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