#maude adams

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Stage actress Maude Adams, the LGBTQ icon who (allegedly) was the inspiration for Peter Pan. Though she was never publicly “out”, she never married, and had many close female friendships throughout her life. Including Ethel Barrymore (Yes from the illustrious Barrymore family—the most recent being Drew).

Maude was very popular with female audiences, and due to her disinterest in men, her chastity helped her to maintain a pristine reputation throughout her life. She was often rumored to be engaged to men as an effective “smokescreen” to shield her from rumors of lesbianism. None of these relationships were anything more than just that—rumors.

After playing Peter Pan on stage, Maude reached monumental levels of stardom for the time, which made having a private life very challenging. She lived with her “secretary” until she died, and both were buried on the same plot.

Maude was a serious actress, who claimed she would never marry due to her dedication to her craft. This was a common excuse for closeted gays in the Victorian era. Her fearlessness, and paradoxically childlike innocence are inspiring to me. She lived a colorful life, and is definitely worth looking into.

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Alphonse Mucha 🎨

Alfons Mucha - Portrait of Josephine Crane-Bradley as Slavia - c 1908

Alfons Mucha – Maude Adams as Joan of Arc (1909)

Alphonse Mucha - The Emerald (1900)

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Bond Girls on Vogue (Part 1)

Ursula Andress

British Vogue, April 15, 1966, by Duffy

Vogue Paris, June/July 1972, by Rene Chateau

Tania Mallet

British Vogue, July 1961, by Eugene Vernier

British Vogue, July 1962, by Henry Clarke

British Vogue, October 1, 1963, by Duffy

British Vogue, April 15, 1964, by David Bailey

Claudine Auger

Vogue Paris, November 1971, by Henry Clarke

Britt Ekland

British Vogue, June 1966, by David Bailey

Vogue Italy, July 1967, by David Bailey

American Vogue, April 15, 1969, by Gianni Penati

British Vogue, September 1969, by Barry Lategan

Maude Adams

British Vogue, September 15, 1966, by Saul Leiter

Barbara Bach

American Vogue, July 1966, by Richard Avedon

Carole Bouquet

Vogue Paris, May 1994, by Dominique Issermann

Talisa Soto

British Vogue, September 1983, by Patrick Demarchelier

British Vogue, December 1983, by Albert Watson

Vogue Germany, December 1983, by Albert Watson

Vogue Italy, May 1984, by Hiro

British Vogue, August 1984, by Albert Watson

British Vogue, September 1984, by Paul Lange

British Vogue, February 1986, by Lord Snowdon

American Vogue, April 1989, by Patrick Demarchelier

Vogue Spain, May 1988, by Eric Boman

Famke Janssen

Vogue Italy, March 1987, by Hiro

Michelle Yeoh

Vogue China, October 2022, by Agnes Lloyd-Platt

Vogue Taiwan, November 2022, by Agnes Lloyd-Platt

Sophie Marceau

Vogue Paris, August 2003, by Inez & Vinoodh

Vogue Paris, May 2007, by Mario Testino

Vogue Paris, May 2014, by Mario Testino

Vogue France, April 2024, by Quentin de Briey

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Watched Kaz Rowe’s video on Maude Adams

EDIT: she was the first actress to portray Peter Pan on a BROADWAY stage, there was someone else a year before her in,, i think West End?

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Hot Vintage Stage Actress Round 1

Maude Adams: Peter Pan in Peter Pan (1905 Broadway); Maggie Wylie in What Every Woman Knows (1908 Broadway); Jane Thing/Cinderella in A Kiss for Cinderella (1916 Broadway)

Winifred Fraser: Moira Loney in Little Mary (1905 West End, National Tour AUS); Barbara Pennymint in Pomander Walk (1910 Broadway); Mlle Marchand in The Captive (1926 Broadway)

Propaganda under the cut

Maude Adams:

She was like. the original Greta Garbo (Ethel Barrymore literally called her that). She was a sexy lesbian, she was an eccentric inventor who liked her privacy, even though she was the highest paid actress of her day she supplemented the salaries of other performers with her own pay

Winifred Fraser:

She’s like so obscure but she got arrested in 1927 for starring as a lesbian in a play about lesbians on Broadway and I think tumblr deserves to know about this gay icon

[365daysoflesbians]

As an artist, Adams helped make Peter Pan a national phenomenon, but her accomplishments took a toll on her body and impacted her personal relationships. While many theater critics lauded her work onstage, other reporters described her private life less sympathetically. In 1894, rumors in a gossip column reported that Adams had liaisons with other actresses, and the rumors resurfaced when reporters claimed that a young woman of Cuban descent had spent too much time backstage during a run of Peter Pan in New York. Frohman attempted to suppress these reports and fabricated an account that Adams was engaged to a writer, Richard Harding Davis. But she had no serious personal or professional relationships with men other than Frohman and Barrie. Besides the time that she spent with the producer and the playwright abroad, Adams traveled only with her closest female companions, and she worked hard to protect her privacy. Only one actor attempted to court the actress, but she rebuffed him and asked Frohman to remove him from the play’s cast. In another instance, a stagehand at Frohman’s theater made his unrequited love for Adams a public matter. Morris Gottlieb, one of the crew at the Empire responsible for operating a spotlight, also fell in love with Adams. Gottlieb had become entranced with Adams while she rehearsed her part and played it at the Empire, and he believed that she had responded in an encouraging manner to his love letters. She had not. Gottlieb’s actions became erratic, and he was admitted into an asylum”

- “Shadow of [a] girl”: An Examination of Peter Pan in Performance by Patrick B. Tuitt in Second Star to the Right: Peter Pan in the Popular Imagination (2008)

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edwardian women ii

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Maude Adams as Peter Pan and Mildred Morris as Wendy in Peter Pan, 1906 // Wendy - Maisie Peters

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Maude Adams as Napoleon ll in L'Aiglon (1901-02)

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Alphonse Mucha Maude Adams as Joan of Arc

Oil on canvas, 208,9 x 76,2 cm, 1909

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I’ll be honest. I completely forgot Napoleon was in Peter Pan. What is this

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Christopher Lee and Maude Adams on the set of The Man With The Golden Gun. 1974

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Portrait of Maude Adams :]

[ritahayworrth]

anyone with an extra four million dollars wanna buy me maude adams’ retirement home

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video essays that have changed me as a person

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Maude Adams as Peter Pan