Dorothy Davenport
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- March 13, 1895
- Died
- October 12, 1977 (aged 82)
- Birthplace
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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.
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Filmography
The Road to Ruin
Movie · as Mrs. Merrill (uncredited)
Man Hunt
Movie · as Mrs. Scott
Hellship Bronson
Movie · as Mrs. Bronson
The Satin Woman
Movie · as Mrs. Jean Taylor (as Mrs. Wallace Reid)
The Red Kimona
Movie · as Woman Telling the Story (uncredited)
Broken Laws
Movie · as Joan Allen
Human Wreckage
Movie · as Ethel MacFarland
The Fighting Chance
Movie · as Leila Mortimer
His Extra Bit
Movie · as The Wife
The Squaw Man's Son
Movie · as Edith, Lady Effington
Mothers of Men
Movie · as Clara Madison
Treason
Movie · as Luella Brysk
The Girl and the Crisis
Movie · as Ellen Wilmot
The Scarlet Crystal
Movie · as Marie Delys
The Wrong Heart
Movie
The Unattainable
Movie · as Bessie Gale
The Devil's Bondwoman
Movie · as Beverly Hope
The Way of the World
Movie · as Beatrice Farley
Black Friday
Movie · as Elionor Rossitor
Barriers of Society
Movie · as Martha Gorham
A Yoke of Gold
Movie · as Carmen
Doctor Neighbor
Movie · as Hazel Rogers
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
Movie · as Grand Duchess Feodora
In Humble Guise
Movie · as Grace Hunt
The Unknown
Movie · as Nancy Preston
The Heart of the Hills
Movie · as The Government Detective
The Wheel of Life
Movie · as The Prospector's Wife
Fires of Conscience
Movie · as Ethel
The Greater Devotion
Movie
A Flash in the Dark
Movie · as Mrs. Randall
Breed o' the Mountains
Movie · as Sue Jarvis
The Voice of the Viola
Movie · as Dorothy
The Mountaineer
Movie · as Dorothy - Jim's Sweetheart
The Test
Movie · as The Poor Man's Wife
The Way of a Woman
Movie · as Dorothy
The Spider and Her Web
Movie
Cupid Incognito
Movie · as Angela Graham
A Gypsy Romance
Movie · as Queen of the Gypsies
The Test of Manhood
Movie · as Ethel Crandall
The Skeleton
Movie · as Jack's Wife
The Fruit of Evil
Movie
Women and Roses
Movie · as Wallace's Mistress
The Quack
Movie · as Mary Rohan
The Siren
Movie · as Renee
Passing of the Beast
Movie · as The Mountie's Wife
The Man Within
Movie
The Countess Betty's Mine
Movie · as Countess Betty Ardmore
The Intruder
Movie · as The Woodsman's Sweetheart
Love's Western Flight
Movie · as Dorothy
'Cross the Mexican Line
Movie · as Dorothy West
The Den of Thieves
Movie · as Dorothy
A Wife on a Wager
Movie
Pierre of the North
Movie · as Mary McKenzie - the Factor's Daughter
The Spark of Manhood
Movie · as Maud Brewster
The Cracksman's Reformation
Movie · as Dorothy
The Fires of Fate
Movie · as Dot - Wally's Sweetheart
Retribution
Movie · as Dorothy
A Cracksman Santa Claus
Movie · as Dot
A Hopi Legend
Movie
The Lightning Bolt
Movie · as Dot
The Revelation
Movie · as Mrs. Burns
His Only Son
Movie · as Jessie Carter
A Brave Little Woman
Movie · as Clara Lyttell
Her Indian Hero
Movie · as Veda Mead
A Gold Necklace
Movie · as A Friend
The Golden Supper
Movie · as Flower Girl
The Oath and the Man
Movie · as Aristocrat
The Troublesome Baby
Movie · as Girl at Station