Milla Davenport, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Milla Davenport

Sicily-born American actress

Date of Birth: 04-Feb-1871

Place of Birth: Zürich, canton of Zürich, Switzerland

Date of Death: 17-May-1936

Profession: actor, stage actor

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Milla Davenport (February 4, 1871 – May 17, 1936) was a stage and film actress, born in Zurich, Switzerland.
Davenport was educated in Switzerland.
Davenport appeared with her husband, actor Harry J.
Davenport's(not the more famous Harry Davenport) repertory company for fifteen years.
Davenport 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). Davenport died in Los Angeles, California in 1936, aged 65.
She was buried in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.