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Film actress Adele Jergens (November 26,
1917-November 22, 2002) was born in Brooklyn, New
York.  The beauty queen's birth date is sometimes
listed as 1922.  Jergens first rose to prominence
in the late 1930s, when she was named "Miss
World's Fairest" at New York's 1939 World's Fair
and in the early 1940s, she worked as a The
Rockettes|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. That's when brunette Jergens became a
blonde.  Her chorus girl past came in handy when
she played an exotic dancer in Armored Car Robbery
(1950).  She was usually cast as blonde floozies
and burlesque dancers.  She once played Marilyn
Monroe's mother in Ladies of the Chorus (1948)
despite the fact that Jergens was 27 and Monroe 23
years old.