Adele Jergens
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.
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Movies (46)
Bad Girls Behind Bars
as Jenny (archive footage)
2005
Fighting Trouble
as Mae Randle
1956
Girls in Prison
as Jenny
1956
Runaway Daughters
as Dixie Jackson
1956
Day the World Ended
as Ruby
1955
The Lonesome Trail
as Mae
1955
The Cobweb
as Miss Cobb
1955
Outlaw Treasure
as Rita Starr
1955
Strange Lady in Town
as Bella Brown
1955
Overland Pacific
as Jessie Loraine
1954
The Big Chase
as Doris Grayson
1954
The Miami Story
as Gwen Abbott
1954
Fireman Save My Child
as Harry's Wife
1954
Somebody Loves Me
as Nola Beach
1952
Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick
as Gladys
1952
Show Boat
as Cameo McQueen (uncredited)
1951
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
as Boots Marsden
1951
Sugarfoot
as Reva Cairn
1951
The Sound of Fury
as Velma
1950
Blues Busters
as Lola Stanton
1950
Edge of Doom
as Irene
1950
Armored Car Robbery
as Yvonne LeDoux aka Mrs. Benny McBride
1950
Beware of Blondie
as Toby Clifton
1950
Everybody's Dancin'
as Adele Jergens
1950
Side Street
as Lucille 'Lucky' Colner
1950
The Traveling Saleswoman
as Lilly
1950
Blonde Dynamite
as Joanie Marshall
1950
Radar Secret Service
as Lila
1950
Treasure of Monte Cristo
as Jean Turner
1949
Law of the Barbary Coast
1949
The Mutineers
as Norma Harrison
1949
Make Believe Ballroom
as Self
1949
The Crime Doctor's Diary
as Inez Gray
1949
Slightly French
as Yvonne La Tour
1949
Ladies of the Chorus
as Mae Martin
1948
The Dark Past
as Laura Stevens
1948
The Fuller Brush Man
as Miss Sharmley
1948
The Woman from Tangier
as Nylon
1948
The Prince of Thieves
as Lady Christabel
1948
I Love Trouble
as Boots Nestor
1948
Blondie's Anniversary
as Gloria Stafford
1947
When a Girl's Beautiful
as Adele Jordan
1947
Down to Earth
as Georgia Evans
1947
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
as Mona Harrison
1947
She Wouldn't Say Yes
as Allura
1945
Fallen Angel
as Woman at Madley's Show (uncredited)
1945
