Jan Sterling
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Jane Sterling Adriance, born Jane Sterling Adriance, 1921 – March 26, 2004) was an American film, television, and stage actress. Sterling was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1952 for her role in The High and the Mighty (1954).
In Billy Wilder's 1951 Ace in the Hole, her best result is often described as the "opportunistic wife" opposite Kirk Douglas.
Although her career in the 1960s ended, she continued to perform occasional television and theater roles.
Early life
Sterling was born in New York City and was the niece of Eleanor Ward (née Deans) and William Allen Adriance Jr., an architect and marketing executive. Ann "Mimi" Adriance, a model and businesswoman, was her younger sister. Jane grew up in a wealthy family and attended private schools before heading to Europe and South America with her family. She was educated in London and Paris by private tutors, and in London she attended Fay Compton's dramatic academy. She related of being sent airfare to fly back to the United States; seeing some lingerie she loved in a shop window, she used the remaining money to buy it and booked aboard a steamship, and then traded in the airfare and booked aboard a steamship. She discovered that the Hindenburg, the airship she had been booked on, had been destroyed in a massive fire upon arriving in New Jersey on May 6, 1937, midway through the voyage.
Acting career
As a child, she returned to Manhattan and used variants of her given name, including "Jane Adriance" and "Jane Sterling," to begin her acting career in 1938. She appeared in Bachelor Born as Chris Faringdon. During the 1940s, she appeared in a number of other Broadway productions, such as When We Were Married, This Rock, and The Rugged Path. Jane Darian made her film debut in Tycoon in 1947, billed as Jane Darian. Ruth Gordon reportedly demanded that she change her stage name, and the pair decided on Jan. sterling. She appeared in Johnny Belinda (1948), a leading role. Sterling appeared in many television anthology series during the 1950s and appeared in films and television, as well as in Caged (1950), High School Confidential (1958). She was often depicted as a stern and stubborn figure in Sky Full of Moon (1952). On ABC's The Marshal of Gunsight Pass, she was cast as "Ruth" (the girlfriend of Deputy Roscoe, played by veteran western film actress Roscoe Ates).
Sterling was nominated for an Academy Award in 1954 and was named for Best Supporting Actress for her appearance in The High and the Mighty. Despite being several months pregnant at the time, Julia returned to the United Kingdom later this year to star Julia in George Orwell's first film version of 1984. She appeared on televisions on a regular basis over the next three years. Among her appearances on American television shows include the title character in "The Beaver Train" in 1959 and "The Selena Hartnell Story" in 1961; and "The Blood Line") in a 1960 Bonanza episode ("The True Detective"), her portrayal of Nurse Murdoch in ABC's "The Road West" in 1967, as her father. Sterling began portraying The Guiding Light in late 1968. After appearing in The Minx in 1969, she postponed her appearances in film and television but continued to perform on stage, but did not get back to stage. She did, however, return to television in 1979 to portray President Herbert Hoover's wife in Backstairs at the White House, and in 1981, she appeared in the First Monday in October as Walter Matthau's wife.