Adrienne Ames

Adrienne Ames (born Ruth Adrienne McClure;<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> August 3, 1907 – May 31, 1947) was an American film actress. Early in her career she was known as Adrienne Truex.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>

Early years

Ames was born in Fort Worth, Texas, one of six children of Samuel Hugh McClure and Flora Parthenia (née Potter) McClure.Template: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.<ref name="ckfcr">Template:Cite book</ref> 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.<ref name=pp/> 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.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> She continued broadcasting until two weeks before her death in 1947.<ref name=pp>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>

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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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.<ref name="fga">Template:Cite journal</ref> A later marriage to broker Stephen Ames ended in divorce on October 30, 1933.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> Her last marriage, on October 31, 1933, was to fellow actor Bruce Cabot; they divorced on July 24, 1935.<ref>Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref>

Death

Ames died of cancer on May 31, 1947, in New York City, aged 39.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite news Template:Open access</ref> She is interred in the Oakwood Cemetery in her hometown of Fort Worth, Texas.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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

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