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Iris Adrian was an only child, raised by a single mother, Florence V. Hostetter ( née Every ), in Los Angeles, California.

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 hard-boiled, 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, as well as a capable dancer, dancing in several films with George Raft.

Adrian played " Gee-Gee Graham " in Lady of Burlesque and a similar role opposite Betty Hutton in The Stork Club.

In the Jerry Lewis comedy, The Errand Boy, she played a glamorous movie star named " Anastasia Anastasia ", whose on-set birthday party is wrecked by Lewis's shenanigans.

" Play it like you're Lana Turner ", Lewis told Adrian.

She also appeared on several radio programs, including serving as a regular on the Abbott and Costello Show.