Jan Sterling
Acting
🎂 1921-04-03
Jan Sterling (born Jane Sterling Adriance; April 3, 1921 – March 26, 2004) was an American actress. At her most active in films during the 1950s, she received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The High and the Mighty (1954) as well as an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination. Her best performance is often considered to be opposite Kirk Douglas, as the opportunistic wife in Billy Wilder's 1951 Ace in the Hole.
Cast credits(79)
Dianne Jordan
1959
Self
1962
Dinah Lake
1954
Audrey Caldwell
1954
Mary Beth Stanton
1962
1974
Anne Marion
1967
Myrtle Tiloff
1958
1977
Elsa Roarke
1968
Devora Cato
1963
Vera Selby
1963
Beatrice Bartel
1962
Judge Sheffield
1977
Florence Brent
1969
Clara Mallory
1965
Self
1953
Fran Holland
1955
Wanda Ferlini
1955
Lorna Langton
1959
Georgiana
1957
Lee
1950
Mary Ford
1950
Chris Hunter
1950
Julia
1950
Maggie
1950
1950
Topaz Harmony
1959
1963
Lucia
1953
1963
Lorraine
1951
Stella McCormick
1948
1972
Nelly Bain
1955
Sally McKee
1954
Beth Willis
1956
Jeta "Smoochie" Kovsky
1950
Lily Frayne
1958
Christine Snow
1981
Muriel Purvis
1967
Dancer at Fiesta (uncredited)
1947
Denny Russell
1953
Letty Fairlain
1980
Gloria Miles
1953
1951
Madge Pitts
1957
Rose Slater
1953
Brenda Martin
1955
Sandra Slide
1961
Julia of the Outer Party
1956
Betsy
1951
Sonya Bartow
1952
Lou Hoover
1979
Amy Rawlinson
1955
1966
Vivian Heldon
1950
Arlene Williams
1958
Mary Abbott
1954
Marge Wrighter
1950
Nicky Jackson
1954
Polly Sickles
1951
Dorothy 'Dottie' Vale
1953
Rita Rossini
1950
Dodie
1950
Self (archive footage)
1950
Celeste Saunders
1958
Ray's Mother
1982
Dixie Delmar
1952
Mrs. Fontreil
1976
Mary Jenkins
1972
Frieda
1954
Louise Baxter
1969
Gloria Patton
1968
1957
Flo
1950
Gloria Miles
1964
1976