Adele Jergens
Acting
Born 1917-11-26
Died 2002-11-22
Brooklyn, New York, USA
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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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Filmography
Acting
58 credits
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Jane Eyre
The Abbott and Costello Show
Public Defender
Dangerous Assignment
Racket Squad
Fallen Angel
Show Boat
Down to Earth
The Gang's All Here
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
The Cobweb
I Love Trouble
Ladies of the Chorus
Slightly French
The Dark Past
A Thousand and One Nights
Outlaw Treasure
State Fair
Side Street
Together Again
Edge of Doom
Sugarfoot
Armored Car Robbery
Strange Lady in Town
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
The Miami Story
Pin Up Girl
Girls in Prison
The Fuller Brush Man
Treasure of Monte Cristo
The Crime Doctor's Diary
Day the World Ended
Hello, Frisco, Hello
Blonde Dynamite
She Wouldn't Say Yes
Overland Pacific
The Sound of Fury
The Woman from Tangier
Black Arrow
The Prince of Thieves
Somebody Loves Me
When a Girl's Beautiful
Beware of Blondie
The Traveling Saleswoman
The Big Chase
Blondie's Anniversary
Make Believe Ballroom
Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick
Radar Secret Service
Fireman Save My Child
Blues Busters
Runaway Daughters
Everybody's Dancin'
The Lonesome Trail
Fighting Trouble
Bad Girls Behind Bars
The Mutineers
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