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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 26, 1917
Died
November 22, 2002
Place of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Adele Louisa Jurgens
- Adele Louisa Jurgenson
Adele Jergens
0.3 Popularity
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.
Known For
0.5
Jenny (archive footage)
Bad Girls Behind Bars
2005
6.0
Mae Randle
Fighting Trouble
1956
4.3
Jenny
Girls in Prison
1956
3.9
Dixie Jackson
Runaway Daughters
1956
4.9
Ruby
Day the World Ended
1955
7.5
Mae
The Lonesome Trail
1955
5.8
Miss Cobb
The Cobweb
1955
0.0
Rita Starr
Outlaw Treasure
1955
4.5
Bella Brown
Strange Lady in Town
1955
4.9
Jessie Loraine
Overland Pacific
1954
Credits
Bad Girls Behind Bars
as Jenny (archive footage)
2005
0.5
Fighting Trouble
as Mae Randle
1956
6.0
Girls in Prison
as Jenny
1956
4.3
Runaway Daughters
as Dixie Jackson
1956
3.9
Day the World Ended
as Ruby
1955
4.9
The Lonesome Trail
as Mae
1955
7.5
The Cobweb
as Miss Cobb
1955
5.8
Outlaw Treasure
as Rita Starr
1955
0.0
Strange Lady in Town
as Bella Brown
1955
4.5
Overland Pacific
as Jessie Loraine
1954
4.9
The Big Chase
as Doris Grayson
1954
4.2
The Miami Story
as Gwen Abbott
1954
4.9
Fireman Save My Child
as Harry's Wife
1954
8.0
The Abbott and Costello Show
as Maxine
1952
7.1
Somebody Loves Me
as Nola Beach
1952
8.5
Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick
as Gladys
1952
4.0
Dangerous Assignment
1952
3.5
Show Boat
as Cameo McQueen (uncredited)
1951
6.1
Racket Squad
1951
6.0
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
as Boots Marsden
1951
6.3
Sugarfoot
as Reva Cairn
1951
5.0
The Sound of Fury
as Velma
1950
6.5
Blues Busters
as Lola Stanton
1950
5.5
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
1950
6.8
Edge of Doom
as Irene
1950
5.9
Armored Car Robbery
as Yvonne LeDoux aka Mrs. Benny McBride
1950
6.6
Beware of Blondie
as Toby Clifton
1950
5.3
Everybody's Dancin'
as Adele Jergens
1950
0.0
Side Street
as Lucille 'Lucky' Colner
1950
6.6
The Traveling Saleswoman
as Lilly
1950
4.5
Blonde Dynamite
as Joanie Marshall
1950
5.0
Radar Secret Service
as Lila
1950
3.1
Treasure of Monte Cristo
as Jean Turner
1949
5.1
Law of the Barbary Coast
1949
5.0
The Mutineers
as Norma Harrison
1949
0.0
Make Believe Ballroom
as Self
1949
5.5
The Crime Doctor's Diary
as Inez Gray
1949
5.7
Slightly French
as Yvonne La Tour
1949
7.2
Ladies of the Chorus
as Mae Martin
1948
6.6
The Dark Past
as Laura Stevens
1948
5.8
The Fuller Brush Man
as Miss Sharmley
1948
5.8
The Woman from Tangier
as Nylon
1948
5.0
The Prince of Thieves
as Lady Christabel
1948
5.8
I Love Trouble
as Boots Nestor
1948
6.3
Blondie's Anniversary
as Gloria Stafford
1947
5.6
🎬
When a Girl's Beautiful
as Adele Jordan
1947
0.0
Down to Earth
as Georgia Evans
1947
6.0
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
as Mona Harrison
1947
5.7
She Wouldn't Say Yes
as Allura
1945
5.9
Fallen Angel
as Woman at Madley's Show (uncredited)
1945
6.5
State Fair
as Girl on Rollercoaster (uncredited)
1945
6.6
A Thousand and One Nights
as Princess Armina
1945
5.7
Together Again
as Gilda Laverne (uncredited)
1944
5.4
Pin Up Girl
as Canteen Hostess (uncredited)
1944
6.1
Black Arrow
as Mary Brent
1944
0.0
Jane Eyre
as Woman at Party (uncredited)
1943
6.9
The Gang's All Here
as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
1943
5.8
Hello, Frisco, Hello
as Chorine (uncredited)
1943
6.3