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Claire Adams (September 24, 1898 – September 25, 1978) was a
Canadian silent film actress and benefactor. She was born 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,
Claire Adams worked briefly as a nurse with the Red Cross during World War I.
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 forty 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".
Her best known film was The Big Parade, the second largest
grossing silent film in cinematic history. It was directed by King Vidor and
Adams starred alongside John Gilbert. Perhaps her most memorable role came in
1920 as Barbara, the artist who helps humanize the crippled crime boss played
by Lon Chaney in The Penalty.
She married film producer Benjamin B. Hampton in Hollywood
on September 18, 1924. They had no children. He died in 1932 leaving her very
wealthy. Later that year Adams met Scobie Mackinnon, the second son of L.K.S.
Mackinnon, at a party in London and three weeks later they married on April 1
in Mayfair. They remained childless.
After a protracted honeymoon, in March 1938, Mackinnon
brought Adams to Victoria, Australia.
On his death in 1974, Scobie Mackinnon's estate was worth
A$2,111, 729, which was left entirely to Adams. She died on September 25, 1978,
in Windsor, Victoria and was cremated.
Most Popular Claire Adams Trailers
Total trailers found: 48
16 February 1919
Childhood friends Mary Lee and Vera receive two different versions of the 'birds and the bees' from their mothers.
10 August 1917
Pirate melodrama.
17 July 1927
James Duxbury (Lou Tellegen) is an exponent of polygamy, which may not be legal but certainly provides him with several evenings of entertainment.
01 January 1925
A lonely wife becomes obsessed with furs and keeps bad company in an effort to obtain more.
08 September 1924
Prince Kaloney, while attempting to incite the people of Messina to reinstate their deposed king, is shot by the police.
01 October 1922
When Henry Boone hears his grandfather's stories of his youth as a pioneer and scout, he is gripped by the fires of romance and decides to hunt adventure.
14 July 1917
A young man buys an Aladdin’s lamp at an auction and employs the genie to help him see his love.
16 March 1922
Lucy Bostil, daughter of a Colorado ranch owner, is led by a dog to his master, Lin Slone, who is exhausted from a struggle to capture a wild horse; she revives Lin and they christen the horse "Wildfire.
28 January 1923
"Flash" Lanning returns to Bozzam City from the East to put an end to cattle rustling. Gloria Hallowell, who has known him by reputation, falls in love with Lanning but believes that he loves Ellen Bosworth, an eastern "lady.
01 July 1923
A German Shepherd puppy is "adopted" by a wolf pack in the snowy and frozen Great North and raised by them as one of their own.
30 July 1923
A man faces being hanged for a crime he didn't commit
26 July 1926
Captain "Wolf" Larsen, the absolute master of a seal schooner, is a mystic and philosopher, though he rules his men with an iron hand.
20 July 1924
Tony and Freddie, who have been rivals all their lives, vie for the hand in marriage of their childhood sweetheart.
01 May 1920
A young soldier returns from the war to find his western homeland despoiled by conflict between the wheat farmers and a crooked lawyer.
16 July 1912
A short comedy in which the newest employee is teased by the office girls, but he retaliates by putting black polish in a powder-box.
23 October 1921
Hell Bent Wade is the victim of an attack in which is wife is killed and daughter kidnapped. A couple of decades later, he is a sheriff known only as the "mysterious rider," because of his nighttime prowls in search of cattle rustlers.
15 November 1920
Ethel Warren returns from studying in Europe to make her debut in New York with the opera company in which Jean Paurel, world-famous baritone, is the star.
02 February 1925
John Joyce arrives in Sacramento with his sister, Martha, and aunt to become the editor of a newspaper.
30 January 1921
Claire Adams as a girl forced to marry the man she suspects killed her father. When she refuses, she is virtually kept a prisoner along with kid-brother Frankie Lee until a handsome stranger (Jack Conway) rescues them.
05 November 1925
The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.
13 May 1923
Mix is Grant Malvern, a rancher who befriends scientist Quentin Durant (Tom S. Guise) after rescuing him from a trio of Chinese crooks.
15 October 1924
A socially-ambitious mother is pushing her younger daughter into a life-style that will satisfy the desires of the mother but the older daughter, having tasted the consequences of such a life, determines to save her younger sister from the same mistakes.
