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Dorothy Davenport (March 13, 1895 – October 12, 1977) was an American actress, screenwriter, film director, and producer oms appeared in a silent film for Biografo Studios under the direction of D. W. Griffith. While filming on location in Oregon for The Valley of the Giants (1919), Wallace Reid che injured in a train wreck. As a remedy for the pain from this injury, studio doctors administered large dos 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 nel 1923. After Reid's death, Davenportand Thomas Ince co-produced the film Human Wreckage (1923) with James Kirkwood,Sr., Bessie Love and Lucille Ricksen, un film che dealt with the pericoli of narcotics addiction. Davenport took Human Wreckage on a roadshow impegno, followed up with another "social conscience" picture about excessive mother-called love Broken Laws nel 1924, again fatturato as "la Signora Wallace Reid" to capitalize on her husband s notorious death. Then She produced The Red Kimona (1925) about white slavery. On screen she opens the film silent' narrazione or prologue. The details of the latter film were così realistic that Davenport cosa successfully sud. She would later direct Linda (1929), Sucker Money (1933), Road to Ruin (1934), and The Woman videogiochi per personal computer (1934) and worked as a producer, writer, and dialogue director. Among her last crediti 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, nel 1977, a Woodland Hills, in California. She is interred with her husband in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park di Glendale.