Dorothy Davenport
Autor, Regie, Darsteller, Produzent
13. März 1895 — 12. Oktober 1977 (82 Jahre)
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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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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Filmografie
| 1955 | Footsteps in the Fog · as Screenplay |
| 1951 | Rhubarb · as Screenplay |
| 1949 | Impactauf plex.tv |
| 1948 | Who Killed 'Doc' Robbin? · as Screenplayauf plex.tv |
| 1941 | Redhead · as Screenplay |
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| 1940 | Drums of the Desert · as Screenplay |
| 1940 | Haunted House · as Screenplay |
| 1940 | On the Spot · as Screenplay |
| 1938 | Prison Break · as Screenplay |
| 1935 | Honeymoon Limited · as Screenplay |
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| 1926 |
| 1934 | The Road to Ruin · as Mrs. Merrill (uncredited) |
| 1933 | Man Hunt · as Mrs. Scott |
| 1926 | The Red Kimono · as Woman Telling The Story (uncredited) |
| 1917 | Mothers of Men · as Clara Madison |
| 1913 | The Revelation · as Mrs. Burns |
| 1913 | God of Chance · as The Queen Of England |
| 1913 | The Bondsman · as Cast |
| 1913 | All Rivers Meet at Sea · as Cast |
| 1913 | The Failure of Success · as The Widow |
| 1913 | Right for Right's Sake · as Nora - Morton's Daughter |
| 1913 | Dances of the Ages · as The Young Dancer |
| 1913 | A Black Hand Elopement · as Dolly Gardner - The Bride |
| 1912 | Home and Mother · as Nance |
| 1912 | Almost a Suicide · as The Young Wife |
| 1912 | In the Long Run · as Mrs. Dowlan |
| 1912 | Dad's Mistake · as Dorothy Davies - The Younger Sister |
| 1912 | Fatty's Big Mix-Up · as Cast |
| 1912 | The Border Parson · as Mary |
| 1912 | The Boomerang · as Dottie, A Visitor |
| 1910 | The Oath and the Man · as Aristocrat |
| 1937 | A Bride for Henryauf plex.tv |
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| 1929 | Linda · as Executive Producer |
| 1926 |
| 1954 | Francis Joins the WACS · as Additional Dialogue |
| 1953 | The Loretta Young Show · as Teleplay |
| 1952 | Francis Goes to West Point · as Additional Dialogue |
| 1950 | The Lux Video Theatre · as Original Screenplay |
| 1947 | Curley · as Story |
| 1936 | The House of a Thousand Candles · as Supervising Producer |