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American actress (1917–2002)
Adele Jergens
Jergens pin-up, July 1945
Born
Adele Louisa Jurgens (or Jurgenson)
(1917-11-26 ) November 26, 1917Died November 22, 2002(2002-11-22) (aged 84 ) Resting place Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery Years active 1943–1956 Spouse
(m. 1949; died 1991) Children 1
Adele Jergens (November 26, 1917 – November 22, 2002) was an American actress.[1]
Early life
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Jergens in 1945
Adele Louisa Jurgens (some sources say Jurgenson) was born in Brooklyn, New York .
Career
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Jergens rose to prominence in the late 1930s when she was named "Miss World's Fairest" at the 1939 New York World's Fair .[2] Rockette and was named the number-one showgirl in New York City.[3]
After a few years' work as a model and chorus girl, including being an understudy to Gypsy Rose Lee in the Broadway show Star and Garter Columbia Pictures in 1944, and dyed her brown hair blonde.[2]
At the beginning of her career, she was usually cast as a floozy or burlesque dancer, such as in Down to Earth Rita Hayworth (1947), The Dark Past William Holden (1948),[4] Armored Car Robbery
She played Marilyn Monroe 's mother in Ladies of the Chorus [5] Try and Get Me Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man [3]
She had a part in The Cobweb Vincente Minnelli and starring Richard Widmark and Lauren Bacall . She worked in the 1950s radio show Stand By for Crime as Glamourpuss Carol Curtis alongside her real-life husband Glenn Langan as Chuck Morgan.[6]
Personal life
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In 1949, while filming Treasure of Monte Cristo , a film noir set in San Francisco , she met and married co-star Glenn Langan .[5]
They had one child, a son, Tracy Langan, who eventually worked in Hollywood as a film technician. He died of a brain tumor in 2001.[7]
Death
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Jergens died from pneumonia on November 22, 2002, in her home in Camarillo, California , four days shy of 85.[8]
She was buried beside her husband and son at Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Chatsworth, California .[9]
Selected filmography
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Sweet Rosie O'Grady
Jane Eyre
The Gang's All Here
Pin Up Girl
Black Arrow
Dancing in Manhattan
Together Again
Tonight and Every Night
A Thousand and One Nights
State Fair
Fallen Angel
She Wouldn't Say Yes
The Corpse Came C.O.D.
Down to Earth
When a Girl's Beautiful
Blondie's Anniversary
The Prince of Thieves
I Love Trouble
The Woman from Tangier
The Fuller Brush Man
The Dark Past
Ladies of the Chorus
Slightly French
Law of the Barbary Coast
The Crime Doctor's Diary
Make Believe Ballroom
The Mutineers
Treasure of Monte Cristo
The Traveling Saleswoman
Radar Secret Service
Blonde Dynamite
Side Street
Everybody's Dancin'
Beware of Blondie
Armored Car Robbery
Edge of Doom
Blues Busters
The Sound of Fury
Sugarfoot
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man
Show Boat
Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick
Somebody Loves Me
Overland Pacific
Fireman Save My Child
The Miami Story
The Big Chase
Strange Lady in Town
Outlaw Treasure
The Cobweb
The Lonesome Trail
Day the World Ended
Girls in Prison
Fighting Trouble
Runaway Daughters
References
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^ a b Hal Erickson. "Adele Jergens – Biography, Movie Highlights and Photos" . AllMovie . Archived from the original on August 14, 2016. Retrieved December 17, 2017 .
^ a b McLellan, Dennis (9 December 2002). "Adele Jergens, 84; Blond Bombshell in Many Films" . The Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 14 August 2021 .
^ Bergan, Ronald . "Obituary: Adele Jergens" . The Guardian . Archived from the original on September 21, 2016. Retrieved December 17, 2017 .
^ a b "Adele Jergens at Brian's Drive-In Theater" . briansdriveintheater.com . Archived from the original on 2015-06-27.
^ "Stand by for Crime" . 13 July 2006.
^ "Adele Jergens – The Private Life and Times of Adele Jergens" . glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com . Archived from the original on 2015-09-24.
^ "Archives: Story" . filmsofthegoldenage.com .[permanent dead link
^ Wilson, Scott (2016). Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons ISBN 9781476625997
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