Adele Mara
Actor
Biography
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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.
Filmography
You Were Never Lovelier
as Lita Acuña 1942
The Fighting Seabees
as Twinkles Tucker - Jitterbugger (uncredited) 1944
Wake of the Red Witch
as Teleia Van Schreeven 1948
Curse of the Faceless Man
as Maria Fiorillo 1958
Back from Eternity
as Maria Alvarez - Stewardess 1956
Flame of Barbary Coast
as Marie (uncredited) 1945
The Vampire's Ghost
as Lisa 1945
The Big Circus
as Maria 'Mama' Colino 1959
Count the Hours!
as Gracie Sager, Max Verne's Girlfriend 1953
Crime Doctor
as Nurse 1943
Blackmail
as Sylvia Duane 1947
The Last Crooked Mile
as Bonnie 1946
The Inner Circle
as Geraldine Travis, alias Gerry Smith 1946
The Catman of Paris
as Marguerite Duval 1946
Back from the Front
as Dizzy (uncredited) 1943
Alias Boston Blackie
as Eve Sanders 1942