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person_profile-Dorothy Davenport

Dorothy Davenport Died at age: 82

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Dorothy Davenport

Date of Birth:

Mar 13, 1895

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Oct 12, 1977

Biography of

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.

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Dorothy Davenport

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Filmography of

Dorothy Davenport

Found 21 Movies in total

The Road to Ruin

Mrs. Merrill (uncredited) ( Actor )

Writer

... 1934

Man Hunt

Mrs. Scott ( Actor )

... 1933

Hellship Bronson

Mrs. Bronson ( Actor )

... 1928

The Satin Woman

Mrs. Jean Taylor (as Mrs. Wallace Reid) ( Actor )

... 1927

The Red Kimona

Woman Telling the Story (uncredited) ( Actor )

Writer

... 1925

Broken Laws

Joan Allen ( Actor )

... 1924

Human Wreckage

Ethel MacFarland ( Actor )

Writer

... 1923

The Fighting Chance

Leila Mortimer ( Actor )

... 1920

The Squaw Man's Son

Edith, Lady Effington ( Actor )

... 1917

Treason

Luella Brysk ( Actor )

... 1917

The Girl and the Crisis

Ellen Wilmot ( Actor )

... 1917

The Scarlet Crystal

Marie Delys ( Actor )

... 1917

Mothers of Men

Clara Madison ( Actor )

... 1917

The Devil's Bondwoman

Beverly Hope ( Actor )

... 1916

Barriers of Society

Martha Gorham ( Actor )

... 1916

Black Friday

Elionor Rossitor ( Actor )

... 1916

The Unattainable

Bessie Gale ( Actor )

... 1916

A Yoke of Gold

Carner ( Actor )

... 1916

The Way of the World

Beatrice Farley ( Actor )

... 1916

Doctor Neighbor

Hazel Rogers ( Actor )

... 1916

The Unknown

Nancy Preston ( Actor )

... 1915