Dorothy Davenport
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Female
Birthday 1895-03-13
Deathday 1977-10-12 (82 years old)
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
Actor
as Mrs. Merrill (uncredited)
as Mrs. Scott
as Mrs. Bronson
as Mrs. Jean Taylor (as Mrs. Wallace Reid)
as Woman Telling the Story (uncredited)
as Joan Allen
as Ethel MacFarland
as Leila Mortimer
as The Wife
as Edith, Lady Effington
as Luella Brysk
as Ellen Wilmot
as Marie Delys
as Clara Madison
as Beverly Hope
as Martha Gorham
as Elionor Rossitor
as Bessie Gale
as Carner
as Beatrice Farley
as Hazel Rogers
as Nancy Preston
as Grand Duchess Feodora
as Grace Hunt
as Ethel Crandall
as Dorothy
as Dorothy West
as Dorothy
as The Mountie's Wife
as Renee
as Mary Rohan
as Wallace's Mistress
as Jack's Wife
as The Poor Man's Wife
as Queen of the Gypsies
as Angela Graham
as Dorothy
as Dorothy - Jim's Sweetheart
as The Government Detective
as Dorothy
as Sue Jarvis
as Mrs. Randall
as Ethel
as The Prospector's Wife
as Countess Betty Ardmore
as The Woodsman's Sweetheart
as Dot
as Dot
as Dorothy
as Dot - Wally's Sweetheart
as Dorothy
as Mrs. Burns
as Mary McKenzie - the Factor's Daughter
as Jessie Carter
as Veda Mead
as Clara Lyttell
as Flower Girl
as A Friend
Writer
as Screenplay
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as Story
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as Writer
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as Story
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as Writer
as Story
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as Writer
Producer
as Producer
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Director
as Director
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