Adele Jergens
Known For
Acting
Born
1917-11-26 in Brooklyn, New York, USA
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.
Most Known For
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
The Abbott and Costello Show
as Maxine
Racket Squad
Dangerous Assignment
Outlaw Treasure
as Rita Starr
Sugarfoot
as Reva Cairn
Fallen Angel
as Woman at Madley's Show (uncredited)
I Love Trouble
as Boots Nestor
Jane Eyre
as Woman at Party (uncredited)
Blonde Dynamite
as Joanie Marshall
Somebody Loves Me
as Nola Beach
The Cobweb
as Miss Cobb
Show Boat
as Cameo McQueen (uncredited)
Edge of Doom
as Irene
Armored Car Robbery
as Yvonne LeDoux aka Mrs. Benny McBride
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
as Boots Marsden
Ladies of the Chorus
as Mae Martin
Down to Earth
as Georgia Evans
The Fuller Brush Man
as Miss Sharmley
A Thousand and One Nights
as Princess Armina