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Adele Jergens Profile
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| 26 November 17 | is born in Brooklyn, New York, of Norwegian descent to Christian and Haren Jurgenson |
| ? | grows up in Ridgewood, New York, in a working-class Brooklyn neighborhood |
| ? | plays baseball in the streets with the neighborhood boys and roots for the Dodgers at home games |
| c. 30 | wins a dancing scholarship to the Alvertina Rasch Studios in Manhattan at age 13 |
| c. 32 | debuts in a Broadway musical |
| ? | graduates from Grover Cleveland High School |
| ? | is a chorus girl at the Brooklyn Fox Theatre and a model for the John Roberts Powers Agency in New York City |
| 35 | dances at Nicky Blair's Paradise with Joyce Mathews and other beauties |
| ? | models in Rio, London, and Paris |
| ? | is a chorine in several Broadway musicals |
| ? | is one of the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes |
| 44 | debuts in Hollywood with an uncredited bit part in Jane Eyre |
| ? | signs a Columbia contract |
| ? | has a public relations buildup due to her good relations with the producer, the director, and Columbia boss Harry Cohn |
| January 45 | Ray Sinatra, a cousin of Frank's, can't marry her because he is already married to somebody else |
| February 45 | her sugar daddy is a movie magnate |
| March 45 | songwriter Jerry Marks carries a big torch for her |
| February 46 | is named "All-American Girl" by the men of the 504th parachute infantry |
| April 47 | drives a small coupe and shares a modest apartment with her mother |
| June 47 | feels cyclonic over Tom Gassara |
| October 47 | blames the high American divorce rate on sloppy wrappers. She states "a wife ought to keep herself as attractive as other women. That means no sloppy wrappers." |
| February 48 | she and Australian-born actor Ron Randell catch up with each other |
| March 48 | she and Bob Scott may march to the altar |
| May 48 | is a-feudin', a-fussin', and a-fightin' with actor-writer Don McGuire |
| May 48 | is seen ringside at the Copa |
| August 48 | dates comedian Milton Berle |
| November 48 | leaves Columbia |
| January 49 | looks for a show at Armando's |
| June 49 | steady-dates a prominent San Francisco businessman |
| January 50 | says she has given up her title as Hollywood's Number 1 nightclub customer in order to concentrate on her career |
| April 50 | reigns as queen of National Hot Tea Week |
| January 51 | her friends suspect she may become Mrs. Glenn Langan before spring |
| May 51 | her marriage to Langan may be off |
| August 51 | attends the marriage of actress Sally Forrest and Milo Frank and catches the bride's bouquet |
| ? | marries actor Glenn Langan |
| 11 September 52 | her son, Tracy T., is born in Los Angeles. He will become a film technician. |
| August 54 | she and Langan have plans for "Pony Express Scout," a new television series |
| ? | lives with her family in Encino |
| ? | settles with her family in Ventura County, near Camarillo |
| c. 60s | her husband becomes a real estate broker |
| 19 January 91 | becomes the widow of Langan, who dies of cancer at age 74 in Los Angeles |
| 90s | moves into a retirement community in Camarillo |
| 4 July 01 | her son, Tracy, dies at age 48 from a brain tumor in Los Angeles |
| 22 November 02 | as Adele Jergens Langan, she dies at age 84 in Camarillo, California, of natural causes |
| Sources: "Adele Jergens - Bombshell" by Alan K. Rode for Classic Images, Statesville Daily Record, The Times Recorder, The Lowell Sun, The Sunday Times-Signal, Waterloo Sunday Courier, Pottstown Mercury, Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune, Lincoln Sunday Journal And Star, Syracuse Herald-Journal, The Monessen Daily Independent, Dixon Evening Telegraph, The Independent Record, www.Ancestry.com | |
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| Links: Filmography JSR Pages: Adele Jergens Brian's Drive-In Theater: Adele Jergens | |