Dorothy Davenport
Known For: Acting
Gender: Female
Date of Birth: March 13, 1895
Day of Death: October 12, 1977 (83 years old)
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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.
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Actor The Government Detective
The Heart of the Hills
Actor The Prospector's Wife
The Wheel of Life
Actor Ethel
Fires of Conscience
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The Greater Devotion
Actor Mrs. Randall
A Flash in the Dark
Actor Sue Jarvis
Breed o' the Mountains
Actor Dorothy
The Voice of the Viola
Actor Dorothy - Jim's Sweetheart
The Mountaineer
Actor The Poor Man's Wife
The Test
Actor Dorothy
The Way of a Woman
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The Spider and Her Web
Actor Angela Graham
Cupid Incognito
Actor Queen of the Gypsies
A Gypsy Romance
Actor Ethel Crandall
The Test of Manhood
Actor Jack's Wife
The Skeleton
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The Fruit of Evil
Actor Wallace's Mistress
Women and Roses
Actor Mary Rohan
The Quack
Actor Renee
The Siren
Actor The Mountie's Wife
Passing of the Beast
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The Man Within
Actor Countess Betty Ardmore
The Countess Betty's Mine
Actor The Woodsman's Sweetheart
The Intruder
Actor Dorothy
Love's Western Flight
Actor Dorothy West
'Cross the Mexican Line
Actor Dorothy
The Den of Thieves
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A Wife on a Wager
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Actor Mary McKenzie - the Factor's Daughter
Pierre of the North
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The Spark of Manhood
Actor Dorothy
The Cracksman's Reformation
Actor Dot - Wally's Sweetheart
The Fires of Fate
Actor Dorothy
Retribution
Actor Dot
A Cracksman Santa Claus
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A Hopi Legend
Actor Dot
The Lightning Bolt
Actor Mrs. Burns
The Revelation
