Career
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Jergens" birth date is sometimes listed as 1922. In the early 1940s, she worked as a Rockette, and was named the Number One Showgirl in New York City. After a few years of working as a model and chorus girl, including being an understudy to Gypsy Rose Lee, Jergens landed a movie contract with Columbia Pictures in 1944, with brunette Jergens becoming a blonde.
At the beginning of her career she had roles in movies where she was usually cast as blonde floozies and burlesque dancers as in and The Dark Past starring William Holden (1948).
She once played Marilyn Monroe"s mother in despite the fact that Jergens was only 9 years older than Monroe. She played an exotic dancer in and also appeared in the movie.
Their union produced one child, a son named Tracy Langan, who would later work in Hollywood behind the scenes, as a film technician. Their only child, actor Tracy Langan, died of a brain tumor, in 2001.
Adele Jergens-Langan, retired from the screen since 1956, died on November 22, 2002, from pneumonia, in her Camarillo, California home.
Her death came just 4 days before her 85th birthday.