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Adele Mara

Adele Mara

Actor · 1923–2010 · Highland Park, Michigan, USA

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 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.

Acted in 77

1970s

  1. 1978

    Wheels

    Teresa Chapman · 5 episodes

  2. 1972

    Cool Million

    Elena · 5 episodes

1950s

  1. 1959
  2. The Big Circus

    Maria 'Mama' Colino

  3. 1958
  4. 1957
  5. 1956

    The Black Whip

    Ruthie Dawson

  6. Back from Eternity

    Maria Alvarez - Stewardess

  7. 1955
  8. 1954
  9. 1953

    Count the Hours!

    Gracie Sager, Max Verne's Girlfriend

  10. 1951

    The Sea Hornet

    Suntan Radford

  11. 1950
  12. The Avengers

    Maria Moreno

1940s

  1. 1948

    Wake of the Red Witch

    Teleia Van Schreeven

  2. Night Time in Nevada

    Joan Andrews

  3. I, Jane Doe

    Marga-Jane Hastings

  4. The Gallant Legion

    Catalina

  5. Campus Honeymoon

    Bessie Ormsbee

  6. The Main Street Kid

    Gloria

  7. 1947
  8. Blackmail

    Sylvia Duane

  9. The Trespasser

    Dee Dee, newspaper morgue assistant

  10. Web of Danger

    Peg Mallory

  11. 1946

    I've Always Loved You

    Señorita Fortaleza

  12. The Magnificent Rogue

    Sugar Lee

  13. The Invisible Informer

    Marie Ravelle

  14. The Last Crooked Mile

    Bonnie

  15. Night Train to Memphis

    Constance Stephenson

  16. Traffic in Crime

    Silk Cantrell

  17. Passkey to Danger

    Renee Beauchamps

  18. The Catman of Paris

    Marguerite Duval

  19. A Guy Could Change

    Bernice

  20. 1945

    Song of Mexico

    Carol Adams

  21. The Tiger Woman

    Sharon Winslow

  22. Girls of the Big House

    Harriet

  23. Bells of Rosarita

    Patty Phillips

  24. The Vampire's Ghost

    Lisa

  25. Earl Carroll Vanities

    Chorine

  26. Grissly's Millions

    Maribelle

  27. 1944

    Thoroughbreds

    Sally Crandall

  28. Faces in the Fog

    Gertrude

  29. Atlantic City

    Adele - Barmaid

  30. Call of the South Seas

    Aritana

  31. The Fighting Seabees

    Twinkles Tucker - Jitterbugger (uncredited)

  32. 1943

    I Can Hardly Wait

    Secretary (uncredited)

  33. Good Luck, Mr. Yates

    Welder

  34. Crime Doctor

    Nurse

  35. Back from the Front

    Dizzy (uncredited)

  36. Redhead from Manhattan

    Check Girl

  37. Riders of the Northwest Mounted

    Gabrielle Renaud

  38. Reveille with Beverly

    Evelyn Ross

  39. 1942

    You Were Never Lovelier

    Lita Acuña

  40. Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood

    Eve Sanders

  41. Lucky Legs

    Secretary

  42. Vengeance of the West

    Anita Morell

  43. Alias Boston Blackie

    Eve Sanders

  44. Shut My Big Mouth

    Elena Conchita Montoya

  45. Blondie Goes to College

    Babs Conelly

  46. 1941

    Honolulu Lu

    Debutante