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
- The Avengers as Maria Moreno
- California Passage as Beth Martin
- Rock Island Trail as Constance Strong
1948
- Wake of the Red Witch as Teleia Van Schreeven
- I, Jane Doe as Marga-Jane Hastings
- The Gallant Legion as Catalina
- Angel in Exile as Raquel Chavez
- Night Time in Nevada as Joan Andrews
- The Main Street Kid as Gloria
- Campus Honeymoon as Bessie Ormsbee
1947
- Exposed as Belinda Prentice
- Twilight on the Rio Grande as Elena Del Rio
- The Trespasser as Dee Dee, newspaper morgue assistant
- Web of Danger as Peg Mallory
- Robin Hood Of Texas as Julie
- Blackmail as Sylvia Duane
1946
- The Inner Circle as Geraldine Travis, alias Gerry Smith
- I've Always Loved You as Señorita Fortaleza
- Passkey to Danger as Renee Beauchamps
- Traffic in Crime as Silk Cantrell
- The Last Crooked Mile as Bonnie
- A Guy Could Change as Bernice
- Night Train to Memphis as Constance Stephenson
- The Catman of Paris as Marguerite Duval
- The Invisible Informer as Marie Ravelle
- The Magnificent Rogue as Sugar Lee
1945
- Flame of Barbary Coast as Marie (uncredited)
- Bells of Rosarita as Patty Phillips
- Grissly's Millions as Maribelle
- Earl Carroll Vanities as Chorine
- The Tiger Woman as Sharon Winslow
- The Vampire's Ghost as Lisa
- Girls of the Big House as Harriet
- Song of Mexico as Carol Adams
1944
- The Fighting Seabees as Twinkles Tucker - Jitterbugger (uncredited)
- Call of the South Seas as Aritana
- Faces in the Fog as Gertrude
- Atlantic City as Adele - Barmaid
- Thoroughbreds as Sally Crandall
1943
- Redhead from Manhattan as Check Girl
- Crime Doctor as Nurse
- Reveille with Beverly as Evelyn Ross
- Good Luck, Mr. Yates as Welder
- Back from the Front as Dizzy (uncredited)
- I Can Hardly Wait as Secretary (uncredited)
- Riders of the Northwest Mounted as Gabrielle Renaud
1942
- You Were Never Lovelier as Lita Acuña
- Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood as Eve Sanders
- Shut My Big Mouth as Elena Conchita Montoya
- Blondie Goes to College as Babs Conelly
- The Great Glover
- Alias Boston Blackie as Eve Sanders
- Lucky Legs as Secretary
- Vengeance of the West as Anita Morell
1941
- Honolulu Lu as Debutante