Most active in films during the 1950s, Jan Sterling received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The High and the Mighty (1954), and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the same performance. Her career declined during the 1960s, however she continued to play occasional roles for television and theatre.Sterling was born Jane Sterling Adriance in New York City, into a well-to-do family. She was educated in private schools before heading to Europe with her family. She was schooled by private tutors in London and Paris, and was enrolled in Fay Comptons dramatic school in London.As a teenager she returned to Manhattan, and using variations of her given name, such as Jane Adriance and Jane Sterling, began her career by making a Broadway appearance in Bachelor Born, and went on to appear in such major stage works as Panama Hattie, Over 21, and Present Laughter. In 1947, she made her film debut in Tycoon, billed as Jane Darian. Ruth Gordon reportedly insisted she change her stage name and they agreed upon Jan Sterling.She played a prominent supporting role in Johnny Belinda (1948). Alternating between films and television, Sterling appeared in several television anthology series during the 1950s, and played film roles in Caged (1950), Mystery Street (1950), The Mating Season (1951), Ace in the Hole (1951), Flesh and Fury (1952), The Human Jungle (1954), and Female on the Beach (1955).Often cast as hard and determined characters, she played a more sympathetic character in Sky Full of Moon (1952). In 1950, she was cast as Ruth in the ABC western series The Marshal of Gunsight Pass. The series was telecast live from a primitive studio lot at the Iverson Ranch at Chatsworth, California.In 1954 Sterling was nominated for an Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The High and the Mighty. Later that year, she travelled to England to play the role of Julia in the first film version of George Orwells 1984, despite being several months pregnant at the time. During the following years, she appeared regularly in films such as Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, Kathy O, and The Female Animal.In late 1968, she began portraying the role of conniving Miss Foss in the long-running CBS soap opera The Guiding Light. She retired from films in favor of the stage in 1969 and returned to television in 1979 to portray Lou Henry Hoover in the miniseries Backstairs at the White House.Sterlings marriage to John Merivale ended in divorce, and her career began to decline after the death of her second husband, the actor Paul Douglas, in 1959. In the 1970s, she entered into a long-lasting personal relationship with Sam Wanamaker.Jan Sterling died in 2004 in Los Angeles, California, aged 82.
Julia of the Outer Party
영화 1956
Lorraine
영화 1951
Dorothy 'Dottie' Vale
영화 1953
Brenda Martin
영화 1955
Beth Willis
영화 1956
Polly Sickles
영화 1951
Denny Russell
영화 1953
Marge Wrighter
영화 1950
Rose Slater
영화 1953
Vivian Heldon
영화 1950
Madge Pitts
영화 1957
Sonya Bartow
영화 1952
Sandra Slide
영화 1961
Dixie Delmar
영화 1952
Gloria Patton
영화 1968
Celeste Saunders
영화 1958
Betsy
영화 1951
Louise Baxter
영화 1969
Flo
영화 1950
Letty Fairlain
영화 1980
Rita Rossini
영화 1950
영화 1976
Frieda
영화 1954
Ray's Mother
영화 1982
Self (archive footage)
영화 1950
Mrs. Fontreil
영화 1976
Gloria Miles
영화 1964
Dancer at Fiesta (uncredited)
영화 1947
Devora Cato
Tv 1963
Tv 1966
Tv 1977
Tv 1972
Tv 1974
Myrtle Tiloff
Tv 1958
Judge Sheffield
Tv 1977
Fran Holland
Tv 1955
Clara Mallory
Tv 1965
Lee
Tv 1950
Tv 1951
Dinah Lake
Tv 1954
Topaz Harmony
Tv 1959
Lorna Langton
Tv 1959
Tv 1972
Tv 1963
Tv 1963
Self
Tv 1953
Tv
Chris Hunter
Tv 1950
Julia
Tv 1950
Mary Ford
Tv 1950
Maggie
Tv 1950
Vera Selby
Tv 1963
Elsa Roarke
Tv 1968
Wanda Ferlini
Tv 1955
Anne Marion
Tv 1967
Dianne Jordan
Tv 1959
Audrey Caldwell
Tv 1954
Florence Brent
Tv 1969
Self
Tv 1962
Beatrice Bartel
Tv 1962
Mary Beth Stanton
Tv 1962