Dorothy Davenport

Dorothy Davenport (le 13 mars, 1895 – October 12, 1977) que l'American actrice, scénariste, film director and producer oms appeared dans silent film for Biographe Studios under the direction of D. W. Griffith. While filming on location, dans l'Oregon for The Valley of the Giants (1919), Wallace Reid, ce qui injured in a train wreck. As a remedy for the pain from this injury, studio doctors administered large dose of morphine to Reid to which he became addicted. Reid's health slowly grew pire over the next few years, and he died of the addiction en 1923. After Reid death, Davenportand 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 a Human Wreckage on a roadshow engagement, followed up with another "social conscience" picture about excessive mother love called Broken Laws en 1924, again billed as "Mme 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 silent " narration or prologue. The details of the latter film were ainsi 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 directeur. Among her last crédits 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 ce qui 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 en 1977 à Woodland Hills, en Californie. Elle est inhumée with her husband in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park, à Glendale.