Wonderful happenstance that Dorothy Davenport's birthday falls during Women's History Month, for Davenport (1895-1977), was not just a pioneering director/producer/screenwriter/actress, but a mother or midwife of sorts of an entire genre, the sort of socially-conscious, issues oriented "women's" exploitation films and melodramas that we nowadays associate with Lifetime. Born in Boston, Davenport was the scion [�…
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 10:42AM on March 13, 2019