- Appeared more times than any other credited actress on Sea Hunt (1958).
- A former "Miss Washington State", she was disqualified from competing in the "Miss America" pageant because she had been secretly married.
- She and husband Carroll Shelby were driven by Shelby's friend, John Edgar, to Tijuana in Edgar's Silver Cloud Rolls-Royce, dining on caviar and champagne on the way.
- She was the November 17, 1957, Riverside (CA) Raceway Queen for the Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) Nationals. Carroll Shelby, later wed to Harrison, was the first winner of that first SCCA Nationals Race.
- Her first and third husband, Carl R. Bergquist, was a Norwalk (CA) veterinarian. They had two children: Karen Edith, born in Los Angeles on October 28, 1947, and Craig Reed, who has had a career as San Clemente (CA) dentist, born in Los Angeles on December 18, 1951.
- Her first screen test judged her as "not definable".
- Second of Carroll Shelby's seven wives.
- She helped organize the first Earl Carroll Show Girls reunion at a Van Nuys, CA, restaurant in March 1968. In the 1940s Jan was one of many glamorous women chosen by master showman Earl Carroll to appear at Carroll's Restaurant and Night Club on Sunset Boulevard. On June 17, 1948, Carroll and his friend, showgirl Beryl Wallace, were killed in the crash of United Airlines Flight 624. Not long afterwards the nightclub was sold.
- Between 1958 and 1959, was featured on the cover of Stag, Joy, Rogue, Sir and Breezy magazine.
- A former school teacher.
- Crowned "Miss Calendar Girl of 1954" by the Specialty Advertising National Association in Chicago.
- Worked as an Earl Carroll showgirl in the 1940s.
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