1895-03-13 ( 130 years old ) in 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.
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Movies
The Road to Ruin
1934-05-14
Man Hunt
1933-05-23
Hellship Bronson
1928-04-30
The Satin Woman
1927-07-24
The Red Kimona
1925-11-16
Broken Laws
1924-11-09
Human Wreckage
1923-06-17
The Fighting Chance
1920-08-01
His Extra Bit
1918-10-05
The Squaw Man's Son
1917-07-26
Treason
1917-05-14
The Girl and the Crisis
1917-02-26
The Scarlet Crystal
1917-02-05
Mothers of Men
1917-01-01
The Wrong Heart
1916-12-15
The Devil's Bondwoman
1916-11-20
Barriers of Society
1916-10-16
Black Friday
1916-09-18
The Unattainable
1916-09-04
A Yoke of Gold
1916-08-14
The Way of the World
1916-07-03
Doctor Neighbor
1916-05-01
The Unknown
1915-12-09
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
1915-12-02
In Humble Guise
1915-07-11
The Test of Manhood
1914-10-12
The Den of Thieves
1914-06-24
'Cross the Mexican Line
1914-06-17
A Wife on a Wager
1914-06-10
Love's Western Flight
1914-06-03
Passing of the Beast
1914-05-27
The Man Within
1914-05-20
The Siren
1914-05-13
The Quack
1914-05-06
Women and Roses
1914-04-29
The Fruit of Evil
1914-04-22
The Skeleton
1914-04-20
The Test
1914-04-15
A Gypsy Romance
1914-04-08
Cupid Incognito
1914-04-01
The Spider and Her Web
1914-03-26
The Way of a Woman
1914-03-18
The Mountaineer
1914-03-15
The Heart of the Hills
1914-03-12
The Voice of the Viola
1914-03-04
Breed o' the Mountains
1914-02-25
A Flash in the Dark
1914-02-18
The Greater Devotion
1914-02-11
Fires of Conscience
1914-02-04
The Wheel of Life
1914-01-28
The Countess Betty's Mine
1914-01-21
The Intruder
1914-01-14
A Hopi Legend
1913-12-31
The Lightning Bolt
1913-12-24
A Cracksman Santa Claus
1913-12-19
Retribution
1913-12-10
The Fires of Fate
1913-11-20
The Cracksman's Reformation
1913-11-14
The Revelation
1913-10-10
The Spark of Manhood
1913-08-22
Pierre of the North
1913-02-10
His Only Son
1912-10-09
Her Indian Hero
1912-04-16
A Brave Little Woman
1912-01-15
The Golden Supper
1910-12-12
A Gold Necklace
1910-10-06
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