Adelaide Bean

Adelaide Bean was an American actress, a journalist, and a member of the Communist Party of the United States of America.

Early life Adelaide Bean was born in Connecticut, where she studied music and voice at the Oxford School in Hartford and graduated in 1928. Her first theatrical role was playing piano for the traveling Jitney Players. She then taught music in Sarasota, Florida, for two years before moving to New York City to focus on acting. and Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness. She worked as Herman Shumlin's assistant on The Children's Hour. Shortly after, she produced the original Broadway production of Let Freedom Ring by Albert Barne, which depicts textile strikes in the South.