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JAN STERLING/PAUL DOUGLAS JAN STERLING/PAUL DOUGLAS 11x14 OR search current auctions Auction History Result 7h215 JAN STERLING/PAUL DOUGLAS 11x14 still 1955 husband & wife attend a special movei showing! Date Sold 7/7/2019Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage 11" x 14" [28 x 36 cm] Still (Learn More) Jan Sterling was an actress from the 1940s to the 1980s. She was born in Manhattan in 1921, but her wealthy parents divorced when she was eight, and she grew up all over the world, but spent a lot of time in England, where she developed an English accent. At 17, she became a Broadway actress, having much success over the 1940s playing British ladies (she was billed as Jane Adrian). In 1947, she got the lead in "Born Yesterday" in its Chicago stage version, and she was a big hit, and it was thought that she would surely appear in the film version, which was made in 1950, but that was not to be (Judy Holliday was chosen to play the lead over Sterling). She had great success in the movies in the 1950s, in films such as Caged (1950), Ace in the Hole (1951), Flesh and Fury (1952), and The High & The Mighty (nominated for the Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for this film; 1954). In 1959 her husband, actor Paul Douglas, died of a heart attack, and she quit the movies, returning to New York where she did much TV and stage work. She passed away in 2004, at the age of 83 AND Paul Douglas was an actor from the 1930s to the 1950s. He was similar to William Bendix from a decade earlier, a big beefy not good looking blue collar guy, who became a major Hollywood star! He had been a radio announcer, who got a Broadway leading role in Born Yesterday, and was a huge hit and then REFUSED to make the film of it, something practically unheard of (and it was made with Broderick Crawford instead)! But he starred in movie after movie from 1949 to 1956, appearing opposite many of the top sexy female stars (and marrying super-sexy Jan Sterling). He returned to Broadway in 1957, and only made three movies in 1957 to 1959, and it appeared his movie career was winding down. But then he was cast as Jack Lemmon's boss Sheldrake in The Apartment, and that would surely have jump-started his career, and at the same time he started filming a great episode of The Twilight Zone, which Rod Serling had written just for him. But sadly it was not meant to be. He died of a heart attack the day filming on The Twilight Zone episode (The Mighty Casey) ended, and it was shelved (and later entirely re-filmed with Jack Warden) and his part in The Apartment was taken over by Fred MacMurray. He was 52 years old. Some of his movies include: The Solid Gold Cadillac, Green Fire and Panic in the Streets Condition: good. Learn More about condition grades
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