Adele Jergens

Known for ActingBorn 1917-11-26Died 2002-11-22Brooklyn, 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Adele Jergens, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Outlaw Treasure

Somebody Loves Me

The Lonesome Trail

Fireman Save My Child

When a Girl's Beautiful

Everybody's Dancin'

Slightly French

The Woman from Tangier

The Abbott and Costello Show

Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick

The Mutineers

Black Arrow

The Colgate Comedy Hour

Fighting Trouble

Jane Eyre

Blonde Dynamite

Blues Busters

Make Believe Ballroom

Ladies of the Chorus

State Fair

Racket Squad

Fallen Angel

Armored Car Robbery

The Sound of Fury

Side Street

I Love Trouble

The Corpse Came C.O.D.

The Prince of Thieves

The Fuller Brush Man

She Wouldn't Say Yes

Hello, Frisco, Hello

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man

Pin Up Girl

Public Defender

Show Boat

The Crime Doctor's Diary

Edge of Doom

A Thousand and One Nights

Beware of Blondie

The Dark Past

Law of the Barbary Coast

Down to Earth

Blondie's Anniversary

The Gang's All Here

The Cobweb

Overland Pacific

Together Again

Dangerous Assignment