Adele Jergens

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia  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 costar 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia