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Jan as kidnapper Lyle Bettger's moll in the Paramount picture, "Union Station."
Resting between scenes during location shooting on latest, "Ace In The Hole."
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"WWTHEN Paramount took "U. S. Mail" to Glendale for a sneak preview several months ago they thought it would be the usual routine affair. Alan Ladd's bobby-soxer admirers would go slightly mad, as always, over Alan Ladd and his dangling forelock. But to their surprise, when the preview cards were read the next morning, it was witty, curvaceous Jan Sterling who had grabbed the raves. 83% of the cards demanded, "Who's the new slick chick?," "Love that blonde, who is she?," "Why don't you show us more of that blonde?," "Where's that lush dish been all my life? Let's have more of her." (This enthusiasm for a new player rarely happens these days. In fact, it hadn't happened with such intensity at Paramount since the fans "discovered" the practically unknown Alan Ladd in a Veronica Lake starrer, "This Gun For Hire.")
Producer Robert Fellows said he wasn't at all surprised. He had seen Jan Sterling play the dumb blonde in the Chicago company of "Born Yesterday" and he insisted upon having her play the be-bop-happy broad in his "U. S. Mail." The study) had thought so little of her that they allowed her to play her best scene in white shoes that appeared to take up more of the screen than Alan Ladd.
Hollywood is impressed with the written word. Before Jan's agent, Louis Schurr of the mink coat legend, could get a gander at those preview cards they hastily signed her on a seven-year contract. And they promptly pushed her into a much larger part, a gun moll, in "Union Station." When "Union Station" was previewed in Pasadena, history repeated itself with the preview cards.
Jan Sterling, who reversed the usual Hollywood procedure by being born a lady, celebrated her unexpected good fortune by buying a mink stole from her chum June Havoc on the Time Payment Havoc Plan, and getting married to very popular, very attractive, four times a bridegroom, Paul Douglas.
A few months ago Paramount issued a statement, to wit, "as a result of the tremendous smash preview reaction to her featured roles in 'U. S. Mail' and 'Union Station,' Jan Sterling is set for the top role in 'Ace In the Hole,' Billy Wilder's first project as a producer-director." Kirk Douglas is Jan's costar in the highly dramatic "Ace In The Hole," which is based on the recent Kathy Fiscus case in California and the Floyd Collins disaster of some years
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