Adora Andrews
{{short description|American actress}}
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| birth_date = March 19, 1872
| birth_place = Denver, Colorado
| death_date = September 18, 1956
| death_place = Rye, New York
| occupation = Actress
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Adora Andrews (March 19, 1872 – September 18, 1956) was an American actress, working mainly on stage from the 1890s to the late 1930s.
Early life
Career
File:Adora Andrews wearing a beetlewing dress (1898).png
As a young woman, Andrews was noted for her gowns and hairstyles. In 1898, her photograph appeared in newspapers, because she was wearing a white silk gown decorated with "5000 beetle wings", used like beads for a decorative trim.{{Cite news|date=1898-07-17|title=Here's the Girl in the Wonderful Beetle-Wing Dress|pages=6|work=The San Francisco Examiner|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/55741291/adora-andrews-beetle-wing-dress/|access-date=2020-11-24|via=Newspapers.com}} Also in 1898, she posed for a series of illustrations for creating a hairstyle with a pompadour roll. "I can't tolerate the Paris pompadour, with its tight pug at the back," she explained. "I arrange mine lower, in the regular figure 8".{{Cite news|date=1898-08-14|title=How to Make that Pompadour Roll|pages=4|work=The San Francisco Examiner|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/63920257/how-to-make-that-pompadour-roll/|access-date=2020-11-24|via=Newspapers.com}}
Andrews was primarily a stage actress, beginning in stock companies with Sadie Martinot and Charles Frohman.{{Cite news|date=1904-03-26|title=New Principals in Summer Stock|pages=16|work=Democrat and Chronicle|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/63919954/new-principals-in-summer-stock/|access-date=2020-11-24|via=Newspapers.com}} Her Broadway credits included roles in Arizona (1900-1901),{{Cite web|title=A Scene from "Arizona"|url=http://seattletheatrehistory.org/photograph-record/scene-arizona|access-date=2020-11-24|website=Seattle Theatre History}} Her First Divorce (1913), Roly-Boly Eyes (1919), Lollipop (1924), Money from Home (1927),{{Cite news|date=1927-02-08|title=Frank Craven at the Hollis|pages=10|work=The Boston Globe|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/63924331/frank-craven-at-the-hollis/|access-date=2020-11-24|via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite book|last=Hischak|first=Thomas S.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GzeiySJZXF4C&dq=Adora+Andrews+actress&pg=PA307|title=Broadway Plays and Musicals: Descriptions and Essential Facts of More Than 14,000 Shows through 2007|date=2009-04-22|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-5309-2|pages=307|language=en}} The 19th Hole (1927-1928),{{Cite magazine|last=Leland|first=Gordon M.|date=October 22, 1927|title=The 19th Hole|url=https://archive.org/details/sim_billboard_1927-10-22_39_43?q=%22Adora+Andrews%22|magazine=Billboard|volume=39|pages=46|via=Internet Archive}} Smiling Faces (1932), False Dreams, Farewell (1934), and Tovarich (1936-1937). She also starred in the national touring company of The Great Divide (1908),{{Cite journal|date=May 1908|title=Our Portraits|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o5huuAncFWMC&dq=Adora+Andrews+actress&pg=PP291|journal=Burr McIntosh Monthly|volume=16}}{{Cite news|date=1908-02-25|title='The Great Divide' is Disappointing|pages=6|work=Star-Gazette|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/63924042/the-great-divide-is-disappointing/|access-date=2020-11-24|via=Newspapers.com}} and was a principal in the summer stock company at Cook Opera House in Rochester. In 1908, she starred in The Rose of the Rancho when it opened the Grand Opera House in Winnipeg.{{Cite news|date=1908-12-26|title=Opening of Grand Theatre|pages=2|work=The Winnipeg Tribune|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/63922821/opening-of-grand-theatre/|access-date=2020-11-24|via=Newspapers.com}} On film, Andrews is best known for her role in The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair (1939).{{Cite web|title=The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair|url=https://www.loc.gov/item/mbrs00021068/|access-date=2020-11-24|website=Library of Congress}}
Personal life
Andrews died at a nursing home in Rye, New York in 1956, aged 84 years.{{Cite news|date=1956-09-20|title=Adora Andrews|pages=174|work=Daily News|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/63903690/adora-andrews/|access-date=2020-11-24|via=Newspapers.com}}
References
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External links
- {{IMDB name|0028553}}
- {{IBDB name|66746}}
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Category:Actresses from Denver