Adele Jergens
Acting
1917-11-26 · Brooklyn, New York, USA
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.
Filmography
Bad Girls Behind Bars
2005 · Movie
Fighting Trouble
1956 · Movie
Girls in Prison
1956 · Movie
Runaway Daughters
1956 · Movie
Day the World Ended
1955 · Movie
The Lonesome Trail
1955 · Movie
The Cobweb
1955 · Movie
Outlaw Treasure
1955 · Movie
Strange Lady in Town
1955 · Movie
Overland Pacific
1954 · Movie
The Big Chase
1954 · Movie
The Miami Story
1954 · Movie
Fireman Save My Child
1954 · Movie
Public Defender
1954 · Series
The Abbott and Costello Show
1952 · Series
Somebody Loves Me
1952 · Movie
Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick
1952 · Movie
Dangerous Assignment
1952 · Series
Show Boat
1951 · Movie
Racket Squad
1951 · Series
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
1951 · Movie
Sugarfoot
1951 · Movie
The Sound of Fury
1950 · Movie
Blues Busters
1950 · Movie
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950 · Series
Edge of Doom
1950 · Movie
Armored Car Robbery
1950 · Movie
Beware of Blondie
1950 · Movie
Everybody's Dancin'
1950 · Movie
Side Street
1950 · Movie
The Traveling Saleswoman
1950 · Movie
Blonde Dynamite
1950 · Movie
Radar Secret Service
1950 · Movie
Treasure of Monte Cristo
1949 · Movie
Law of the Barbary Coast
1949 · Movie
The Mutineers
1949 · Movie
Make Believe Ballroom
1949 · Movie
The Crime Doctor's Diary
1949 · Movie
Slightly French
1949 · Movie
Ladies of the Chorus
1948 · Movie
The Dark Past
1948 · Movie
The Fuller Brush Man
1948 · Movie
The Woman from Tangier
1948 · Movie
The Prince of Thieves
1948 · Movie
I Love Trouble
1948 · Movie
Blondie's Anniversary
1947 · Movie
When a Girl's Beautiful
1947 · Movie
Down to Earth
1947 · Movie
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
1947 · Movie
She Wouldn't Say Yes
1945 · Movie
Fallen Angel
1945 · Movie
State Fair
1945 · Movie
A Thousand and One Nights
1945 · Movie
Together Again
1944 · Movie
Pin Up Girl
1944 · Movie
Black Arrow
1944 · Movie
Jane Eyre
1943 · Movie
The Gang's All Here
1943 · Movie
Hello, Frisco, Hello
1943 · Movie