Adele Jergens

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BIRTHDAY

November 26, 1922

Brooklyn, New York City, NY

DIED

November 22, 2002

RECENT CREDITS

Strange Lady in Town (FILM) Apr. 1, 1955

The Cobweb (FILM) Jan. 1, 1955

Fireman Save My Child (FILM) May. 1, 1954

Edge of Doom (FILM) Aug. 3, 1950

Blonde Dynamite (FILM) Feb. 12, 1950

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BIOGRAPHY

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Blonde, Brooklyn-born model and chorus girl Adele Jergens gained national fame when she was elected "Miss World's Fairest" at the 1939 World's Fair; if one chose to believe her "official" birth date, she was 13 years old at the time. Signed to a Columbia Pictures contract in 1944, Jergens showed up in that studio's "A" and "B" product in a succession of hard-boiled and "loose" roles. Her most curious assignment at Columbia was 1949's Ladies of The Chorus, wherein 27-year-old Jergens played the mother of 23-year-old Marilyn Monroe. Evidently, Jergens was possessed of a good nature, else she wouldn't have seemed so comfortable playing the foil to such comedians as Red Skelton, Abbott & Costello, Alan Young and even the Bowery Boys. Mostly consigned to programmers in the 1950s, Jergens enjoyed a rare "A" part in MGM's psychological melodrama The Cobweb. Adele Jergens was the widow of actor Glenn Langan, whom she married in 1949.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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