Milla Davenport
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Milla Davenport was a stage and film actress, born in Zurich, Switzerland. Davenport was educated in Switzerland. She appeared with her husband actor Harry J. Davenport's (not the more famous Harry Davenport) repertory company for fifteen years. She began her career in motion pictures in the silent film Trapping the Bachelor (1916). She was in Daddy-Long-Legs (1919) with Mary Pickford, The Brat (1919) with Nazimova, Sins of the Fathers (1928) with Emil Jannings, and The Wedding Night (1935). Davenport continued to make movies well into the sound film era. Her last film credits are for roles in The Defense Rests (1934), Here Comes Cookie (1935), and an uncredited part in Human Cargo (1936)
Merrily We Go to Hell
as Prentice's Housekeeper (uncredited)A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan...
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The Red Lily
as Madame PoussotJean and Marise, young lovers forced from their homes, flee to Paris. Irrevocably separated...
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Here Comes Cookie
as Mrs. DingledorpA scatterbrained heiress opens her home to a succession of unemployed actors and vaudeville...
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Daddy-Long-Legs
as Mrs. LippettWealthy Jarvis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her...
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The Wedding Night
as GrandmotherWhile working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett...
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The Defense Rests
as NeighborA sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
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Crazy Like a Fox
as MotherTwo rich capitalists want to marry their children, but they don't like the idea at all. She...
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The Brat
as The Brat's AuntAn unkempt chorus girl is arrested on a minor charge. In court, she is spotted by a novelist who...
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Social Briars
as Mrs. BrownIris Lee is reared in the small town of Dalton by her deceased mother's friend, Martha Kane, and...
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Human Cargo
as GermanBonnie Brewster and "Packy" Campbell, rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an...
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The Solitary Sin
as uncreditedBob, John, and Edward--three young boys growing up in the same neighborhood--have...
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Crossed Signals
as Mother SlatteryA federal agent is sent to a small town to bust up a counterfeiting ring, which is apparently...
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You Never Can Tell
as Mrs. JonesBebe Daniels is charming in this light comedy, based on a Saturday Evening Post story by Grace...
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Dulcy
as MattyDulcy, a devoted but scatterbrained bride, tries to improve her absent husband's finances by...
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Stronger Than Death
as Mrs. SmithersSigrid, A French dancer, diagnosed with a weak heart, is ordered by her doctor never to dance...
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Rip Van Winkle
as Gretchen Van WinkleThe story shows the development of the united state in divergent fields : Political, social and...
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The Christian
as MatronGlory Quayle and John Storm, sweethearts since childhood on the Isle of Man, go to London, Glory...
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The Girl from Woolworth's
as Ma DonnellyDaisy, a clerk at Woolworth's, loves to sing. She meets Bill, a guard on the subway, at a party...
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The Road to Glory
as Aunt SelmaMay McAvoy is a woman who is blinded in an auto accident and relies on prayer to regain her sight.
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The Girl Who Stayed at Home
as uncreditedRalph visits France with his father, a shipbuilder, and falls in love with Blossom, the...
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Hey! Hey! Cowboy
as Aunt JaneA longstanding friendship between Julius Decker and Joe Billings, neighboring ranchers, is...
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The Danger Rider
as HousekeeperHal Doyle, son of the prison warden, falls in love with a portrait of Mollie Dare, who runs a...
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The Girl from God's Country
as Mrs. KrausA picture of the great outdoors, peppered with the thrills that dreams are made of.
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The Forbidden Woman
as LuisaA beautiful French actress is the unwitting force behind the suicide of one of her admirers. A...
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