Background
Frank Ramsay Adams was born in Morrison, Illinois, United States, the son of George Bradford Adams, an editor, and Lucy E. Ramsay.
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Frank Ramsay Adams was born in Morrison, Illinois, United States, the son of George Bradford Adams, an editor, and Lucy E. Ramsay.
Adams graduated from Hyde Park High School in Chicago in 1900. Four years later he received a Bachelor of Philosophy gedree from the University of Chicago.
While still a student, Adams and Will M. Hough had begun collaborating with Joseph Edgar "Joe" Howard, the well-known composer, singer, director, and producer. Their first success was His Highness, the Bey, which began a three-month run on November 21, 1904, at the La Salle Theatre.
The Isle of Bong-Bong premiered on March 14, 1905, and starred Howard, with Cecil Lean and Florence Holbrook, who would appear in other works by the trio and become Chicago's most popular stage stars of the day. The Umpire opened on December 2, 1905, and ran for 300 performances.
During the 1906-1907 Chicago season The Girl Question and The Time, the Place, and the Girl were long-running triumphs. The latter contained the popular songs "Blow the Smoke Away" and "Waning Honeymoon, " and its 400-plus performances remained unsurpassed in Chicago for years.
The 1908 season saw the trio's Honeymoon Trail at the La Salle and also A Stubborn Cinderella, which inaugurated the Princess Theater, enjoyed 300 performances, and included the song "When You First Kiss the Last Girl You Love. " Despite the good notices for the young John Barrymore, Cinderella was less successful in New York in 1909.
Howard, Hough, and Adams offered The Prince of Tonight, The Golden Girl, The Flirting Princess, and The Goddess of Liberty in 1909. The first of these musicals presented the song "I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now, " the music of which was composed by Harold Orlob. Miss Nobody from Starland (1910) ran for only fifteen weeks and marked the end of the trio's collaboration.
Hough and Adams created The Heart-Breakers in 1911, with a score by Orlob and Melville J. Gideon, but this too did not achieve the popularity of their earlier works. Adams then turned to fictional and journalistic writing. He was a reporter for the Chicago Tribune, Daily News, and Chicago Herald and Examiner. He also published two novels: Five Fridays (1915) and Molly and I, or the Silver Ring (1915). Both of these light and witty works were made into musicals.
After serving as a first lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corps during World War I, Adams returned to fiction writing. His many light-hearted romances (sometimes tinged with intrigues of murder) included Stagestruck (1924), Peter and Mrs. Pan (1929), Help Yourself to Happiness (1929), and many other works.
As a staff scenario writer and screenwriter in Hollywood, Adams collaborated on scripts for some twenty-five movies, including The Cowboy and the Lady (1938), with Gary Cooper and Merle Oberon, and Trade Winds (1938), and other.
Adams maintained residences in San Diego, California, and Whitehall, on White Lake, Michigan. He died at Whitehall.
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On July 23, 1907, Adams married Hazel Leslie Judd; they had no children. After his first marriage ended in divorce in 1927, Adams married Lorna D. Margrave on December 1, 1931; they had one daughter.