Adrienne Ames

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Adrienne Ames
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Born
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Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.
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New York City, U.S.
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Adrianne Ames
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Years active1927–1940
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Stephen Ames
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Adrienne Ames (born Ruth Adrienne McClure;[1] August 3, 1907 – May 31, 1947) was an American film actress. Early in her career she was known as Adrienne Truex.[2][3]

Early years

Ames was born in Fort Worth, Texas, one of six children of Samuel Hugh McClure and Flora Parthenia (née Potter) McClure.[citation needed]

Career

Film

File:Adrienne Ames in Woman Wanted trailer.jpg
From the trailer for Woman Wanted (1935)

Ames began her film career in 1927 as a stand-in for Pola Negri.[4] Ames was soon cast in small film roles in silent films. With the advent of talking pictures, Ames' popularity grew and she was usually cast as society women, or in musicals. She made thirty films during the 1930s with her biggest success in George White's Scandals (1934). She appeared with the three leading men from the 1931 version of Dracula (Bela Lugosi, David Manners, and Edward Van Sloan) in The Death Kiss (1932).

Radio

Ames left Hollywood for New York. In 1941, she was hostess of two talk shows on station WHN in New York City.[5] Her schedule included broadcasts at noon and 3:30 p.m. six days a week and 7:30 p.m. broadcasts on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays.[6] She continued broadcasting until two weeks before her death in 1947.[5]

Television

In December 1941, Ames began a weekly series of movie-review programs on WNBT in New York City. The 10-minute programs ran on Tuesday afternoons.[7]

Personal life

Ames was married three times. In 1920, at the age of 13 or 14, she married Derward Dumont Truax, the son of an oil businessman. They had a daughter, and divorced in 1924.[8] A later marriage to broker Stephen Ames ended in divorce on October 30, 1933.[9] Her last marriage, on October 31, 1933, was to fellow actor Bruce Cabot; they divorced on July 24, 1935.[10]

Death

Ames died of cancer on May 31, 1947, in New York City, aged 39.[11] She is interred in the Oakwood Cemetery in her hometown of Fort Worth, Texas.[12]

For her contributions to the film industry, Ames has a motion pictures star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1612 Vine Street. It was dedicated February 8, 1960.[13]

Filmography

Film
Year Title Role Notes
1929 Sally Bit Part Uncredited
1931 The Road to Reno Unhappy Divorcee Uncredited
24 Hours Ruby Wintringham
Girls About Town Anne
Working Girls Bit Uncredited
Husband's Holiday Myrtle
1932 Two Kinds of Women Jean Mars Uncredited
Sinners in the Sun Claire Kinkaid
Merrily We Go to Hell Claire Hempstead
Guilty as Hell Vera Marsh
The Death Kiss Marcia Lane
1933 From Hell to Heaven Joan Burt
Broadway Bad Aileen
A Bedtime Story Paulette
Disgraced! Julia Thorndyke
The Avenger Ruth Knowles
1934 George White's Scandals Barbara Loraine
You're Telling Me! Princess Lescaboura
The Old Fashioned Way Girl in audience Uncredited
1935 Gigolette Kay Parrish
Black Sheep Mrs. Millicent Caldwell Bath
Woman Wanted Betty Randolph
Ladies Love Danger Adele Michel
Abdul the Damned Therese Alder
Harmony Lane Jane McDowell
1938 City Girl Vivian Ross Uncredited
Fugitives for a Night Eileen Baker Credited as Adrianne Ames
Slander House Helen 'Mme. Helene' Smith
1939 Panama Patrol Lia Maing
The Zero Hour Susan
1940 I Take This Woman Lola Estermonte Scenes cut

References

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  1. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Room, Adrian (2010). Dictionary of Pseudonyms: 13,000 Assumed Names and Their Origins, 5th ed. McFarland. p. 25. ISBN 9780786457632. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
  2. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.St. John-Brenon, Aileen (July 1927). "Manhattan Medley". Picture Play. XXVI (5): 26–27. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  3. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Thirer, Irene (March 5, 1927). "Kane Throws a Party for Film and Actress". Daily News. New York, New York City. p. 106. Retrieved August 14, 2018 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kear, Lynn; Rossman, John (2008). The Complete Kay Francis Career Record: All Film, Stage, Radio and Television Appearances. McFarland. p. 237. ISBN 9781476602875. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
  5. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Ex-Actress Adrienne Ames Of Movies Dies of Cancer". The Pittsburgh Press. Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh. United Press. June 1, 1947. p. 2. Retrieved August 11, 2018 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Adrienne Ames Labors Long For Radio". Democrat and Chronicle. New York, Rochester. Associated Press. November 19, 1942. p. 57. Retrieved August 18, 2018 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  7. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."(untitled brief)" (PDF). Broadcasting. December 8, 1941. p. 51. Retrieved 18 August 2018.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Wagner, Laura (Spring 2017). "Adrienne Ames: Disgusted with Hollywood". Films of the Golden Age (88): 48–49.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Adrienne Ames Obtains Divorce from Bruce Cabot". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Missouri, St. Louis. July 25, 1935. p. 11. Retrieved August 11, 2018 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Adrienne Ames Given Divorce". The Des Moines Register. Iowa, Des Moines. Associated Press. July 25, 1935. p. 13. Retrieved August 11, 2018 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Cancer Claims Adrienne Ames". Argus-Leader. South Dakota, Sioux Falls. Associated Press. June 1, 1947. p. 2. Retrieved August 11, 2018 – via Newspapers.com. Open access icon
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Harrison, Margaret W. (1970). The story of Oakwood Cemetery. Fort Worth, TX: Oakwood Cemetery Association. OCLC 13400391.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Hollywood Walk of Fame - Adrienne Ames". walkoffame.com. Hollywood Chamber of Commerce. February 8, 1960. Retrieved November 1, 2017.

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