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.
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As Actor/Actress
Black Friday
Elionor Rossitor
The Unknown
Nancy Preston
The Revelation
Mrs. Burns
Human Wreckage
Ethel MacFarland
Treason
Luella Brysk
The Oath and the Man
Aristocrat
Broken Laws
Joan Allen
The Satin Woman
Mrs. Jean Taylor (as Mrs. Wallace Reid)
Hellship Bronson
Mrs. Bronson
The Test of Manhood
Ethel Crandall
The Devil's Bondwoman
Beverly Hope
Barriers of Society
Martha Gorham
The Fighting Chance
Leila Mortimer
Her Indian Hero
Veda Mead
A Brave Little Woman
Clara Lyttell
The Heart of the Hills
The Government Detective
The Spider and Her Web
A Gold Necklace
A Friend
The Red Kimona
Woman Telling the Story (uncredited)
In Humble Guise
Grace Hunt
His Only Son
Jessie Carter
The Den of Thieves
Dorothy
Man Hunt
Mrs. Scott
The Golden Supper
Flower Girl
Pierre of the North
Mary McKenzie - the Factor's Daughter
The Road to Ruin
Mrs. Merrill (uncredited)
Doctor Neighbor
Hazel Rogers
Mothers of Men
Clara Madison
A Yoke of Gold
Carner
The Unattainable
Bessie Gale
Behind the Camera
Impact
Escritor
Prison Break
Guionista
Tomboy
Historia
Rhubarb
Guionista
Who Killed Doc Robbin?
Guionista
Redhead
Productor
Honeymoon Limited
Productor, Guionista
Human Wreckage
Productor, Escritor, Director
Footsteps in the Fog
Guionista
The Woman Condemned
Director
Women Must Dress
Historia, Productor
Redhead
Guionista
Haunted House
Guionista
The Old Swimmin' Hole
Escritor
Sucker Money
Director
Curley
Historia
Linda
Director
On the Spot
Guionista
Paradise Isle
Productor
Drums of the Desert
Guionista
The Red Kimona
Director, Escritor, Productor
The Racing Strain
Historia
A Bride for Henry
Productor
The Road to Ruin
Director, Escritor