
Sugar, Pepper, Pearl, Sunny, Goldie, Bubbles, all those are nicknames borne by petite actress Iris Adrian in several of the 160 movies she made. With such names, don't expect to see her playing Joan of Ark or Electra but it remains that all these pet names reflect her winning femininity, its sweetness, its spiciness, its radiance. What's more their funny overtones are telltale signs of Iris Adrian's own quick witty sense of humor. Sexy yes, but with a sharp tongue. This aspect of her personality helped her to evolve and last, changing from the roles of blonde chorines or waitresses or, on the wilder side, of streetwalkers and other gangsters' molls to colorful bit parts in comedies with Abbott and Costello, Jerry Lewis and Elvis Presley. She ended up playing almost exclusively for Walt Disney productions before retiring at the respectable age of 82. Though she never achieved star status she could easily have if the circumstances had been favorable. For she steals scenes in a lot of movies provided of course her role is fleshed out sufficiently. She was excellent, for instance, in more than one poverty row crime movies. Don't miss her in 'Gold Diggers of 1937', 'Go West' (with the Marx Brothers, 1940), 'Lady of Burlesque' (1943), 'The Paleface'(1948), 'Once a Thief' (1950) and 'The Errand Boy' (with Jerry Lewis, 1961). Date of Death 17 September 1994, Hollywood, California (aftermath of earthquake)
Movie | A Tribute to the Boys: Laurel and Hardy | (archive footage) | 1992-04-05 |
Movie | Herbie Goes Bananas | Loud American Wife | 1980-06-25 |
Series | Trapper John, M.D. | Unknown | 1979-09-23 |
Series | The Ted Knight Show | Dottie | 1978-04-08 |
Movie | No Deposit, No Return | Housewife | 1976-02-05 |
Movie | Freaky Friday | Bus Passenger | 1976-12-17 |
Movie | The Love Bug | Carhop | 1968-12-22 |
Series | Get Smart | Unknown | 1965-09-18 |
Movie | That Darn Cat! | Landlady | 1965-12-02 |
Series | Petticoat Junction | Unknown | 1963-09-24 |
Series | Going My Way | Unknown | 1962-10-03 |
Movie | Blue Hawaii | Enid Garvey | 1961-11-22 |
Movie | The Errand Boy | Anastasia Anastasia, Actress | 1961-11-28 |
Series | The Detectives | Unknown | 1959-10-16 |
Movie | The Buccaneer | Brown's Blowsy Girlfriend | 1958-12-11 |
Movie | Carnival Rock | Celia | 1957-09-01 |
Movie | The Helen Morgan Story | Klingman's Secretary | 1957-10-02 |
Movie | The Fast and the Furious | Wilma Belding | 1955-02-15 |
Series | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Unknown | 1955-10-02 |
Movie | Highway Dragnet | Dolly - Cafe Waitress | 1954-01-20 |
Movie | Carson City | Saloon Girl in Fight (uncredited) | 1952-06-13 |
Movie | Abbott and Costello: The Drugstore | Woman Who Slaps Lou | 1952-12-05 |
Movie | The Scarf | Floozy at Level Louie's Place | 1951-04-06 |
Movie | Stop That Cab | Lucy Gugenheimer | 1951-03-30 |
Series | The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok | Unknown | 1951-04-15 |
Movie | G.I. Jane | Lt. Adrian | 1951-07-06 |
Series | Racket Squad | Unknown | 1951-06-07 |
Movie | My Favorite Spy | Lola | 1951-12-25 |
Movie | Varieties on Parade | 1951-07-20 | |
Movie | The Woman on Pier 13 | Waitress | 1950-06-15 |
Movie | Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance | Miss Tuttle | 1950-06-04 |
Movie | Sideshow | Nellie | 1950-06-18 |
Movie | Once a Thief | Pearl | 1950-07-07 |
Movie | Hunt the Man Down | Marie (uncredited) | 1950-12-26 |
Movie | Hi-Jacked | Aggie | 1950-07-07 |
Movie | Flamingo Road | Blanche - Inmate of Women's Prison (uncredited) | 1949-04-30 |
Movie | Sky Dragon | Wanda LaFern | 1949-04-27 |
