Adrienne Morrison
actress
- Birth name:
- Mabel Adrienne Morrison
- Born:
- 1883-03-01, New York City, New York, USA
- Died:
- 1940-11-20, New York City, New York, USA
- Professions:
- actress
Biography
Adrienne Morrison entered the world on 1 March 1883 amid the electric hum of New York City, and the stage lights never stopped calling her name. Silent-era audiences remember her fearless turns in Damaged Goods (1914), The Valley of Decision (1916), and And the Law Says (1916), performances that crackled with a quiet intensity rare for the time. Off-screen, she exchanged vows twice—first with literary agent Eric Pinker, later with famed actor Richard Bennett—each marriage adding its own scene to her private script. She took her final bow in the same city that had watched her first, dying in New York on 20 November 1940.
