Jan Sterling

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

1984

Julia of the Outer Party

Ace in the Hole

Lorraine

Split Second

Dorothy 'Dottie' Vale

Appointment with Danger

Dodie

Women's Prison

Brenda Martin

Man with the Gun

Nelly Bain

The Harder They Fall

Beth Willis

Rhubarb

Polly Sickles

Caged

Gita "Smoochie" Kovsky

High School Confidential!

Arlene Williams

Pony Express

Denny Russell

The Human Jungle

Mary Abbott

The Vanquished

Rose Slater

Union Station

Marge Wrighter

Johnny Belinda

Stella McCormick

Female on the Beach

Amy Rawlinson

The Incident

Muriel Purvis

The High and the Mighty

Sally McKee

Mystery Street

Vivian Heldon

Slaughter on 10th Avenue

Madge Pitts

Flesh and Fury

Sonya Bartow

Love in a Goldfish Bowl

Sandra Slide

Alaska Seas

Nicky Jackson

Sky Full of Moon

Dixie Delmar

The Angry Breed

Gloria Patton

The Female Animal

Lily Frayne

Kathy O'

Celeste Saunders

First Monday in October

Christine Snow

The Mating Season

Betsy

The Minx

Louise Baxter

Gunfire

Flo

My Kidnapper, My Love

Letty Fairlain

The Skipper Surprised His Wife

Rita Rossini

Sammy Somebody

Unknown

Return from the Sea

Frieda

Dangerous Company

Ray's Mother

The Costume Designer

Self (archive footage)

Having Babies

Mrs. Fontreil

American in Paris

Gloria Miles

Tycoon

Dancer at Fiesta (uncredited)

Clipper Ship

Helen Ott