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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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28 February 1933
A phony spiritualist hypnotizes the daughter of a wealthy banker in a scheme to swindle the banker out of his money.
01 August 1920
Sylvia Landis promises to marry the wealthy but unprincipled Quarrier because of his social standing.
01 July 1935
A publisher bets an author that he won't be able to write a romantic adventure novel while on a walking trip from New York to San Francisco.
21 July 1937
Stranded on an island, a blind artist (Warren Hull) falls in love with a native (Movita).
09 November 1924
Ignoring the advice of her husband, a mother indulges her son's every wish and demand all throughout his childhood.
10 October 1913
Mr. Burns, a student of Theosophy, has a dream in the hammock. He sees himself, his wife and her admirer, in a previous existence.
23 August 1947
The students of Lakeview Elementary devise comedic ways to torment their new teacher.
14 May 1917
The enemy's success in smuggling a spy through the lines places the Stratiria armies in a dangerous position.
09 December 1915
Richard Farquhar, the ne'er-do-well nephew of a titled Englishman, after a protracted "good time" finds himself penniless in an Algerian hotel.
16 December 1932
A race-car driver whose career is on the skids because of his drinking falls for a rich society girl.
21 July 1940
Teenagers try to clear a friend accused of murder.
21 October 1940
Teenager Betty Elliott has decided to take over the business and social affairs of her father Doc Elliott.
23 May 1933
A teen detective tries to help a jewel thief's daughter.
11 June 1940
Frankie Kelly is the soda jerk and embryo scientist in Midvales only drugstore. Two murders and an attempted killing suddenly swing Midvale into national prominence.
14 May 1934
A young girl gets involved with a crowd that smokes marijuana, drinks and has sex. She winds up an alcoholic, pregnant drug addict and is forced to get an abortion.
16 April 1912
The Chief's son, Silver Water, returns from college and is met at the station by the tribe. The Indians make merry to celebrate his homecoming.
16 October 1916
When penniless Westie Phillips briefly meets wealthy Martha Gorham, he falls in love, but Martha forgets the encounter.
25 February 1914
Joe Mayfield and Sue Jarvis are the children of two families in the Blue Ridge Mountains, which have been at variance for years.
16 November 1925
A woman is abandoned by her lover and prostitution is the only way she has to survive.
26 March 1914
The story concerns the reformation of a fast woman who runs a gambling establishment. Her one fear is of death and her regeneration is brought about.
24 July 1927
Dorothy Reid -- who before her marriage to ill-fated screen idol Wallace Reid was better known as Dorothy Davenport -- was both producer and star of Satin Woman.
30 April 1928
A ship's captain, believing that his wife has cheated on him, takes their young son and leaves her. he comes back 20 years later.
31 October 1934
A girl marries a playboy from a rich family, expecting a life of comfort and luxury. However, her new father-in-law turns his ne'er-do-well son out into the street with no money, and promises the girl that if she can make a man out of her new husband, the father will give her $10,000 and see that she gets a quick divorce.
01 February 1935
A divorced woman finds success as a fashion designer.
22 April 1914
The wife takes with her their small daughter, leaving the son to the care of the father. The forlorn woman wanders into a fishing village, and is taken into a kindly fisherman's family.
21 May 1941
A wealthy businessman's irresponsible son and a down-on-her-luck model enter into a marriage of convenience, and end up falling in love.
18 February 1914
Randall is a rich mine owner whose business affairs cause him to neglect his somewhat frivolous wife.
05 February 1917
Priscilla Worth, an innocent country girl, goes to the city to visit her aunt, who has sent for her, thinking that her childlike simplicity will afford a welcome relief to Vincent Morgan, a wealthy bachelor and man-about-town.
20 November 1916
After a prologue that takes place in Hell, young millionaire Mason Van Horton becomes involved with Doria, the vampish wife of influential businessman John Manners.
18 September 1916
In 1869, enemies of railroad magnate Richard Strong attempt to ruin him. Richard thwarts them, largely through the help of Charles Dalton, but then Charles tries to seduce Elinor, Richard's wife.
