DOROTHY DAVENPORT 

widow of  "screen's most perfect lover"

Silent Leading Man - Wallace Reid

 

United States Department of Agriculture

Baggage Declaration

Steamship SS Monterey

Los Angeles

May 17, 1937

8" x 7"

Signed twice:

"Dorothy Davenport Reid" and "Dorothy D. Reid"

Condition: very good

Dorothy Davenport was an American actress, screenwriter, film director and producer

who appeared in silent films for Biograph Studios under the direction of D.W. Griffith. 

She and silent film actor Wallace Reid married in 1913 and worked on many films together

 during his short career. While on location in Oregon filming The Valley of the Giants (1919)

 he was injured in a train wreck and was prescribed morphine for his pain. He became 

 addicted; at age 31 he died in Davenport's arms in a sanitarium. After his death she and

Thomas Ince co-produced Human Wreckage (1923), a film that dealt with the dangers of

narcotics addiction starring Bessie Love. Later in life she dabbled as a producer and a writer.

Born: 1895, Boston, Massachusetts; died: 1977, Los Angeles, California.