Early life
Klein was born in New York City on July 8, 1900. While she attended Julia Richman High School, she prepared for a career in business but also was exposed to drama. After graduation, she began working as a secretary.Career
Klein began her radio as a singer in the late 1920s. However, demand for her talents with dialect and as a character actress led her to acting full-time by 1933. She performed in a variety of radio programs, including portraying Hilda, the maid in ''We, The Abbotts'', Dragon Lady in ''Blacklist
In the mid-1940s, Klein was active in the American Federation of Radio Artists (AFRA) and served as a delegate for New York at national conferences in 1943 and 1944. Klein was one of 56 delegates for New York at national conferences in 1943 and 1944, where she worked with others, including Donna Keath, Minerva Pious, Ann Shepherd, Selena Royle, and Hester Sondergaard. Along with Keath, Pious, Shepherd, Royle, Sondergaard, Klein was listed in the blacklisting publication, '' Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television'' in 1950. She continued to perform in theatre, but television roles dried up as a consequence of Klein being labelled a communist.Personal life
Klein married Louis S. Wettels in Manhattan in the late 1920s. She later married Norman Annenberg. Klein died of a brain tumor on March 18, 1983, at the age of 82.Filmography
Broadway
* ''Double Dummy'' (November 11, 1936 – December 1936) * ''Brooklyn, U.S.A.'' (December 21, 1941 – February 7, 1942) * ''Uncle Harry'' (May 20, 1942 – May 9, 1943) * ''Collector’s Item'' (February 8, 1952 – February 9, 1952) * ''The Immoralist'' (February 8, 1954 – May 1, 1954) * ''Once Upon A Tailor'' (May 23, 1955 – May 28, 1955) * ''Jane Eyre'' (May 1, 1958 – June 14, 1958) * ''Marathon ‘33'' (December 22, 1963 – February 1, 1964)References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Klein, Adelaide 1900 births 1983 deaths American radio actresses American film actresses American television actresses Actresses from New York City 20th-century American actresses American stage actresses Julia Richman Education Complex alumni