Sugar, Pepper, Pearl, Sunny, Goldie, Bubbles, all those are nicknames borne by petite actress Iris Adrian in several of the 160 movies she made. With such names, don't expect to see her playing Joan of Ark or Electra but it remains that all these pet names reflect her winning femininity, its sweetness, its spiciness, its radiance. What's more their funny overtones are telltale signs of Iris Adrian's own quick witty sense of humor. Sexy yes, but with a sharp tongue. This aspect of her personality helped her to evolve and last, changing from the roles of blonde chorines or waitresses or, on the wilder side, of streetwalkers and other gangsters' molls to colorful bit parts in comedies with Abbott and Costello, Jerry Lewis and Elvis Presley. She ended up playing almost exclusively for Walt Disney productions before retiring at the respectable age of 82. Though she never achieved star status she could easily have if the circumstances had been favorable. For she steals scenes in a lot of movies provided of course her role is fleshed out sufficiently. She was excellent, for instance, in more than one poverty row crime movies. Don't miss her in 'Gold Diggers of 1937', 'Go West' (with the Marx Brothers, 1940), 'Lady of Burlesque' (1943), 'The Paleface'(1948), 'Once a Thief' (1950) and 'The Errand Boy' (with Jerry Lewis, 1961). Date of Death 17 September 1994, Hollywood, California (aftermath of earthquake)
Movie | Laurel and Hardy: A Tribute to the Boys | (archive footage) | 1992-04-05 |
Movie | Murder Can Hurt You! | Candy Store Proprietor | 1980-05-21 |
Movie | Herbie Goes Bananas | Loud American Wife | 1980-06-25 |
Series | Trapper John, M.D. | Unknown | 1979-09-23 |
Movie | Getting Married | Neighbor | 1978-05-17 |
Series | The Ted Knight Show | Dottie | 1978-04-08 |
Series | The Love Boat | Groupie | 1977-09-24 |
Movie | No Deposit, No Return | Housewife | 1976-02-05 |
Movie | Freaky Friday | Bus Passenger | 1976-12-17 |
Movie | The Apple Dumpling Gang | Poker Polly | 1975-07-01 |
Movie | Scandalous John | Mavis | 1971-06-22 |
Movie | The Odd Couple | Waitress | 1968-05-16 |
Movie | The Love Bug | Carhop | 1968-12-23 |
Movie | Alice Through the Looking Glass | Tiger Lily | 1966-11-06 |
Series | Green Acres | Unknown | 1965-09-15 |
Series | Get Smart | Unknown | 1965-09-18 |
Movie | That Darn Cat! | Landlady | 1965-12-02 |
Series | The Munsters | Unknown | 1964-09-24 |
Series | Petticoat Junction | Unknown | 1963-09-24 |
Series | The Beverly Hillbillies | Unknown | 1962-09-26 |
Series | The Lucy Show | Unknown | 1962-10-01 |
Series | Going My Way | Unknown | 1962-10-03 |
Movie | Blue Hawaii | Enid Garvey | 1961-11-22 |
Movie | The Errand Boy | Anastasia Anastasia, Actress | 1961-11-28 |
Series | The Detectives | Unknown | 1959-10-16 |
Movie | The Buccaneer | Brown's Blowsy Girlfriend | 1958-12-11 |
Movie | Carnival Rock | Celia | 1957-09-01 |
Movie | The Helen Morgan Story | Klingman's Secretary | 1957-10-02 |
Movie | So You Want to Be Pretty | Nurse Mabel (uncredited) | 1956-03-10 |
Series | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Macey | 1955-10-02 |
Movie | Highway Dragnet | Dolly - Cafe Waitress | 1954-01-20 |
Movie | So You Want to Know Your Relatives | Bubbles LaVonne (uncredited) | 1954-12-18 |
Movie | The Fast and the Furious | Wilma Belding | 1954-11-01 |
Movie | Crime Wave | Hastings' Girlfriend (uncredited) | 1953-10-22 |
Movie | Carson City | Saloon Girl in Fight (uncredited) | 1952-06-13 |
Movie | Stop That Cab | Lucy Gugenheimer | 1951-03-30 |
Movie | Life with Buster Keaton | 1951-02-10 | |
Movie | The Scarf | Floozy at Level Louie's Place | 1951-04-06 |
Series | The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok | Unknown | 1951-04-15 |
Movie | My Favorite Spy | Lola | 1951-12-25 |
Movie | G.I. Jane | Lieutenant Adrian | 1951-07-06 |
Movie | Varieties on Parade | 1951-07-20 | |
Series | Racket Squad | Unknown | 1951-06-07 |
Movie | The Woman on Pier 13 | Waitress | 1950-06-15 |
Movie | Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance | Miss Tuttle | 1950-06-04 |
Movie | Blondie's Hero | Mae | 1950-03-09 |
Movie | Sideshow | Nellie | 1950-06-18 |
Movie | Hi-Jacked | Aggie | 1950-07-07 |
Movie | Once a Thief | Pearl | 1950-07-07 |
Movie | The Misadventures of Buster Keaton | Imogene La Rue (uncredited) | 1950-12-31 |
