Adrienne Ames

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title: "Adrienne Ames" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1907-births", "1947-deaths", "20th-century-american-actresses", "american-film-actresses", "american-silent-film-actresses", "deaths-from-cancer-in-new-york-(state)", "actresses-from-fort-worth,-texas", "american-radio-personalities"] description: "American actress (1907–1947)" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrienne_Ames" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary American actress (1907–1947) ::

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Field	Value
name	Adrienne Ames
image	Ames ACJ.jpg
birth_date
birth_place	Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.
death_date
death_place	New York City, U.S.
occupation	Actress
birthname	Ruth Adrienne McClure
othername	Adrienne Truex
Adrianne Ames
spouse	{{plainlist
* {{marriage	Deward Truax
* {{marriage	Stephen Ames
* {{marriage	Bruce Cabot
yearsactive	1927–1940
children	1
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| name = Adrienne Ames | image = Ames ACJ.jpg | caption = | birth_date = | birth_place = Fort Worth, Texas, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = New York City, U.S. | occupation = Actress | birthname = Ruth Adrienne McClure | othername = Adrienne Truex Adrianne Ames | spouse = {{plainlist|

| yearsactive = 1927–1940 | children = 1

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

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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

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

References

1. (2010). "Dictionary of Pseudonyms: 13,000 Assumed Names and Their Origins, 5th ed.". McFarland.
2. (July 1927). "Manhattan Medley". Picture Play.
3. (March 5, 1927). "Kane Throws a Party for Film and Actress". Daily News.
4. (2008). "The Complete Kay Francis Career Record: All Film, Stage, Radio and Television Appearances". McFarland.
5. (November 19, 1942). "Adrienne Ames Labors Long For Radio". Democrat and Chronicle.
6. (June 1, 1947). "Ex-Actress Adrienne Ames Of Movies Dies of Cancer". The Pittsburgh Press.
7. (December 8, 1941). "(untitled brief)". Broadcasting.
8. (Spring 2017). "Adrienne Ames: Disgusted with Hollywood". Films of the Golden Age.
9. (July 25, 1935). "Adrienne Ames Obtains Divorce from Bruce Cabot". St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
10. (July 25, 1935). "Adrienne Ames Given Divorce". The Des Moines Register.
11. (June 1, 1947). "Cancer Claims Adrienne Ames". Argus-Leader.
12. Harrison, Margaret W.. (1970). "The story of Oakwood Cemetery". Oakwood Cemetery Association.
13. (February 8, 1960). "Hollywood Walk of Fame - Adrienne Ames". Hollywood Chamber of Commerce.

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