Name
Adele Jergens
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1917-11-26
Deathday
2002-11-22 (85 years old)
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Adele Jergens (November 26, 1917 - November 22, 2002) was an American actress. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Jergen's birth date is sometimes listed as 1922. Jergens first rose to prominence in the late 1930s, when she was named "Miss World's Fairest" at the 1939 New York World's Fair. In the early 1940s, she worked as a Rockette, and was named the Number One Showgirl in New York City. After a few years of working as a model and chorus girl, including being an understudy to Gypsy Rose Lee, Jergens landed a movie contract with Columbia Pictures in 1944, with brunette Jergens becoming a blonde. Her chorus girl past came in handy when she played an exotic dancer in Armored Car Robbery (1950). She was usually cast as blonde floozies and burlesque dancers. She once played Marilyn Monroe's mother in Ladies of the Chorus (1948) despite the fact that Jergens was only 9 years older than Monroe. In 1949, while filming Treasure of Monte Cristo, a film noir set in San Francisco, she met and married co-star Glenn Langan (The Amazing Colossal Man). They remained married until his death in 1991. Their only child, actor Tracy Langan, predeceased his mother. She is interred in the Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.
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- 1947 Blondie's Anniversary as Gloria Stafford
- 1950 Beware of Blondie as Toby Clifton
- 1945 State Fair as Girl on Rollercoaster (uncredited)
- 1950 Armored Car Robbery as Yvonne LeDoux aka Mrs. Benny McBride
- 1950 Radar Secret Service as Lila
- 1950 The Sound of Fury as Velma
- 1951 Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man as Boots Marsden
- 1955 Day the World Ended as Ruby
- 1950 Edge of Doom as Irene
- 1948 The Dark Past as Laura Stevens
- 1948 I Love Trouble as Boots Nestor
- 1954 Fireman Save My Child as Harry's Wife
- 1948 Ladies of the Chorus as Mae Martin
- 1950 Side Street as Lucille 'Lucky' Colner
- 1954 The Miami Story as Gwen Abbott
- 1945 A Thousand and One Nights as Princess Armina
- 1955 Outlaw Treasure as Rita Starr
- 1955 The Cobweb as Miss Cobb
- 1949 The Crime Doctor's Diary as Inez Gray
- 1954 The Big Chase as Doris Grayson
- 1956 Girls in Prison as Jenny
- 1945 She Wouldn't Say Yes as Allura
- 1949 Treasure of Monte Cristo as Jean Turner
- 1951 Sugarfoot as Reva Cairn
- 1956 Fighting Trouble as Mae Randle
- 1947 The Corpse Came C.O.D. as Mona Harrison
- 1950 Blues Busters as Lola Stanton
- 1952 Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick as Gladys
- 1954 Overland Pacific as Jessie Loraine
- 1952 Somebody Loves Me as Nola Beach
- 1944 Pin Up Girl as Canteen Hostess (uncredited)
- 1949 Slightly French as Yvonne La Tour
- 1950 Blonde Dynamite as Joanie Marshall
- 1948 The Prince of Thieves as Lady Christabel
- 1944 Together Again as Gilda Laverne (uncredited)
- 1947 Down to Earth as Georgia Evans
- 1950 Everybody's Dancin' as Adele Jergens
- 1951 Show Boat as Cameo McQueen (uncredited)
- 1956 Runaway Daughters as Dixie Jackson
- 1950 The Traveling Saleswoman as Lilly
- 1943 Jane Eyre as Woman at Party (uncredited)
- 1948 The Woman from Tangier as Nylon
- 1955 The Lonesome Trail as Mae
- 1944 Black Arrow as Mary Brent
- 1945 Fallen Angel as Woman at Madley's Show (uncredited)
- 1955 Strange Lady in Town as Bella Brown
- 1948 The Fuller Brush Man as Miss Sharmley
- 1943 Hello, Frisco, Hello as Chorine (uncredited)
- 1943 The Gang's All Here as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
- 1949 Make Believe Ballroom as Self
- 1949 The Mutineers as Norma Harrison
- 1949 Law of the Barbary Coast
- 2005 Bad Girls Behind Bars as Jenny (archive footage)
- 1947 When a Girl's Beautiful as Adele Jordan
- 1950 The Colgate Comedy Hour ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1951 Racket Squad ( 1 episode ) as Virginia
- 1952 Dangerous Assignment ( 1 episode ) as Marilyn
- 1952 The Abbott and Costello Show ( 1 episode ) as Maxine
- 1954 Public Defender ( 1 episode ) as Miss Murray
