Adams began performing as a child while accompanying her actress mother on tour. At age 16, she made her Broadway debut, and under Charles Frohman's management, she became a popular player alongside leading man John Drew, Jr. in the early 1890s. Beginning in 1897, Adams starred in plays by J. M. Barrie, including The Little Minister, Quality Street, What Every Woman Knows and Peter Pan. These productions made Adams the most popular actress in New York. She also performed in various other plays. Her last Broadway play, in 1916, was Barrie's A Kiss for Cinderella. After a 13-year retirement, she appeared in more Shakespeare plays and then taught acting in Missouri.
Adams retired after A Kiss for Cinderella in 1916. During the 1920s, she worked with General Electric to develop improved and more powerful stage lighting and with the Eastman Company in developing color photography. It has been suggested that her motivation for her association with these technology companies was because she wished to appear in a color film version of Peter Pan, and this would have required better lighting and techniques for color photography. After 13 years away from the stage, she returned to acting, appearing occasionally in regional productions of Shakespeare plays, including as Portia in The Merchant of Venice in Ohio, in 1931, and as Maria in Twelfth Night in 1934 in Maine.
Adams as Peter Pan
Maude Adams was an American actress who achieved her greatest success playing the role of Peter Pan in the 1905 Broadway production of Peter Pan; or, The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up. Maude first met Miss Lillian Florence “Lilliet” in 1892. The young pair lived together until Lillie's premature death from a terminal illness in 1901. In 1905, Miss Louise Boynton assumed Lilliet's special place in Maude's private world and remained there for forty-six years. Maude is buried with Louise, with both their name on the tombstone.
Louise Boynton & Maude Adams are buried together in Cenacle Convent Grounds, Lake Ronkonkoma, Suffolk County, New York. Maude asked to be buried beside her secretary and faithful friend, Louise, who had died 2 years before, with both of their names on the gravestone.
After her retirement, Adams was on occasion pursued for roles in film. The closest she came to accepting was in 1938, when producer David O. Selznick persuaded her to do a screen test (with Janet Gaynor, who would later play the female lead) for the role of Miss Fortune in the film The Young in Heart. After negotiations failed, the role was played by Minnie Dupree, who like Adams had been a girlish whimsical type of actress. The twelve-minute screen test was later preserved by the George Eastman House in 2004.
She died, aged 80, at her summer home, Caddam Hill, in Tannersville, New York, and is interred in the cemetery of the Sisters of the Cenacle, Lake Ronkonkoma, New York.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maude_Adams
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