Dorothy Davenport
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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
Credits
Hellship Bronson (1928)
as Mrs. Bronson
The Test (1914)
as The Poor Man's Wife
The Red Kimona (1925)
as Woman Telling the Story (uncredited)
The Intruder (1914)
as The Woodsman's Sweetheart
The Oath and the Man (1910)
as Aristocrat
The Mountaineer (1914)
as Dorothy - Jim's Sweetheart
The Voice of the Viola (1914)
as Dorothy
Retribution (1913)
as Dorothy
A Flash in the Dark (1914)
as Mrs. Randall
The Road to Ruin (1934)
as Mrs. Merrill (uncredited)
A Cracksman Santa Claus (1913)
as Dot
Pierre of the North (1913)
as Mary McKenzie - the Factor's Daughter
A Gypsy Romance (1914)
as Queen of the Gypsies
The Quack (1914)
as Mary Rohan
Human Wreckage (1923)
as Ethel MacFarland
Passing of the Beast (1914)
as The Mountie's Wife
The Devil's Bondwoman (1916)
as Beverly Hope
Love's Western Flight (1914)
as Dorothy
Man Hunt (1933)
as Mrs. Scott
Mothers of Men (1917)
as Clara Madison
The Way of the World (1916)
as Beatrice Farley
Her Indian Hero (1912)
as Veda Mead
The Countess Betty's Mine (1914)
as Countess Betty Ardmore
The Squaw Man's Son (1917)
as Edith, Lady Effington
A Hopi Legend (1913)
Actor
The Heart of the Hills (1914)
as The Government Detective
The Unknown (1915)
as Nancy Preston
The Wheel of Life (1914)
as The Prospector's Wife
'Cross the Mexican Line (1914)
as Dorothy West
A Yoke of Gold (1916)
as Carner
The Lightning Bolt (1913)
as Dot
A Brave Little Woman (1912)
as Clara Lyttell
Black Friday (1916)
as Elionor Rossitor
The Golden Supper (1910)
as Flower Girl
The Troublesome Baby (1910)
as Girl at Station
The Spider and Her Web (1914)
Actor
The Spark of Manhood (1913)
as Maud Brewster
A Wife on a Wager (1914)
Actor
Doctor Neighbor (1916)
as Hazel Rogers
Treason (1917)
as Luella Brysk
Barriers of Society (1916)
as Martha Gorham
Broken Laws (1924)
as Joan Allen
Women and Roses (1914)
as Wallace's Mistress
The Scarlet Crystal (1917)
as Marie Delys
The Fighting Chance (1920)
as Leila Mortimer
Breed o' the Mountains (1914)
as Sue Jarvis
The Greater Devotion (1914)
Actor
The Wrong Heart (1916)
Actor
The Skeleton (1914)
as Jack's Wife
Cupid Incognito (1914)
as Angela Graham
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo (1915)
as Grand Duchess Feodora
The Den of Thieves (1914)
as Dorothy
The Test of Manhood (1914)
as Ethel Crandall
Fires of Conscience (1914)
as Ethel
The Fruit of Evil (1914)
Actor
The Satin Woman (1927)
as Mrs. Jean Taylor (as Mrs. Wallace Reid)
The Fires of Fate (1913)
as Dot - Wally's Sweetheart
His Only Son (1912)
as Jessie Carter
The Revelation (1913)
as Mrs. Burns
The Unattainable (1916)
as Bessie Gale
His Extra Bit (1918)
as The Wife
In Humble Guise (1915)
as Grace Hunt
The Siren (1914)
as Renee
The Man Within (1914)
Actor
The Cracksman's Reformation (1913)
as Dorothy
A Gold Necklace (1910)
as A Friend
The Girl and the Crisis (1917)
as Ellen Wilmot
The Way of a Woman (1914)
as Dorothy