Adele Jergens Net Worth

September 2024 · 3 minute read

Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it?Actress, Soundtrack
Birth DayNovember 26, 1917
Birth Place Brooklyn, New York, United States
Adele Jergens age103 YEARS OLD
Died OnNovember 22, 2002(2002-11-22) (aged 84)\nCamarillo, California, U.S.
Birth SignSagittarius
Years active1943–1956
Spouse(s)Glenn Langan (1949-1991) (his death) 1 child
ChildrenTracy Langan

💰 Net worth: $100K - $1M

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Biography/Timeline

1930

Born in Brooklyn, New York as Adele Louisa Jurgens (some sources say Jurgenson), she rose to prominence in the late 1930s, when she was named "Miss World's Fairest" at the 1939 New York World's Fair. In the early 1940s, she briefly worked as a Rockette, and was named the Number One Showgirl in New York City.

1942

After a few years of working 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, with brunette Jergens becoming a blonde.

1947

At the beginning of her career she had roles in movies where she was usually cast as blonde floozies and burlesque Dancers as in Down to Earth starring Rita Hayworth (1947) and The Dark Past starring william Holden (1948).

1948

She played Marilyn Monroe's mother in Ladies of the Chorus (1948) despite being only nine years older than Monroe. She played an exotic Dancer in Armored Car Robbery (1950) and also appeared in the movie Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951).

1955

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 with her real-life husband Glenn Langan as Chuck Morgan.

1991

In 1949, while filming Treasure of Monte Cristo, a film noir set in San Francisco, she met and married co-star Glenn Langan. They had one child, a son named Tracy Langan, who eventually worked in Hollywood behind the scenes, as a film technician. Jergens and Langan remained married until his death from lymphoma, on January 26, 1991, at age 73. Tracy Langan died of a brain tumor in 2001.

2002

Adele Jergens-Langan, who retired from the screen in 1956, died on November 22, 2002, from pneumonia, in her Camarillo, California home. Her death came just 4 days before her 85th birthday.

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