Adele Jergens
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Nov 26, 1917
- Died
- Nov 22, 2002 (aged 84)
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Credits
- 59
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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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Known for
Jane Eyre
1943Movie
Woman at Party (uncredited)
Fallen Angel
1945Movie
Woman at Madley's Show (uncredited)
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
1951Movie
Boots Marsden
Show Boat
1951Movie
Cameo McQueen (uncredited)
Day the World Ended
1955Movie
Ruby
Armored Car Robbery
1950Movie
Yvonne LeDoux aka Mrs. Benny McBride
Filmography
Bad Girls Behind Bars
2005Movie
Jenny (archive footage)
Fighting Trouble
1956Movie
Mae Randle
Girls in Prison
1956Movie
Jenny
Runaway Daughters
1956Movie
Dixie Jackson
Day the World Ended
1955Movie
Ruby
The Lonesome Trail
1955Movie
Mae
The Cobweb
1955Movie
Miss Cobb
Outlaw Treasure
1955Movie
Rita Starr
Strange Lady in Town
1955Movie
Bella Brown
Overland Pacific
1954Movie
Jessie Loraine
The Big Chase
1954Movie
Doris Grayson
The Miami Story
1954Movie
Gwen Abbott
Fireman Save My Child
1954Movie
Harry's Wife
Public Defender
1954TV
Miss Murray
The Abbott and Costello Show
1952TV
Maxine
Somebody Loves Me
1952Movie
Nola Beach
Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick
1952Movie
Gladys
Dangerous Assignment
1952TV
Marilyn
Show Boat
1951Movie
Cameo McQueen (uncredited)
Racket Squad
1951TV
Virginia
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
1951Movie
Boots Marsden
Sugarfoot
1951Movie
Reva Cairn
The Sound of Fury
1950Movie
Velma
Blues Busters
1950Movie
Lola Stanton
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950TV
Self
Edge of Doom
1950Movie
Irene
Armored Car Robbery
1950Movie
Yvonne LeDoux aka Mrs. Benny McBride
Beware of Blondie
1950Movie
Toby Clifton
Everybody's Dancin'
1950Movie
Adele Jergens
Side Street
1950Movie
Lucille 'Lucky' Colner
The Traveling Saleswoman
1950Movie
Lilly
Blonde Dynamite
1950Movie
Joanie Marshall
Radar Secret Service
1950Movie
Lila
Treasure of Monte Cristo
1949Movie
Jean Turner
Law of the Barbary Coast
1949Movie
The Mutineers
1949Movie
Norma Harrison
Make Believe Ballroom
1949Movie
Self
The Crime Doctor's Diary
1949Movie
Inez Gray
Slightly French
1949Movie
Yvonne La Tour
Ladies of the Chorus
1948Movie
Mae Martin
The Dark Past
1948Movie
Laura Stevens
The Fuller Brush Man
1948Movie
Miss Sharmley
The Woman from Tangier
1948Movie
Nylon
The Prince of Thieves
1948Movie
Lady Christabel
I Love Trouble
1948Movie
Boots Nestor
Blondie's Anniversary
1947Movie
Gloria Stafford
When a Girl's Beautiful
1947Movie
Adele Jordan
Down to Earth
1947Movie
Georgia Evans
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
1947Movie
Mona Harrison
She Wouldn't Say Yes
1945Movie
Allura
Fallen Angel
1945Movie
Woman at Madley's Show (uncredited)
State Fair
1945Movie
Girl on Rollercoaster (uncredited)
A Thousand and One Nights
1945Movie
Princess Armina
Together Again
1944Movie
Gilda Laverne (uncredited)
Pin Up Girl
1944Movie
Canteen Hostess (uncredited)
Black Arrow
1944Movie
Mary Brent
Jane Eyre
1943Movie
Woman at Party (uncredited)
The Gang's All Here
1943Movie
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Hello, Frisco, Hello
1943Movie
Chorine (uncredited)