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(78)
Self
1962
1977
1974
Topaz Harmony
1959
Clara Mallory
1965
Devora Cato
1963
Vera Selby
1963
Dianne Jordan
1959
Anne Marion
1967
Beatrice Bartel
1962
Elsa Roarke
1968
Florence Brent
1969
Judge Sheffield
1977
Dinah Lake
1954
Audrey Caldwell
1954
1972
Self
1953
Georgiana
1957
1963
1963
Lucia
1953
Lorna Langton
1959
Myrtle Tiloff
1958
Mary Beth Stanton
1962
Fran Holland
1955
Wanda Ferlini
1955
Lee
1950
Mary Ford
1950
Chris Hunter
1950
Julia
1950
Maggie
1950
1950
Gloria Miles
1953
Brenda Martin
1955
1951
Lou Hoover
1979
Mary Jenkins
1972
Julia of the Outer Party
1956
Lorraine
1951
1966
Sally McKee
1954
Jeta "Smoochie" Kovsky
1950
Beth Willis
1956
Dancer at Fiesta (uncredited)
1947
Vivian Heldon
1950
Sonya Bartow
1952
Denny Russell
1953
Muriel Purvis
1967
Nelly Bain
1955
Stella McCormick
1948
Amy Rawlinson
1955
Betsy
1951
Marge Wrighter
1950
Christine Snow
1981
Lily Frayne
1958
Dodie
1950
Nicky Jackson
1954
Polly Sickles
1951
Dorothy 'Dottie' Vale
1953
Arlene Williams
1958
Gloria Patton
1968
Flo
1950
Celeste Saunders
1958
Mary Abbott
1954
Madge Pitts
1957
Mrs. Fontreil
1976
Ray's Mother
1982
Frieda
1954
Sandra Slide
1961
Self (archive footage)
1950
Letty Fairlain
1980
Rose Slater
1953
Rita Rossini
1950
Louise Baxter
1969
Dixie Delmar
1952
1976
Gloria Miles
1964