Bad Girls Behind Bars
2005 · Movie
as Jenny (archive footage)
Adele Jergens
1917-11-26
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Brooklyn, New York, USA
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
Girls in Prison
1956 · Movie
as Jenny
Fighting Trouble
1956 · Movie
as Mae Randle
Runaway Daughters
1956 · Movie
as Dixie Jackson
Day the World Ended
1955 · Movie
as Ruby
Outlaw Treasure
1955 · Movie
as Rita Starr
The Cobweb
1955 · Movie
as Miss Cobb
The Lonesome Trail
1955 · Movie
as Mae
Strange Lady in Town
1955 · Movie
as Bella Brown
Fireman Save My Child
1954 · Movie
as Harry's Wife
The Miami Story
1954 · Movie
as Gwen Abbott
The Big Chase
1954 · Movie
as Doris Grayson
Overland Pacific
1954 · Movie
as Jessie Loraine
Public Defender
1954 · TV Show
as Miss Murray
Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick
1952 · Movie
as Gladys
Somebody Loves Me
1952 · Movie
as Nola Beach
Dangerous Assignment
1952 · TV Show
as Marilyn
The Abbott and Costello Show
1952 · TV Show
as Maxine
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
1951 · Movie
as Boots Marsden
Sugarfoot
1951 · Movie
as Reva Cairn
Show Boat
1951 · Movie
as Cameo McQueen (uncredited)
Racket Squad
1951 · TV Show
as Virginia
Beware of Blondie
1950 · Movie
as Toby Clifton
Armored Car Robbery
1950 · Movie
as Yvonne LeDoux aka Mrs. Benny McBride
Radar Secret Service
1950 · Movie
as Lila
The Sound of Fury
1950 · Movie
as Velma
Edge of Doom
1950 · Movie
as Irene
Side Street
1950 · Movie
as Lucille 'Lucky' Colner
Blues Busters
1950 · Movie
as Lola Stanton
Blonde Dynamite
1950 · Movie
as Joanie Marshall
Everybody's Dancin'
1950 · Movie
as Adele Jergens
The Traveling Saleswoman
1950 · Movie
as Lilly
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950 · TV Show
as Self
The Crime Doctor's Diary
1949 · Movie
as Inez Gray
Treasure of Monte Cristo
1949 · Movie
as Jean Turner
Slightly French
1949 · Movie
as Yvonne La Tour
Make Believe Ballroom
1949 · Movie
as Self
The Mutineers
1949 · Movie
as Norma Harrison
Law of the Barbary Coast
1949 · Movie
The Dark Past
1948 · Movie
as Laura Stevens
I Love Trouble
1948 · Movie
as Boots Nestor
Ladies of the Chorus
1948 · Movie
as Mae Martin
The Prince of Thieves
1948 · Movie
as Lady Christabel
The Woman from Tangier
1948 · Movie
as Nylon
The Fuller Brush Man
1948 · Movie
as Miss Sharmley
Blondie's Anniversary
1947 · Movie
as Gloria Stafford
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
1947 · Movie
as Mona Harrison
Down to Earth
1947 · Movie
as Georgia Evans
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When a Girl's Beautiful
1947 · Movie
as Adele Jordan
State Fair
1945 · Movie
as Girl on Rollercoaster (uncredited)
A Thousand and One Nights
1945 · Movie
as Princess Armina
She Wouldn't Say Yes
1945 · Movie
as Allura
Fallen Angel
1945 · Movie
as Woman at Madley's Show (uncredited)
Pin Up Girl
1944 · Movie
as Canteen Hostess (uncredited)
Together Again
1944 · Movie
as Gilda Laverne (uncredited)
Black Arrow
1944 · Movie
as Mary Brent
Jane Eyre
1943 · Movie
as Woman at Party (uncredited)
Hello, Frisco, Hello
1943 · Movie
as Chorine (uncredited)
The Gang's All Here
1943 · Movie
as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
