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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 Chatsworth, California.
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Filmography
all 57
Movies 54
TV Shows 3
self 3
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)
Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick (1952)
Dangerous Assignment (1952)
Show Boat (1951)
Racket Squad (1951)
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)
Sugarfoot (1951)
The Sound of Fury (1950)
Blues Busters (1950)
The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950)
Edge of Doom (1950)
Armored Car Robbery (1950)
Beware of Blondie (1950)
Everybody's Dancin' (1950)
Side Street (1950)
The Traveling Saleswoman (1950)
Blonde Dynamite (1950)
Radar Secret Service (1950)
Treasure of Monte Cristo (1949)
Law of the Barbary Coast (1949)
The Mutineers (1949)
Make Believe Ballroom (1949)
The Crime Doctor's Diary (1949)
Slightly French (1949)
Ladies of the Chorus (1948)
The Dark Past (1948)
The Fuller Brush Man (1948)
The Woman from Tangier (1948)
The Prince Of Thieves (1948)
I Love Trouble (1948)
Blondie's Anniversary (1947)
When a Girl's Beautiful (1947)
Down to Earth (1947)
The Corpse Came C.O.D. (1947)
She Wouldn't Say Yes (1945)
Fallen Angel (1945)
State Fair (1945)
A Thousand and One Nights (1945)
Together Again (1944)
Pin Up Girl (1944)
Black Arrow (1944)
The Gang's All Here (1943)
Jane Eyre (1943)
Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943)
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Known ForActing
GenderFemale
Birthday1917-11-26
Deathday2002-11-22 (84 years old)
Birth PlaceBrooklyn, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsAdele Louisa Jurgens, Adele Louisa Jurgenson
Awardsstar on Hollywood Walk of Fame
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