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Adele Jergens
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Adele Jergens (Brooklyn, November 26, 1917 – Camarillo, November 22, 2002) was an American actress.

Born in Brooklyn, Adele Jerngens began his career in the second half of the 1930s, participating in beauty contests. In 1939 it was elected Miss World’s Fairest on the occasion of the New York International Fair, and the following year The Number One Showgirl in New York City . He also worked in the famous dance company The Rockettes .

After a few years of activity as a model and as chorus girl (In this guise he had the opportunity to work with Gypsy Rose Lee), Jerger signed a contract with Columbia Pictures and made his debut on the big screen in 1943 with some small roles not credited to comedies such as Banana split (1943) and Everyone’s girlfriend (1944). From Bruna, the actress definitively changed hair color and became the blonde and lively co-protagonist of music films such as Beauties in heaven (1947), next to Rita Hayworth, comedies like The strange Mr. Jones (1948), but also of dramatic films such as At dawn you will no longer be alive (1948), in which he recited alongside William Holden.

Adele Jerngens with her husband Glenn Langan (1950)

In 1949, in the comedy Blonde orchid , Jerger played the mother of the young Marilyn Monroe, despite being only nine years older than the future star. On the set of the following film, the noir Complotto in San Francisco (1949), a modern reinterpretation of the affair de The Count of Monte Cristo , the actress played in pairs with Glenn Langan, who in the same year became her husband.

Among his other important roles, interpreted in the most varied cinematographic genres, to remember that of Yvonne Ledoux, a provocative nightclub dancer and lover of a criminal, in the detective Exterminate the gang! (1950), by Boots Marsden in the comic film Gianni and Pinotto against the invisible man (1951), by Jessie Loraine in the western Towards the Far West (1954), by Miss Cobb in the dramatic The canvas of the spider (1955) by Vincente Minnelli, and Ruby in science fiction The monster of the lost planet (1955) at Roger Corman.

From the first half of the 1950s, Jerger also carried out a short television activity, appearing in some popular series of the small screen, such as I Married Joan (1954), Make Room for Daddy (1954) and Soldiers of Fortune (1956). His last appearance, before the premature withdrawal from the scenes, was in an episode of the series The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1956).

From the marriage to the actor Glenn Langan, who lasted until his death in 1991, Jerger had a son, Tracy, born in 1952 (and disappeared in 2001 at the age of 48), who also became an actor.

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The actress died in Camarillo (California) on November 22, 2002, at the age of 84.

