Milla Davenport

Milla Davenport (February 4, 1871 – May 17, 1936) was a stage and film actress, originally from Sicily. She was educated in Switzerland. Davenport appeared with her husband, actor Harry Davenport's 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, Sins of the Fathers (1928), with Joseph Jefferson, 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).

Milla Davenport died in Los Angeles, California in 1936, aged 65. She was buried in Hollywood Cemetery.

External links

• Milla Davenport at the Internet Movie Database

References

• Los Angeles Times, Mrs. Milla Davenport, May 19, 1936, Page A20.
• New York Times, Milla Davenport, May 19, 1936, Page 23.

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Name	Davenport, Milla
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Date of birth	February 4, 1871
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Date of death	May 17, 1936
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