Adele Jergens
Born November 26, 1917 (Age: 108)
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Brooklyn, New York, USA
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.
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.
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Filmography
Bad Girls Behind Bars
2005
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as Jenny (archive footage)
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Age: 87
Fighting Trouble
1956
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as Mae Randle
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Age: 38
Girls in Prison
1956
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as Jenny
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Age: 38
Runaway Daughters
1956
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as Dixie Jackson
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Age: 38
Day the World Ended
1955
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as Ruby
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Age: 38
The Lonesome Trail
1955
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as Mae
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Age: 37
The Cobweb
1955
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as Miss Cobb
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Age: 37
Outlaw Treasure
1955
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as Rita Starr
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Age: 37
Strange Lady in Town
1955
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as Bella Brown
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Age: 37
Overland Pacific
1954
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as Jessie Loraine
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Age: 36
The Big Chase
1954
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as Doris Grayson
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Age: 36
The Miami Story
1954
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as Gwen Abbott
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Age: 36
Fireman Save My Child
1954
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as Harry's Wife
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Age: 36
The Sound of Fury
1950
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as Velma
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Age: 33
Blues Busters
1950
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as Lola Stanton
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Age: 32
Edge of Doom
1950
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as Irene
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Age: 32
Armored Car Robbery
1950
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as Yvonne LeDoux aka Mrs. Benny McBride
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Age: 32
Beware of Blondie
1950
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as Toby Clifton
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Age: 32
Everybody's Dancin'
1950
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as Adele Jergens
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Age: 32
Side Street
1950
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as Lucille 'Lucky' Colner
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Age: 32
The Traveling Saleswoman
1950
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as Lilly
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Age: 32
Blonde Dynamite
1950
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as Joanie Marshall
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Age: 32
Radar Secret Service
1950
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as Lila
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Age: 32
She Wouldn't Say Yes
1945
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as Allura
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Age: 28
Fallen Angel
1945
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as Woman at Madley's Show (uncredited)
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Age: 27
State Fair
1945
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as Girl on Rollercoaster (uncredited)
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Age: 27
A Thousand and One Nights
1945
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as Princess Armina
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Age: 27