Cast
Jan Sterling
Acting
Cast
Jan Sterling
Known for
Acting
Born
1921-04-03
From
New York City, New York, USA
Died
2004-03-26
Also known as Jane Sterling Adriance, Jane Adriance, Jane Sterling
Biography
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.
★6.0
MOVIE1982
Dangerous Company
as Ray's Mother
★5.7
MOVIE1955
Female on the Beach
as Amy Rawlinson
★7.8
MOVIE1951
Ace in the Hole
as Lorraine
★5.8
MOVIE1953
Pony Express
as Denny Russell
★7.5
MOVIE1980
My Kidnapper, My Love
as Letty Fairlain
★5.7
MOVIE1950
Appointment with Danger
as Dodie
★7.2
MOVIE1956
The Harder They Fall
as Beth Willis
★7.4
MOVIE1967
The Incident
as Muriel Purvis
★10.0
MOVIE1950
The Costume Designer
as Self (archive footage)
★6.6
MOVIE1952
Flesh and Fury
as Sonya Bartow
★7.1
MOVIE1950
Caged
as Gita "Smoochie" Kovsky
★6.6
MOVIE1951
The Mating Season
as Betsy
★4.9
MOVIE1953
The Vanquished
as Rose Slater
★6.8
MOVIE1948
Johnny Belinda
as Stella McCormick
★6.5
MOVIE1956
1984
as Julia of the Outer Party
★6.0
MOVIE1958
The Female Animal
as Lily Frayne
★6.5
MOVIE1950
Union Station
as Marge Wrighter
★5.8
MOVIE1957
Slaughter on 10th Avenue
as Madge Pitts
★5.3
MOVIE1950
The Skipper Surprised His Wife
as Rita Rossini
★6.0
MOVIE1952
Sky Full of Moon
as Dixie Delmar
★6.1
MOVIE1955
Man with the Gun
as Nelly Bain
★5.9
MOVIE1954
The High and the Mighty
as Sally McKee
★3.2
MOVIE1969
The Minx
as Louise Baxter
★6.2
MOVIE1981
First Monday in October
as Christine Snow
★6.8
MOVIE1950
Mystery Street
as Vivian Heldon
★8.0
MOVIE1964
American in Paris
as Gloria Miles
★6.7
MOVIE1954
Alaska Seas
as Nicky Jackson
★6.4
MOVIE1953
Split Second
as Dorothy 'Dottie' Vale
★5.6
MOVIE1954
The Human Jungle
as Mary Abbott
★5.6
MOVIE1947
Tycoon
as Dancer at Fiesta (uncredited)
★5.5
MOVIE1958
High School Confidential!
as Arlene Williams
★5.8
MOVIE1951
Rhubarb
as Polly Sickles
★5.2
MOVIE1968
The Angry Breed
as Gloria Patton
★5.8
MOVIE1955
Women's Prison
as Brenda Martin
★8.0
MOVIE1976
Sammy Somebody
★6.0
MOVIE1954
Return from the Sea
as Frieda
★10.0
MOVIE1958
Kathy O'
as Celeste Saunders
★5.5
MOVIE1961
Love in a Goldfish Bowl
as Sandra Slide
★8.0
MOVIE1976
Having Babies
as Mrs. Fontreil
★7.0
MOVIE1950
Gunfire
as Flo
MOVIE1957
Clipper Ship
as Helen Ott