Dorothy Davenport

1895 - 1977  (82 years)    Has 4 ancestors and one descendant in this family tree.

• Name	Dorothy Davenport
  Birth	13 Mar 1895	Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
  Gender	Female
  Prominent People	USA
  actor
  Death	12 Oct 1977	Woodland Hills, California, USA
  Person ID	I372857	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	2 Apr 2002

  
  

  Father	Harry Davenport,   b. 19 Jan 1866, New York, New York, USA d. 9 Aug 1949, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., California, USA (Age 83 years)
  Mother	Alice   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F147782	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Wallace Reid,   b. 15 Apr 1891, St. Louis County, Missouri, USA d. 18 Jan 1923, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., California, USA (Age 31 years)
  Marriage	13 Oct 1913
  Children	1. Wallace Reid, Jr.,   b. 18 Jun 1917, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., California, USA d. 26 Feb 1990 (Age 72 years)
  Family ID	F147783	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	2 Apr 2002

  
  

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• Notes

  With her background on the stage, Dorothy was in her early teens when she started playing bit parts in films. By the time she was 17, she was a star at Universal and she would meet a young actor-assistant director-gopher-scenario writer named Wallace Reid. Called on to act with her in a film, she was frustrated by his apparent lack of acting ability on the first day, but was smitten by him on the third day of their work together. Dorothy was a horsewoman of distinction who had no regard for a man who couldn't stay in the saddle and when Wallace proved to be an excellent horseman, she was hooked. After a six month job with another film company, Wallace returned to Universal and they married on October 13, 1913. The newlyweds continued to work as he directed and starred with Dorothy in two films a week for the next year. When Wallace left Universal, Dorothy also left films, only to return in 1916 to appear in a handful of films. In 1917, she gave birth to William Wallace Reid and became a full time mother and wife. When Wallace Reid died from morphine addiction in 1923, Dorothy and Bessie Love made 'Human Wreckage (1923)', a film that dealt with the dangers of narcotics. Dorothy would not return to the screen again until she directed and acted in 'The Red Kimono (1925)'. Dorothy would later dabble as a producer and a writer.