6.9
6.9
Footsteps in the Fog
1955
Screenplay
Dorothy Davenport
Also known as: Mrs. Wallace Reid
Acting
Born:March 13, 1895
Died:October 12, 1977(aged 82)
Birthplace:Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Nationality:United States
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CommunityBiography
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dorothy Davenport, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (84 movies)
6.0
6.0
Redhead
1934
Producer
6.0
6.0
Linda
1929
Director
5.9
5.9
Impact
1949
Writer
5.7
5.7
The Red Kimona
1925
Producer
5.6
5.6
Prison Break
1938
Screenplay
5.5
5.5
A Gold Necklace
1910
as A Friend
5.5
5.5
On the Spot
1940
Screenplay
5.5
5.5
A Bride for Henry
1937
Producer
5.3
5.3
Honeymoon Limited
1935
Screenplay
5.3
5.3
Rhubarb
1951
Screenplay
5.0
5.0
The Test
1914
as The Poor Man's Wife
5.0
5.0
Paradise Isle
1937
Producer
5.0
5.0
Drums of the Desert
1940
Screenplay
4.7
4.7
Her Indian Hero
1912
as Veda Mead
4.7
4.7
Sucker Money
1933
Director
4.5
4.5
The Golden Supper
1910
as Flower Girl
4.5
4.5
Redhead
1941
Screenplay
4.4
4.4
The Woman Condemned
1934
Director
4.4
4.4
Haunted House
1940
Screenplay
4.0
4.0
A Brave Little Woman
1912
as Clara Lyttell
4.0
4.0
The Road to Ruin
1934
Director
4.0
4.0
Mothers of Men
1917
as Clara Madison
3.6
3.6
Who Killed Doc Robbin?
1948
Screenplay
2.3
2.3
Women Must Dress
1935
Producer
2.0
2.0
The Unknown
1915
as Nancy Preston
1.0
1.0
The Way of the World
1916
as Beatrice Farley
In Humble Guise
1915
as Grace Hunt
The Satin Woman
1927
as Mrs. Jean Taylor (as Mrs. Wallace Reid)
Man Hunt
1933
as Mrs. Scott
Human Wreckage
1923
Writer
Broken Laws
1924
as Joan Allen
The Fighting Chance
1920
as Leila Mortimer
Pierre of the North
1913
as Mary McKenzie - the Factor's Daughter
His Only Son
1912
as Jessie Carter
The Heart of the Hills
1914
as The Government Detective
The Spark of Manhood
1913
as Maud Brewster
The Cracksman's Reformation
1913
as Dorothy
The Fires of Fate
1913
as Dot - Wally's Sweetheart
Retribution
1913
as Dorothy
A Cracksman Santa Claus
1913
as Dot
The Lightning Bolt
1913
as Dot
A Hopi Legend
1913
The Intruder
1914
as The Woodsman's Sweetheart
The Countess Betty's Mine
1914
as Countess Betty Ardmore
The Wheel of Life
1914
as The Prospector's Wife
Fires of Conscience
1914
as Ethel
The Greater Devotion
1914
A Flash in the Dark
1914
as Mrs. Randall
Breed o' the Mountains
1914
as Sue Jarvis
The Voice of the Viola
1914
as Dorothy
The Way of a Woman
1914
as Dorothy
The Mountaineer
1914
as Dorothy - Jim's Sweetheart
The Spider and Her Web
1914
Cupid Incognito
1914
as Angela Graham
A Gypsy Romance
1914
as Queen of the Gypsies
The Test of Manhood
1914
as Ethel Crandall
The Skeleton
1914
as Jack's Wife
The Fruit of Evil
1914
Women and Roses
1914
as Wallace's Mistress
The Quack
1914
as Mary Rohan
The Siren
1914
as Renee
The Man Within
1914
Passing of the Beast
1914
as The Mountie's Wife
Love's Western Flight
1914
as Dorothy
A Wife on a Wager
1914
'Cross the Mexican Line
1914
as Dorothy West
The Den of Thieves
1914
as Dorothy
The Wrong Heart
1916
The Squaw Man's Son
1917
as Edith, Lady Effington
His Extra Bit
1918
as The Wife
Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo
1915
as Grand Duchess Feodora
The Unattainable
1916
as Bessie Gale
The Revelation
1913
as Mrs. Burns
Doctor Neighbor
1916
as Hazel Rogers
A Yoke of Gold
1916
as Carner
Black Friday
1916
as Elionor Rossitor
Barriers of Society
1916
as Martha Gorham
The Devil's Bondwoman
1916
as Beverly Hope
The Scarlet Crystal
1917
as Marie Delys
The Girl and the Crisis
1917
as Ellen Wilmot
Treason
1917
as Luella Brysk
Hellship Bronson
1928
as Mrs. Bronson
The Old Swimmin' Hole
1940
Writer
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