Milla Davenport

Milla Davenport

Born: February 3, 1871
Died: May 17, 1936
in Zürich, Switzerland
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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)

Movies for Milla Davenport...

Human Cargo
Title: Human Cargo
Character: German
Released: May 15, 1936
Type: Movie
Bonnie Brewster and "Packy" Campbell, rival reporters on competing newspapers, team up to put an end to a smuggling gang that brings illegal aliens to the United States, and then makes further victims of them by extortion payments. They go to Vancouver, Canada and board a ship carrying aliens. But the gang recognizes them as reporters and gang-henchmen Tony Scula (Ralf Harolde) and Ira Conklin take them off the ship. But Campbell recognizes Scula as the gunman who killed Carmen Zoro.
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Here Comes Cookie
Title: Here Comes Cookie
Character: Mrs. Dingledorp
Released: September 10, 1935
Type: Movie
A scatterbrained heiress opens her home to a succession of unemployed actors and vaudeville performers, then decides to produce her own show, much to the consternation of her father, her sister and her sister's boyfriend, who is actually after the young girl's money.
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The Wedding Night
Title: The Wedding Night
Character: Grandmother
Released: March 8, 1935
Type: Movie
While working on a novel in his country home in Connecticut, married writer Tony Barrett (Cooper) becomes attracted to Manya (Sten), the daughter of a neighboring farmer. Manya is unhappily engaged to Frederik (Bellamy). Due to a snowstorm, Tony and Manya are trapped together in his house overnight. The next day, Manya's father insists her wedding to Frederik take place in spite of Manya's misgivings. Drunkenness and jealousy result in tragedy at the wedding reception that night.
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The Defense Rests
Title: The Defense Rests
Character: Neighbor
Released: July 15, 1934
Type: Movie
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
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Merrily We Go to Hell
Title: Merrily We Go to Hell
Character: Prentice's Housekeeper (uncredited)
Released: June 10, 1932
Type: Movie
A drunken newspaperman, Jerry Corbett, is rescued from his alcoholic haze by an heiress, Joan Prentice, whose love sobers him up and encourages him to write a play, but he lapses back into dipsomania.
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The Girl from Woolworth's
Title: The Girl from Woolworth's
Character: Ma Donnelly
Released: October 27, 1929
Type: Movie
Daisy, a clerk at Woolworth's, loves to sing. She meets Bill, a guard on the subway, at a party and they're both attracted to each other, but each tells the other that they have a different job than they actually do. Bill later finds her handbag on the subway, returns it to her and invites her to dinner. They dine at the swanky Mayfield Club, where owner Lawrence Mayfield is also attracted to Daisy and offers her a job there as a singer. Bill is not happy, although Daisy is.
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The Danger Rider
Title: The Danger Rider
Character: Housekeeper
Released: November 18, 1928
Type: Movie
Hal Doyle, son of the prison warden, falls in love with a portrait of Mollie Dare, who runs a reformatory for ex-convicts where they may work for honest wages. To win the girl he poses as the notorious Tucson Joe and goes to the reformatory where his reputation causes the other men to fear him. The real Tucson Joe arrives but does not reveal his identity.
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Hey! Hey! Cowboy
Title: Hey! Hey! Cowboy
Character: Aunt Jane
Released: April 3, 1927
Type: Movie
A longstanding friendship between Julius Decker and Joe Billings, neighboring ranchers, is broken by a series of mystifying occurrences, and their relationship ultimately develops into a feud.
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Crossed Signals
Title: Crossed Signals
Character: Mother Slattery
Released: September 28, 1926
Type: Movie
A federal agent is sent to a small town to bust up a counterfeiting ring, which is apparently headquartered in the local railway station. The counterfeiters have framed the station's manager for the crime, and she must work with the agent to clear her name and get the goods on the real counterfeiters.
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Crazy Like a Fox
Title: Crazy Like a Fox
Character: Mother
Released: August 26, 1926
Type: Movie
Two rich capitalists want to marry their children, but they don't like the idea at all. She tries to run away, and meets him at the station. They fall in love, unbeknownst to their real identities, and decide each on their own that they have to wreck their parents plan. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
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The Road to Glory
Title: The Road to Glory
Character: Aunt Selma
Released: February 7, 1926
Type: Movie
May McAvoy is a woman who is blinded in an auto accident and relies on prayer to regain her sight.
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The Red Lily
Title: The Red Lily
Character: Madame Poussot
Released: September 8, 1924
Type: Movie
Jean and Marise, young lovers forced from their homes, flee to Paris. Irrevocably separated there, their lives deviate into the slums and hard labor of low-class French society. All the while, the two desperately search for one another.
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Dulcy
Title: Dulcy
Character: Matty
Released: August 27, 1923
Type: Movie
Dulcy, a devoted but scatterbrained bride, tries to improve her absent husband's finances by inviting two of his business prospects to dinner. Though at first thoroughly confusing the deal, she does get her husband a bigger share than he bargained for.The film is now considered to be lost.
