Adele Jergens

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This article is about a deceased Burlesque performer

Film actress Adele Jergens (✦November 26, 1917 - †November 22, 2002) was born in Brooklyn, New York.

The beauty queen'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 New York's 1939 World's Fair and 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, she got her first break into the big-time understudying Gypsy Rose Lee as a burlesque strip artist in the Broadway show Star and Garter in 1942. Gypsy fell ill for two weeks during the show's run. A talent scout caught Jergen's performance and signed her to a contract with Columbia Pictures in 1944. That's when brunette Jergens became 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.

She was dubbed "The Eyeful" by a publicist at Columbia Studios, and "the Girl with the Million Dollar Legs" by one of her dancing instructors.

Her only child, actor Tracy Langan, predeceased her.

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Adele Jergens
Yank Magazine 20 Jul 45
Yank Magaxine 2 Nov 45

Adele Jergens appeared in YANK magazine on 2 November 1945

Filmography

"Soldiers of Fortune" .... Mitzi Danger (1 episode, 1956)

- The Danger Sisters (1956) TV Episode .... Mitzi Danger

Runaway Daughters (1956) .... Dixie Jackson
Fighting Trouble (1956) .... Mae Randle
Girls in Prison (1956) .... Jenny
Day the World Ended (1955) .... Ruby
"Damon Runyon Theater" .... Judy Jensen (2 episodes, 1955)

- Judy the Jinx (1955) TV Episode .... Judy Jensen

- Teacher's Pet (1955) TV Episode

The Lonesome Trail (1955) .... Mae
The Cobweb (1955) .... Miss Cobb
Outlaw Treasure (1955) .... Rita Starr
Strange Lady in Town (1955) .... Bella Brown
"I Married Joan" .... Helen Cavanaugh (2 episodes, 1954)

- Clothes Budget (1954) TV Episode .... Helen Cavanaugh

- Home of the Week (1954) TV Episode .... Helen Cavanaugh

The Big Chase (1954) .... Doris Grayson
The Miami Story (1954) .... Gwen Abbott
Fireman Save My Child (1954) .... Harry's Wife
Overland Pacific (1954) .... Jessie Loraine

... aka Silver Dollar (USA)

"The Public Defender" .... Patricia Murray (1 episode, 1954)

- Lost Cause (1954) TV Episode .... Patricia Murray

"The Ford Television Theatre" (1 episode, 1953)

... aka Ford Theatre (USA: short title)

- The People Versus Johnston (1953) TV Episode

Somebody Loves Me (1952) .... Nola Beach
"Dangerous Assignment" .... Marilyn (2 episodes, 1952)

- The Lagoon Story (1952) TV Episode

- The Art Treasure Story (1952) TV Episode .... Marilyn

Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick (1952) .... Gladys

... aka Marshmallow Moon (Philippines: English title) (UK)

"Racket Squad" .... Virginia 'Peggy' Christy (1 episode, 1952)

- The Case of the Hearse Chaser (1952) TV Episode .... Virginia 'Peggy' Christy

"The Abbott and Costello Show" .... Lou's Wife (1 episode)

- Amnesia (????) TV Episode .... Lou's Wife

Show Boat (1951) (uncredited) .... Cameo McQueen
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951) .... Boots Marsden

... aka Meet the Invisible Man

Sugarfoot (1951) .... Reva Cairn

... aka Swirl of Glory (USA: reissue title)

"Stars Over Hollywood" (1 episode, 1951)

- Yang Yin and Mrs. Wiswell (1951) TV Episode

The Sound of Fury (1950) .... Velma

... aka Try and Get Me (USA: reissue title)

Blues Busters (1950) .... Lola Stanton
Edge of Doom (1950) .... Irene

... aka Stronger Than Fear (UK)

Armored Car Robbery (1950) .... Yvonne LeDoux aka Mrs. Benny McBride

... aka Armoured Car Robbery (UK)

Beware of Blondie (1950) .... Toby Clifton
Everybody's Dancin' (1950)
Side Street (1950) .... Lucille 'Lucky' Colner
Blonde Dynamite (1950) .... Joan 'Joanie' Marshall
Radar Secret Service (1950) .... Lila
The Traveling Saleswoman (1950) .... Lilly
Treasure of Monte Cristo (1949) .... Jean Turner
The Mutineers (1949) .... Norma Harrison

... aka Pirate Ship

The Crime Doctor's Diary (1949) .... Inez Gray
Law of the Barbary Coast (1949) .... Lita
Slightly French (1949) .... Yvonne La Tour
The Dark Past (1948) .... Laura Stevens
Ladies of the Chorus (1948) .... Mae Martin
The Fuller Brush Man (1948) .... Miss Sharmley

... aka That Mad Mr. Jones (UK)

The Woman from Tangier (1948) .... Nylon
I Love Trouble (1948) .... Boots Nestor
The Prince of Thieves (1948) .... Lady Christabel
Blondie's Anniversary (1947) .... Gloria Stafford
When a Girl's Beautiful (1947) .... Adele Jordan
Down to Earth (1947) .... Georgia Evans
The Corpse Came C.O.D. (1947) .... Mona Harrison
She Wouldn't Say Yes (1945) .... Allura
Fallen Angel (1945) (uncredited) .... Woman in audience
A Thousand and One Nights (1945) .... Princess Armina

... aka 1001 Nights

Tonight and Every Night (1945) (uncredited) .... Show Girl
Together Again (1944) (uncredited) .... Gloria LaVerne
Dancing in Manhattan (1944) (uncredited) .... Darnelle
Black Arrow (1944) .... Mary Brent
Jane Eyre (1944) (uncredited) .... Girl at Party
The Gang's All Here (1943) (uncredited) .... Chorine, New York Number

... aka The Girls He Left Behind (UK)

Hello Frisco, Hello (1943) (uncredited)

Notes

Adele Jergens appeared in YANK magazine on July 22, 1945

References

External links

Also see the Wikipedia page [ Adele Jergens ]

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