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Dorothy Davenport

From Wikipedia 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.


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Born:
Mar 13, 1895
Movie/TV Credits:
11
First Appeared:
In the movie The Golden Supper 1910-12-12
Latest Project:
Movie Man Hunt 1933-05-23
Known For
Poster of Man Hunt
Poster of Hellship Bronson
Poster of The Satin Woman
Poster of The Red Kimona
Filmography
Movie Man Hunt Mrs. Scott 1933-05-23
Movie Hellship Bronson Mrs. Bronson 1928-04-30
Movie The Satin Woman Mrs. Jean Taylor (as Mrs. Wallace Reid) 1927-07-24
Movie The Red Kimona Woman Telling the Story (uncredited) 1925-11-16
Movie Human Wreckage Ethel MacFarland 1923-06-17
Movie Mothers of Men Clara Madison 1917-01-01
Movie The Scarlet Crystal Marie Delys 1917-02-05
Movie In Humble Guise Grace Hunt 1915-07-11
Movie A Brave Little Woman Clara Lyttell 1912-01-15
Movie Her Indian Hero Veda Mead 1912-04-16
Movie The Golden Supper Flower Girl 1910-12-12
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