Adele Jergens
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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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Acted in
Bad Girls Behind Bars
2005
as Jenny (archive footage)
Fighting Trouble
1956
as Mae Randle
Girls in Prison
1956
as Jenny
Runaway Daughters
1956
as Dixie Jackson
Day the World Ended
1955
as Ruby
The Lonesome Trail
1955
as Mae
The Cobweb
1955
as Miss Cobb
Outlaw Treasure
1955
as Rita Starr
Strange Lady in Town
1955
as Bella Brown
Overland Pacific
1954
as Jessie Loraine
The Big Chase
1954
as Doris Grayson
The Miami Story
1954
as Gwen Abbott
Fireman Save My Child
1954
as Harry's Wife
Somebody Loves Me
1952
as Nola Beach
Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick
1952
as Gladys
Dangerous Assignment
1952
Show Boat
1951
as Cameo McQueen (uncredited)
Racket Squad
1951
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
1951
as Boots Marsden
Sugarfoot
1951
as Reva Cairn
The Sound of Fury
1950
as Velma
Blues Busters
1950
as Lola Stanton
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950
as Self
Edge of Doom
1950
as Irene
Armored Car Robbery
1950
as Yvonne LeDoux aka Mrs. Benny McBride
Beware of Blondie
1950
as Toby Clifton
Everybody's Dancin'
1950
as Adele Jergens
Side Street
1950
as Lucille 'Lucky' Colner
The Traveling Saleswoman
1950
as Lilly
Blonde Dynamite
1950
as Joanie Marshall
Radar Secret Service
1950
as Lila
Treasure of Monte Cristo
1949
as Jean Turner
Law of the Barbary Coast
1949
The Mutineers
1949
as Norma Harrison
Make Believe Ballroom
1949
as Self
The Crime Doctor's Diary
1949
as Inez Gray
Slightly French
1949
as Yvonne La Tour
Ladies of the Chorus
1948
as Mae Martin
The Dark Past
1948
as Laura Stevens
The Fuller Brush Man
1948
as Miss Sharmley
The Woman from Tangier
1948
as Nylon
The Prince Of Thieves
1948
as Lady Christabel
I Love Trouble
1948
as Boots Nestor
Blondie's Anniversary
1947
as Gloria Stafford
When a Girl's Beautiful
1947
as Adele Jordan
Down to Earth
1947
as Georgia Evans
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
1947
as Mona Harrison
She Wouldn't Say Yes
1945
as Allura
Fallen Angel
1945
as Woman at Madley's Show (uncredited)
State Fair
1945
as Girl on Rollercoaster (uncredited)
A Thousand and One Nights
1945
as Princess Armina
Together Again
1944
as Gilda Laverne
Pin Up Girl
1944
as Canteen Hostess (uncredited)
Black Arrow
1944
as Mary Brent
Jane Eyre
1943
as Woman at Party (uncredited)
The Gang's All Here
1943
as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Hello, Frisco, Hello
1943
as Chorine (uncredited)