Jan Sterling
출생 : 1921-04-03, New York City, New York, USA
사망 : 2004-03-26
약력
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 Compton's 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 Orwell's 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.
Sterling's 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.
Ray's Mother
The true story of Ray Johnson, a convict who spent most of his life in and out of prison until he finally decided to turn his life around.
Christine Snow
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Letty Fairlain
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Mrs. Fontreil
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Louise Baxter
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Gloria Patton
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Muriel Purvis
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Gloria Miles
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Sandra Slide
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Celeste Saunders
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Arlene Williams
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Lily Frayne
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Madge Pitts
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Beth Willis
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Julia of the Outer Party
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Nelly Bain
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Amy Rawlinson
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Brenda Martin
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Mary Abbott
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Frieda
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Sally McKee
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Nicky Jackson
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Denny Russell
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Rose Slater
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Dorothy 'Dottie' Vale
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Dixie Delmar
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Sonya Bartow
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Polly Sickles
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Lorraine Minosa
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Betsy
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Marge Wrighter
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Self (archive footage)
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Rita Rossini
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Vivian Heldon
매사추세츠 해변에서 젊은 여성의 유골이 발견되자, 반스터블 경찰 피터 모랄라스는 보스턴 경찰과 팀을 이루어 하버드 교수의 도움을 받아 법의학을 통해 여성의 신원, 그녀가 어떻게 죽었는지, 누가 죽였는지 알아내고, 모랄라스는 그녀가 어떻게 죽었는지 알고 싶어하는데...
Jeta "Smoochie" Kovsky
A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.
Dodie
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Stella McCormick
A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.
Dancer at Fiesta (uncredited)
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