Davenport (Dorothy) and the Wallace Reid Foundation Sanatorium photographs, 1924-1925
Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Dorothy Davenport and the Wallace Reid Foundation Sanatorium photographs
- Dates:
- 1924-1925
- Creators:
- Lock, William R.
- Extent:
- 1 unknown (6 prints)
- Language:
- English .
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection consists of 6 black and white photographs of screen actress Mrs. Wallace Reid (i.e., Dorothy Davenport) and others in front of buildings at the Wallace Reid Foundation Sanatoriuum for drug addiction in Los Angeles. Identification in typescript captions pasted on photograph versos. Dates supplied in pencil annotations by collector William R. Lock who, at age 10, amassed photographs of silent film stars in 1924-1925.
Dorothy Davenport was born in 1895 in Boston. In 1913 she married co-star and actor Wallace Reid, whom she met while filming His Only Son in 1912. In 1919, Reid was injured in a train wreck while on location, after which he became addicted to morphine. Following her husband's death at age 30 in 1923, Davenport became a crusader against drug addiction. Proceeds from the film Human Wreckage, which portrayed drug addiction realistically, allowed her to finance her own film production company and to found in Los Angeles the Wallace Reid Foundation Sanatorium for the treatment of substance-related disorders. Reid continued acting, directing, and writing, including co-writing the Francis the Talking Mule film series from 1950-1956. She died in 1977.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Names:
- Lock, William R.
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2020-12-02 11:35:29 -0800 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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- Location of this collection:
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Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library12-077 Center for Health Sciences, Box 951798Los Angeles, CA 90095-1798, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-6940