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Adele Jergens
Adele Jergens (November 26, 1917 – November 22, 2002) was an American actress.[1] Early life
 Adele Louisa Jurgens (some sources say Jurgenson) was born in Brooklyn, New York. CareerJergens rose to prominence in the late 1930s when she was named "Miss World's Fairest" at the 1939 New York World's Fair.[2] In the early 1940s, she briefly worked as a 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 in 1942, Jergens landed a movie contract with 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 starring Rita Hayworth (1947), The Dark Past starring William Holden (1948),[4] and Armored Car Robbery (1950). She played Marilyn Monroe's mother in Ladies of the Chorus (1948) despite being only nine years older than Monroe.[5] She played a criminal's girl in Try and Get Me (1950), and appeared in the movie Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951).[3] She had a part in The Cobweb (1955), directed by 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 lifeIn 1949, while filming Treasure of Monte Cristo, a film noir set in San Francisco, she met and married co-star Glenn Langan.[5] They remained married until his death from lymphoma on January 26, 1991, at age 73. 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] DeathJergens 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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