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Born in Los Angeles, California, Adrian won a beauty pageant and worked with the Ziegfeld Follies, before she entered films at the end of the silent era in Chasing Husbands , (1928). During the 1930s she specialised in playing glamorous gold-diggers and gangsters' "dames", and played supporting roles in numerous features. She was considered a versatile actress, who could play drama or comedy, and she was also regarded as a capable dancer, dancing in a couple of films with George Raft.

She continued to act regularly without achieving star status and by the end of the 1960s had appeared in more than one hundred films. In her later years she appeared in several Walt DisneyFor the same named company; see The Walt Disney Company Walter Elias Disney ( December 5, 1901 December 15, 1966) was an American animated film producer and animator. He was also the creator of an American-based theme park called Disneyland, and the found films, including That Darn Cat!That Darn Cat is a 1965 Walt Disney feature film, directed by Robert Stevenson, and starring the young Hayley Mills. The film was notable as including Hayley Mills' first screen kiss as an adult actress. It was based on a book called Undercover Cat by Gor (1965), The Love BugThe Love Bug ( 1968) was the first of a series of movies made by Walt Disney in the late 1960s that starred a white Volkswagen racing Beetle with a mind of its own named Herbie, along with his driver ( Dean Jones) and driver's love interest ( Michele Lee) (1970), The Shaggy D.A. (1976) and Freaky FridayFreaky Friday is the name of three different movies with similar plots made by the Walt Disney Company where a teenage girl and her mother switch bodies and learn to understand each other better. The three versions are: 1976 Jodie Foster plays the girl an (1976). She also played numerous guest roles in such television series as Get SmartGet Smart was a United States comedy television series that ran from September 18, 1965 until 1970. It satirized the secret agent genre, which was quite popular in the late 1960s. It ran on the NBC television network from 1965 to 1969 and on CBS from 1969, The Beverly HillbilliesThe Beverly Hillbillies is a TV sitcom about a hillbilly who strikes oil while rabbit hunting, becomes a millionaire and moves with his family to Beverly Hills, California. It appeared on the CBS network from September 26, 1962 to September 7, 1971. Soon, Green AcresThere is also the US town of Green Acres, Washington Green Acres is an American television series that was produced by Filmways, Inc. and originally broadcast on CBS from 1965 to 1971. It was set in the same fictional universe as the rural television come, Petticoat Junction, The Munsters and The Love Boat. Known for sense of humour, she wryly commented in an interview late in her life that the only thing she did not like about ageing was that she could no longer attract gangsters.

She died in Los Angeles, from injuries she sustained during the 1994 Northridge earthquake nine months earlier, and was interred in the Forest Lawn Cemetery.