Actress. She was born in Fort Worth and was the daughter of Flora Potter and Samuel McClure. She attended Daggett School in the city's eleventh ward before completing her education at a girls' finishing school in Chatham, Virginia. At the age of five, she was cast in three musical comedy silent films produced in New York in 1919: "The Love Auction," as Jean Dale, written by May Edginton; "The Midnight Girl," and "Oh! Louise!" written and filmed by Adolf Philipp. Her mother moved her and her siblings to Beverly Hills, California, in the early 1930s to join her sister, actress Adrienne Ames. After moving to Los Angeles, she enrolled at the Edward Clark Academy, a Hollywood theater school, to pursue her career in acting. She made her Hollywood debut under the stage name of Linda March in a three-act play, "Sugar Baby," in 1933. Her next production was "The Moral Makers," a three-act comedy-drama that opened on July 25, 1933 and ran for two weeks. In August 1933, she was granted an audition for the Paramount film "Eight Girls in a Boat," but she was not cast. She and her sister, Adrienne, appeared in a fashion photograph in September 1933, modeling the new winter indoor bathing suits. On November 23, 1933, she was the date of a second-string guard on the Stanford varsity football team at a celebration dance in San Francisco following a major football win. She was a passenger in a car traveling home from the dance when it was hit by another vehicle. Seven people were hurt, and she, her date, and two others died near San Francisco, California.
Actress. She was born in Fort Worth and was the daughter of Flora Potter and Samuel McClure. She attended Daggett School in the city's eleventh ward before completing her education at a girls' finishing school in Chatham, Virginia. At the age of five, she was cast in three musical comedy silent films produced in New York in 1919: "The Love Auction," as Jean Dale, written by May Edginton; "The Midnight Girl," and "Oh! Louise!" written and filmed by Adolf Philipp. Her mother moved her and her siblings to Beverly Hills, California, in the early 1930s to join her sister, actress Adrienne Ames. After moving to Los Angeles, she enrolled at the Edward Clark Academy, a Hollywood theater school, to pursue her career in acting. She made her Hollywood debut under the stage name of Linda March in a three-act play, "Sugar Baby," in 1933. Her next production was "The Moral Makers," a three-act comedy-drama that opened on July 25, 1933 and ran for two weeks. In August 1933, she was granted an audition for the Paramount film "Eight Girls in a Boat," but she was not cast. She and her sister, Adrienne, appeared in a fashion photograph in September 1933, modeling the new winter indoor bathing suits. On November 23, 1933, she was the date of a second-string guard on the Stanford varsity football team at a celebration dance in San Francisco following a major football win. She was a passenger in a car traveling home from the dance when it was hit by another vehicle. Seven people were hurt, and she, her date, and two others died near San Francisco, California.
Bio by: Debbie Gibbons
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