Jane Adams

Personal Info

Birthday

August 7, 1918

Day of Death

2014-05-21

(95 years old)

Place of Birth

San Antonio, Texas, USA

Also Known As

Poni Adams

Jane Adams

Biography

Betty Jane Bierce, better known by her stage name Jane "Poni" Adams was an American actress in radio, film, and television in the 1940s and 1950s. Adams was born in San Antonio, Texas, but her family moved to California when she was two.

During her high school years, she studied violin and drama, and she was selected to be a concert mistress of the all-city high school orchestra of Los Angeles. She received a full scholarship to Juilliard, which she turned down to spend years studying at the Pasadena Playhouse. After the Playhouse, she got her start on Lux Radio Theatre, and then with the Harry Conover Modeling Agency, where she was given her nickname "Poni".

Known For

Adventures of Superman

Salome, Where She Danced

He Walked by Night

Batman and Robin

Lady on a Train

House of Dracula

The Brute Man

Lost City of the Jungle

Filmography

2014
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
as Self (archive footage)
1989
Batmania: From Comics to Screen
as Self / Vicki Vale (archive footage)
1953
Secret of Outlaw Flats
as Peggy
1951
Street Bandits
as Jane Phillips, Secretary
1950
Outlaw Gold
as Kathy Martin
Law of the Panhandle
as Margie Kendal
The Girl from San Lorenzo
as Nora Malloy
1949
Master Minds
as Nancy Marlowe
Western Renegades
as Judy Gordon
Batman and Robin
as Vicki Vale
Gun Law Justice
as Jane Darnton
He Walked by Night
as Nurse Scanion (uncredited)
1946
The Brute Man
as Helen Paige
Lawless Breed
as Marjorie 'Maggie' Bradley
Rustler's Round-up
as Josephine Fremont
Gunman's Code
as Laura Burton
Night in Paradise
as Lotus
Lost City of the Jungle
as Marjorie Elmore
Smooth as Silk
as Susan Marlowe
1945
House of Dracula
as Nina
Lady on a Train
as Circus Club Photographer
Code of the Lawless
as Julie Randall (as Poni Adams)
Trail to Vengeance
as Dorothy Jackson (as Poni Adams)
Salome, Where She Danced
as Salome Girl