Adele Mara

from Highland Park, Michigan, USA

Artwork for Sands of Iwo JimaImage of Adele Mara

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.

Timeline

1959Aged 36

  • Poster for The Big Circus

    Maria 'Mama' Colino

1958Aged 35

  • Poster for Curse of the Faceless Man

    Maria Fiorillo

1956Aged 33

  • Poster for Back from Eternity

    Maria Alvarez - Stewardess

  • Poster for The Black Whip

    Ruthie Dawson

1953Aged 30

  • Poster for Count the Hours!

    Gracie Sager, Max Verne's Girlfriend

1951Aged 28

  • Poster for The Sea Hornet

    Suntan Radford

1950Aged 27

  • Poster for Sands of Iwo Jima

    Allison Bromley

  • Poster for Rock Island Trail

    Constance Strong

  • Poster for The Avengers

    Maria Moreno

  • Poster for California Passage

    Beth Martin

1948Aged 25

  • Poster for The Main Street Kid

    Gloria

  • Poster for Campus Honeymoon

    Bessie Ormsbee

  • Poster for The Gallant Legion

    Catalina

  • Poster for I, Jane Doe

    Marga-Jane Hastings

  • Poster for Night Time in Nevada

    Joan Andrews

  • Poster for Angel in Exile

    Raquel Chavez

  • Poster for Wake of the Red Witch

    Teleia Van Schreeven

1947Aged 24

  • Poster for Twilight on the Rio Grande

    Elena Del Rio

  • Poster for Web of Danger

    Peg Mallory

  • Poster for The Trespasser

    Dee Dee, newspaper morgue assistant

  • Poster for Robin Hood Of Texas

    Julie

  • Poster for Blackmail

    Sylvia Duane

  • Poster for Exposed

    Belinda Prentice

1946Aged 23

  • Poster for A Guy Could Change

    Bernice

  • Poster for The Catman of Paris

    Marguerite Duval

  • Poster for Passkey to Danger

    Renee Beauchamps

  • Poster for Traffic in Crime

    Silk Cantrell

  • Poster for Night Train to Memphis

    Constance Stephenson

  • Poster for The Inner Circle

    Geraldine Travis, alias Gerry Smith

  • Poster for The Last Crooked Mile

    Bonnie

  • Poster for The Invisible Informer

    Marie Ravelle

  • Poster for The Magnificent Rogue

    Sugar Lee

  • Poster for I've Always Loved You

    Señorita Fortaleza

1945Aged 22

  • Poster for Grissly's Millions

    Maribelle

  • Poster for Earl Carroll Vanities

    Chorine

  • Poster for The Vampire's Ghost

    Lisa

  • Poster for Flame of Barbary Coast

    Marie (uncredited)

  • Poster for Bells of Rosarita

    Patty Phillips

  • Poster for Girls of the Big House

    Harriet

  • Poster for The Tiger Woman

    Sharon Winslow

  • Poster for Song of Mexico

    Carol Adams

1944Aged 21

  • Poster for The Fighting Seabees

    Twinkles Tucker - Jitterbugger (uncredited)

  • Poster for Call of the South Seas

    Aritana

  • Poster for Atlantic City

    Adele - Barmaid

  • Poster for Faces in the Fog

    Gertrude

  • Poster for Thoroughbreds

    Sally Crandall

1943Aged 20

  • Poster for Reveille with Beverly

    Evelyn Ross

  • Poster for Riders of the Northwest Mounted

    Gabrielle Renaud

  • Poster for Redhead from Manhattan

    Check Girl

  • Poster for Back from the Front

    Dizzy (uncredited)

  • Poster for Crime Doctor

    Nurse

  • Poster for Good Luck, Mr. Yates

    Welder

  • Poster for I Can Hardly Wait

    Secretary (uncredited)

1942Aged 19

  • Poster for Blondie Goes to College

    Babs Conelly

  • Poster for Shut My Big Mouth

    Elena Conchita Montoya

  • Poster for Alias Boston Blackie

    Eve Sanders

  • Poster for Vengeance of the West

    Anita Morell

  • Poster for Lucky Legs

    Secretary

  • Poster for Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood

    Eve Sanders

  • Poster for You Were Never Lovelier

    Lita Acuña

  • The Great Glover

    (Unknown)

1941Aged 18

  • Poster for Honolulu Lu

    Debutante