Jill Adams

British film actress of generally frivolous "blond" roles , daughter of silent film actress Molly Adair. Her father, a New Zealand-born Irish-American author and animal handler, Arthur James Siggins, had met her mother while both were working on a film. Adams was born Jillian M.M. Siggins on July 22, 1930, in London. She spent her early years first in New Zealand and then in Wales, working as a teenager on farms. She subsequently took work as a sales clerk, window dresser, and secretary before taking a job as an assistant artist at a department store. When a model failed to show up for a fashion show, Adams was recruited to step in, which led to a successful modeling career. This resulted in turn in small parts in stage shows, including an Anthony Newley revue, "On With the New." From this she began to receive offers of bit roles in movies. She was given a small role of a bridesmaid in The Black Knight (1954) and her stylish beauty caught the eye of producers, who began to give her lar