Education
Davenport was educated in Switzerland.
Davenport was educated in Switzerland.
Davenport began her career in motion pictures in the silent film Trapping the Bachelor (1916). She was in with Mary Pickford, with Nazimova, Sins of the Fathers (1928) with Emil Jannings, and Davenport continued to make movies well into the sound film era.
Her last film credits are for roles in The Defense Rests (1934),, and an uncredited part in Human Cargo (1936).
Milla Davenport died in Los Angeles, California in 1936, aged 65. She was buried in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.