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Left: For Columbia's "The Traveling Saleswoman" Adele Jergens turns dark and menacing as she and Joe Sawyer cook up a plot against Joan Davis, itinerant saleslady. Note how she's hardly recognizable with brunette tresses and differently-shaped lips.
Right: She mixes drama in with pulchritude in "Armored Car Robbery," for RKO. Cast as a burlesque queen, aptly named Yvonne,. Adele is married to one mobster, throws him over for another and winds up at the end of film solo as both men are killed.
NOW that Adele Jergens is recognized by Hollywood producers and directors as a lady with decided dramatic ability and not just a decorative clothes horse. — a designation which dogged poor Adele's movie career for several years— this blonde is one of the busiest gals in town. Now freelancing, Adele is turning her talents to all sorts of roles, ranging from the heavily dramatic to the brightly amusing. At the drop of a hat she'll appear as a heroine, a comedienne or a tempting menace. Despite this versatility, though, her fans prefer her in the latter role.
Left: Adele portrays the wife of Farley Granger's friend in "Edge Of Doom," a Samuel Coldwyn film dealing with a dynamic subject. This one is about as somberly dramatic as Adele has been permitted to get so far, and she holds her own with some very seasoned, expert actors herein.
Right: A role the Jergens public likes best, that of siren, in Columbia's comedy, "Beware Of Blondie." Here she gives naive Arthur (Dagwoodl Lake the comeon. As a rapacious blonde with swindling on her mind, she upsets the Bumstead household and