Adele Longmire

Early years Longmire was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. at St. Joseph's Academy convent school there. Following graduation, and acted with Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre, In February 1937, Selznick International Pictures announced that Longmire and three other Southern young women had been asked to take screen tests. Talent scout Kay Brown headed the effort to sign Longmire, whom she and others in the group called the "Creole Girl". In April 1937, director George Cukor interrupted a cross-country train trip to stop in New Orleans to interview Longmire. Although he thought that she was not right for casting as Scarlett, he saw "intensity and real acting talent" in her and wanted producer David O. Selznick to sign her. She played a neighbor in a production of the new play Eye on the Sparrow in the Plymouth Theatre in Boston in April 1938.

In the summer of 1938, she performed in Ruy Blas in the Central City Play Festival in Colorado, Longmire's other stage performances included starring in Dream Girl in summer theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in August 1948.

Longmire signed a long-term contract with Warner Bros. in 1941, with the studio planning to have her re-create her role in Old Acquaintance in the film adaptation of that play. On film, Longmire was a member of the cast of Bullet Scars (1942) and played Mabel in People Will Talk (1951), Lieutenant Jane in Battle Circus (1952), and Carmelina in The Turning Point (1952).

Television programs on which Longmire appeared included I Love Lucy, The Lone Ranger, Cavalcade of America, and Robert Montgomery Presents.

Longmire wrote Forever Is Now, a play about a USO troupe behind Italian lines during World War II. The comedy debuted on Broadway at the Hudson Theatre on September 24, 1945.

Late in her career, Longmire was a literary agent. with whom she had two children, Melissa Merrill and Gina Martenson. Longmire and Franz divorced in 1957. Longmire never remarried. On January 15, 2008, she died in Taos, New Mexico, at the age of 89.