05 October 1918
The Reid family is in a squabble over buying bonds, when the family cook tells them that even the family servants buy bonds.
06 October 1940
On his way to a post as special adviser of the new parachute troops of the French Foreign Legion in Morocco, Paul Dumont meets the beautiful Helene on the ship.
31 March 1929
A young woman is forced by her abusive father to marry an older man even though she is in love with a kindly young doctor.
09 April 1948
A group of people find themselves trapped in a creepy mansion, complete with secret passageways, a mad doctor and a murderous gorilla.
29 August 1951
Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. Then T.
10 February 1913
Pierre and Baptiste, French-Canadian half-breed trappers, are enamored of Mary, the factor's daughter.
20 April 1940
Family drama about a father raising his motherless teenage daughter in a small town.
11 February 1914
The girl has three suitors: a young Mexican, who symbolizes love, a cripple, who symbolizes devotion, and a wealthy haciendiero, who symbolizes wealth.
15 January 1912
Daniel Lyttell is very ill, but Doctor Bozel assures Clara that the crisis is over and that her husband will eventually get well.
02 December 1915
"Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo" is an interesting play of intrigue between the Grand Duke Augustus Peter of Russia, whose incognito is Mr.
12 July 1938
Story of a tuna fisherman who has been wrongfully convicted of a murder he did not commit. His exemplary behavior in prison ensures that he is up for early parole.
03 July 1916
Gubernatorial candidate Walter Croyden is in love with Beatrice, but he acts obnoxiously when he drinks, so she flees to Europe to re-evaluate the relationship.
31 December 1913
An old arrowmaker's daughter, while at the stream, meets a brave from another tribe. They become enamored of each other in the sudden positive way of the savage, and agree to meet at sunset.
20 March 1949
After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.
09 October 1912
Bob Madden returns home slightly intoxicated and his father angrily commands him to leave the place and shift for himself.
14 September 1955
A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
01 April 1914
Frank Graham, rich mine owner, is fatally injured by an explosion. On his death bed he confides to his friend, Jim Blake, all his plans concerning his daughter, Angela's, future.
14 August 1916
During the days of the California missions, Jose Garcia becomes friends with Luis Lopez, a local Robin Hood determined to redistribute among the poor the loot of the rich.
21 January 1914
Counters Betty Ardmore inherits from an uncle a large mining property in the United States. At the advice of her counselor she comes to America to personally superintend the conduct of her property.
01 May 1916
Against the wishes of Doctor Neighbor, the guardian who also loves her, Hazel, who is due to inherit a fortune when she turns 21, marries district attorney Hamilton Rogers, a man more devoted to Hazel's future bank account than to her.
04 February 1914
Two men meet in the desert. One is in search of gold and the other seeks solace and heartsease for an unrequited love.
17 June 1914
Lieut. Wallace leaves his fiancée, Dorothy West, to cross the border with his troops into Mexico. Later he is wounded, captured and taken to the hacienda of the Mexican officer, Senor Paranze, where his wounds are dressed by Senora Paranze.
21 September 1910
A rich nobleman steals a perfume merchant's wife just prior to the French Revolution, in which the perfumer is a leader of the peasants.
26 July 1917
Hal, now fully grown, leaves his wife Edith and his estate in England to return to the land of his Indian mother.
15 April 1914
The poor man, professing love for his family, drinks what he presumes to be poison in order to make a thousand dollars for them, but the drink proves to be harmless.
24 June 1914
Lillian is an unfortunate woman. After leaving her baby at the door of a hospital she meets David, the author of her misfortune.
19 December 1913
The cracksman is discouraged and cynical. It is Christmas Eve. He takes his revolver and starts out in quest of gain.
03 April 1934
When a radio star is found murdered in her home, everyone assumes that the mysterious young woman discovered with her is the culprit — everyone, that is, but newspaper reporter Jerry Beall, who sets out to prove her innocence.
29 September 1937
On the day of her wedding a young woman's fiancé doesn't show up, sleeping off the results of the previous night's wild bachelor party.
20 November 1913
The young doctor, spending most of his time in charity work, is particularly interested in the case of a poor mother who must send her child away for its health.
