Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
April 28, 1923
Place of Birth:
Highland Park, Michigan, USA
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Adele Mara
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Adele Mara (April 28, 1923 – May 7, 2010), born Adelaide Delgado, was an American actress, singer and dancer who appeared in films during the 1940s and 1950s. During the 1940s, the blond actress was also a popular pinup girl.
One of her early roles was as a receptionist in the Three Stooges film I Can Hardly Wait. Other films include The Vampire's Ghost, Wake of the Red Witch, Angel in Exile, Sands of Iwo Jima, California Passage, and Don Siegel's Count the Hours. In 1961 appeared as a guest star with Cesar Romero on The Red Skelton Show in a sketch titled "Deadeye & The Alamo" - she played Elaine the nurse. Born in Highland Park, Michigan, of Spanish descent, she was married to television writer/producer Roy Huggins and appeared as a dancer in three episodes of his 1957 television series Maverick. Mara died of natural causes on May 7, 2010. Description above from the Wikipedia article Adele Mara, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1959 | The Big Circus | Maria 'Mama' Colino |
| 1958 | Curse of the Faceless Man | Maria Fiorillo |
| 1957 | The Saga of Andy Burnett | Estrellita |
| 1956 | Back from Eternity | Maria Alvarez - Stewardess |
| 1956 | The Black Whip | Ruthie Dawson |
| 1953 | Count the Hours! | Gracie Sager, Max Verne's Girlfriend |
| 1951 | The Sea Hornet | Suntan Radford |
| 1950 | Sands of Iwo Jima | Allison Bromley |
| 1950 | Rock Island Trail | Constance Strong |
| 1950 | California Passage | Beth Martin |
| 1950 | The Avengers | Maria Moreno |
| 1948 | Wake of the Red Witch | Teleia Van Schreeven |
| 1948 | I, Jane Doe | Marga-Jane Hastings |
| 1948 | Night Time in Nevada | Joan Andrews |
| 1948 | Angel in Exile | Raquel Chavez |
| 1948 | The Main Street Kid | Gloria |
| 1948 | The Gallant Legion | Catalina |
| 1948 | Campus Honeymoon | Bessie Ormsbee |
| 1947 | Blackmail | Sylvia Duane |
| 1947 | Exposed | Belinda Prentice |
| 1947 | The Trespasser | Dee Dee, newspaper morgue assistant |
| 1947 | Twilight on the Rio Grande | Elena Del Rio |
| 1947 | Web of Danger | Peg Mallory |
| 1947 | Robin Hood Of Texas | Julie |
| 1946 | The Last Crooked Mile | Bonnie |
| 1946 | The Inner Circle | Geraldine Travis, alias Gerry Smith |
| 1946 | The Catman of Paris | Marguerite Duval |
| 1946 | The Magnificent Rogue | Sugar Lee |
| 1946 | Passkey to Danger | Renee Beauchamps |
| 1946 | Night Train to Memphis | Constance Stephenson |
| 1946 | I've Always Loved You | Señorita Fortaleza |
| 1946 | The Invisible Informer | Marie Ravelle |
| 1946 | Traffic in Crime | Silk Cantrell |
| 1946 | A Guy Could Change | Bernice |
| 1945 | The Vampire's Ghost | Lisa |
| 1945 | The Tiger Woman | Sharon Winslow |
| 1945 | Bells of Rosarita | Patty Phillips |
| 1945 | Girls of the Big House | Harriet |
| 1945 | Flame of Barbary Coast | Marie (uncredited) |
| 1945 | Grissly's Millions | Maribelle |
| 1945 | Song of Mexico | Carol Adams |
| 1945 | Earl Carroll Vanities | Chorine |
| 1944 | Faces in the Fog | Gertrude |
| 1944 | Thoroughbreds | Sally Crandall |
| 1944 | Atlantic City | Adele - Barmaid |
| 1944 | Call of the South Seas | Aritana |
| 1944 | The Fighting Seabees | Twinkles Tucker - Jitterbugger (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Back from the Front | Dizzy (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Reveille with Beverly | Evelyn Ross |
| 1943 | Good Luck, Mr. Yates | Welder |
| 1943 | Crime Doctor | Nurse |
| 1943 | Redhead from Manhattan | Check Girl |
| 1943 | Riders of the Northwest Mounted | Gabrielle Renaud |
| 1943 | I Can Hardly Wait | Secretary (uncredited) |
| 1942 | Blondie Goes to College | Babs Conelly |
| 1942 | You Were Never Lovelier | Lita Acuña |
| 1942 | Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood | Eve Sanders |
| 1942 | Shut My Big Mouth | Elena Conchita Montoya |
| 1942 | The Great Glover | |
| 1942 | Lucky Legs | Secretary |
| 1942 | Vengeance of the West | Anita Morell |
| 1942 | Alias Boston Blackie | Eve Sanders |
| 1941 | Honolulu Lu | Debutante |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1978 | Wheels | Teresa Chapman |
| 1972 | Cool Million | Elena |
| 1962 | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Eve Sherston |
| 1960 | The Tall Man | |
| 1960 | Thriller | Lydia Adler |
| 1959 | Lock-Up | |
| 1959 | Laramie | |
| 1958 | 77 Sunset Strip | |
| 1958 | Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse | |
| 1958 | Bat Masterson | Maria Costa |
| 1957 | Maverick | |
| 1957 | Maverick | June Mundy |
| 1955 | Cheyenne | Sarita |
| 1955 | The Millionaire | Cara Rosselli Volante |
| 1955 | The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp | |
| 1954 | The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin | |
| 1954 | Studio 57 |