Adrienne Dore


Adrienne Dore was an American model and beauty pageant winner. She was first runner-up in the Miss America 1925 pageant, competing as Miss Los Angeles. Dore was also an actress and went on to have modest career in motion pictures.

Early life and career

Adrienne Dore was born Elizabeth Himmelsbach on the army base of Fort Sherman in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho before moving to Yakima and then Seattle where she attended school at a convent. She performed in her first musical there at age three. Her education at Forrest Ridge Convent was in general studies but she focused on dancing and the theater.
Dore moved to Los Angeles, California, and pursued a career in acting, obtaining a job at the Century Roof. She was a singer in a musical review "Elliott, Comstock, and Gest", performing on the roof of the Century Theater at the Grove. She competed in the Miss Los Angeles Beauty contest in 1926, winning, and went on to the Miss America pageant placing second in the competition. Dore returned to Los Angeles where she began acting in silent pictures and two reelers before moving on to full feature "talkies". First receiving top billing in minor pictures like Beyond London Lights, then continuing with minor roles alongside such stars as Clara Bow in 1929's The Wild Party. She obtained a contract from Warner Brothers in 1931, and supported Bette Davis in 1932's The Rich Are Always with Us. She met and married independent or B film producer Burt Kelly, who along with Sam Bischoff and William Saal, headed KBS productions. Dore's last role was in Undercover Men, a 1934 Kelly film that was not released until 1935. They remained married until his death in 1983. Dore died at the age of 85 and is buried in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin.

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