Adrienne Ames

Adrienne Ames (born Ruth Adrienne McClure; August 3, 1907 – May 31, 1947) was an American film actress. Early in her career she was known as Adrienne Truex.

Early years Ames was born in Fort Worth, Texas, one of six children of Samuel Hugh McClure and Flora Parthenia (née Potter) McClure.

Career Film

Ames began her film career in 1927 as a stand-in for Pola Negri. 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. She continued broadcasting until two weeks before her death in 1947.

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.

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. A later marriage to broker Stephen Ames ended in divorce on October 30, 1933. Her last marriage, on October 31, 1933, was to fellow actor Bruce Cabot; they divorced on July 24, 1935.

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

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.

Filmography + Film Year Title Role Notes 1929 Sally Bit Part Uncredited 1931The 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 HellClaire Hempstead Guilty as Hell Vera MarshThe Death Kiss Marcia Lane 1933 From Hell to Heaven Joan Burt Broadway Bad AileenA Bedtime Story Paulette Disgraced! Julia Thorndyke The Avenger Ruth Knowles 1934 George White's Scandals Barbara Loraine You're Telling Me! Princess LescabouraThe 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 MaingThe Zero Hour Susan 1940 I Take This Woman Lola Estermonte Scenes cut