Adele Jergens
53 movies · 4 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Nov 26, 1917
- Died
- Nov 22, 2002 (age 84)
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Also known as
- Adele Louisa Jurgens · Adele Louisa Jurgenson
Biography
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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.
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Profiles IMDb
Known for
Adele Jergens: movies and TV shows
Acting (57)
- 2005 Bad Girls Behind Bars
as Jenny (archive footage)
- 1956 Fighting Trouble
as Mae Randle
- 1956 Girls in Prison
as Jenny
- 1956 Runaway Daughters
as Dixie Jackson
- 1955 Day the World Ended
as Ruby
- 1955 The Lonesome Trail
as Mae
- 1955 The Cobweb
as Miss Cobb
- 1955 Outlaw Treasure
as Rita Starr
- 1955 Strange Lady in Town
as Bella Brown
- 1954 Overland Pacific
as Jessie Loraine
- 1954 The Big Chase
as Doris Grayson
- 1954 The Miami Story
as Gwen Abbott
- 1954 Fireman Save My Child
as Harry's Wife
- 1954
- 1952
- 1952 Somebody Loves Me
as Nola Beach
- 1952 Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick
as Gladys
- 1952
- 1951 Show Boat
as Cameo McQueen (uncredited)
- 1951
- 1951 Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
as Boots Marsden
- 1951 Sugarfoot
as Reva Cairn
- 1950 The Sound of Fury
as Velma
- 1950 Blues Busters
as Lola Stanton
- 1950 Edge of Doom
as Irene
- 1950 Armored Car Robbery
as Yvonne LeDoux aka Mrs. Benny McBride
- 1950 Beware of Blondie
as Toby Clifton
- 1950 Everybody's Dancin'
as Adele Jergens
- 1950 Side Street
as Lucille 'Lucky' Colner
- 1950 The Traveling Saleswoman
as Lilly
- 1950 Blonde Dynamite
as Joanie Marshall
- 1950 Radar Secret Service
as Lila
- 1949 Treasure of Monte Cristo
as Jean Turner
- 1949
- 1949 The Mutineers
as Norma Harrison
- 1949 The Crime Doctor's Diary
as Inez Gray
- 1949 Slightly French
as Yvonne La Tour
- 1948 Ladies of the Chorus
as Mae Martin
- 1948 The Dark Past
as Laura Stevens
- 1948 The Fuller Brush Man
as Miss Sharmley
- 1948 The Woman from Tangier
as Nylon
- 1948 The Prince of Thieves
as Lady Christabel
- 1948 I Love Trouble
as Boots Nestor
- 1947 Blondie's Anniversary
as Gloria Stafford
- 1947 When a Girl's Beautiful
as Adele Jordan
- 1947 Down to Earth
as Georgia Evans
- 1947 The Corpse Came C.O.D.
as Mona Harrison
- 1945 She Wouldn't Say Yes
as Allura
- 1945 Fallen Angel
as Woman at Madley's Show (uncredited)
- 1945 State Fair
as Girl on Rollercoaster (uncredited)
- 1945 A Thousand and One Nights
as Princess Armina
- 1944 Together Again
as Gilda Laverne (uncredited)
- 1944 Pin Up Girl
as Canteen Hostess (uncredited)
- 1944 Black Arrow
as Mary Brent
- 1943 Jane Eyre
as Woman at Party (uncredited)
- 1943 The Gang's All Here
as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
- 1943 Hello, Frisco, Hello
as Chorine (uncredited)
Talk shows and appearances (2)
- 1950 The Colgate Comedy Hour
1 episode
- 1949