Dorothy Davenport, Acting - KorPlix:Korean Person Archives

Back

Back

Top

Korplix
Korean Online
Content Archives

0
0.94

Dorothy Davenport
Acting

Dorothy Davenport
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1895-03-13,Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Gender
Female
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.

Filmography

The Fighting Chance

0

The Fighting Chance
1920-08-01

Pierre of the North

0

Pierre of the North
1913-02-10

0

His Only Son
1912-10-09

The Heart of the Hills

0

The Heart of the Hills
1914-03-12

The Wheel of Life

0

The Wheel of Life
1914-01-28

Fires of Conscience

0

Fires of Conscience
1914-02-04

The Greater Devotion

0

The Greater Devotion
1914-02-11

A Flash in the Dark

0

A Flash in the Dark
1914-02-18

Breed o' the Mountains

0

Breed o' the Mountains
1914-02-25

The Voice of the Viola

0

The Voice of the Viola
1914-03-04

The Way of a Woman

0

The Way of a Woman
1914-03-18

The Mountaineer

0

The Mountaineer
1914-03-15

The Spider and Her Web

0

The Spider and Her Web
1914-03-26

Cupid Incognito

0

Cupid Incognito
1914-04-01

A Gypsy Romance

0

A Gypsy Romance
1914-04-08

5

The Test
1914-04-15

The Test of Manhood

0

The Test of Manhood
1914-10-12

0

The Skeleton
1914-04-20

The Fruit of Evil

0

The Fruit of Evil
1914-04-22

Women and Roses

0

Women and Roses
1914-04-29

0

The Quack
1914-05-06

0

The Siren
1914-05-13

0

The Man Within
1914-05-20

Passing of the Beast

0

Passing of the Beast
1914-05-27

The Spark of Manhood

0

The Spark of Manhood
1913-08-22

The Cracksman's Reformation

0

The Cracksman's Reformation
1913-11-14

The Fires of Fate

0

The Fires of Fate
1913-11-20

0

Retribution
1913-12-10

A Cracksman Santa Claus

0

A Cracksman Santa Claus
1913-12-19

The Lightning Bolt

0

The Lightning Bolt
1913-12-24

0

A Hopi Legend
1913-12-31

0

The Intruder
1914-01-14

The Countess Betty's Mine

0

The Countess Betty's Mine
1914-01-21

Love's Western Flight

0

Love's Western Flight
1914-06-03

The Wrong Heart

0

The Wrong Heart
1916-12-15

A Wife on a Wager

0

A Wife on a Wager
1914-06-10

'Cross the Mexican Line

0

'Cross the Mexican Line
1914-06-17

The Den of Thieves

0

The Den of Thieves
1914-06-24

The Squaw Man's Son

0

The Squaw Man's Son
1917-07-26

0

His Extra Bit
1918-10-05

Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo

0

Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
1915-12-02

0

The Revelation
1913-10-10

Hellship Bronson

0

Hellship Bronson
1928-04-30

In Humble Guise

0

In Humble Guise
1915-07-11

5.7

The Red Kimona
1925-11-16

4

Mothers of Men
1917-01-01

A Brave Little Woman

4

A Brave Little Woman
1912-01-15

The Satin Woman

0

The Satin Woman
1927-07-24

0

Man Hunt
1933-05-23

Her Indian Hero

4.667

Her Indian Hero
1912-04-16

0

Human Wreckage
1923-06-17

The Unattainable

0

The Unattainable
1916-09-04

0

Treason
1917-05-14

The Girl and the Crisis

0

The Girl and the Crisis
1917-02-26

2

The Unknown
1915-12-09

The Devil's Bondwoman

0

The Devil's Bondwoman
1916-11-20

The Way of the World

1

The Way of the World
1916-07-03

0

Black Friday
1916-09-18

Barriers of Society

0

Barriers of Society
1916-10-16

0

A Yoke of Gold
1916-08-14

A Gold Necklace

5.5

A Gold Necklace
1910-10-06

Doctor Neighbor

0

Doctor Neighbor
1916-05-01

The Golden Supper

4.5

The Golden Supper
1910-12-12

0

Broken Laws
1924-11-09

The Scarlet Crystal

0

The Scarlet Crystal
1917-02-05

The Road to Ruin

4

The Road to Ruin
1934-05-14