Wallace Reid was a beautiful person with a kind heart.He came to Hollywood wanting to be a scriptwriter, not an actor.He was intelligent and shy. He was completely faithful to his wife Dorothy and they had 2 adopted children. He became addicted to morphine because the studio doctor prescribed it to ease the pain he suffered in an accident while filming.He died at age 31, too soon for someone as talented as he was.He popularized the sports car and the sports shirt and did well over a hundred films before he died.