126: Wallace Reid (Fake News: Fact Checking Hollywood Babylon Episode 6)
According to
Hollywood Babylon, actor Wallace Reidβa morphine addict who died in an asylum at the age of 31βwas the first sacrificial lamb of the post-scandal era, and Reidβs wife, a former teen star named Dorothy Davenport, was the ultimate opportunistic hypocrite. What made Reidβs case different from the other scandals around this time? Was Davenport the black widow that Anger suggests, or should she be remembered as a pioneering female writer, producer and director?