Dorothy Davenport

Dorothy Davenport (13 de Marzo, 1895 – October 12, 1977), lo que es en American actress, screenwriter, película, director y productor de la oms apareció en silent film for Biógrafo de Estudios under the direction of D. W. Griffith. While filming on location en Oregon for The Valley of the Giants (1919), Wallace Reid lo injured in a train wreck. As a remedy for the pain from this injury, estudio doctors administered large doses of morfina to Reid to which he became addicted. Reid's health slowly grew peor over the next few years, and he died of the addiction en 1923. After Reid's death, Davenportand Thomas Ince co-producido película the Human Wreckage (1923) with James Kirkwood,Sr., Bessie Love and Lucille Ricksen, a film that dealt with the peligros de fiscalización de la adicción. Davenport took Human Wreckage on a roadshow compromiso, seguido up with another "conciencia social" picture about exceso de mother love se llama Broken Laws en 1924, again billed as "la Señora Wallace Reid" to capitalize on her husband's notorious la muerte. Then She produced The Red Kimona (1925) about white slavery. On screen she opens the película de silent' narración or prologue. The details of the latter película eran tan realista that Davenport successfully sued. She would later direct Linda (1929), Sucker Money (1933), Road to Ruin (1934), and The Woman Condemned (1934) y worked as a productor, escritor, and dialogue director. Among her last créditos are co-author of the screenplay for Pasos en la Niebla (1955), and as dialogue director de 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 y el Hospital de 1977, en Woodland Hills, California. She is enterrado with her husband en the Forest Lawn Memorial Park de Glendale.