About Adele Farrington
Lived 1867 – 1936 (aged 68–69). Adele Farrington was an American actor, film actor, singer and composer.
Adele Farrington (1867 - 19 December 1936) was an American actress of the stage and the silent film era.
Biography Born in Brooklyn, New York, Farrington had the lead in This Is the Life (1915) for the American Film Company. She also did her own stunts for the film. Her relationship with Bosworth led to his divorce from a previous wife in 1903. In the divorce suit, the keeper of a boardinghouse testified that Bosworth and Farrington had represented themselves to her as husband and wife when they lodged there. Bosworth offered no defense in that suit.
On December 19, 1936, Farrington died in Los Angeles at age 69. Her body was cremated following the funeral two days later.
Selected filmography False Colors (1914) It's No Laughing Matter (1915) Hypocrites (1915) The Devil's Bondwoman (1916) Her Defiance (1916) The Love Girl (1916) The Mate of the Sally Ann (1917) The House of Silence (1918) Such a Little Pirate (1918) Putting It Over (1919) A Fugitive from Matrimony (1919) In Old Kentucky (1919) Too Much Johnson (1919) The Mollycoddle (1920) The Girl in the Web (1920) Rio Grande (1920) One Hour Before Dawn (1920) The Palace of Darkened Windows (1920) Black Beauty (1921) The Child Thou Gavest Me (1921) Her Mad Bargain (1921) The Spenders (1921) The Charm School (1921) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1921) Bobbed Hair (1922) Little Wildcat (1922) The Scarlet Lily (1923) One Stolen Night (1923) Bag and Baggage (1923) The Man Next Door (1923) A Gentleman of Leisure (1923) Shadow of the Law (1926) The Traffic Cop (1926)
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Who was Adele Farrington?
American actress (1867-1936)
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Adele Farrington was born in 1867 in Brooklyn.
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Adele Farrington died on 19 December 1936 in Los Angeles.
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Adele Farrington was an actor, film actor, singer and composer.
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