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