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Jane Adams
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August 7, 1921 in San Antonio, TX
Biography:A graduate of Juilliard and a former member of the famed Pasadena Playhouse, diminutive American screen actress "Jane Adams" (born Betty Jane Bierce) is mainly remembered as the most beautiful of all Universal's monster creations, the hunchbacked Nina of "House of Dracula" (1945). It was really a pity that the studio should promote Adams as merely one of the ghoulish attractions in this monster-rally, especially since the deformed and self-sacrificing nurse offered the sensationalistic horror opus its one genuine character. She was rather more conventionally cast in yet another horror film, "The Brute Man" (1946), starring real life acromegalia victim "Rondo Hatton", but this low-budget effort proved so poor that Universal ended up unloading it to Poverty Row company PRC. Sporting a new moniker, Poni Adams, she also appeared opposite the studio's resident B-Western star, "Kirby Grant" but was back to... Full Biography
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Rufus Wainwright and Jane Adams
Rufus Wainwright and Jane Adams
Rufus Wainwright and Jane Adams
Rufus Wainwright and Jane Adams
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