Adele Mara

Born: 1923-08-28

 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.


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Sands of Iwo Jima

as Allison Bromley
Released: 1950-01-01

Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him...

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Wake of the Red Witch

as Teleia Van Schreeven
Released: 1948-12-30

Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique...

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The Fighting Seabees

as Twinkles Tucker - Jitterbugger (uncredited)
Released: 1944-01-27

Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the...

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You Were Never Lovelier

as Lita Acuña
Released: 1942-11-19

An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.

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Reveille with Beverly

as Evelyn Ross
Released: 1943-02-04

Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the...

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Curse of the Faceless Man

as Maria Fiorillo
Released: 1958-08-14

A stone-encrusted body is unearthed at Pompeii, and people left alone with it keep dying of...

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Crime Doctor

as Nurse
Released: 1943-06-22

Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to ...

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I, Jane Doe

as Marga-Jane Hastings
Released: 1948-05-25

While stationed in France during World War II, an American fighter pilot marries a French girl...

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The Big Circus

as Maria 'Mama' Colino
Released: 1959-07-05

A circus owner tries to keep his financially troubled circus on the road, despite the efforts of...

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California Passage

as Beth Martin
Released: 1950-12-15

A series of reversals bring two desperate people together. When a saloon owner is framed by his...

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Rock Island Trail

as Constance Strong
Released: 1950-05-18

A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.

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Blondie Goes to College

as Babs Conelly
Released: 1942-01-15

Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction...

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Back from Eternity

as Maria Alvarez - Stewardess
Released: 1956-09-07

A South American plane loaded with an assortment of characters crash lands in a remote jungle...

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Flame of Barbary Coast

as Marie (uncredited)
Released: 1945-05-28

Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San...

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The Saga of Andy Burnett

as Estrellita
Released: 1957-10-02

TV series.

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Count the Hours!

as Gracie Sager, Max Verne's Girlfriend
Released: 1953-04-01

A lawyer defends a migrant worker in a sensational murder trial.

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Honolulu Lu

as Debutante
Released: 1941-12-11

While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with...

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Atlantic City

as Adele - Barmaid
Released: 1944-09-15

In 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and...

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I've Always Loved You

as Señorita Fortaleza
Released: 1946-12-02

A beautiful young concert pianist is torn between her attraction to her arrogant but brilliant...

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The Trespasser

as Dee Dee, newspaper morgue assistant
Released: 1947-07-03

Stevie Carson, a newspaper reporter, and Danny Butler, the "morgue" manager on the same...

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Web of Danger

as Peg Mallory
Released: 1947-06-10

Ernie Reardon, the superintendent, and Bill O'Hara, the foreman, of a construction company crew...

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Redhead from Manhattan

as Check Girl
Released: 1943-05-06

Lupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship,...

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Blackmail

as Sylvia Duane
Released: 1947-07-24

A private detective is offered a job protecting a rich business man from suspected blackmail....

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Good Luck, Mr. Yates

as Welder
Released: 1943-06-29

A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the...

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The Vampire's Ghost

as Lisa
Released: 1945-04-13

In a small African port, a tawdry bar is run by a old man named Webb Fallon. Fallon is actually...

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Night Time in Nevada

as Joan Andrews
Released: 1948-09-05

Twenty years earlier Farrell killed his mining partner Andrews. Now Andrews daughter arrives to...

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Back from the Front

as Dizzy (uncredited)
Released: 1943-05-28

The Stooges join the war effort by enlisting at Merchant Marines. While aboard, they have a...

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Exposed

as Belinda Prentice
Released: 1947-09-08

A private eye and her sidekick solve the case of a dead client.

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The Main Street Kid

as Gloria
Released: 1948-01-01

A young boy is struck by lightning, and discovers afterwards that he has the power of telepathy.

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Shut My Big Mouth

as Elena Conchita Montoya
Released: 1942-02-19

A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west.

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The Catman of Paris

as Marguerite Duval
Released: 1946-04-20

When author Charles Regnier returns to Paris with a best-selling book that criticizes the...

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The Last Crooked Mile

as Bonnie
Released: 1946-08-09

A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.

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Traffic in Crime

as Silk Cantrell
Released: 1946-06-28

Police Chief Jim Murphy, in a crime-ridden city, deputizes newspaper-reporter Sam Wire, to work...

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The Inner Circle

as Geraldine Travis, alias Gerry Smith
Released: 1946-08-07

A fresh-faced young detective gets set up, framed for murder, and alibied by a smart blonde.

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Lucky Legs

as Secretary
Released: 1942-10-01

Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle....

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Twilight on the Rio Grande

as Elena Del Rio
Released: 1947-03-31

Gene and Pokie are on vacation in Mexico when they learn that their buddy Dusty has been bumped off.

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Earl Carroll Vanities

as Chorine
Released: 1945-04-05

Broadway producer Earl Carroll was a Ziegfeld-like entrepreneur who staged lavish revues...

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The Black Whip

as Ruthie Dawson
Released: 1956-12-01

A gang of renegade Civil War soldiers terrorize four women and the owners of an inn as they plot...

