Adele Jergens

Biography

Adele Jergens was an American actress born in Brooklyn, New York on November 26, 1917. She rose to prominence in the late 1930s as "Miss World's Fairest" at the 1939 New York World's Fair and later worked as a Rockette and chorus girl before landing a movie contract with Columbia Pictures in 1944. Jergens was often cast as blonde floozies and burlesque dancers, including her notable role as Marilyn Monroe's mother in Ladies of the Chorus (1948). She married co-star Glenn Langan in 1949 and remained married until his death in 1991.