Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
8/7/1918
Place of Birth
San Antonio, Texas, USA
Also Known As
Poni Adams
Jane Adams
Biography
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 Har...
Known For
Gunman's Code
as Laura Burton
Western Renegades
as Judy Gordon
Lawless Breed
as Marjorie 'Maggie' Bradley
Monster Madness: The Golden Age of the Horror Film
as Self (archive footage)
Master Minds
as Nancy Marlowe
House of Dracula
as Nina
Batman and Robin
as Vicki Vale
Code of the Lawless
as Julie Randall (as Poni Adams)
The Brute Man
as Helen Paige
Salome, Where She Danced
as Salome Girl
Smooth as Silk
as Susan Marlowe
Night in Paradise
as Lotus
Law of the Panhandle
as Margie Kendal
Secret of Outlaw Flats
as Peggy
Lady on a Train
as Circus Club Photographer
Lost City of the Jungle
as Marjorie Elmore
Trail to Vengeance
as Dorothy Jackson (as Poni Adams)
He Walked by Night
as Nurse Scanion (uncredited)
Rustler's Round-up
as Josephine Fremont
Gun Law Justice
as Jane Darnton