Claim: "Human Wreckage" was directed by John Griffith Wray and starred Boston-born Dorothy Davenport (who the movie was allegedly based on, despite evidence to the contrary), Bessie Love, and James Kirkwood Sr.
Evidence: John Griffith Wray Human Wreckage is a 1923 American independent silent drama propaganda film that starred Dorothy Davenport and featured James Kirkwood, Sr., Bessie Love, and Lucille Ricksen. (1895-03-13)March 13, 1895
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. Davenport took her own story as source material and co-produced Human Wreckage (1923), in which she was billed as "Mrs. Wallace Reid" and played the role of a drug addict's wife.