Dorothy Reid - Turner Classic Movies

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Also Known As

Mrs. Wallace Reid

Birth Place

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Born

March 13, 1895

Died

October 12, 1977

Biography

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Dorothy Davenport enjoyed great success as a director due to her unique perspective of the world. In 1910, she made her screen debut in the D.W. Griffith silent film "A Mohawk's Way." In 1923, she starred in "Human Wreckage," a drama dealing with drug addiction. Davenport founded her screenwriting career with "The Racing Strain" (1932). Following up in the thirties were credits like "The...

Filmography

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Francis Covers the Big Town (1953)

Dialogue Director

The Woman Condemned (1934)

The Road to Ruin (1934)

Sucker Money (1933)

The Road to Ruin (1934)

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Impact (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Her Favorite Nephew

Impact (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Buy Your Little Factories

Biography

Dorothy Davenport enjoyed great success as a director due to her unique perspective of the world. In 1910, she made her screen debut in the D.W. Griffith silent film "A Mohawk's Way." In 1923, she starred in "Human Wreckage," a drama dealing with drug addiction. Davenport founded her screenwriting career with "The Racing Strain" (1932). Following up in the thirties were credits like "The Road to Ruin" (1934). Later in her career, Davenport directed "Woman Condemned" (1934). Davenport's husband was Wallace Reid. Davenport passed away in October 1977 at the age of 82.

Filmography

Director (Feature Film)

Francis Covers the Big Town (1953)

Dialogue Director

The Woman Condemned (1934)

The Road to Ruin (1934)

Sucker Money (1933)

Cast (Feature Film)

The Road to Ruin (1934)

Man Hunt (1933)

Hellship Bronson (1928)

The Satin Woman (1927)

Mrs. Jean Taylor

Red Kimono (1925)

Broken Laws (1924)

Human Wreckage (1923)

Ethel MacFarland

The Masked Avenger (1922)

Every Woman's Problem (1921)

The Fighting Chance (1920)

Mothers of Men (1917)

The Girl and the Crisis (1917)

The Squaw Man's Son (1917)

Edith, Lady Effington

The Scarlet Crystal (1917)

A Yoke of Gold (1916)

Doctor Neighbor (1916)

Black Friday (1916)

Elinor Rossitor

The Devil's Bondwoman (1916)

Barriers of Society (1916)

The Unattainable (1916)

The Way of the World (1916)

Beatrice Farley

Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo (1915)

Grand Duchess Feodora

The Explorer (1915)

The Unknown (1915)

The Troublesome Baby (1910)

Writer (Feature Film)

Footsteps in the Fog (1955)

Who Killed Doc Robbin (1948)

The Old Swimmin' Hole (1940)

Drums of the Desert (1940)

Haunted House (1940)

Original story and Screenplay

On the Spot (1940)

Rose of the Rio Grande (1938)

Prison Break (1938)

Honeymoon, Limited (1935)

Forbidden Heaven (1935)

Story Supervisor

Women Must Dress (1935)

Story and Screenplay

The Road to Ruin (1934)

The Racing Strain (1932)

Producer (Feature Film)

Rose of the Rio Grande (1938)

Associate Producer

Paradise Isle (1937)

Associate Producer

A Bride for Henry (1937)

Associate Producer

The House of a Thousand Candles (1936)

Honeymoon, Limited (1935)

The Dude Wrangler (1930)

The Earth Woman (1926)

Film Production - Main (Feature Film)

The First Traveling Saleslady (1956)

Dial Supervisor

It Grows on Trees (1952)

Two Sinners (1935)

Story Supervisor

Production Companies (Feature Film)

Women Must Dress (1935)

Honeymoon, Limited (1935)

Life Events

Videos

Impact (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Her Favorite Nephew Location shooting in Sausalito, CA, Tony Barrett as Jim (but going by “Jack”), involved in maybe-suspicious activities with Irene (Helen Walker), the wife of auto executive Walt (Brian Donlevy), who had driven from San Francisco planning to meet her, taking her bait-and-switch in stride, in the adventurous Noir Impact, 1949.

Impact (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Buy Your Little Factories Dictionary opening from director Arthur Lubin, then Brian Donlevy as California auto executive Walt, whom one would not want to mess with, confronting his board (led by Clarence Kolb as Darcy) then gone soft on the phone with his wife (Helen Walker), in Impact, 1949.

Mothers Of Men (1917) -- (Movie Clip) I Accept Your Nomination Following a prologue about women in politics, we meet crusty news editor Morse, his star reporter Channing (Wilson DuBois) then the star, Dorothy Davenport Reid, billed as Mrs. Wallace Reid, as lawyer Clara, director Willis Robards playing her beau, opening Mothers Of Men, 1917.

Mothers Of Men (1917) -- (Movie Clip) The Crafty Italians Dorothy Davenport Reid as judge Clara is happily at home, unaware that her virtuous lawyer husband (Willis Robards, who also directed) is being set up by (freely degraded) Italian liquor racketeers, early in Mothers Of Men, 1917.

Mothers Of Men (1917) -- (Movie Clip) And He's Her Husband! Rapid progress following her election as judge, Clara (Dorothy Davenport Reid) is married to lawyer Williams (director Willis Robards), who’s then assigned a case in her court by political boss Big Bill (Maclyn King), where she performs admirably in Mothers Of Men, 1917.

Footsteps in the Fog -- (Movie Clip) No Other Woman! High society criminal Stephen (Stewart Granger) has learned to anticipate at least some of the tendencies of his treacherous servant and lover Lily (Jean Simmons) in Columbia's Victorian thriller Footsteps in the Fog, 1955.

Footsteps in the Fog -- (Movie Clip) Killed the Wrong Girl Servant Lily (Jean Simmons) is quick on the uptake when the authorities visit her already panicked employer Stephen (Simmons' then-husband, Stewart Granger) in Footsteps in the Fog 1955.

Footsteps in the Fog -- (Movie Clip) Murder! Rather the sort of scene one expects from Footsteps in the Fog, 1955, as shiftless Stephen (Stewart Granger) pursues an unescorted woman through the Victorian London night.

Footsteps in the Fog -- (Movie Clip) Opening, Let Us Pray Following opening credits, one can't help wondering about newly-widowed Stephen (Stewart Granger) even at the rainy, Victorian funeral for his wife in Footsteps in the Fog, 1955.

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