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