“I wish I weren’t ambitious. I’m never satisfied. I don’t think I shall ever be really happy because I’m never pleased with what I have done – I can always see something ahead that I must try to do. I never measure up to my own standard.” — Adrienne Ames
Source: Alice L. Tildesley (1933)
“I’m not going to stay if I find out that I’m to be just another hanger-on. If I don’t make the grade I’m not going to waste my own time or the studio’s.” – Adrienne Ames
Source: Robbin Coons (1931)
The Death Kiss (1932). With David Manners and Bela Lugosi.
“A girl who has money has a greater incentive to succeed because she must justify herself for working.” – Adrienne Ames
Source: Alice L. Tildesley (1933)
From Hell to Heaven (1933). With Carole Lombard, Jack Oakie, David Manners and Adrienne Ames.
“Motion picture work thrills me. I’ve been an ardent fan all of my life. Certainly I’ve hoped for a screen career, more this second time than the first. If I make good now I’ll be vindicated for that first experience, and that’s a perfectly human desire.” — Adrienne Ames
Source: H.H. Niemeyer (1933)
Film players Frances Dee, Adrienne Ames, and Judith Wood at the beach in the early 1930s.
“Adrienne Ames knows how to wear clothes — what very few women possess. She’s always alert to style trends and articulates them. She buys plenty of clothes.” — Travis Benton, 1930s Paramount Studios costume designer.
