Fannie Dorothy Davenport (March 13, 1895 â€" October 12, 1977) was an
American actress, screenwriter, film director and producer.Born into a
family of film performers, Davenport had her own independent career
before her marriage to the film actor and director Wallace Reid in
1913. Reid's star rose steadily, making feature films at a pace of one
every seven weeks, until 1919 when a dose of morphine administered for
an injury on location grew into an addiction. Reid died in January
1923 at the age of 31. Davenport took her own story as source material
and co-produced Human Wreckage (1923), in which she was billed as
"Mrs. Wallace Reid" and played the role of a drug addict's wife. She
advertised the film in terms of a moral crusade.Davenport followed its
success with other social-conscience films on other topics, Broken
Laws (1924) and The Red Kimono (1925), with expensive litigation
connected with the latter. While Davenport's own production company
dissolved in the late 1920s, she continued to take on smaller writing
and directing roles. In 1929 Davenport directed Linda a film about a
woman who gives up her happiness for the sake of men and social
expectations. Davenport directed her last film in 1934; however, she
continued in the film industry in other roles until her last known
credit in 1956 as dialogue supervisor of The First Traveling
Saleslady.
American actress, screenwriter, film director and producer.Born into a
family of film performers, Davenport had her own independent career
before her marriage to the film actor and director Wallace Reid in
1913. Reid's star rose steadily, making feature films at a pace of one
every seven weeks, until 1919 when a dose of morphine administered for
an injury on location grew into an addiction. Reid died in January
1923 at the age of 31. Davenport took her own story as source material
and co-produced Human Wreckage (1923), in which she was billed as
"Mrs. Wallace Reid" and played the role of a drug addict's wife. She
advertised the film in terms of a moral crusade.Davenport followed its
success with other social-conscience films on other topics, Broken
Laws (1924) and The Red Kimono (1925), with expensive litigation
connected with the latter. While Davenport's own production company
dissolved in the late 1920s, she continued to take on smaller writing
and directing roles. In 1929 Davenport directed Linda a film about a
woman who gives up her happiness for the sake of men and social
expectations. Davenport directed her last film in 1934; however, she
continued in the film industry in other roles until her last known
credit in 1956 as dialogue supervisor of The First Traveling
Saleslady.
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