Dorothy Davenport - Фильмы

Дороти Дэвенпорт (March 13, 1895 – October 12, 1977) was an American actress, сценарист, film director, and producer who appeared in silent film for биограф Studios under the direction of D. W. Griffith. While filming on location in Oregon for The Valley of the Giants (1919), Уоллес Рид что injured in a train wreck. As a remedy for the pain from this injury, студия 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 в 1923. After reid's death, Davenportand Томас ИНС co-produced фильм the Human Wreckage (1923) with James Kirkwood,старший, Bessie Love and Люсиль Ricksen, a film that имел дело with the dangers of narcotics наркомания. Давенпорт took Human Wreckage on a roadshow целеустремленность, followed up with another "social conscience" picture about excessive mother-called love Broken Laws в 1924, again billed as "миссис Уоллес рейд" to capitalize on her husband's notorious death. She then produced The Red Кимона (1925) about white slavery. On screen she opens the фильм silent' сказ or prologue. The details of the latter фильм were so realistic that Давенпорт was successfully sued. She would later direct Линда (1929), Sucker Money (1933), Road to Ruin (1934), and The Woman Condemned (1934) and worked as a producer, writer, and dialogue директор. Among her last credits are co-author of the screenplay for Footsteps in the Fog (1955), and dialogue as director for The First Traveling Saleslady (1956) с Джинджер Роджерс. She husband and Wallace Reid had two children. She was married to him until his death on January 18, 1923. She never remarried. Дороти Дэвенпорт died at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital в 1977 году в Woodland Hills, California. She is похоронен with her husband in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Glendale.