Stella Adams

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Stella Adams (April 24, 1883 – September 17, 1961) was an American actress. Born in Sherman, Texas, she moved to Oakland, California in her childhood and was educated in schools in that city. She made her stage debut at the Tivoli Theatre in San Francisco in 1899 and had an active career with American stock theatre companies until 1912. During that period she appeared in the chorus of two Broadway musicals in New York, and also portrayed the role of Javotte in the original Broadway production of Alfred Baldwin Sloane and Sydney Rosenfeld's comic opera The Mocking Bird in 1902-1903. While working in stock theatre in Los Angeles she was cast in her first leading role in a film, starring in In the Sultan's Power (1909). She continued to work as a stage actress in her home state of California until joining the Nestor Film Company in 1912. She made more than a 100 short silent films over the five year period, and also some feature length pictures. After her marriage in 1917 she stopped performing for the next nine year, but resumed performing in pictures from 1926 until her retirement in 1936. In her later career she appeared in sound films.

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