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Dorothy Davenport (March 13, 1895 β 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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Filmography
all 96
Movies 96
Writer 14
Producer 5
Director 4
Screenplay 3

Footsteps in the Fog (1955)

Rhubarb (1951)

Impact (1949)

Curley (1947)

Redhead (1941)

On the Spot (1940)

Tomboy (1940)

Prison Break (1938)

A Bride for Henry (1937)

Paradise Isle (1937)

Redhead (1934)

The Road to Ruin (1934)

The Woman Condemned (1934)

Man Hunt (1933)

Sucker Money (1933)

Linda (1929)

Hellship Bronson (1928)

The Satin Woman (1927)

The Earth Woman (1926)

The Red Kimona (1925)

Broken Laws (1924)

Human Wreckage (1923)

The Fighting Chance (1920)

His Extra Bit (1918)

The Squaw Man's Son (1917)

Treason (1917)

The Girl and the Crisis (1917)

The Scarlet Crystal (1917)

Mothers of Men (1917)

The Wrong Heart (1916)

The Devil's Bondwoman (1916)

Barriers of Society (1916)

Black Friday (1916)

The Unattainable (1916)

The Way of the World (1916)

Doctor Neighbor (1916)

The Unknown (1915)

Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo (1915)

In Humble Guise (1915)

The Test of Manhood (1914)

'Cross the Mexican Line (1914)

Passing of the Beast (1914)

The Man Within (1914)

The Quack (1914)

Women and Roses (1914)

The Skeleton (1914)

The Test (1914)

A Gypsy Romance (1914)

Cupid Incognito (1914)

The Mountaineer (1914)

The Heart of the Hills (1914)

Breed o' the Mountains (1914)

A Flash in the Dark (1914)

The Wheel of Life (1914)

The Countess Betty's Mine (1914)

The Intruder (1914)

A Hopi Legend (1913)

Retribution (1913)

The Fires of Fate (1913)

The Revelation (1913)

Pierre of the North (1913)

Dances of the Ages (1913)

His Only Son (1912)

Her Indian Hero (1912)

A Brave Little Woman (1912)

The Golden Supper (1910)

The Fugitive (1910)

The Broken Doll (1910)

A Gold Necklace (1910)
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1895-03-13
Deathday1977-10-12 (82 years old)
Birth NameFannie Dorothy Davenport
Birth PlaceBoston, United States
Height
RelationshipsWallace Reid (1913 - 1923)
ChildrenWallace Reid Jr.
FatherHarry Davenport
MotherAlice Davenport
CitizenshipsUnited States
Also Known AsFannie Dorothy Davenport, Dorothy Reid, Dot Reid, Mrs. Wallace Reid
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