Acting
Adele Jergens
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.
Filmography
Bad Girls Behind Bars
Film · 2005
Girls in Prison
Film · 1956
Fighting Trouble
Film · 1956
Runaway Daughters
Film · 1956
Day the World Ended
Film · 1955
Outlaw Treasure
Film · 1955
The Cobweb
Film · 1955
The Lonesome Trail
Film · 1955
Strange Lady in Town
Film · 1955
Fireman Save My Child
Film · 1954
The Miami Story
Film · 1954
The Big Chase
Film · 1954
Overland Pacific
Film · 1954
Public Defender
Series · 1954
Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick
Film · 1952
Somebody Loves Me
Film · 1952
Dangerous Assignment
Series · 1952
The Abbott and Costello Show
Series · 1952
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
Film · 1951
Sugarfoot
Film · 1951
Show Boat
Film · 1951
Racket Squad
Series · 1951
Beware of Blondie
Film · 1950
Armored Car Robbery
Film · 1950
Radar Secret Service
Film · 1950
The Sound of Fury
Film · 1950
Edge of Doom
Film · 1950
Side Street
Film · 1950
Blues Busters
Film · 1950
Blonde Dynamite
Film · 1950
Everybody's Dancin'
Film · 1950
The Traveling Saleswoman
Film · 1950
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Series · 1950
The Crime Doctor's Diary
Film · 1949
Treasure of Monte Cristo
Film · 1949
Slightly French
Film · 1949
Make Believe Ballroom
Film · 1949
The Mutineers
Film · 1949
Law of the Barbary Coast
Film · 1949
The Dark Past
Film · 1948
I Love Trouble
Film · 1948
Ladies of the Chorus
Film · 1948
The Prince of Thieves
Film · 1948
The Woman from Tangier
Film · 1948
The Fuller Brush Man
Film · 1948
Blondie's Anniversary
Film · 1947
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
Film · 1947
Down to Earth
Film · 1947
When a Girl's Beautiful
Film · 1947
State Fair
Film · 1945
A Thousand and One Nights
Film · 1945
She Wouldn't Say Yes
Film · 1945
Fallen Angel
Film · 1945
Pin Up Girl
Film · 1944
Together Again
Film · 1944
Black Arrow
Film · 1944
Jane Eyre
Film · 1943
Hello, Frisco, Hello
Film · 1943
The Gang's All Here
Film · 1943