Adele Mara
Known for ActingBorn 1923-04-28 — died 2010-05-07Highland Park, Michigan, USA
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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.
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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
Sands of Iwo Jima
1950 · as Allison Bromley
Exposed
1947 · as Belinda Prentice
The Big Circus
1959 · as Maria 'Mama' Colino
You Were Never Lovelier
1942 · as Lita Acuña
Count the Hours!
1953 · as Gracie Sager, Max Verne's Girlfriend
Wake of the Red Witch
1948 · as Teleia Van Schreeven
The Avengers
1950 · as Maria Moreno
Shut My Big Mouth
1942 · as Elena Conchita Montoya
The Fighting Seabees
1944 · as Twinkles Tucker - Jitterbugger (uncredited)
I, Jane Doe
1948 · as Marga-Jane Hastings
The Trespasser
1947 · as Dee Dee, newspaper morgue assistant
The Sea Hornet
1951 · as Suntan Radford
Crime Doctor
1943 · as Nurse
Rock Island Trail
1950 · as Constance Strong
I've Always Loved You
1946 · as Señorita Fortaleza
Faces in the Fog
1944 · as Gertrude
The Inner Circle
1946 · as Geraldine Travis, alias Gerry Smith
Flame of Barbary Coast
1945 · as Marie (uncredited)