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(Adele Jurgenson)
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| 26 November 17 |
is born in Brooklyn, New York, of Norwegian descent to Christian and Haren Jurgenson
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grows up in Ridgewood, New York, in a working-class Brooklyn neighborhood
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plays baseball in the streets with the neighborhood boys and roots for the Dodgers at home games
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| c. 30 |
wins a dancing scholarship to the Alvertina Rasch Studios in Manhattan at age 13
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| c. 32 |
debuts in a Broadway musical
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graduates from Grover Cleveland High School
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is a chorus girl at the Brooklyn Fox Theatre and a model for the John Roberts Powers Agency in New York City
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| 35 |
dances at Nicky Blair's Paradise with Joyce Mathews and other beauties
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models in Rio, London, and Paris
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is a chorine in several Broadway musicals
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is one of the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes
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| 44 |
debuts in Hollywood with an uncredited bit part in Jane Eyre
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signs a Columbia contract
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has a public relations buildup due to her good relations with the producer, the director, and Columbia boss Harry Cohn
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| January 45 |
Ray Sinatra, a cousin of Frank's, can't marry her because he is already married to somebody else
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| February 45 |
her sugar daddy is a movie magnate
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| March 45 |
songwriter Jerry Marks carries a big torch for her
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| February 46 |
is named "All-American Girl" by the men of the 504th parachute infantry
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| April 47 |
drives a small coupe and shares a modest apartment with her mother
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| June 47 |
feels cyclonic over Tom Gassara
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| 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."
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| February 48 |
she and Australian-born actor Ron Randell catch up with each other
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| March 48 |
she and Bob Scott may march to the altar
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| May 48 |
is a-feudin', a-fussin', and a-fightin' with actor-writer Don McGuire
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| May 48 |
is seen ringside at the Copa
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| August 48 |
dates comedian Milton Berle
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| November 48 |
leaves Columbia
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| January 49 |
looks for a show at Armando's
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| June 49 |
steady-dates a prominent San Francisco businessman
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| January 50 |
says she has given up her title as Hollywood's Number 1 nightclub customer in order to concentrate on her career
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| April 50 |
reigns as queen of National Hot Tea Week
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| January 51 |
her friends suspect she may become Mrs. Glenn Langan before spring
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| May 51 |
her marriage to Langan may be off
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| August 51 |
attends the marriage of actress Sally Forrest and Milo Frank and catches the bride's bouquet
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marries actor Glenn Langan
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| 11 September 52 |
her son, Tracy T., is born in Los Angeles. He will become a film technician.
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| August 54 |
she and Langan have plans for "Pony Express Scout," a new television series
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lives with her family in Encino
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settles with her family in Ventura County, near Camarillo
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| c. 60s |
her husband becomes a real estate broker
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| 19 January 91 |
becomes the widow of Langan, who dies of cancer at age 74 in Los Angeles
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| 90s |
moves into a retirement community in Camarillo
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| 4 July 01 |
her son, Tracy, dies at age 48 from a brain tumor in Los Angeles
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| 22 November 02 |
as Adele Jergens Langan, she dies at age 84 in Camarillo, California, of natural causes
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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 |
Recommended Books:
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Links:
Filmography
JSR Pages: Adele Jergens
Brian's Drive-In Theater: Adele Jergens |
