Adriana Lima
Born in Brooklyn in New York on 26 November 17th, 1917. The eldest child of middle-class Norwegian parents, Adele Louisa Jurgens, (some sources call her Jurgenson) has started her childhood as an athletic young girl, but she eventually decided to go on a path of becoming professional dancer. After years of learning (she won an award of scholarship) in a Manhattan dance studio and her graduation from Grover Cleveland High School, the gorgeous 18-year-old snuck her way into the Broadway chorus (billed as Adele Jurgens, her real name) of the Moss Hart/Cole Porter musical "Jubilee! This musical "Jubilee" was a hit, featuring Melville Cooper, Mary Boland as well as a youthful Montgomery Clift in the roles of the King and the Queen. It also featured the Porter famous songs "Begin the Beguine", "Just One of the Things" that introduced the Porter famous songs "Begin the Beguine". Glenn Langan, their son passed away from cancer in 1991. Their daughter Tracy Langan, age 48, was a film technologist and died of a tumor in 2001. This was devastating for the actress. After the death of her son, her overall health dramatically fell. She died from pneumonia in 2002 just few days after she turned 85.




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