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