Adrienne Morrison


Mabel Adrienne Morrison was an American stage actress of the early 20th century. She married actor Richard Bennett, with whom she had three daughters who later would become actresses.

Biography

Adrienne Morrison was a daughter of actress Rose Wood and actor Lewis Morrison. In 1905, she appeared as Nat-u-ritch, an Aboriginal American woman, in the play The Squaw Man with William Faversham.
Morrison and actor Richard Bennett married on November 9, 1903, but she retained her maiden name. Their daughters, Barbara Bennett, Constance Bennett, and Joan Bennett, would all become film actresses. Of the three, Joan would become the best known in acting, although both she and Constance would see wide success. Barbara never achieved the success of her sisters in acting, but married Morton Downey, and the couple had five children, with their first born being Morton Downey Jr..
In April 1925, she and Richard Bennett divorced. Two years later, in 1927, she married Eric Pinker. That marriage produced no children, but lasted until her death in New York City of a heart attack in 1940.