1895-03-13 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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The Road to Ruin | Mrs. Merrill (uncredited) | 1934-05-14 |
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Man Hunt | Mrs. Scott | 1933-05-23 |
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Hellship Bronson | Mrs. Bronson | 1928-04-30 |
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The Satin Woman | Mrs. Jean Taylor (as Mrs. Wallace Reid) | 1927-07-24 |
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The Red Kimona | Woman Telling the Story (uncredited) | 1925-11-16 |
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Broken Laws | Joan Allen | 1924-11-09 |
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Human Wreckage | Ethel MacFarland | 1923-06-17 |
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The Fighting Chance | Leila Mortimer | 1920-08-01 |
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His Extra Bit | The Wife | 1918-10-05 |
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The Scarlet Crystal | Marie Delys | 1917-02-05 |
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Treason | Luella Brysk | 1917-05-14 |
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The Girl and the Crisis | Ellen Wilmot | 1917-02-26 |
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Mothers of Men | Clara Madison | 1917-01-01 |
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The Squaw Man's Son | Edith, Lady Effington | 1917-07-26 |
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Black Friday | Elionor Rossitor | 1916-09-18 |
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The Wrong Heart | 1916-12-15 | |
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Doctor Neighbor | Hazel Rogers | 1916-05-01 |
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A Yoke of Gold | Carner | 1916-08-14 |
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The Devil's Bondwoman | Beverly Hope | 1916-11-20 |
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The Way of the World | Beatrice Farley | 1916-07-03 |
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Barriers of Society | Martha Gorham | 1916-10-16 |
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The Unattainable | Bessie Gale | 1916-09-04 |
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The Unknown | Nancy Preston | 1915-12-09 |
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Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo | Grand Duchess Feodora | 1915-12-02 |
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In Humble Guise | Grace Hunt | 1915-07-11 |
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The Countess Betty's Mine | Countess Betty Ardmore | 1914-01-21 |
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Love's Western Flight | Dorothy | 1914-06-03 |
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'Cross the Mexican Line | Dorothy West | 1914-06-17 |
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A Wife on a Wager | 1914-06-10 | |
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The Den of Thieves | Dorothy | 1914-06-24 |
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The Intruder | The Woodsman's Sweetheart | 1914-01-14 |
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The Test | The Poor Man's Wife | 1914-04-15 |
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The Mountaineer | Dorothy - Jim's Sweetheart | 1914-03-15 |
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The Way of a Woman | Dorothy | 1914-03-18 |
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The Spider and Her Web | 1914-03-26 | |
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The Test of Manhood | Ethel Crandall | 1914-10-12 |
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Cupid Incognito | Angela Graham | 1914-04-01 |
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The Voice of the Viola | Dorothy | 1914-03-04 |
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Breed o' the Mountains | Sue Jarvis | 1914-02-25 |
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The Wheel of Life | The Prospector's Wife | 1914-01-28 |
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The Heart of the Hills | The Government Detective | 1914-03-12 |
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Fires of Conscience | Ethel | 1914-02-04 |
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The Greater Devotion | 1914-02-11 | |
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A Flash in the Dark | Mrs. Randall | 1914-02-18 |
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The Skeleton | Jack's Wife | 1914-04-20 |
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A Gypsy Romance | Queen of the Gypsies | 1914-04-08 |
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The Quack | Mary Rohan | 1914-05-06 |
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The Siren | Renee | 1914-05-13 |
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Passing of the Beast | The Mountie's Wife | 1914-05-27 |
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Women and Roses | Wallace's Mistress | 1914-04-29 |
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The Man Within | 1914-05-20 | |
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The Fruit of Evil | 1914-04-22 | |
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A Cracksman Santa Claus | Dot | 1913-12-19 |
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Retribution | Dorothy | 1913-12-10 |
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A Hopi Legend | 1913-12-31 | |
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Pierre of the North | Mary McKenzie - the Factor's Daughter | 1913-02-10 |
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The Cracksman's Reformation | Dorothy | 1913-11-14 |
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The Fires of Fate | Dot - Wally's Sweetheart | 1913-11-20 |
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The Revelation | Mrs. Burns | 1913-10-10 |
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The Spark of Manhood | 1913-08-22 | |
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The Lightning Bolt | Dot | 1913-12-24 |
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His Only Son | Jessie Carter | 1912-10-09 |
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A Brave Little Woman | Clara Lyttell | 1912-01-15 |
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Her Indian Hero | Veda Mead | 1912-04-16 |
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A Gold Necklace | A Friend | 1910-10-06 |
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The Golden Supper | Flower Girl | 1910-12-12 |
