- Born Name: Adele Jergens
- Birthday: 1917-11-26 (Year-Month-Day)
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- Spouse(s): Glenn Langan (1949-1991) (his death) 1 child
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Adele Jergens, Adele Jergens (November 26, 1917 - November 22, 2002) was an American actress.Born in Brooklyn, New York, Jergens birth date is sometimes listed as 1922. Jergens first rose to prominence in the late 1930s, when she was named Miss Worlds Fairest at the 1939 New York Worlds 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 Monroes 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.[edit] References[edit] External linksBiography portalWikimedia Commons has media related to: Adele JergensAdele Jergens at the Internet Movie DatabaseAdele Jergens at the Internet Broadway DatabasePersondataNameJergens, AdeleAlternative namesShort descriptionDate of birth1917-11-26Place of birthBrooklyn, New YorkDate of death2002-11-22Place of deathCamarillo, CaliforniaRetrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele_JergensCategories: American film actors | People from Brooklyn | 1917 births | 2002 deathsHidden categories: Articles with hCardsPersonal toolsLog in / create accountNamespacesArticleDiscussionVariantsViewsReadEditView historyActionsSearchNavigationMain pageContentsFeatured contentCurrent eventsRandom articleDonate to WikipediaInteractionHelpAbout WikipediaCommunity portalRecent changesContact WikipediaToolboxWhat links hereRelated changesUpload fileSpecial pagesPermanent linkCite this pagePrint/exportCreate a bookDownload as PDFPrintable versionLanguagesDeutsch‪Norsk (bokmÃ¥l)‬ This page was last modified on 2 January 2011 at 20:03.Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License;additional terms may apply.See Terms of Use for details.Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.Contact usPrivacy policyAbout WikipediaDisclaimers if ( window.isMSIE55 ) fixalpha(); if (window.runOnloadHook) runOnloadHook();