5 Quotes & Sayings By Maude Adams

Maude Adams was a stage and screen actress, a popular singer, a two-time Oscar nominee and Academy Award winner, a prolific actress in silent films for 20 years, a star in the Broadway theatre, a successful film producer and director, and a great American. She was born in 1873 in San Francisco to an Irish father and an English mother. Her mother died when Maude was 12 years old. She was educated by private tutors and began her acting career at the age of 14 when she played in San Francisco. In 1894 Maude Adams married her first husband, Charles Page Read more

Together they ran the New York Stock Exchange from 1906 to 1909. In 1908 she divorced Page and married George Arliss, one of the most famous actors in the world at that time. After starring in "Theda Bara" movies with Arliss in 1911-12 Adams began making movies independently until the couple began producing movies together after Arliss's success with "Wings". The couple's partnership lasted for more than 50 years; their last film together was "The Private Life of Don Juan" (1934).

On February 15th, 1939, Maude died of throat cancer at the age of 76.

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If I smashed the traditions it was because I knew no traditions. Maude Adams
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Genius is the talent for seeing things straight. It is seeing things in a straight line without any bend or break or aberration of sight seeing them as they are without any warping of vision. Flawless mental sight! That is genius. Maude Adams
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Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best. Maude Adams
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Don't be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success. Maude Adams