Movie | Hunt the Man Down | Marie (uncredited) | 1950-12-26 |
Movie | Flamingo Road | Blanche - Inmate of Women's Prison (uncredited) | 1949-04-30 |
Movie | Sky Dragon | Wanda LaFern | 1949-04-27 |
Movie | Miss Mink of 1949 | Mrs. McKelvey | 1949-02-11 |
Movie | The Lovable Cheat | Madame Mercadet | 1949-05-11 |
Movie | My Dream Is Yours | 1949-04-15 | |
Movie | Trail of the Yukon | Paula | 1949-07-31 |
Movie | There's a Girl in My Heart | Lulu Troy | 1949-12-19 |
Movie | Mighty Joe Young | Gloria (uncredited) | 1949-07-27 |
Movie | Always Leave Them Laughing | Julie Adams | 1949-11-26 |
Movie | Tough Assignment | Gloria | 1949-11-15 |
Movie | Out of the Storm | Ginger | 1948-09-11 |
Movie | Smart Woman | Newspaper Columnist | 1948-04-30 |
Movie | The Paleface | Pepper | 1948-12-17 |
Movie | Philo Vance Returns | Maggie McCarthy / Choo-Choo Divine | 1947-04-14 |
Movie | Fall Guy | Mrs. Sindell | 1947-03-15 |
Movie | Love and Learn | New Danceland Hostess (uncredited) | 1947-05-02 |
Movie | The Trouble with Women | Rita La May | 1947-06-25 |
Movie | The Bamboo Blonde | Montana Jones | 1946-07-15 |
Movie | Vacation in Reno | Bunny Wells | 1946-12-10 |
Movie | Cross My Heart | Miss Baggart | 1946-12-18 |
Movie | It's a Pleasure | Wilma | 1945-03-03 |
Movie | Boston Blackie's Rendezvous | Martha | 1945-07-05 |
Movie | The Stork Club | Gwen | 1945-12-28 |
Movie | Steppin' in Society | Shirley | 1945-07-09 |
Movie | Road to Alcatraz | Louise Rogers | 1945-07-10 |
Movie | Shake Hands with Murder | Patsy Brent | 1944-04-22 |
Movie | Once Upon a Time | Woman Exiting Theatre (uncredited) | 1944-06-29 |
Movie | Career Girl | Glenda Benton | 1944-01-11 |
Movie | The Singing Sheriff | Lefty | 1944-09-01 |
Movie | Million Dollar Kid | Mazie Dunbar | 1944-02-28 |
Movie | Alaska | Kitty | 1944-11-18 |
Movie | Swing Hostess | Marge O'Day | 1944-09-08 |
Movie | Bluebeard | Mimi | 1944-10-26 |
Movie | I'm from Arkansas | Doris | 1944-10-31 |
Movie | The Woman in the Window | Streetwalker (uncredited) | 1944-10-25 |
Movie | Taxi, Mister | Waitress | 1943-04-16 |
Movie | Ladies' Day | Kitty McClouen | 1943-04-09 |
Movie | Calaboose | Gert | 1943-01-29 |
Movie | Lady of Burlesque | Gee Gee Graham | 1943-05-01 |
Movie | The Crystal Ball | Mrs. Angela Martin | 1943-01-22 |
Movie | Action in the North Atlantic | Jenny O'Hara (uncredited) | 1943-06-12 |
Movie | His Butler's Sister | Sunshine Twin | 1943-11-26 |
Movie | Spotlight Scandals | Bernice Quigley | 1943-09-24 |
Movie | Submarine Base | Dorothy | 1943-07-20 |
Movie | Hers to Hold | Arlene | 1943-07-16 |
Movie | Rings on Her Fingers | Peggy | 1942-03-20 |
Movie | Roxie Hart | Gertie | 1942-02-20 |
Movie | Fingers at the Window | Babe Stanton (uncredited) | 1942-04-22 |
Movie | Broadway | Maisie | 1942-05-08 |
Movie | Highways by Night | Blonde Chorine | 1942-10-02 |
Movie | Orchestra Wives | Sassy Woman Exiting Bus | 1942-09-04 |
Movie | Too Many Blondes | Hortense Kent | 1941-08-01 |
Movie | Horror Island | Arleen Grady | 1941-03-28 |
Movie | Wild Geese Calling | Mazie | 1941-08-15 |
Movie | Road to Zanzibar | French soubrette | 1941-04-11 |
Movie | The Lady from Cheyenne | Chorus Girl | 1941-04-11 |
Movie | I Killed That Man | Verne Drake | 1941-11-28 |
Movie | Sing Another Chorus | Francine La Verne | 1941-09-19 |
Movie | Swing It Soldier | Dena Maxwellton | 1941-11-07 |
Movie | New York Town | Toots O'Day (uncredited) | 1941-10-31 |
Movie | Hard Guy | Goldie Duvall | 1941-10-17 |
Movie | Meet the Wildcat | Jail Cell Blonde | 1940-10-22 |
Movie | Go West | Mary Lou | 1940-12-06 |
Movie | Back Door to Heaven | Sugar (uncredited) | 1939-04-19 |
Movie | One Third of a Nation | Myrtle | 1939-02-10 |
Movie | One Rainy Afternoon | Theater Ticket Seller (Uncredited) | 1936-05-13 |
Movie | Murder at Glen Athol | Muriel Randel | 1936-02-27 |
Movie | Our Relations | Alice | 1936-09-15 |
Movie | Lady Luck | Rita | 1936-09-13 |
Movie | Mister Cinderella | Lil, Maizie's Friend | 1936-10-22 |
Movie | Stolen Harmony | Sunny Verne | 1935-04-20 |
Movie | Rumba | Goldie Allen | 1935-02-08 |
Movie | The Gay Deception | Gettel's Wife (uncredited) | 1935-09-13 |
Movie | The Vagabond King | Extra | 1930-02-17 |
Movie | Lord Byron of Broadway | Lady In The Audience | 1930-02-28 |
Movie | Let's Go Native | Island Girl (uncredited) | 1930-08-15 |
Movie | Chasing Husbands | 1928-12-22 |