The Resume

(April 3, 1921-March 26, 2004)
Born in New York City, New York
Birth name was Jane Sterling Adriance
Appeared in the films 'Johnny Belinda' (1948), 'Caged' (1950), 'The Mating Season' (1951), 'Ace in the Hole' (1951), 'The High and the Mighty' (1954), 'Women's Prison' (1955), '1984' (1956), 'The Harder They Fall' (1956), 'Slaughter on Tenth Avenue' (1957), 'High School Confidential' (1958), 'The Incident' (1967), 'The Minx' (1968) and 'First Monday in October' (1981)
Appeared on Broadway in 'Bachelor Born' (1938), 'When We Are Married' (1939), 'Born Yesterday' (1946) and 'The Front Page' (1969)

Why she might be annoying:

She had a nose job.
She said about her typecasting in films, 'I was the original happy hooker. I've played her in 10 of my 42 movies.'
When she was a presenter at the Academy Awards (1951), her introduction was the bizarre 'She is the sort of a girl who makes a man want to go home and saw off his wife's head below the ankles.'
She was omitted from the Oscar telecast's 'In Memoriam' segment despite being a former nominee.

Why she might not be annoying:

Despite her bad girl image, she was refined in real life, having come from a well-off family and been educated by private tutors in England.
She resembled Lana Turner.
She was given her stage name by Ruth Gordon while appearing in one of Gordon's plays.
She won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress for her performance in 'The High and the Mighty.'

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Alfred Hitchcock Presents [L-Z]
• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 41]
• Celebrities Born on the Same Date [April] (Ranked: 4031921)
• Charlton Heston’s Leading Ladies
• Cigarette Advertisers
• Film Noir Femme Fatales
• Golden Globe: Best Performance by a Supporting Actress (Ranked: 1954)
• I Died in 2004 (Ranked: 82)
• I Had a Stroke [Cerebral Vascular Accident]
• I Had Rhinoplasty [Nose Job]
• I Have a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame[R-T]
• I Have Diabetes
• I Outlived My Child
• Known By a Middle Name
• Look at Me and My Pet
• Look at Me, I've Been Caught Smoking
• National Board of Review Award for Best Actress (Ranked: 1951)
• Person to Person - Guests [L-Z]
• Profiles 32751-33000 (Ranked: 32791)

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 178 Votes: 69.66% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 5 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 7 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 6 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 7 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 8 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 7 Votes: 14.29% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 17 Votes: 47.06% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 18 Votes: 38.89% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 13 Votes: 23.08% Annoying