Adele Mara

Adele Mara

Birthday: 1923-04-28

Place of Birth: Highland Park, Michigan, USA

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.

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Blondie Goes to College
Blondie Goes to College

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Count the Hours!
Count the Hours!

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

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Wake of the Red Witch
Wake of the Red Witch

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You Were Never Lovelier
You Were Never Lovelier

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Blackmail
Blackmail

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Back from Eternity
Back from Eternity

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I, Jane Doe
I, Jane Doe

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Sands of Iwo Jima
Sands of Iwo Jima

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Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood
Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood

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The Last Crooked Mile
The Last Crooked Mile

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The Inner Circle
The Inner Circle

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The Vampire's Ghost
The Vampire's Ghost

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The Catman of Paris
The Catman of Paris

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Curse of the Faceless Man
Curse of the Faceless Man

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Exposed
Exposed

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

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The Black Whip
The Black Whip

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Night Time in Nevada
Night Time in Nevada

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The Big Circus
The Big Circus

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Angel in Exile
Angel in Exile

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The Tiger Woman
The Tiger Woman

Murder mystery programmer from Republic pictures...

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The Trespasser
The Trespasser

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Back from the Front
Back from the Front

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The Magnificent Rogue
The Magnificent Rogue

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Twilight on the Rio Grande
Twilight on the Rio Grande

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Web of Danger
Web of Danger

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Reveille with Beverly
Reveille with Beverly

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Rock Island Trail
Rock Island Trail

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Robin Hood Of Texas
Robin Hood Of Texas

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California Passage
California Passage

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

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Bells of Rosarita
Bells of Rosarita

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Passkey to Danger
Passkey to Danger

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

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Night Train to Memphis
Night Train to Memphis

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Girls of the Big House
Girls of the Big House

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

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Flame of Barbary Coast
Flame of Barbary Coast

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Shut My Big Mouth
Shut My Big Mouth

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The Main Street Kid
The Main Street Kid

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Grissly's Millions
Grissly's Millions

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The Great Glover
The Great Glover

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The Sea Hornet
The Sea Hornet

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The Avengers
The Avengers

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Faces in the Fog
Faces in the Fog

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

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The Gallant Legion
The Gallant Legion

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Campus Honeymoon
Campus Honeymoon

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I've Always Loved You
I've Always Loved You

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The Invisible Informer
The Invisible Informer

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Traffic in Crime
Traffic in Crime

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A Guy Could Change
A Guy Could Change

A playboy is reformed by his daughter and fiancee....

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Song of Mexico
Song of Mexico

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

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Earl Carroll Vanities
Earl Carroll Vanities

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

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Thoroughbreds
Thoroughbreds

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Atlantic City
Atlantic City

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Call of the South Seas
Call of the South Seas

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The Fighting Seabees
The Fighting Seabees

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

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Good Luck, Mr. Yates
Good Luck, Mr. Yates

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

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Crime Doctor
Crime Doctor

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

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Redhead from Manhattan
Redhead from Manhattan

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

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Lucky Legs
Lucky Legs

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

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Vengeance of the West
Vengeance of the West

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Alias Boston Blackie
Alias Boston Blackie

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

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Riders of the Northwest Mounted
Riders of the Northwest Mounted

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

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Honolulu Lu
Honolulu Lu

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

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I Can Hardly Wait
I Can Hardly Wait

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

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