- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- August 7, 1918
- Place of Birth
- San Antonio, Texas, USA
- Died
- May 21, 2014
Jane Adams
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". This was supposedly due to her love of horses, but in reality it was to provide her with a more memorable stage name.(In the book Westerns Women: Interviews with 50 Leading Ladies of Movie and Television Westerns from the 1930s to …
Filmography
The Creeper: Rondo Hatton at Universal
movieThe Creeper: Rondo Hatton at Universal
2020 · Self
movieMonster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
2014 · Self (archive footage)
movieBatmania: From Comics to Screen
1989 · Self / Vicki Vale (archive footage)
movieSecret of Outlaw Flats
1953 · Peggy
tvAdventures of Superman
1952 · Babette DuLoque
Street Bandits
movieStreet Bandits
1951 · Jane Phillips, Secretary
movieOutlaw Gold
1950 · Kathy Martin
movieLaw of the Panhandle
1950 · Margie Kendal
The Cisco Kid
tvThe Cisco Kid
1950 · Miss Harley
movieThe Girl from San Lorenzo
1950 · Nora Malloy
movieMaster Minds
1949 · Nancy Marlowe
movieWestern Renegades
1949 · Judy Gordon
movieBatman and Robin
1949 · Vicki Vale
movieGun Law Justice
1949 · Jane Darnton
movieHe Walked by Night
1949 · Nurse Scanion (uncredited)
movieThe Brute Man
1946 · Helen Paige
movieLawless Breed
1946 · Marjorie 'Maggie' Bradley
movieRustler's Round-up
1946 · Josephine Fremont
movieGunman's Code
1946 · Laura Burton
movieNight in Paradise
1946 · Lotus
movieLost City of the Jungle
1946 · Marjorie Elmore
movieSmooth as Silk
1946 · Susan Marlowe
movieHouse of Dracula
1945 · Nina
movieLady on a Train
1945 · Circus Club Photographer
movieCode of the Lawless
1945 · Julie Randall (as Poni Adams)
movieTrail to Vengeance
1945 · Dorothy Jackson (as Poni Adams)
movieSalome, Where She Danced
1945 · Salome Girl