Jan Sterling, the cool, often conniving blonde in Hollywood film noir movies of the ‘ 40s and ‘ 50s, died Friday. She was 82. Ms. Sterline broke her hip recently and had suffered a couple of strokes ...

Oscar-nommed and Golden Globe-winning thesp Jan Sterling, blond beauty featured in film noir of the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s, died March 26 at the Motion Picture and Television Home in Woodland Hills. She ...

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 ...

Soon after playing Billie, she was in Hollywood. Thin and pretty in a brassy way, with platinum hair and hardened, knowing eyes, she played a succession of dizzy blondes and hard-boiled film noir ...