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The Christian
Title: The Christian
Character: Matron
Released: January 14, 1923
Type: Movie
Glory Quayle and John Storm, sweethearts since childhood on the Isle of Man, go to London, Glory to become a nurse and John to enter a monastery. Instead, Glory becomes a theater star, and John renounces his vows because he cannot forget his love for her. Lord Robert Ure, who has already betrayed Glory's friend, Polly Love, incites the London populace against John....
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The Worldly Madonna
Title: The Worldly Madonna
Character: Jail Matron
Released: May 1, 1922
Type: Movie
Ms. Young portrays two roles. As Janet, a convent novitiate, she agrees to exchange places with her sister, Lucy, a cabaret dancer, who believes she has killed a man.
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Rip Van Winkle
Title: Rip Van Winkle
Character: Gretchen Van Winkle
Released: October 2, 1921
Type: Movie
The story shows the development of the united state in divergent fields : Political, social and even economic field.
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The Girl from God's Country
Title: The Girl from God's Country
Character: Mrs. Kraus
Released: September 18, 1921
Type: Movie
A picture of the great outdoors, peppered with the thrills that dreams are made of.
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Patsy
Title: Patsy
Character: Matron
Released: February 1, 1921
Type: Movie
Patsy is the awkward sister of the lovely Grace. She is also in love with Grace's boyfriend. Mother shows favoritism towards Grace, and father is too accommodating to stand up for Patsy, although he knows she is picked on. When they are all at supper, Grace runs away on a motorboat with a millionaire playboy. During a deep talk with Grace's boyfriend, Patsy reveals that she is in love with somebody who doesn't know she exists.
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She Couldn't Help It
Title: She Couldn't Help It
Character: Matron
Released: December 14, 1920
Type: Movie
Removed from an orphanage, Nance Olden is taken to live at Mother Hogan's boarding-house for crooks. There she becomes Tom Morgan's partner, helping him steal a jewel from Edward Ramsey at Union Station.
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You Never Can Tell
Title: You Never Can Tell
Character: Mrs. Jones
Released: September 22, 1920
Type: Movie
Bebe Daniels is charming in this light comedy, based on a Saturday Evening Post story by Grace Lovell Bryan.
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The Forbidden Woman
Title: The Forbidden Woman
Character: Luisa
Released: February 22, 1920
Type: Movie
A beautiful French actress is the unwitting force behind the suicide of one of her admirers. A scandal erupts, threatening to destroy her reputation.
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Stronger Than Death
Title: Stronger Than Death
Character: Mrs. Smithers
Released: January 11, 1920
Type: Movie
Sigrid, A French dancer, diagnosed with a weak heart, is ordered by her doctor never to dance again. But when her dancing skills are needed by her lover's father to help quell a native uprising on the East Indian frontier, she determines to dance whatever the cost.
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The Brat
Title: The Brat
Character: The Brat's Aunt
Released: September 1, 1919
Type: Movie
An unkempt chorus girl is arrested on a minor charge. In court, she is spotted by a novelist who is looking for someone of her type on whom to model a character in a book he is writing. He takes her into his home where she is looked down upon by his snobbish family. But the girl brings something to the family unlike anything they have known before.
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The Solitary Sin
Title: The Solitary Sin
Released: July 1, 1919
Type: Movie
Bob, John, and Edward--three young boys growing up in the same neighborhood--have vastly-different experiences with sex. Bob's father patiently explains "the birds and the bees" to him, and even takes him to a hospital to see the effects of venereal disease.
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Daddy-Long-Legs
Title: Daddy-Long-Legs
Character: Mrs. Lippett
Released: May 11, 1919
Type: Movie
Wealthy Jarvis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds himself falling in love with her, and she with him, though she does not know that the man she has fallen for is her benefactor.
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The Girl Who Stayed at Home
Title: The Girl Who Stayed at Home
Released: March 23, 1919
Type: Movie
Ralph visits France with his father, a shipbuilder, and falls in love with Blossom, the granddaughter of his father's friend, a Civil war veteran not reconciled with the Union. Blossom, however, is engaged to a French nobleman. When the war breaks out, Ralph enlists, while his brother Jim, a heartbreaker, is drafted.
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Social Briars
Title: Social Briars
Character: Mrs. Brown
Released: May 13, 1918
Type: Movie
Iris Lee is reared in the small town of Dalton by her deceased mother's friend, Martha Kane, and when she reaches adulthood, Martha's son Jim falls in love with her. When Iris fails to return his affections, Mrs. Kane treats her so coldly that Iris decides to leave the stuffy little village for the metropolis. On her journey, she accepts a ride with Jack Andrews, but after he attempts to kiss her, she leaps from the car and walks the rest of the way. While singing in the choir of a large metropolitan church, she is discovered by Jack's wealthy father Peter, who recommends her as a soloist. Light opera star Helen Manning, who has helped Iris to cultivate her voice, quarrels with her theatrical manager, and Iris is offered her position.