Ada Williams (actress)
{{short description|American actress}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Ada Williams
| image = Ada Williams, "Miss Florida," 1927.jpg
| imagesize =
| caption = Williams as "Miss Florida" 1927
| birth_name = Ada Williams
| birth_date = {{birth date|1913|06|02}}
| birth_place = Louisville, Kentucky
| death_date = {{death date and age|1975|08|12|1913|06|02}}
| death_place = Blowing Rock, North Carolina
| spouse = William Thomas Ince (1929-1934)
Ray Dodge (1935-1975)
| yearsactive = 1929–1935
}}
Ada Williams (June 2, 1913 – August 12, 1975) was an American film actress.
Biography
She was the daughter of Calvin Williams of Knoxville, Kentucky.{{cite web
| title=Ray Edgar Dodge | year=2010
| publisher=The Dodge Family Association
| url=http://www.dodgefamily.org/Genealogy/RayEdgarDodge.shtml
| accessdate=2011-05-04 }}
File:Ada Williams, Los Angeles, cropped.jpg
In 1927, she won the Miss Florida beauty contest,{{cite news
| title='Miss Florida' plans victory at Galveston
| page=1 | work=Miami Daily | date=May 16, 1927
| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6QYtAAAAIBAJ&pg=4406,5608957
| archive-url=https://archive.today/20130124165640/http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=6QYtAAAAIBAJ&pg=4406,5608957
| url-status=dead
| archive-date=January 24, 2013
| accessdate=2011-05-04 }} and became first runner-up in the Miss United States contest.{{cite news
| title=Ada Williams is Runner-up in Beauty Race | page=2
| work=Miami Daily News | date=May 24, 1917
| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=I0AuAAAAIBAJ&pg=5933,485256
| archive-url=https://archive.today/20130125165827/http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=I0AuAAAAIBAJ&pg=5933,485256
| url-status=dead
| archive-date=January 25, 2013
| accessdate=2011-05-04 }}
Her film career began with a role was in Joy Street (1929) for the William Fox Film corporation. As she was 16 at the time, her contract needed to be validated by the California court system. She was chaperoned by her mother, A. G. Williams. In 1929, at the age of 18, she was married to William Thomas Ince, a son of a movie producer. She took the name Ada Ince, which appeared in her subsequent film credits.{{cite news
| title=Ada Williams Signs 5-Year Film Contract
| work=Miami Daily News | date=August 26, 1928
| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2206&dat=19280826&id=0z4uAAAAIBAJ&sjid=K9gFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3131,6083166 | accessdate=2010-02-02
}}{{dead link|date=February 2016}}{{cite news
| title=Former Miami Beauty, Son of Movie Producer File Intention Notice
| work=Miami Daily News | date=June 29, 1929
| url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2206&dat=19290629&id=XycvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=m9QFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2959,2346014 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20130124200621/http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2206&dat=19290629&id=XycvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=m9QFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2959,2346014 | url-status=dead | archive-date=January 24, 2013 | accessdate=2010-02-02
| title=Ada Ince | work=AllMovie
| url=http://www.allmovie.com/artist/ada-ince-34405
| accessdate=2010-02-02 }}
File:William T. and Ada Williams Ince divorcing.jpg
They were divorced in 1934.{{cite news
| title=Ada Ince Gets Divorce; Winner of Four Beauty Contests Wins Decree From T.H. Ince's Son
| work=The New York Times | date=April 14, 1934
| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1934/04/14/archives/ada-ince-gets-divorce-winner-of-four-beauty-contests-wins-decree.html
| accessdate=2011-05-04 }} The following year, she was married to Ray Dodge, a middle-distance runner who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics.{{cite news
| title=Beauty Married Again | date=May 8, 1935
| work=Daily Boston Globe
| url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/2048316312.html?FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&type=historic&date=May+08%2C+1935&author=&pub=Daily+Boston+Globe+%281928-1960%29&desc=BEAUTY+MARRIED+AGAIN&pqatl=google
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121106160904/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/2048316312.html?FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&type=historic&date=May+08,+1935&author=&pub=Daily+Boston+Globe+(1928-1960)&desc=BEAUTY+MARRIED+AGAIN&pqatl=google
| url-status=dead
| archive-date=November 6, 2012
| accessdate=2011-05-04 }} Their daughters were named Diana Ada and Darlene Rae Dodge.
Filmography
File:Frontier Days lobby card.jpg in Frontier Days (1934)]]
- Joy Street (1929) as Beverly
- Common Clay{{cite book
| first=Kenneth White | last=Munden |author2=American Film Institute
| title=The American Film Institute catalog of motion pictures produced in the United States, Issues 1931-1940
| page=141 | work=AFI Catalog Series | year=1997
|editor=Kenneth White Munden
| publisher=University of California Press
| isbn=0-520-20969-9}} (1930) as Hugh's sister
- The Vanishing Shadow (1934, Serial) as Gloria Grant
- The Fighting Rookie (1934) as Molly Malone
- Frontier Days (1934) as Beth Wilson
- Stolen Harmony{{cite web
| title=Ada Ince: Credits | work=TV Guide
| url=http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/ada-ince/credits/138131
| accessdate=2010-02-02 }} (1935) as Girl in Sextette (uncredited)
| title=Ada Ince, Filmography | publisher=TCM
| url=http://www.tcmuk.tv/movie_database_results.php?action=participant&id=92010&afiId=7261
| accessdate=2010-02-02 }} (1935) as Gwen Gibson (final film role)
References
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External links
{{commons category|Ada Williams (actress)}}
- {{IMDb name|0408423}}
- {{cite web
| title=Heroine of the Month for June 2006, Ada Ince
| work=Tom Gault's Serial Experience
| url=http://www.serialexperience.com/showarticle.php?fldRecNum=315
| accessdate=2010-02-02
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101130215033/http://serialexperience.com/showarticle.php?fldRecNum=315
| archive-date=2010-11-30
| url-status=dead
}}
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Category:American film actresses