--- name: "Ada May" canonical: "https://film.one/person/ada-may" fi1m_id: "ada-may" imdb_id: "nm0561857" tmdb_id: 106573 wikidata_id: "Q64174470" roles: ["Actor"] born: "7 March 1896" died: "25 April 1978" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-25T04:07:35.747427+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Ada May ## Identity Ada May - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ada-may - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** ada-may - **IMDb ID:** nm0561857 - **TMDB ID:** 106573 - **Wikidata ID:** Q64174470 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_May_Weeks, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64174470, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0561857/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/106573 Actor. Born 7 March 1896 in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, USA. Died 25 April 1978. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 7 March 1896, Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, USA - **Died:** 25 April 1978 - **Also known as:** Ada May Weeks - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_May_Weeks, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64174470, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0561857/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/106573 ## Streaming the US now - **HBO Max:** [*Monsieur Verdoux*](https://film.one/film/monsieur-verdoux.md) (82) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Ada May, also credited as Ada May Weeks, was an American actress and dancer. Born Ada May Weeks on 8 March 1896 in Oyster Bay, New York, she began her career as a child dancer and appeared in numerous Broadway musicals from the mid-1910s onward, including *Miss Springtime* (1916), *Listen, Lester* (1918–1919), *The O'Brien Girl* (1921–1922), *Lollipop* (1924) and *Rio Rita* (1927–1928). Her film roles included *The Dancing Town* (1928), *Dance, Girl, Dance* (1933) and *Monsieur Verdoux* (1947), in which she played Annette, Annabella's maid. She also appeared on television in an episode of *Fireside Theatre* (1950). She was married to Wilson Potter and later to Mario Castegnaro, and died on 25 April 1978 in New York City. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Monsieur Verdoux* (1947), Fi1m 82, as Annette, Annabella's maid — [page](https://film.one/film/monsieur-verdoux.md) ## Complete filmography (4) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Monsieur Verdoux* (1947), as Annette, Annabella's maid — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/monsieur-verdoux.md) - *Dance, Girl, Dance* (1933), as Claudette - *The Shaming of the True: A Simple Tale of British Mother Love* (1930), as Countess Loamshire - *The Dancing Town* (1928), as Prue Pepperall ## Gallery - ![Ada May Weeks, 1924](https://film.one/media/person/3861389/gallery-c54349fa1aba.jpg) Ada May Weeks, 1924 — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Ada_May_Weeks%2C_1924.jpg/1280px-Ada_May_Weeks%2C_1924.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![American showgirl Ada May, 1927](https://film.one/media/person/3861389/gallery-24cc7004b3e6.jpg) American showgirl Ada May, 1927 — Hal Phyfe, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/Ada_May%2C_1927.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![A young white woman with curly bobbed hair, seated, in a dress with short sleeves and lace trim (1922)](https://film.one/media/person/3861389/gallery-871155e21fb4.png) A young white woman with curly bobbed hair, seated, in a dress with short sleeves and lace trim (1922) — No photographer credited, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/AdaMayWeeks1922.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Title: Ada May Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.](https://film.one/media/person/3861389/gallery-47bd96eaffd4.jpg) Title: Ada May Abstract/medium: 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. — Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Ada_May_LCCN2014718690.jpg/1280px-Ada_May_LCCN2014718690.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Ada May](https://film.one/media/person/3861389/gallery-d7d00e84084f.jpg) Ada May — Image via TMDB - ![Actress Ada Mae Weeks aka Ada May, on page 42 of the April 1922 Shadowland.](https://film.one/media/person/3861389/gallery-38df59adc6f2.jpg) Actress Ada Mae Weeks aka Ada May, on page 42 of the April 1922 Shadowland. — Alfred Cheney Johnston, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Ada_Mae_Weeks_-_Apr_1922_Shadowland.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Ada May](https://film.one/media/person/3861389/gallery-82002396b15a.jpg) Ada May — White Studio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Ada_May_-_Feb_1922_Tatler.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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