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Iris Adrian
Iris Adrian
	; from the film Lady of Burlesque (1943)
Born	Iris Adrian Hofstadter; May 29, 1912; Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Died	September 17, 1994 (aged 81); Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1928–1980
Spouse(s)	Charles Over (1935–1936); George Jay (also divorced); Ray (Fido) Murphy

Iris Adrian (May 29, 1912 – September 17, 1994) was an American film actress.

[edit] Life and career

Born in Los Angeles, California as Iris Adrian Hofstadter, Adrian won a beauty pageant and worked with the Ziegfeld Follies, before she entered films at the end of the silent era in Chasing Husbands (1928) and appeared as an extra or chorus girl in early sound films like Paramount on Parade (1930).

During the 1930s she specialised in playing glamorous gold-diggers and gangsters' "molls", and played supporting roles in numerous features. She was considered a versatile actress, who could play drama or comedy, and she was also regarded as a capable dancer, dancing in a couple of films with George Raft. She also appeared on several radio programs, including serving as a regular on the Abbott and Costello Show.

She continued to act regularly without achieving star status and by the end of the 1960s had appeared in more than one hundred films. In her later years she appeared in several Walt Disney films, including That Darn Cat!, The Love Bug, The Shaggy D.A. and Freaky Friday. She also played numerous guest roles in such television series as Get Smart, The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, Petticoat Junction, The Munsters, The Love Boat, The Lucy Show and The Jack Benny Show.

She was married three times, the first time to Charles Over in 1935 (divorced in 1936), the second to George Jay (also divorced), and her final marriage was to Ray (Fido) Murphy which lasted over 30 years. She had no children.

Known for sense of humor, she wryly commented in an interview late in her life that the only thing she did not like about aging was that she could no longer attract gangsters.

Adrian died in Los Angeles, from injuries she sustained during the 1994 Northridge earthquake exactly eight months earlier, and was entombed at Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery.

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Features

The Vagabond King (1930)
Lord Byron of Broadway (1930)
Paramount on Parade (1930)
Let's Go Native (1930)
Rumba (1935)
Stolen Harmony (1935)
The Gay Deception (1935)
Grand Exit (1935)
Murder at Glen Athol (1936)
A Message to Garcia (1936)
One Rainy Afternoon (1936)
Stage Struck (1936)
Lady Luck (1936)
Mister Cinderella (1936)
Our Relations (1936)
Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)
One Third of a Nation (1939)
Back Door to Heaven (1939)
Meet the Wildcat (1940)
Go West (1940)
Meet the Chump (1941)
Horror Island (1941)
Road to Zanzibar (1941)
The Lady from Cheyenne (1941)
Too Many Blondes (1941)
Wild Geese Calling (1941)
Swing It Soldier (1941)
Sing Another Chorus (1941)
Hard Guy (1941)
New York Town (1941)
I Killed That Man (1941)
Roxie Hart (1942)
To the Shores of Tripoli (1942)
Rings on Her Fingers (1942)
Juke Box Jenny (1942)
Fingers at the Window (1942)
Broadway (1942)
Moonlight Masquerade (1942)
Orchestra Wives (1942)
Highways by Night (1942)
Thunder Birds (1942)
The Crystal Ball (1943)
Calaboose (1943)
He's My Guy (1943)
Ladies' Day (1943)
Taxi, Mister (1943)
Lady of Burlesque (1943)
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Hers to Hold (1943)
Submarine Base (1943)
Spotlight Revue (1943)
His Butler's Sister (1943)
Career Girl (1944)
Million Dollar Kid (1944)
Shake Hands with Murder (1944)
Once Upon a Time (1944)
Swing Hostess (1944)
The Singing Sheriff (1944)
I'm from Arkansas (1944)
The Woman in the Window (1944)
Bluebeard (1944)

Alaska (1944)
It's a Pleasure (1945)
Boston Blackie's Rendezvous (1945)
Steppin' in Society (1945)
Road to Alcatraz (1945)
The Stork Club (1945)
The Bamboo Blonde (1946)
Vacation in Reno (1946)
Cross My Heart (1946)
Fall Guy (1947)
Philo Vance Returns (1947)
Love and Learn (1947)
The Trouble with Women (1947)
Smart Woman (1948)
Out of the Storm (1948)
The Paleface (1948)
Miss Mink of 1949 (1949)
My Dream Is Yours (1949)
The Sky Dragon (1949)
Flamingo Road (1949)
The Loveable Cheat (1949)
Mighty Joe Young (1949)
Trail of the Yukon (1949)
I Married a Communist (1949)
Tough Assignment (1949)
Always Leave Them Laughing (1949)
Bodyhold (1949)
There's a Girl in My Heart (1950)
Blondie's Hero (1950)
Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance (1950)
Sideshow (1950)
Once a Thief (1950)
Hi-Jacked (1950)
Hunt the Man Down (1950)
Stop That Cab (1951)
The Scarf (1951)
G.I. Jane (1951)
Varieties on Parade (1951)
My Favorite Spy (1951)
The Big Trees (1952)
Carson City (1952)
Take the High Ground! (1953) (scenes deleted)
Crime Wave (1954)
Highway Dragnet (1954)
The Fast and the Furious (1955)
Carnival Rock (1957)
The Helen Morgan Story (1957)
The Buccaneer (1958)
Blue Hawaii (1961)
The Errand Boy (1961)
Fate Is the Hunter (1964)
That Darn Cat! (1965) - Landlady
The Odd Couple (1968)
The Love Bug (1968)
The Barefoot Executive (1971)
Scandalous John (1971)
The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975)
No Deposit, No Return (1976)
Gus (1976)
The Shaggy D.A. (1976)
Freaky Friday (1976)
Herbie Goes Bananas (1980)

[edit] Short subjects

Chasing Husbands (1928)
Whirls and Girls (1929)
The Freshman's Goat (1930)
Don't Give Up (1930)
College Cuties (1930)
Man to Man (1937)
How to Clean House (1948)
Foy Meets Girl (1950)
Heebie Gee-Gees (1952)
So You Want to Be Pretty (1956)

[edit] References

Terrace, Vincent. Radio Programs, 1924-1984. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1999. ISBN 0-7864-0351-9

[edit] External links

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