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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, …
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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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dorothy Davenport, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Dorothy Davenport's Filmography
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The Road to Ruin
as Mrs. Merrill (uncredited)
Man Hunt
as Mrs. Scott
Hellship Bronson
as Mrs. Bronson
The Satin Woman
as Mrs. Jean Taylor (as Mrs. Wallace Reid)
The Red Kimona
as Woman Telling the Story (uncredited)
Broken Laws
as Joan Allen
Human Wreckage
as Ethel MacFarland
The Fighting Chance
as Leila Mortimer
No Poster
His Extra Bit
as The Wife
No Poster
The Squaw Man's Son
as Edith, Lady Effington
Treason
as Luella Brysk
The Girl and the Crisis
as Ellen Wilmot
The Scarlet Crystal
as Marie Delys
Mothers of Men
as Clara Madison
No Poster
The Wrong Heart
The Devil's Bondwoman
as Beverly Hope
Barriers of Society
as Martha Gorham
Black Friday
as Elionor Rossitor
The Unattainable
as Bessie Gale
A Yoke of Gold
as Carmen
The Way of the World
as Beatrice Farley
Doctor Neighbor
as Hazel Rogers
The Unknown
as Nancy Preston
No Poster
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
as Grand Duchess Feodora
In Humble Guise
as Grace Hunt
The Test of Manhood
as Ethel Crandall
The Den of Thieves
as Dorothy
'Cross the Mexican Line
as Dorothy West
No Poster
A Wife on a Wager
No Poster
Love's Western Flight
as Dorothy
No Poster
Passing of the Beast
as The Mountie's Wife
No Poster
The Man Within
No Poster
The Siren
as Renee
No Poster
The Quack
as Mary Rohan
Women and Roses
as Wallace's Mistress
No Poster
The Fruit of Evil
No Poster
The Skeleton
as Jack's Wife
No Poster
The Test
as The Poor Man's Wife
No Poster
A Gypsy Romance
as Queen of the Gypsies
No Poster
Cupid Incognito
as Angela Graham
The Spider and Her Web
No Poster
The Way of a Woman
as Dorothy
No Poster
The Mountaineer
as Dorothy - Jim's Sweetheart
The Heart of the Hills
as The Government Detective
No Poster
The Voice of the Viola
as Dorothy
No Poster
Breed o' the Mountains
as Sue Jarvis
No Poster
A Flash in the Dark
as Mrs. Randall
No Poster
The Greater Devotion
No Poster
Fires of Conscience
as Ethel
No Poster
The Wheel of Life
as The Prospector's Wife
No Poster
The Countess Betty's Mine
as Countess Betty Ardmore
No Poster
The Intruder
as The Woodsman's Sweetheart
No Poster
A Hopi Legend
No Poster
The Lightning Bolt
as Dot
No Poster
A Cracksman Santa Claus
as Dot
No Poster
Retribution
as Dorothy
No Poster
The Fires of Fate
as Dot - Wally's Sweetheart
No Poster
The Cracksman's Reformation
as Dorothy
The Revelation
as Mrs. Burns
No Poster
The Spark of Manhood
as Maud Brewster
Pierre of the North
as Mary McKenzie - the Factor's Daughter
His Only Son
as Jessie Carter
Her Indian Hero
as Veda Mead
A Brave Little Woman
as Clara Lyttell
The Golden Supper
as Flower Girl
No Poster
The Troublesome Baby
as Girl at Station
A Gold Necklace
as A Friend
The Oath and the Man
as Aristocrat