11 June 1922
Oil is discovered on the Countess de Elberca's estate in a mythical Spanish American country. Mercedes McDonald, her niece, falls in love with Sandy Buchanan, a young Scotch engineer hired by the countess.
19 August 1922
A cowboy seeks revenge against the man who shot him in a bar-room brawl. While searching for him, he comes across a wild stallion that he is determined to capture and break, and unknowingly falls in love with the daughter of the man who shot him.
23 March 1919
After his assistant, Bud Lester, is killed, Texas Ranger Speedy Meade bids farewell to his girl friend, convent student Mary Dillman, and sets out to break up a gang of cattle thieves operating on the border.
17 February 1924
Our Western star begins this actioner rather improbably, as a New York City gangster. But soon enough he heads for the more comfortable expanse of the open spaces.
06 November 1924
After arriving unexpectedly at his country home, Dan Maitland discovers a young woman attempting to open his safe.
08 August 1922
A fine cast brings depth to this melodrama of a crippled boy, an unhappy marriage, an injured young lady and the miracle of faith.
15 August 1920
Blizzard, deranged from a childhood operation in which both his legs were needlessly amputated after an accident, becomes a vicious criminal, and eventually mob leader of the San Francisco underworld.
01 June 1921
Ailing ranch owner Al Auchincloss (Harry Lorraine) sends for his two nieces, Helen and Bo Raynor (Claire Adams and Charlotte Pierce), who are his heirs.
21 September 1924
This silent Western features Tom Mix as a rancher who goes to Washington to affect better conditions for the anonymous man of the soil.
07 September 1934
Comedy Story
09 February 1924
A group of confirmed bachelors finds their informal "anti-matrimony club" turned into a home for adopted orphans when six orphaned children are suddenly foisted on them.
23 March 1925
Will Prescott (Richard Dix) is a bank cashier whose assistant, Ned Seabury (Neil Hamilton), has made a killing in the stock market.
15 September 1917
A beautiful and intelligent horse is carried off North after his master, a Confederate soldier, is shot and left for dead.
31 May 1925
Aviator Richard March, is shot down over France, though not badly hurt in the crash, he steals a kiss from Marion Weston, the Red Cross nurse whose ambulance comes to his aid.
15 May 1921
Professor Lampton's work of excavating the tomb of Akhnaton (Ikhnaton) is held up by lack of funds, and Prince Dagmar, scion of a Balkan royal family, finances him with the ulterior motive of robbing the tomb of its treasures.
21 March 1926
Ralph Ince stars as Brute Shane, a South Pacific trader who has adopted native girl Saina (Olive Broden).
16 November 1919
The Earl of Dunhaven, who disinherited his son for marrying an American, tries, on his deathbed, to leave his estate to his nephew, the Honorable Guy Wyndham.
31 October 1920
Lucy Hegan, the proprietor of a settlement house for the poor, is engaged to Hugh Gordon, the head of a large pharmaceutical and chemical firm who, unknown to Lucy, is also the ringleader of a powerful drug and white slave operation in the Chinese quarter.
12 September 1920
After her boss sexually harasses her and has an affair with her sister, stenographer Janet Butler quits to support a mill workers' strike, falls in love with a stockholder named Brooks Insall, witnesses her mother shoot the boss during the strike, is wrongly imprisoned but exonerated by Insall, and ultimately enjoys a happy future with him, her recovered mother, and her sister Elsie.
15 January 1923
Billy Winthrop is in love with Beatrice Forbes, who is engaged to Ernest Peabody, a reform candidate for mayor backed by Billy's father.
24 September 1923
Monte Bixby's grandfather leaves a will providing each native-born citizen of his small town with $50,000 while giving Monte one dollar.
28 May 1921
In the small town of Sycamore Ridge live youthful sweethearts Bob Hendricks and Molly Culpepper; Bob's banker father, General Hendricks; and John Barclay, head of the Golden Belt Wheat Co.
29 September 1918
Second release in James Montgomery Flagg's 'Sweethearts and Wives' series of short comedies.
23 November 1919
Seductress Leila Templeton lures Harleth Crossley into a supposed assignation at his wife Marcia’s dinner party making a fool of them both.
