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:This article is about Maude Adams, the stage
actress. For the Bond girl, see Maud Adams.


Maude Adams (November 11, 1872—July 17,
1953) was an United States|American stage
actor|actress, most noted for her signature role,
Peter Pan.

She was born Maude Ewing Adams Kiskadden in Salt
Lake City, Utah, the child of Mormons James
Kisadden and his wife, Annie Adams, who acted
under her maiden name.  Maude joined her mother
onstage at the age of nine months, and was soon
traveling about the West with her mother in a
group of traveling players, adopting her mother's
maiden name as a stage name. At age 5, she
appeared in Fritz in San Francisco, California|San
Francisco. She returned to Salt Lake City to
attend the Salt Lake Collegiate Institute, living
with her grandmother. 

After touring in Boston and California, she made
her New York, New York|New York debut at age 16 as
a member of E. H. Sothern's theatre company. She
became a member of Charles H. Hoyt's stock company
and then, in 1889, of Charles Frohman's, at last
taking ingénue roles. She spent five years as the
leading lady in John Drew's company.

Her greatest triumphs came in the works of James
M. Barrie, including The Little Minister, Quality
Street, What Every Woman Knows, and Peter Pan, the
latter being the role with which she was most
closely identified, and often repeated.

Adams last appeared on the New York stage in A
Kiss For Cinderella in 1916. In 1917 she donated
her estates at Lake Ronkonkoma to the Sisters of
St. Regis for use as a novitiate and retreat
house. Following a thirteen year retirement from
the stage, during which she worked with General
Electric to develop improved and more powerful
stage lighting, she appeared in several regional
productions of Shakespeare. She headed the drama
department at Stephens College in Missouri from
1937 to 1943. 

She died at her summer home, Caddam Hill, in
Tannersville, New York and is interred in the
cemetery of Cenacle Convent, Lake Ronkonkoma, New
York.

==Appearances on Broadway==

*Lord Chumley - 1888
*A Midnight Belle - 1889
*Men and Women - 1890
*The Masked Ball - 1892
*The Butterflies - 1894
*The Imprudent Young Couple - 1895
*Christopher, Jr. - 1895
*Rosemary - 1896
*The Little Minister - 1897
*L'Aiglon - 1900
*Quality Street - 1901
*The Pretty Sister of Jose - 1903
*The Little Minister - 1904
*Op o' Me Thumb - 1905
*Peter Pan – 1905, 1906, 1912, 1915
*Quality Street - 1908
*The Jesters - 1908
*The-Merry-Go-Round - 1908
*What Every Woman Knows - 1908
*Chantecler - 1911
*The Little Minister - 1916
*A Kiss for Cinderella - 1916

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