Adele Jergens

Born: 1917-11-26

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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Jane Eyre

as Woman at Party (uncredited)
Released: 1943-12-24

After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a...

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Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man

as Boots Marsden
Released: 1951-04-12

As novice detectives, Bud and Lou come face to face with the Invisible Man.

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Fallen Angel

as Woman at Madley's Show (uncredited)
Released: 1945-11-15

An unemployed drifter, Eric Stanton wanders into a small California town and begins hanging...

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Show Boat

as Cameo McQueen (uncredited)
Released: 1951-07-19

A dashing Mississippi river gambler wins the affections of the daughter of the owner of the Show...

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State Fair

as Girl on Rollercoaster (uncredited)
Released: 1945-08-29

During their annual visit to the Iowa State Fair, the Frake family enjoy many adventures. Proud...

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Day the World Ended

as Ruby
Released: 1955-12-01

After a nuclear attack, an unlikely group of survivors, including a geologist, a crook and his...

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Armored Car Robbery

as Yvonne LeDoux aka Mrs. Benny McBride
Released: 1950-06-08

While executing an armored car heist in Los Angeles, icy crook Dave Purvis shoots policeman Lt....

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Ladies of the Chorus

as Mae Martin
Released: 1948-12-30

Former burlesque star May and her daughter Peggy dance in the chorus. When May has a fight with...

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The Dark Past

as Laura Stevens
Released: 1948-12-22

A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a...

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The Gang's All Here

as Chorus Girl (uncredited)
Released: 1943-12-24

A soldier falls for a chorus girl and then experiences trouble when he is posted to the Pacific.

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Strange Lady in Town

as Bella Brown
Released: 1955-04-12

Julia Garth, a female doctor, plans to introduce modern techniques of medicine to old Santa Fe...

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The Fuller Brush Man

as Miss Sharmley
Released: 1948-06-01

Poor Red Jones gets fired from every job he tries. His fiancée gives him one last chance to make...

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I Love Trouble

as Boots Nestor
Released: 1948-01-15

A wealthy man hires a detective to investigate his wife's mysterious past.

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Side Street

as Lucille 'Lucky' Colner
Released: 1950-03-23

A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals an envelope of...

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The Sound of Fury

as Velma
Released: 1950-12-12

A family man – desperate for a job – latches onto a friend who encourages him into being a criminal.

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The Cobweb

as Miss Cobb
Released: 1955-06-07

Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes -...

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A Thousand and One Nights

as Princess Armina
Released: 1945-07-20

On the run after being found sweet-talking the Sultan's daughter, Aladdin comes upon a lamp...

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Down to Earth

as Georgia Evans
Released: 1947-08-21

Upset at a new Broadway musical mocking The Nine Muses, Greek goddess Terpsichore comes down to...

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Edge of Doom

as Irene
Released: 1950-08-03

A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues.

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Sugarfoot

as Reva Cairn
Released: 1951-02-11

The lawless west had never met a gun-throwing gent like...

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The Crime Doctor's Diary

as Inez Gray
Released: 1949-03-15

A criminal psychologist tries to clear his patient of arson charges.

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Beware of Blondie

as Toby Clifton
Released: 1950-04-13

Mr. Dithers leaves Dagwood in charge of the office for a short period. Poor old Dagwood manages...

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The Prince Of Thieves

as Lady Christabel
Released: 1948-01-16

After fighting in the Crusades alongside Richard I of England Sir Allan Claire is returning home...

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The Big Chase

as Doris Grayson
Released: 1954-06-18

A policeman (Glenn Langan) with a pregnant wife (Adele Jergens) winds up chasing a payroll thief...

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Blues Busters

as Lola Stanton
Released: 1950-10-29

The Bowery Boys (Bowery Boys) open a nightclub after Sach has his tonsils out and wakes up with...

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Hello, Frisco, Hello

as Chorine (uncredited)
Released: 1943-03-26

In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky...

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Treasure of Monte Cristo

as Jean Turner
Released: 1949-08-27

A San Francisco lawyer uses a woman to lure a merchant seaman worth a legendary fortune.

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Blondie's Anniversary

as Gloria Stafford
Released: 1947-12-18

Blondie finds a valuable watch that has been hidden by hubby Dagwood. She assumes that it's a...

