Adele Mara
Born: 1923-04-28 in Highland Park, Michigan, USA
Died: 2010-05-07
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
1978
- Wheels as Teresa Chapman
1972
- Cool Million as Elena
1962
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Eve Sherston
1960
- Thriller as Lydia Adler
- The Tall Man
1959
- Laramie
- Lock-Up
- The Big Circus as Maria 'Mama' Colino
1958
- Bat Masterson as Maria Costa
- 77 Sunset Strip
- Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
- Curse of the Faceless Man as Maria Fiorillo
1957
1956
- Back from Eternity as Maria Alvarez - Stewardess
- The Black Whip as Ruthie Dawson
1955
- Cheyenne as Sarita
- The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
- The Millionaire as Cara Rosselli Volante
1953
- Count the Hours! as Gracie Sager, Max Verne's Girlfriend
1951
- The Sea Hornet as Suntan Radford
1950
- Sands of Iwo Jima as Allison Bromley
- Rock Island Trail as Constance Strong
- The Avengers as Maria Moreno
- California Passage as Beth Martin
1948
- Wake of the Red Witch as Teleia Van Schreeven
- I, Jane Doe as Marga-Jane Hastings
- The Gallant Legion as Catalina
- Campus Honeymoon as Bessie Ormsbee
- Angel in Exile as Raquel Chavez
- The Main Street Kid as Gloria
- Night Time in Nevada as Joan Andrews
1947
- Robin Hood Of Texas as Julie
- Blackmail as Sylvia Duane
- Web of Danger as Peg Mallory
- Exposed as Belinda Prentice
- Twilight on the Rio Grande as Elena Del Rio
- The Trespasser as Dee Dee, newspaper morgue assistant
1946
- Night Train to Memphis as Constance Stephenson
- The Last Crooked Mile as Bonnie
- The Inner Circle as Geraldine Travis, alias Gerry Smith
- The Magnificent Rogue as Sugar Lee
- The Catman of Paris as Marguerite Duval
- I've Always Loved You as Señorita Fortaleza
- Traffic in Crime as Silk Cantrell
- A Guy Could Change as Bernice
- The Invisible Informer as Marie Ravelle
- Passkey to Danger as Renee Beauchamps
1945
- Flame of Barbary Coast as Marie (uncredited)
- Song of Mexico as Carol Adams
- Bells of Rosarita as Patty Phillips
- The Vampire's Ghost as Lisa
- Earl Carroll Vanities as Chorine
- Girls of the Big House as Harriet
- The Tiger Woman as Sharon Winslow
- Grissly's Millions as Maribelle
1944
- The Fighting Seabees as Twinkles Tucker - Jitterbugger (uncredited)
- Atlantic City as Adele - Barmaid
- Thoroughbreds as Sally Crandall
- Call of the South Seas as Aritana
- Faces in the Fog as Gertrude
1943
- Crime Doctor as Nurse
- Back from the Front as Dizzy (uncredited)
- Reveille with Beverly as Evelyn Ross
- Good Luck, Mr. Yates as Welder
- Redhead from Manhattan as Check Girl
- Riders of the Northwest Mounted as Gabrielle Renaud
- I Can Hardly Wait as Secretary (uncredited)
1942
- You Were Never Lovelier as Lita Acuña
- Blondie Goes to College as Babs Conelly
- Shut My Big Mouth as Elena Conchita Montoya
- The Great Glover
- Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood as Eve Sanders
- Alias Boston Blackie as Eve Sanders
- Vengeance of the West as Anita Morell
- Lucky Legs as Secretary
1941
- Honolulu Lu as Debutante