Maude Adams - The Inspiration Behind “Somewhere In Time“

Maude Adams 1872-1953 Maude was a famous American Broadway stage actress from 1888 until 1918 most noted for first performing the role there of Peter in “Peter Pan“. She was reportedly the inspiration behind the character of Elise McKenna in Richard Matheson’s 1975 novel “Bid Time Return“ and it’s 1980 film adaptation of the beautiful and imaginative love story, “Somewhere in Time“, in which the character was played by Jane Seymour. How ironic that this great straight romance was inspired by a, from every indication, lesbian where she is, as is routinely the case, magically ’transformed’ into an ’acceptable’ man-loving female to fit culture’s demand for heterosexual only icons.