Claire Adams
| Claire Adams | |
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Adams in 1918
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| Born |
24 September 1898 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
| Died | 25 September 1978 (aged 80) Melbourne, Australia |
| Years active | 1912-1963 |
| Spouse(s) | Benjamin B. Hampton (1924-1932) (his death) Donald John Scobie Mackinnon (1932-1974) (his death) |
Claire Adams (24 September 1898 – 25 September 1978) was a Canadian silent film actress and benefactor.
She was born on 24 September 1898 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, as the daughter of Stanley Wells Adams, a Welsh-born accountant, and his Canadian wife, Lillian Adams (née Kennedy). Educated in Canada and England, Her parents divorced when Adams was a child, but the family was reunited two decades later when Adams and her mother went to live with Adams' father and her stepmother.
Adams worked briefly as a nurse with the Red Cross during World War I. (An article published in The Salina Evening Journal 25 December 1920 says, "During the war she became a nurse in a Detroit hospital, training for the Red Cross, but at the end of a year her health was broken down and she was sent home.)
In 1920 Adams signed a five-year contract with Benjamin Bowles Hampton, a Hollywood producer and her future husband. She later moved to California where she acted in more than 40 silent films, including melodramas, comedies and westerns.
Described as "patricianly beautiful," Adams worked with many of Hollywood's leading actors, including Adolphe Menjou, Tom Mix, Wallace Beery, and Lon Chaney. In 1923 she was Rin Tin Tin's leading lady in Where the North Begins, which was a huge success and is often credited with saving Warner Bros. from bankruptcy. She later maintained that Rin Tin Tin was her "favourite leading man."
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