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