Jan Sterling
Birthday: 1921-04-03
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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.
Movies
1984
In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by fall...
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Ace in the Hole
An arrogant reporter exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to revitalize his career....
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Split Second
Escaped convicts hold hostages in a ghost town targeted for a nuclear bomb test....
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Appointment with Danger
Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to ar...
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Women's Prison
A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison....
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Man with the Gun
A stranger comes to town looking for his estranged wife. He finds her running the local girls. He al...
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The Harder They Fall
Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his curre...
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Rhubarb
Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. The...
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Caged
A single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments...
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High School Confidential!
A tough kid comes to a new high school and begins muscling his way into the drug scene. This is a ty...
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Pony Express
Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickok join forces to establish a mail route that can get mail from St. J...
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The Human Jungle
Danforth is assigned to take over the police department in a section of a large city saddled with ju...
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The Vanquished
A man returns to his home -- a post Civil-War village -- and finds the law is in the hands of a few ...
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Union Station
Police catch a break when suspected kidnappers are spotted on a train heading towards Union Station....
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Female on the Beach
Lynn Markham moves into her late husband's beach house the morning after former tenant Eloise Cranda...
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The Incident
Two hoodlums terrorize the passengers of a late-night New York City subway train....
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The High and the Mighty
Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit as...
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Mystery Street
When a young woman's skeletal remains turn up on a Massachusetts beach, Barnstable cop Peter Moralas...
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Slaughter on 10th Avenue
A rookie assistant DA is assigned to investigate the murder of a longshoreman, killed for exposing g...
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Flesh and Fury
Deaf boxer Paul Callan captures the interest of gold-digging blonde Sonya Bartow and retired fight m...
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Love in a Goldfish Bowl
Two platonic college friends spend a weekend away together. One is romanced by a member of the coast...
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Alaska Seas
A crooked salmon fisherman tries to steal his best friend's fiancée and put him out of business....
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Sky Full of Moon
A cowboy seeks fame and fortune in Las Vegas where he meets a girl working in a casino....
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The Angry Breed
In Vietnam, aspiring actor Johnny Taylor is given a prize film script after saving the life of a Hol...
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The Female Animal
Jaded movie star Vanessa Windsor, saved from a studio accident by handsome extra Chris Farley, pursu...
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Kathy O'
A movie publicist is assigned to keep the public from learning that a beloved child star is an egoti...
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First Monday in October
For the first time in history a woman is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, where she becomes a fr...
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The Mating Season
Ellen McNulty leaves her New Jersey hamburger stand and heads west to pay a surprise visit to her so...
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The Minx
A businessman hosts a hunting party at a remote lodge, and hires three prostitutes to take care of h...
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Gunfire
Tubercular Frank James has become a born again and retired from his career as an outlaw with his fam...
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My Kidnapper, My Love
Small-time crook Rooney cons his crippled brother, a street-wise news vendor, into snatching a wealt...
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Sammy Somebody
A restaurateur unwisely misappropriates mob money in order to buy a house for his ageing father....
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Return from the Sea
A hardened career navel officer must come to terms with adapting to civilian life with the help of a...
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Dangerous Company
The true story of Ray Johnson, a convict who spent most of his life in and out of prison until he fi...
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The Costume Designer
This short focuses on the job of the costume designer in the production of motion pictures. The cost...
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Having Babies
The story of four couples who are about to have children using the Lamaze method....
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American in Paris
The owner of a travel agency in Paris tries to help fellow Americans in trouble....
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Tycoon
Engineer Johnny Munroe is enlisted to build a railroad tunnel through a mountain to reach mines. His...
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Clipper Ship
A romance on the high seas revolving around the comely widow of a shipping magnate, and her growing ...
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