Adele Jergens
Acting
Born: November 26, 1917 · Brooklyn, New York, USA
Died: November 22, 2002 (aged 84)
Highest Rated
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Adele Jergens, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Photos (2)
Movies (52)
Fallen Angel
Woman at Madley's Show (uncredited)
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
Boots Marsden
Jane Eyre
Woman at Party (uncredited)
The Gang's All Here
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
The Cobweb
Miss Cobb
A Thousand and One Nights
Princess Armina
Ladies of the Chorus
Mae Martin
Show Boat
Cameo McQueen (uncredited)
Day the World Ended
Ruby
Strange Lady in Town
Bella Brown
Down to Earth
Georgia Evans
Sugarfoot
Reva Cairn
Edge of Doom
Irene
State Fair
Girl on Rollercoaster (uncredited)
I Love Trouble
Boots Nestor
Side Street
Lucille 'Lucky' Colner
The Sound of Fury
Velma
Armored Car Robbery
Yvonne LeDoux aka Mrs. Benny McBride
She Wouldn't Say Yes
Allura
Bad Girls Behind Bars
Jenny (archive footage)
Pin Up Girl
Canteen Hostess (uncredited)
Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick
Gladys
Fireman Save My Child
Harry's Wife
The Fuller Brush Man
Miss Sharmley
The Dark Past
Laura Stevens
The Crime Doctor's Diary
Inez Gray
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
Mona Harrison
Outlaw Treasure
Rita Starr
The Prince of Thieves
Lady Christabel
Treasure of Monte Cristo
Jean Turner
Slightly French
Yvonne La Tour
Somebody Loves Me
Nola Beach
The Woman from Tangier
Nylon
The Miami Story
Gwen Abbott
Together Again
Gilda Laverne (uncredited)
Law of the Barbary Coast
1949
Blondie's Anniversary
Gloria Stafford
Black Arrow
Mary Brent
Girls in Prison
Jenny
Runaway Daughters
Dixie Jackson
Blues Busters
Lola Stanton
Fighting Trouble
Mae Randle
Hello, Frisco, Hello
Chorine (uncredited)
Blonde Dynamite
Joanie Marshall
Overland Pacific
Jessie Loraine
Radar Secret Service
Lila
The Mutineers
Norma Harrison
The Big Chase
Doris Grayson
The Lonesome Trail
Mae
Everybody's Dancin'
Adele Jergens
The Traveling Saleswoman
Lilly
Beware of Blondie
Toby Clifton
