Molly Adair

(b. Twickenham, London, 24/03/1905 – d. Watford, Hertfordshire, 09/09/1990). British film actress.

Biography

Born Marguerite Mary Potter in Twickenham, London. She became a film actress under the name Molly Adair, and while on location in East Africa she met New Zealand-born Arthur Siggins, who had served in South Africa during the Anglo-Boer War, had been a member of the British South Africa Police (BSAP) in Rhodesia and subsequently became a big game hunter. They married and their daughter, Jillian Siggins (1930-2008), became well known in British films as Jill Adams. Siggins later wrote Shooting with rifle and camera (1931), an account of his involvement with the 1929 film version of "The Four Feathers". She died in Watford, Hertfordshire in 1990.

Contribution to South African film

When she was just 17, she came to South Africa to play the part of the grown-up Emmeline in the African Film Productions version of H. De Vere Stacpoole's The Blue Lagoon (1923), directed by William Bowden.

Sources

S.A. Pictorial, 9 February 1924

Auckland Star, 13 November 1931

Cambridge University Library: Royal Commonwealth Society Library, Papers of A.J. Siggins, RCMS 19

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0010461/?ref_=fn_nm_nm_1

Private correspondence

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