Dorothy Davenport
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.
The Fighting Chance
(Leila Mortimer)
Pierre of the North
(Mary McKenzie - the Factor's Daughter)
His Only Son
(Jessie Carter)
The Heart of the Hills
(The Government Detective)
Fires of Conscience
(Ethel)
The Wheel of Life
(The Prospector's Wife)
The Greater Devotion
A Flash in the Dark
(Mrs. Randall)
Breed o' the Mountains
(Sue Jarvis)
The Test
(The Poor Man's Wife)
The Mountaineer
(Dorothy - Jim's Sweetheart)
The Way of a Woman
(Dorothy)
The Spider and Her Web
The Voice of the Viola
(Dorothy)
The Test of Manhood
(Ethel Crandall)
Cupid Incognito
(Angela Graham)
A Gypsy Romance
(Queen of the Gypsies)
The Skeleton
(Jack's Wife)
The Fruit of Evil
The Quack
(Mary Rohan)
Women and Roses
(Wallace's Mistress)
The Siren
(Renee)
The Man Within
Passing of the Beast
(The Mountie's Wife)
The Spark of Manhood
The Cracksman's Reformation
(Dorothy)
The Fires of Fate
(Dot - Wally's Sweetheart)
Retribution
(Dorothy)
A Hopi Legend
The Lightning Bolt
(Dot)
A Cracksman Santa Claus
(Dot)
The Intruder
(The Woodsman's Sweetheart)
The Countess Betty's Mine
(Countess Betty Ardmore)
Love's Western Flight
(Dorothy)
The Wrong Heart
'Cross the Mexican Line
(Dorothy West)
A Wife on a Wager
The Den of Thieves
(Dorothy)
The Squaw Man's Son
(Edith, Lady Effington)
His Extra Bit
(The Wife)
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
(Grand Duchess Feodora)
The Revelation
(Mrs. Burns)
Hellship Bronson
(Mrs. Bronson)
In Humble Guise
(Grace Hunt)
The Red Kimona
(Woman Telling the Story (uncredited))
Mothers of Men
(Clara Madison)
A Brave Little Woman
(Clara Lyttell)
The Satin Woman
(Mrs. Jean Taylor (as Mrs. Wallace Reid))
Man Hunt
(Mrs. Scott)
Her Indian Hero
(Veda Mead)
Human Wreckage
(Ethel MacFarland)
The Unattainable
(Bessie Gale)
Treason
(Luella Brysk)
The Girl and the Crisis
(Ellen Wilmot)
The Unknown
(Nancy Preston)
The Devil's Bondwoman
(Beverly Hope)
The Way of the World
(Beatrice Farley)
Black Friday
(Elionor Rossitor)
Barriers of Society
(Martha Gorham)
A Yoke of Gold
(Carner)
A Gold Necklace
(A Friend)
Doctor Neighbor
(Hazel Rogers)
The Golden Supper
(Flower Girl)
Broken Laws
(Joan Allen)
The Scarlet Crystal
(Marie Delys)
Impact
(Writer)
Rhubarb
(Screenplay)
Who Killed Doc Robbin?
(Screenplay)
Footsteps in the Fog
(Screenplay)
The Old Swimmin' Hole
(Writer)
Curley
(Story)
The Road to Ruin
(Director)
On the Spot
(Screenplay)
Sucker Money
(Director)
The Red Kimona
(Director)
Redhead
(Screenplay)
The Woman Condemned
(Director)
A Bride for Henry
(Producer)
Prison Break
(Screenplay)
Honeymoon Limited
(Producer)
Paradise Isle
(Producer)
The Road to Ruin
(Writer)
Redhead
(Producer)
Haunted House
(Screenplay)
The Racing Strain
(Story)
Linda
(Director)
Drums of the Desert
(Screenplay)
Tomboy
(Story)
Women Must Dress
(Story)
Women Must Dress
(Producer)
Human Wreckage
(Writer)
Human Wreckage
(Producer)
Human Wreckage
(Director)
The Red Kimona
(Writer)
The Red Kimona
(Producer)
Honeymoon Limited
(Screenplay)