Movie | The Lovable Cheat | Madame Mercadet | 1949-05-11 |
Movie | Trail of the Yukon | Paula | 1949-07-31 |
Movie | Mighty Joe Young | Gloria (uncredited) | 1949-07-27 |
Movie | There's a Girl in My Heart | Lulu Troy | 1949-12-19 |
Movie | Tough Assignment | Gloria (the moll) | 1949-11-15 |
Movie | Out of the Storm | Ginger | 1948-09-11 |
Movie | Smart Woman | Newspaper Columnist | 1948-04-30 |
Movie | The Paleface | Pepper | 1948-12-17 |
Movie | Fall Guy | Mrs. Sindell | 1947-03-15 |
Movie | Philo Vance Returns | Maggie McCarthy / Choo-Choo Divine | 1947-04-14 |
Movie | Love and Learn | New Danceland Hostess | 1947-05-02 |
Movie | The Trouble with Women | Rita La May | 1947-06-25 |
Movie | The Bamboo Blonde | Montana Jones | 1946-07-15 |
Movie | Vacation in Reno | Bunny Wells | 1946-12-10 |
Movie | Cross My Heart | Miss Baggart | 1946-12-18 |
Movie | Boston Blackie's Rendezvous | Martha | 1945-07-05 |
Movie | It's a Pleasure | Wilma | 1945-03-03 |
Movie | Road to Alcatraz | Louise Rogers | 1945-07-10 |
Movie | The Stork Club | Gwen | 1945-12-28 |
Movie | Once Upon a Time | Woman Exiting Theatre | 1944-06-29 |
Movie | Million Dollar Kid | Mazie Dunbar | 1944-02-28 |
Movie | Career Girl | Glenda Benton | 1944-01-11 |
Movie | The Singing Sheriff | Lefty | 1944-09-01 |
Movie | Shake Hands with Murder | Patsy Brent | 1944-04-22 |
Movie | Swing Hostess | Marge O'Day | 1944-09-08 |
Movie | I'm from Arkansas | Doris | 1944-10-31 |
Movie | Bluebeard | Mimi | 1944-11-11 |
Movie | The Woman in the Window | Streetwalker (uncredited) | 1944-10-25 |
Movie | Alaska | Kitty | 1944-11-18 |
Movie | Ladies' Day | Kitty McClouen | 1943-04-09 |
Movie | The Crystal Ball | Mrs. Angela Martin | 1943-01-22 |
Movie | Taxi, Mister | Waitress | 1943-04-16 |
Movie | Calaboose | Gert | 1943-01-29 |
Movie | Hers to Hold | Arlene | 1943-07-16 |
Movie | Spotlight Scandals | Bernice Quigley | 1943-09-24 |
Movie | Lady of Burlesque | Gee Gee Graham | 1943-05-01 |
Movie | Submarine Base | Dorothy | 1943-07-20 |
Movie | Action in the North Atlantic | Jenny O'Hara (uncredited) | 1943-06-12 |
Movie | Roxie Hart | Gertie | 1942-02-20 |
Movie | Rings on Her Fingers | 1942-03-20 | |
Movie | Highways by Night | Blonde Chorine | 1942-10-02 |
Movie | Broadway | Maisie | 1942-05-08 |
Movie | The Lady from Cheyenne | Chorus Girl | 1941-04-11 |
Movie | Road to Zanzibar | French soubrette | 1941-04-11 |
Movie | Horror Island | Arleen Grady | 1941-03-28 |
Movie | Too Many Blondes | Hortense Kent | 1941-08-01 |
Movie | Sing Another Chorus | Francine La Verne | 1941-09-19 |
Movie | I Killed That Man | Verne Drake | 1941-11-28 |
Movie | New York Town | Toots O'Day (uncredited) | 1941-10-31 |
Movie | Hard Guy | Goldie Duvall | 1941-10-17 |
Movie | Wild Geese Calling | Mazie | 1941-08-15 |
Movie | Meet the Wildcat | Jail Cell Blonde | 1940-10-22 |
Movie | Go West | Mary Lou | 1940-12-06 |
Movie | ...One Third of a Nation... | Myrtle | 1939-02-10 |
Movie | Back Door to Heaven | Sugar (uncredited) | 1939-04-19 |
Movie | One Rainy Afternoon | Theater Ticket Seller (Uncredited) | 1936-05-13 |
Movie | Lady Luck | Rita | 1936-09-13 |
Movie | Mister Cinderella | Lil, Maizie's Friend | 1936-10-22 |
Movie | Our Relations | Alice | 1936-09-15 |
Movie | Rumba | Goldie Allen | 1935-02-08 |
Movie | Stolen Harmony | Sunny Verne | 1935-04-20 |
Movie | The Vagabond King | Extra | 1930-02-17 |
Movie | Let's Go Native | Chorine (uncredited) | 1930-08-15 |
Movie | Lord Byron of Broadway | Lady In The Audience | 1930-02-28 |
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