Dorothy Davenport, Read, R E I D, Fleurnce

Anger persists in calling reed's wife florence, as if this actress's use of a stage name and then her married name instead of her birthname is the ultimate sign that she was a phony. Dorothy davenport was part of a family of performers, and it would make sense for her to have been given the kind of illiterative first and last name other actors and actresses had to make up. Its possible anger confused dorothy davenport, read, r e i d with an actress working more or less at the same time me named florence reed, r e e d or. It's possible that he wilfully conflated the two women to