Gladys McClure was a promising actress who died young in a car crash
She was born Gladys Ethel McClure on August 5, 1914 in Fort Worth, Texas. Gladys was one of seven children. Sadly her father, Samuel McClure, died in 1928. When she was a teenager she attended finishing school in Chatham, Virginia. Then she moved to Hollywood to pursue an acting career. Gladys lived with her older sister, Adrienne Ames, who was already an established actress. She enrolled at the Edward Clark Academy to study acting.
In 1933 she appeared in the plays Sugar Baby and The Moral Makers (she used the stage name Linda Marsh). The beautiful starlet also did some modeling with her sister. Gladys was Adrienne's maid of honor when she married Bruce Cabot. On November 26, 1933 she went to a football game in San Francisco with some friends. Tragically on their way home the car crashed and she was killed instantly. She was only nineteen years old. Gladys was buried at Oakwood Cemetery in Fort Worth, Texas.