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Thoroughbreds

as Sally Crandall
Released: 1944-12-23

Sgt. Rusty Curtis of the U.S. Cavalry is unhappy about the Army's plan to replace horses with...

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Robin Hood Of Texas

as Julie
Released: 1947-07-15

When the bank is robbed, Gene and the boys are singing nearby and the Chief arrests them as gang...

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Faces in the Fog

as Gertrude
Released: 1944-11-30

Tom and Cora Elliott love their active social life so much that they neglect their daughter Mary...

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Bells of Rosarita

as Patty Phillips
Released: 1945-06-19

Sue Farnum inherits a circus, but her dead father's partner is trying to take it away from her....

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The Invisible Informer

as Marie Ravelle
Released: 1946-08-19

An aristocratic but destitute southern family attempts to swindle an insurance company by faking...

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Vengeance of the West

as Anita Morell
Released: 1942-08-16

Anita Morell arrives by stagecoach in a small California town to find her father murdered and...

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The Sea Hornet

as Suntan Radford
Released: 1951-11-06

"The Sea Hornet" was a merchant ship sunk, supposedly by a torpedo, less than a mile off the...

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Angel in Exile

as Raquel Chavez
Released: 1948-10-20

An ex-convict on his way to make his fortune in a gold mine in Arizona has his trip interrupted...

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I Can Hardly Wait

as Secretary (uncredited)
Released: 1943-08-13

The stooges are defense workers who have trouble getting to sleep when Curly gets a toothache....

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The Magnificent Rogue

as Sugar Lee
Released: 1946-11-07

A serviceman returns home at the end of WWII to discover his wife has become the head of her own...

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Night Train to Memphis

as Constance Stephenson
Released: 1946-07-12

A mountain community is thrown into turmoil as the townspeople debate the advantages and...

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The Gallant Legion

as Catalina
Released: 1948-05-24

When power-hungry Faulkner and Leroux want to divide Texas into smaller sections, instead of...

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Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood

as Eve Sanders
Released: 1942-11-05

Blackie receives a call from a friend who asks him to retrieve some money from his apartment and...

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Alias Boston Blackie

as Eve Sanders
Released: 1942-04-02

It is the Christmas Holidays and reformed thief, Boston Blackie goes to Castle Theater to pick...

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Grissly's Millions

as Maribelle
Released: 1945-01-16

An eccentric wealthy man is murdered, and the police set out to find his killer.

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The Tiger Woman

as Sharon Winslow
Released: 1945-11-16

Murder mystery programmer from Republic pictures

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Passkey to Danger

as Renee Beauchamps
Released: 1946-05-11

An advertising man's new campaign for a fashion designer attracts the attention of mysterious...

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Riders of the Northwest Mounted

as Gabrielle Renaud
Released: 1943-02-15

Fur thieves, who murder trappers when they refuse to give up their pelts at a low price, occupy...

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Call of the South Seas

as Aritana
Released: 1944-04-07

FBI Agent Kendall Gaige goes undercover on a South Seas island in order to expose the...

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Girls of the Big House

as Harriet
Released: 1945-11-02

A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town...

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A Guy Could Change

as Bernice
Released: 1946-01-27

A playboy is reformed by his daughter and fiancee.

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Song of Mexico

as Carol Adams
Released: 1945-12-28

Actress Carol Adams retires from the theater when she becomes engaged to businessman Gregory...

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The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

as Eve Sherston
First aired: 1962-09-20

A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of...

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The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp

as uncredited
First aired: 1955-09-06

The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a television western series loosely based on the life of...

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77 Sunset Strip

as uncredited
First aired: 1958-10-10

Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this...

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Maverick

as uncredited
First aired: 1957-09-22

Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins....

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Maverick

as June Mundy
First aired: 1957-09-22

Maverick is an American Western television series with comedic overtones created by Roy Huggins....

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Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

as uncredited
First aired: 1958-10-06

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu...

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The Tall Man

as uncredited
First aired: 1960-09-10

The Tall Man is a half-hour American western television series about Sheriff Pat Garrett and the...

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Cheyenne

as Sarita
First aired: 1955-09-20

Cheyenne is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on...

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Thriller

as Lydia Adler
First aired: 1960-09-13

Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62...

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Bat Masterson

as Maria Costa
First aired: 1958-10-08

Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of...

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The Lone Wolf

as uncredited
First aired: 1954-01-01

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Laramie

as uncredited
First aired: 1959-09-15

Laramie is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from 1959 to 1963. A Revue...

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The Millionaire

as Cara Rosselli Volante
First aired: 1955-01-19

An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better...

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Lock-Up

as uncredited
First aired: 1959-09-28

Lock-Up is an American legal drama series that premiered in syndication in September 1959 and...

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The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin

as uncredited
First aired: 1954-10-15

The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin is an American children's television program. Beginning in October...

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Studio 57

as uncredited
First aired: 1954-09-21

Studio 57 is an American anthology series that was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont...

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Cool Million

as uncredited
First aired: 1972-10-28

Cool Million is an American crime drama series that aired on NBC as an element in its "wheel...

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Wheels

as Teresa Chapman
First aired: 1978-05-07

Based on the 1971 novel by Arthur Hailey, Wheels is about the automobile industry and the...

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