- New York socialite and model. Glamour photographs of her so enticed a Paramount Pictures executive that she landed a contract without having to do a screen test. Essentially played herself on screen, bedecked in furs, satin and jewelry. In 1934, she filed for a $9,053 tax allowance for wardrobe expenses (today's equivalent of $146,000). Her most memorable performance was as the charming princess in You're Telling Me! (1934) with W.C. Fields.
- She was posthumously awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1612 Vine Street in Hollywood, California on February 8, 1960.
- In 1927, Ames began her film career as a stand-in for Pola Negri.
- On May 31, 1947 Adrienne died of cancer. She was just forty-three years old. Her daughter and mother were at her bedside when she died.
- She loved designer clothes and became known as one of Hollywood's best dressed women.
- Sister of actress Gladys MacClure.
- Mother of Barbara Ames.
- Following her untimely death, she was interred at the Oakwood Cemetery in her hometown Fort Worth, Texas.
- Although 1907 is usually given as her birth year her grave and death certificate show she was actually born in 1903.
- She took literature classes at Columbia University.
- In 1939 she starred in the low budget dramas The Zero Hour and Panama Patrol. Unhappy with the roles she was getting she decided to quit acting. She moved to New York City and began hosting a popular radio show.
- During World War 2 she volunteered with Bundles For Bluejackets and appeared in ads for Chesterfield cigarettes.
- At the age of seventeen she married Derward Dumont Truax, a wealthy oil man, but her marriage was unhappy and she started an affair with actor Bruce Cabot. She then left her husband and married Bruce on October 31, 1933.
- In her biography "Natural Blonde" (2000) Liz Smith indicates that her grandmother one time rented a room (at 1811 Jennings, Fort Worth, TX) to Adrienne Ames before Ames moved to Los Angeles. Smith says Ames died of lung cancer. (p.33).
- Adrienne had a lovely figure and often posed nude for photographer Alfred Cheney Johnston.
- She started her career performing with the Ziegfeld Follies using the name Adrienne Truax.
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