1917-11-26 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.
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Bad Girls Behind Bars | Jenny (archive footage) | 2005-06-12 |
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Fighting Trouble | Mae Randle | 1956-09-16 |
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Runaway Daughters | Dixie Jackson | 1956-01-20 |
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Girls in Prison | Jenny | 1956-07-01 |
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Outlaw Treasure | Rita Starr | 1955-05-15 |
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The Cobweb | Miss Cobb | 1955-06-07 |
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Day the World Ended | Ruby | 1955-12-01 |
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The Lonesome Trail | Mae | 1955-07-01 |
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Strange Lady in Town | Bella Brown | 1955-04-12 |
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The Miami Story | Gwen Abbott | 1954-05-03 |
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Overland Pacific | Jessie Loraine | 1954-10-26 |
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Fireman Save My Child | Harry's Wife | 1954-05-02 |
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The Big Chase | Doris Grayson | 1954-06-18 |
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Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick | Gladys | 1952-04-01 |
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Somebody Loves Me | Nola Beach | 1952-09-24 |
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Show Boat | Cameo McQueen (uncredited) | 1951-07-19 |
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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man | Boots Marsden | 1951-04-12 |
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Sugarfoot | Reva Cairn | 1951-02-11 |
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Blonde Dynamite | Joanie Marshall | 1950-02-12 |
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The Traveling Saleswoman | Lilly | 1950-02-15 |
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Everybody's Dancin' | Adele Jergens | 1950-03-31 |
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Blues Busters | Lola Stanton | 1950-10-29 |
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The Sound of Fury | Velma | 1950-12-12 |
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Radar Secret Service | Lila | 1950-01-28 |
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Armored Car Robbery | Yvonne LeDoux aka Mrs. Benny McBride | 1950-06-08 |
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Beware of Blondie | Toby Clifton | 1950-04-13 |
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Side Street | Lucille 'Lucky' Colner | 1950-03-23 |
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Edge of Doom | Irene | 1950-08-03 |
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Law of the Barbary Coast | 1949-07-21 | |
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The Crime Doctor's Diary | Inez Gray | 1949-03-15 |
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Treasure of Monte Cristo | Jean Turner | 1949-08-27 |
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Make Believe Ballroom | Self | 1949-04-01 |
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The Mutineers | Norma Harrison | 1949-04-22 |
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Slightly French | Yvonne La Tour | 1949-02-02 |
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The Fuller Brush Man | Miss Sharmley | 1948-06-01 |
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Ladies of the Chorus | Mae Martin | 1948-12-30 |
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The Dark Past | Laura Stevens | 1948-12-22 |
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The Woman from Tangier | Nylon | 1948-02-12 |
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I Love Trouble | Boots Nestor | 1948-01-15 |
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The Prince of Thieves | Lady Christabel | 1948-01-16 |
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When a Girl's Beautiful | Adele Jordan | 1947-09-25 |
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The Corpse Came C.O.D. | Mona Harrison | 1947-06-02 |
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Down to Earth | Georgia Evans | 1947-08-21 |
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Blondie's Anniversary | Gloria Stafford | 1947-12-18 |
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She Wouldn't Say Yes | Allura | 1945-11-29 |
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Fallen Angel | Woman at Madley's Show (uncredited) | 1945-11-15 |
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A Thousand and One Nights | Princess Armina | 1945-07-20 |
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State Fair | Girl on Rollercoaster (uncredited) | 1945-08-29 |
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Pin Up Girl | Canteen Hostess (uncredited) | 1944-04-25 |
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Black Arrow | Mary Brent | 1944-01-01 |
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Together Again | Gilda Laverne (uncredited) | 1944-12-23 |
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Jane Eyre | Woman at Party (uncredited) | 1943-12-24 |
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Hello, Frisco, Hello | Chorine (uncredited) | 1943-03-26 |
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The Gang's All Here | Chorus Girl (uncredited) | 1943-12-24 |
