Adele Jergens
Acting • Born 1917-11-26 – Died 2002-11-22
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.
Filmography
58 credits
Blondie's Anniversary
Movie • 1947
Gloria Stafford
Beware of Blondie
Movie • 1950
Toby Clifton
State Fair
Movie • 1945
Girl on Rollercoaster (uncredited)
Armored Car Robbery
Movie • 1950
Yvonne LeDoux aka Mrs. Benny McBride
Radar Secret Service
Movie • 1950
Lila
The Sound of Fury
Movie • 1950
Velma
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
Movie • 1951
Boots Marsden
Day the World Ended
Movie • 1955
Ruby
Edge of Doom
Movie • 1950
Irene
The Dark Past
Movie • 1948
Laura Stevens
I Love Trouble
Movie • 1948
Boots Nestor
Fireman Save My Child
Movie • 1954
Harry's Wife
Ladies of the Chorus
Movie • 1948
Mae Martin
Side Street
Movie • 1950
Lucille 'Lucky' Colner
The Miami Story
Movie • 1954
Gwen Abbott
A Thousand and One Nights
Movie • 1945
Princess Armina
Outlaw Treasure
Movie • 1955
Rita Starr
The Cobweb
Movie • 1955
Miss Cobb
The Crime Doctor's Diary
Movie • 1949
Inez Gray
The Big Chase
Movie • 1954
Doris Grayson
Girls in Prison
Movie • 1956
Jenny
She Wouldn't Say Yes
Movie • 1945
Allura
Treasure of Monte Cristo
Movie • 1949
Jean Turner
Sugarfoot
Movie • 1951
Reva Cairn
Fighting Trouble
Movie • 1956
Mae Randle
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
Movie • 1947
Mona Harrison
Blues Busters
Movie • 1950
Lola Stanton
Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick
Movie • 1952
Gladys
Overland Pacific
Movie • 1954
Jessie Loraine
Somebody Loves Me
Movie • 1952
Nola Beach
Pin Up Girl
Movie • 1944
Canteen Hostess (uncredited)
Slightly French
Movie • 1949
Yvonne La Tour
Blonde Dynamite
Movie • 1950
Joanie Marshall
The Prince of Thieves
Movie • 1948
Lady Christabel
Together Again
Movie • 1944
Gilda Laverne (uncredited)
Down to Earth
Movie • 1947
Georgia Evans
Everybody's Dancin'
Movie • 1950
Adele Jergens
Show Boat
Movie • 1951
Cameo McQueen (uncredited)
Runaway Daughters
Movie • 1956
Dixie Jackson
The Traveling Saleswoman
Movie • 1950
Lilly
Jane Eyre
Movie • 1943
Woman at Party (uncredited)
The Woman from Tangier
Movie • 1948
Nylon
The Lonesome Trail
Movie • 1955
Mae
Black Arrow
Movie • 1944
Mary Brent
Fallen Angel
Movie • 1945
Woman at Madley's Show (uncredited)
Strange Lady in Town
Movie • 1955
Bella Brown
The Fuller Brush Man
Movie • 1948
Miss Sharmley
Hello, Frisco, Hello
Movie • 1943
Chorine (uncredited)
The Gang's All Here
Movie • 1943
Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Make Believe Ballroom
Movie • 1949
Self
The Mutineers
Movie • 1949
Norma Harrison
Law of the Barbary Coast
Movie • 1949
Bad Girls Behind Bars
Movie • 2005
Jenny (archive footage)
When a Girl's Beautiful
Movie • 1947
Adele Jordan
The Colgate Comedy Hour
TV • 1950
Self
Racket Squad
TV • 1951
Dangerous Assignment
TV • 1952
The Abbott and Costello Show
TV • 1952
Maxine