Iris Adrian
Biography
Iris Adrian was an American actress of stage and screen. Born in Los Angeles and raised there by her mother, she won a beauty pageant before working with the Ziegfeld Follies and performing with Fred Waring. Chasing Husbands marked her screen debut as the silent era closed, and she took extra and chorus girl work in early sound films. In the 1930s she specialized in hard-boiled gals, gold-diggers and gangsters' molls. Her role as Gee-Gee Graham came in Lady of Burlesque (1943). She appeared as a glamorous movie star in The Errand Boy (1961) and acted in more than one hundred films by the late 1960s without achieving stardom. Later roles included several Walt Disney films such as That Darn Cat! (1965) and The Love Bug (1968), plus The Odd Couple (1968), often as wisecracking waitresses and landladies. She also did radio and television, with guest roles in Get Smart, Green Acres, Petticoat Junction and The Munsters.
82years old at death
- Born Los Angeles
- Died Hollywood
- Star sign: GeminiThe sign runs May 21 to June 20
- Also credited as Iris Adrian Hostetter
Movie Career
- Films
- 27
- Career span
- 44 years1936 to 1980
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Adrian acted regularly but never reached star status, and by the close of the 1960s her film credits numbered over one hundred.
Iris Adrian movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
Most often with
Robert Stevenson directed three of these films, Michael Curtiz three. Four actors appear in three of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Robert StevensonDirector, 3 films, 1950 to 1968
All films by Robert Stevenson
Michael CurtizDirector, 3 films, 1949 to 1957
All films by Michael Curtiz
Also two films together19 more actors
- Raymond MasseyThe Woman in the Window (1944) and Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
- Dean JonesThe Love Bug (1968) and That Darn Cat! (1965)
- Eddy ChandlerThe Woman in the Window (1944) and Horror Island (1941)
- Clem BevansThe Paleface (1948) and Go West (1940)
- Paul GuilfoyleThe Woman on Pier 13 (1950) and Mighty Joe Young (1949)
- Robert ArmstrongMighty Joe Young (1949) and The Paleface (1948)
- Joan BennettHighway Dragnet (1954) and The Woman in the Window (1944)
- Larry J. BlakeThat Darn Cat! (1965) and Flamingo Road (1949)
- Lester DorrTake the High Ground! (1953) and Murder at Glen Athol (1936)
- Claire CarletonThe Woman in the Window (1944) and Lady of Burlesque (1943)
- Howard McNearBlue Hawaii (1961) and The Errand Boy (1961)
- Harry HolmanI Killed That Man (1941) and Murder at Glen Athol (1936)
- Eve WhitneyThe Helen Morgan Story (1957) and My Dream Is Yours (1949)
- Noel MadisonMurder at Glen Athol (1936) and Our Relations (1936)
- Janis CarterThe Woman on Pier 13 (1950) and Lady of Burlesque (1943)
- Johnny DuncanHighway Dragnet (1954) and Million Dollar Kid (1944)
- Lew KellyLady of Burlesque (1943) and Murder at Glen Athol (1936)
- Walter Woolf KingThe Helen Morgan Story (1957) and Go West (1940)
- George PembrokeBluebeard (1944) and I Killed That Man (1941)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Iris Adrian's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$195 million
9 of the 27 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 27 films: 9 worldwide figure; 18 figure not found.
- 9Worldwide figure
- 18Figure not found
Top grosser
Highest grossing
The eight biggest films earned 99% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$51M26.2% of the total
- 2$45M22.8% of the total
- 3$37M18.9% of the total
- 4$28M14.4% of the total
- 5$18M9.2% of the total
- 6$8.4M4.3% of the total
- 7$3.5M1.8% of the total
- 8$2.9M1.5% of the total
$1.9 millionfrom the other 1 film with a worldwide figure, 1% of the total
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