Dorothy Davenport – MRQE

The Unknown

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Richard Farquhar, the ne’er-do-well nephew of a titled Englishman, after a protracted “good time” finds himself penniless in an Algerian hotel. He expects money from England, but instead receives a cablegram stating his allowance has been stopped and that his uncle will have nothing further to do with him.

The Satin Woman

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Dorothy Reid — who before her marriage to ill-fated screen idol Wallace Reid was better known as Dorothy Davenport — was both producer and star of Satin Woman. After the death of her husband from drug abuse in 1923, Davenport dedicated herself to helping others avoid the pitfalls of modern life by turning out a series of cautionary film fables. In Satin Woman, she endeavored to warn society women not to neglect their families for the sake of fads, foibles, and handsome younger men.

Broken Laws

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Ignoring the advice of her husband, a mother indulges her son’s every wish and demand all throughout his childhood. By the time she realizes her treatment of her son has spoiled him almost beyond belief, he is on trial for manslaughter.

Human Wreckage

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

An attorney’s wife is determined to fight the evils of addictive substances.

The Den of Thieves

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Lillian is an unfortunate woman. After leaving her baby at the door of a hospital she meets David, the author of her misfortune. It is a case of starvation or the “easiest way.” She chooses the “easiest way.” After eighteen years she again shows up, a social outcast and a tool for David’s black profession.

The Golden Supper

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Julian loves his cousin and foster sister Camilla, who is wooed and won by Lionel, his friend and rival. He is a witness to their marriage and after the ceremony he departs heartbroken to his own house. Utopian was the existence of Lionel and Camilla, until some time later Camilla is seized with a serious illness, and Lionel’s grief knew no bounds when he heard “That low knell tolling his lady dead.” “She had lain three days without a pulse all that look’d on her had pronounced her dead, So they bore her, for in Julian’s land they never nail a dumb head up in elm, bore her free-faced to the free airs of heaven, and laid her in the vault of her own kin.” Julian learns of the death of Camilla, and hastens to the house, arriving in time to see the funeral cortège moving slowly towards the sepulcher. Following in its wake he exclaims, “Now, now, will 1 go down into the grave; I will be all alone with all I love.”