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The Miami Story

as Gwen Abbott
Released: 1954-05-03

Fed up with the raising crime in Miami, the police chief and the leading members of the city...

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The Woman from Tangier

as Nylon
Released: 1948-02-12

This one has Nylon, an American dancer fleeing Morocco after her employer gets into trouble with...

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Together Again

as Gilda LaVerne (uncredited)
Released: 1944-12-23

Anne Crandall is the mayor of a small town in Vermont. Her deceased husband had been the mayor...

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Radar Secret Service

as Lila
Released: 1950-01-28

A federal agent and his partner track uranium-ore hijackers with radar.

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The Lonesome Trail

as Mae
Released: 1955-07-01

Back from the Indian wars, a cowboy wages a single-handed war against a land baron and his...

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Fighting Trouble

as Mae Randle
Released: 1956-09-16

An overambitious shutterbug almost gets his lights put out permanently when he decides to snap a...

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The Corpse Came C.O.D.

as Mona Harrison
Released: 1947-06-02

Rival reporters (George Brent, Joan Blondell) investigate a Hollywood star (Adele Jergens) and...

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She Wouldn't Say Yes

as Allura
Released: 1945-11-29

Susan Lane is a gifted psychiatrist, grounded in self-control. Before returning by train to her...

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Pin Up Girl

as Canteen Hostess (uncredited)
Released: 1944-04-25

Glamorous Lorry Jones, the toast of a Missouri military canteen, has become "engaged" to almost...

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Girls in Prison

as Jenny
Released: 1956-07-01

An inmate is persuaded to take part in a breakout by cellmates anxious to cash in on loot they...

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Runaway Daughters

as Dixie Jackson
Released: 1956-01-20

Three teenagers with troubled families are unable to adjust at home and in high-school. Tempted...

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Somebody Loves Me

as Nola Beach
Released: 1952-09-24

Backstage musical biography of nightclub star Blossom Seeley that charts her rocky relationship...

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Everybody's Dancin'

as Adele Jergens
Released: 1950-03-31

Dance-hall owner Dick Lane is in dire need of some big-name acts or he will lose his business....

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Overland Pacific

as Jessie Loraine
Released: 1954-10-26

A railroad investigator discovers that there's more than meets the eye to a series of reported...

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Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick

as Gladys
Released: 1952-04-01

Shy farmboy loves his next-door neighbor, but she dreams of going to the big city. Then she gets...

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Slightly French

as Yvonne La Tour
Released: 1949-02-02

A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a...

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Blonde Dynamite

as Joanie Marshall
Released: 1950-02-12

While Louie is on vacation, the boys turn The Sweet Shop into an escort service, and soon find a...

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The Traveling Saleswoman

as Lilly
Released: 1950-02-15

The daughter of a soap manufacturer heads to the wild and woolly west to sell her daddy's product.

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Make Believe Ballroom

as Self
Released: 1949-04-01

Liza Lee, fast-talking press agent for Al Jarvis, persuades Jarvis to stage a Musical Mystery...

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Fireman Save My Child

as Harry's Wife
Released: 1954-05-02

Comedy about the members of an early 1900s fire company.

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Outlaw Treasure

as Rita Starr
Released: 1955-05-15

When two outlaw gangs team up to rob gold shipments, the U.s. Army sends their...

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Law of the Barbary Coast

as uncredited
Released: 1949-07-21

Wayne Adams is murdered in a Barbary Coast saloon and gambling hall in San Francisco in 1880,...

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Bad Girls Behind Bars

as Jenny (archive footage)
Released: 2005-06-12

A camp, affectionate look at women in prison films - the girls you love to hate and hate to love.

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Black Arrow

as Mary Brent
Released: 1944-01-01

With a plot line mostly lifted from 1941's "White Eagle", Columbia's 24th serial (following "The...

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The Mutineers

as Norma Harrison
Released: 1949-04-22

Mobster Thomas Nagle and his gang take over a ship to use running guns and counterfeit money...

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The Colgate Comedy Hour

as Self
First aired: 1950-09-10

The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC...

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Racket Squad

as uncredited
First aired: 1951-06-07

Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock,...

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Dangerous Assignment

as uncredited
First aired: 1952-01-01

A U.S. government agent travels the world on undercover missions in this 1950s series. Star...

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