Cinema [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

  • Old San Francisco ( Hello Frisco, Hello ), directed by H. Bruce Humberstone (1943) – not accredited
  • Sweet Rosie O’Grady , directed by Irving Cummings (1943) – not credited
  • The forbidden door ( Jane Eyre ), directed by Robert Stevenson (1943) – not credited
  • Banana split ( The Gang’s All Here ), Regia at Busby Berkeley (1943)
  • Everyone’s girlfriend ( Pin Up Girl ), directed by H. Bruce Humberstone (1944) – not accredited
  • Black Arrow , directed by Lew Landers and, not accredited, B. Reeves Eason (1944)
  • Dancing in Manhattan , directed by Henry Levin (1944) – not credited
  • Still together ( Together Again ), directed by Charles Vidor (1944) – not credited
  • Tonight and every night ( Tonight and Every Night ), directed by Victor Saville (1945) – not accredited
  • Nights of the East ( A Thousand and One Nights ), directed by Alfred E. Green (1945)
  • Love party ( State Fair ), directed by Walter Lang (1945) – not credited
  • An angel fell ( Fall fishing rod ), directed by Otto Preminger (1945) – not accredited
  • I don’t want to say yes ( She Wouldn’t Say Yes ), directed by Alexander Hall (1945)
  • Mary Harrison’s secret ( The Corpse Came C.O.D. ) Directed by Henry Levin (1947)
  • Beauties in heaven ( Down to Earth ), directed by Alexander Hall (1947)
  • When a Girl’s Beautiful , Regia in Frank McDonald (1947)
  • Blondie’s Anniversary , Regia in Abby Berlin (1947)
  • Heroic rogue ( The Prince of Thieves ), directed by Howard Bretherton (1948)
  • I don’t deceive you, I love you! ( I Love Trouble ) Directed by S. Sylvan Simon (1948)
  • Tangier’s woman ( The Woman from Tangier ) Directed by Harold Daniels (1948)
  • The strange Mr. Jones ( The Fuller Brush Man ) Directed by S. Sylvan Simon (1948)
  • At dawn you will no longer be alive ( The Dark Past ), Rudolph Maté region (1948)
  • Blonde orchid ( Ladies of the Chorus ), Regia in Phil Karlson (1948)
  • Cruel lovers ( Slightly French ), directed by Douglas Sirk (1949)
  • Law of the Barbary Coast , directed by Lew Landers (1949)
  • The Crime Doctor’s Diary , Regia in Seymour Friedman (1949)
  • Make Believe Ballroom , directed by Joseph Santley (1949) – not credited
  • The Mutineers , jean yarbrough regia (1949)
  • Complotto in San Francisco ( Treasure of Monte Cristo ), Regia in William Berke (1949)
  • The way of death ( Side Street ), Regia in Anthony Mann (1949)
  • The Traveling Saleswoman , regia di Charles Reisner (1950)
  • Radar Secret Service , Regia in Sam Newfield (1950)
  • Blonde Dynamite Royal gods William Beaudine (1950)
  • Everybody’s Dancin’ , directed by Will Jason (1950)
  • Beware of Blondie , directed by Edward Bernds (1950)
  • Exterminate the gang! ( Armored Car Robbery ) Directed by Richard Fleischer (1950)
  • The door of hell ( Edge of Doom ) Directed by Mark Robson (1950)
  • Blues Busters Royal gods William Beaudine (1950)
  • The scream of the crowd ( The Sound of Fury ) Regigin the day day end (1950)
  • Sugarfoot , directed by Edwin L. Marin (1951)
  • Gianni and Pinotto against the invisible man ( Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man ) Directed by Charles Lamont (1951)
  • Show Boat , directed by George Sidney (1951)
  • Love and oil ( Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick ), REGIA DI CLAUDE BINYON (1952)
  • Someone loves me ( Somebody Loves Me ), Regia di Irving Brecher (1952)
  • Towards the Far West ( Overland Pacific ) Directed by Fred F. Sears (1954)
  • Fireman Save My Child , Regia at Leslie Goodwins (1954)
  • Red asphalt ( The Miami Story ) Directed by Fred F. Sears (1954)
  • The Big Chase , directed by Robert L. Lipper Jr. and Arthur Hilton (1954)
  • The foreigner ( Strange Lady in Town ) Directed by Mervyn Leroy (1955)
  • Outlaw Treasure , directed by Oliver Drake (1955)
  • The canvas of the spider ( The Cobweb ), directed by Vincente Minnelli (1955)
  • The Lonesome Trail , directed by Richard Bartlett (1955)
  • The monster of the lost planet ( Day the World Ended ), Regia in Roger Corman (1955)
  • Girls in Prison , directed by Edward L. Cahn (1956)
  • Fighting Trouble , Regia at George Blair (1956)
  • Runaway Daughters , directed by Edward L. Cahn (1956)

Television [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

  • Stars Over Hollywood – TV series, 1 episode (1951)
  • Mobile team ( Racket Squad ) – TV series, 1 episode (1952)
  • Dangerous mission ( Dangerous Assignment ) – TV series, 2 episodes (1952)
  • Gianni and Pinotto ( The Abbott and Costello Show ) – TV series, 1 episode (1952)
  • Mr. & Mrs. North – TV series, 1 episode (1953)
  • The Ford Television Theatre – TV series, 1 episode (1953)
  • Make Room for Daddy – TV series, 1 episode (1954)
  • The Public Defender – TV series, 1 episode (1954)
  • I Married Joan – TV series, 2 episodes (1954)
  • My Favorite Husband – TV series, 1 episode (1955)
  • Damon Runyon Theater – TV series, 2 episodes (1955)
  • Soldiers of Fortune – TV series, 1 episode (1956)
  • The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show – TV series, 1 episode (1956)

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