Dorothy Davenport

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Born

March 13, 1895

Died

October 12, 1977 (age 82)

Place of Birth

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Also Known As

Fannie Dorothy Davenport

Dorothy Reid

Dot Reid

Mrs. Wallace Reid

Dorothy Davenport

Biography

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

Filmography

1934FilmThe Road to Ruinas Mrs. Merrill (uncredited)1933FilmMan Huntas Mrs. Scott1928FilmHellship Bronsonas Mrs. Bronson1927FilmThe Satin Womanas Mrs. Jean Taylor (as Mrs. Wallace Reid)1925FilmThe Red Kimonaas Woman Telling the Story (uncredited)1924FilmBroken Lawsas Joan Allen1923FilmHuman Wreckageas Ethel MacFarland1920FilmThe Fighting Chanceas Leila Mortimer1918FilmHis Extra Bitas The Wife1917FilmThe Squaw Man's Sonas Edith, Lady Effington1917FilmTreasonas Luella Brysk1917FilmThe Girl and the Crisisas Ellen Wilmot1917FilmThe Scarlet Crystalas Marie Delys1917FilmMothers of Menas Clara Madison1916FilmThe Wrong Heart1916FilmThe Devil's Bondwomanas Beverly Hope1916FilmBarriers of Societyas Martha Gorham1916FilmBlack Fridayas Elionor Rossitor1916FilmThe Unattainableas Bessie Gale1916FilmA Yoke of Goldas Carner1916FilmThe Way of the Worldas Beatrice Farley1916FilmDoctor Neighboras Hazel Rogers1915FilmThe Unknownas Nancy Preston1915FilmMr. Grex of Monte Carloas Grand Duchess Feodora1915FilmIn Humble Guiseas Grace Hunt1914FilmThe Test of Manhoodas Ethel Crandall1914FilmThe Den of Thievesas Dorothy1914Film'Cross the Mexican Lineas Dorothy West1914FilmA Wife on a Wager1914FilmLove's Western Flightas Dorothy1914FilmPassing of the Beastas The Mountie's Wife1914FilmThe Man Within1914FilmThe Sirenas Renee1914FilmThe Quackas Mary Rohan1914FilmWomen and Rosesas Wallace's Mistress1914FilmThe Fruit of Evil1914FilmThe Skeletonas Jack's Wife1914FilmThe Testas The Poor Man's Wife1914FilmA Gypsy Romanceas Queen of the Gypsies1914FilmCupid Incognitoas Angela Graham1914FilmThe Spider and Her Web1914FilmThe Way of a Womanas Dorothy1914FilmThe Mountaineeras Dorothy - Jim's Sweetheart1914FilmThe Heart of the Hillsas The Government Detective1914FilmThe Voice of the Violaas Dorothy1914FilmBreed o' the Mountainsas Sue Jarvis1914FilmA Flash in the Darkas Mrs. Randall1914FilmThe Greater Devotion1914FilmFires of Conscienceas Ethel1914FilmThe Wheel of Lifeas The Prospector's Wife1914FilmThe Countess Betty's Mineas Countess Betty Ardmore1914FilmThe Intruderas The Woodsman's Sweetheart1913FilmA Hopi Legend1913FilmThe Lightning Boltas Dot1913FilmA Cracksman Santa Clausas Dot1913FilmRetributionas Dorothy1913FilmThe Fires of Fateas Dot - Wally's Sweetheart1913FilmThe Cracksman's Reformationas Dorothy1913FilmThe Revelationas Mrs. Burns1913FilmThe Spark of Manhoodas Maud Brewster1913FilmPierre of the Northas Mary McKenzie - the Factor's Daughter1912FilmHis Only Sonas Jessie Carter1912FilmHer Indian Heroas Veda Mead1912FilmA Brave Little Womanas Clara Lyttell1910FilmThe Golden Supperas Flower Girl1910FilmThe Troublesome Baby1910FilmA Gold Necklaceas A Friend1910FilmThe Oath and the Manas Aristocrat

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