Molly Adair

Mary Marguerite Potter (24 March 1905 – 9 September 1990), known professionally as Molly Adair, was an English stage and silent screen actress.

Biography Adair was of Irish-American descent. She was born as Mary Marguerite Potter on 24 March 1905 in Brentford, West London, England.

Adair worked as a stage and silent screen actress. One of her earliest silent film roles was as the titular character in Stella (1921), directed by Edwin J. Collins and based on the 1904 novel Stella Fregelius by H. Rider Haggard.

When she was 17, Adair travelled to the Union of South Africa, employed by African Film Productions Ltd., to star in two film adaptations of Henry de Vere Stacpoole works. These were The Blue Lagoon (1923), directed by Dick Cruikshanks and William Bowden, and The Reef of Stars (1923), directed by Joseph Albrecht.

Adair was the mother of the actress, artist and model Jill Adams (1930–2008). She met Jill's New Zealand-born father, Arthur James Siggins, while she was filming The Blue Lagoon (1923) in Tanganyika, East Africa (now Tanzania). Siggins was a sergeant in the British South African Police (BSAP) in Rhodesia and later worked as an animal handler during silent film productions.

Selected filmography Year Title Role Notes1920 A Gamble in Lives Gladys Danvers 1921 Stella Stella Fregelius The Beryl Coronet Mary Short film The Puppet Man Jenny Rose 1922 The Exclusive Model The Girl Sinister Street Sylvia Scarlett Married to a Mormon 1923 The Blue Lagoon Emmeline Lestrange The Reef of Stars Chaya/Princess Moya (Chaya's daughter)