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
Most Rating	2.1
Birthday	1895-03-13
Place of Birth	Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Also Known As	Fannie Dorothy Davenport, Dorothy Reid, Dot Reid, Mrs. Wallace Reid,

Hellship Bronson

In Humble Guise

The Red Kimona

Mothers of Men

A Brave Little Woman

The Satin Woman

Man Hunt

Her Indian Hero

Human Wreckage

The Unattainable

Treason

The Girl and the Crisis

The Unknown

The Devil's Bondwoman

The Way of the World

Black Friday

Barriers of Society

A Yoke of Gold

A Gold Necklace

Doctor Neighbor

Broken Laws

The Golden Supper

The Scarlet Crystal

The Fighting Chance

Pierre of the North

His Only Son

The Heart of the Hills

The Spark of Manhood

The Cracksman's Reformation

The Fires of Fate

Retribution

A Cracksman Santa Claus

The Lightning Bolt

A Hopi Legend

The Intruder

The Countess Betty's Mine

The Wheel of Life

Fires of Conscience

The Greater Devotion

A Flash in the Dark

Breed o' the Mountains

The Voice of the Viola

The Way of a Woman

The Mountaineer

The Spider and Her Web

Cupid Incognito

A Gypsy Romance

The Test

The Test of Manhood

The Skeleton

The Fruit of Evil

Women and Roses

The Quack

The Siren

The Man Within

Passing of the Beast

Love's Western Flight

A Wife on a Wager

'Cross the Mexican Line

The Den of Thieves

The Wrong Heart

The Squaw Man's Son

His Extra Bit

Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo

The Revelation