Valda Adams

Valda Adams (b. **/**/**** - d. **/**/****) was a Cape Town-based actress.

Valda Adams took the role of Maria van Riebeeck in the film Die Bou van ‘n Nasie (Joseph Albrecht/Andries A. Pienaar) in 1938. On the stage she appeared in Time and the Conways (1939) and Music at Night (1946), for the Cape Town Repertory Theatre Society, as well as in A Murder Has Been Arranged (1941) and Heartbreak House (1942) for the Combined Dramatic Societies of Cape Town, all at the Little Theatre. During that time Maitland High School had an elocution teacher by that name and on the internet there is a suggestion that she may have gone to Hollywood.

Sources

Hatfield, Denis - Cape theatre in the 1940's: reviews of ballet and drama (1967)

Le Roux, André I. & Fourie, Lilla – Filmverlede: geskiedenis van die Suid-Afrikaanse speelfilm (1982)

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