Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1917-11-26
Day of Death
2002-11-22
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Adele Jergens
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.
Filmography (54)
Bad Girls Behind Bars
2005
Fighting Trouble
1956
Girls in Prison
1956
Runaway Daughters
1956
Day the World Ended
1955
The Lonesome Trail
1955
The Cobweb
1955
Outlaw Treasure
1955
Strange Lady in Town
1955
Overland Pacific
1954
The Big Chase
1954
The Miami Story
1954
Fireman Save My Child
1954
Somebody Loves Me
1952
