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Adele Jergens
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 sometime…
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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.
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2005
Bad Girls Behind Bars
Movie Jenny (archive footage)
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1956
Fighting Trouble
Movie Mae Randle
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1956
Girls in Prison
Movie Jenny
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1956
Runaway Daughters
Movie Dixie Jackson
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1955
Day the World Ended
Movie Ruby
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1955
The Lonesome Trail
Movie Mae
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1955
The Cobweb
Movie Miss Cobb
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1955
Outlaw Treasure
Movie Rita Starr
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1955
Strange Lady in Town
Movie Bella Brown
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1954
Overland Pacific
Movie Jessie Loraine
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1954
The Big Chase
Movie Doris Grayson
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1954
The Miami Story
Movie Gwen Abbott
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1954
Fireman Save My Child
Movie Harry's Wife
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1954
Public Defender
TV show Miss Murray
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1952
The Abbott and Costello Show
TV show Maxine
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1952
Somebody Loves Me
Movie Nola Beach
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1952
Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick
Movie Gladys
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1952
Dangerous Assignment
TV show Marilyn
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1951
Show Boat
Movie Cameo McQueen (uncredited)
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1951
Racket Squad
TV show Virginia
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1951
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man
Movie Boots Marsden
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1951
Sugarfoot
Movie Reva Cairn
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1950
The Sound of Fury
Movie Velma
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1950
Blues Busters
Movie Lola Stanton
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1950
The Colgate Comedy Hour
TV show Self
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1950
Edge of Doom
Movie Irene
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1950
Armored Car Robbery
Movie Yvonne LeDoux aka Mrs. Benny McBride
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1950
Beware of Blondie
Movie Toby Clifton
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1950
Everybody's Dancin'
Movie Adele Jergens
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1950
Side Street
Movie Lucille 'Lucky' Colner
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1950
The Traveling Saleswoman
Movie Lilly
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1950
Blonde Dynamite
Movie Joanie Marshall
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1950
Radar Secret Service
Movie Lila
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1949
Treasure of Monte Cristo
Movie Jean Turner
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1949
Law of the Barbary Coast
Movie
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1949
The Mutineers
Movie Norma Harrison
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1949
Make Believe Ballroom
Movie Self
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1949
The Crime Doctor's Diary
Movie Inez Gray
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1949
Slightly French
Movie Yvonne La Tour
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1948
Ladies of the Chorus
Movie Mae Martin
