1914	A Flash in the Dark	Mrs. Randall	0
21	1914	Breed o' the Mountains	Sue Jarvis	0
22	1914	The Voice of the Viola	Dorothy	0
23	1914	The Heart of the Hills	The Government Detective	0
24	1914	The Mountaineer	Dorothy - Jim's Sweetheart	0
25	1914	The Way of a Woman	Dorothy	0
26	1914	The Spider and Her Web		0
27	1914	Cupid Incognito	Angela Graham	0
28	1914	A Gypsy Romance	Queen of the Gypsies	0
29	1914	The Test	The Poor Man's Wife	50
30	1914	The Skeleton	Jack's Wife	0
31	1914	The Fruit of Evil		0
32	1914	Women and Roses	Wallace's Mistress	0
33	1914	The Quack	Mary Rohan	0
34	1914	The Siren	Renee	0
35	1914	The Man Within		0
36	1914	Passing of the Beast	The Mountie's Wife	0
37	1914	Love's Western Flight	Dorothy	0
38	1914	A Wife on a Wager		0
39	1914	'Cross the Mexican Line	Dorothy West	0
40	1914	The Den of Thieves	Dorothy	0
41	1914	The Test of Manhood	Ethel Crandall	0
42	1915	In Humble Guise	Grace Hunt	0
43	1915	Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo	Grand Duchess Feodora	0
44	1915	The Unknown	Nancy Preston	20
45	1916	Doctor Neighbor	Hazel Rogers	0
46	1916	The Way of the World	Beatrice Farley	10
47	1916	A Yoke of Gold	Carner	0
48	1916	The Unattainable	Bessie Gale	0
49	1916	Black Friday	Elionor Rossitor	0
50	1916	Barriers of Society	Martha Gorham	0
51	1916	The Devil's Bondwoman	Beverly Hope	0
52	1916	The Wrong Heart		0
53	1917	Mothers of Men	Clara Madison	40
54	1917	The Scarlet Crystal	Marie Delys	0
55	1917	The Girl and the Crisis	Ellen Wilmot	0
56	1917	Treason	Luella Brysk	0
57	1917	The Squaw Man's Son	Edith, Lady Effington	0
58	1918	His Extra Bit	The Wife	0
59	1920	The Fighting Chance	Leila Mortimer	0
60	1923	Human Wreckage	Ethel MacFarland	0
61	1924	Broken Laws	Joan Allen	0
62	1925	The Red Kimona	Woman Telling the Story (uncredited)	58
63	1927	The Satin Woman	Mrs. Jean Taylor (as Mrs. Wallace Reid)	0
64	1928	Hellship Bronson	Mrs. Bronson	0
65	1933	Man Hunt	Mrs. Scott	0
66	1934	The Road to Ruin	Mrs. Merrill (uncredited)	40

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