Adele Jergens
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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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Acting
Movie
Jane Eyre
as Woman at Party (uncredited)
1943
Movie
Fallen Angel
as Woman at Madley's Show (uncredited)
1945
Movie
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
as Boots Marsden
1951
Movie
Show Boat
as Cameo McQueen (uncredited)
1951
Movie
Day the World Ended
as Ruby
1955
Movie
State Fair
as Girl on Rollercoaster (uncredited)
1945
Movie
Armored Car Robbery
as Yvonne LeDoux aka Mrs. Benny McBride
1950
Movie
The Sound of Fury
as Velma
1950
Movie
Side Street
as Lucille 'Lucky' Colner
1950
Movie
The Dark Past
as Laura Stevens
1948
Movie
The Gang's All Here
as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
1943
Movie
The Cobweb
as Miss Cobb
1955
Movie
Hello, Frisco, Hello
as Chorine (uncredited)
1943
Movie
Ladies of the Chorus
as Mae Martin
1948
Movie
Down to Earth
as Georgia Evans
1947
Movie
I Love Trouble
as Boots Nestor
1948
TV
The Abbott and Costello Show
as Maxine
1952
Movie
Radar Secret Service
as Lila
1950
Movie
Edge of Doom
as Irene
1950
Movie
Pin Up Girl
as Canteen Hostess (uncredited)
1944
Movie
A Thousand and One Nights
as Princess Armina
1945
TV
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
1950
Movie
Together Again
as Gilda Laverne (uncredited)
1944
Movie
The Miami Story
as Gwen Abbott
1954