Adele Mara

Adele Mara (born Adelaide Delgado; April 28, 1923 – May 7, 2010) was an American actress, singer, and dancer, who appeared in films during the 1940s and 1950s and on television in the 1950s and 1960s.

Early years Mara was born Adelaide Delgado in Highland Park, Michigan, to Spanish parents Angel Delgado and Eloisa. She had a brother, Luis Delgado (1925-1997), who became an actor.

Career Dancing Mara danced as part of bandleader Xavier Cugat's show and gained experience in the studio's "B" features and comedy shorts. She soon shortened her name to Adele Mara. One of Mara's early roles was as a receptionist in the Three Stooges film I Can Hardly Wait. Mara and Leslie Brooks played the sisters of Rita Hayworth's character in the Fred Astaire film You Were Never Lovelier. In Alias Boston Blackie (1942), she plays the leading female role, as the sister of an escaped and wrongfully accused convict.

When her Columbia contract lapsed, she moved to Republic Pictures, where she became a fixture in the studio's Westerns and outdoor adventures. and remained married until his death at age 87; the marriage had spanned half a century from 1952 to 2002.

Mara's brother, Luis Delgado, played small, often uncredited roles in films and TV, especially in the projects of his close friend James Garner, for whom Delgado also worked as a personal assistant.

Death Mara died of natural causes at age 87 on May 7, 2010.

Selected filmography

Honolulu Lu (1941) as Debutante (uncredited) Navy Blues (1941) You Were Never Lovelier (1942) as Lita Acuna Alias Boston Blackie (1942) as Eve Sanders Blondie Goes to College (1942) as Babs Connelly Shut My Big Mouth (1942) Crime Doctor (1943) as Nurse (uncredited) Redhead from Manhattan (1943) as Check Girl (uncredited) Riders of the Northwest Mounted (1943) as Gabrielle Renaud (uncredited) Reveille with Beverly (1943) as Evelyn Ross Call of the South Seas (1944) as Aritana Atlantic City (1944) as Adele – Barmaid The Fighting Seabees (1944) as Twinkler Tucker – Jitterbugger (uncredited) Faces in the Fog (1944) as Gertrude Thoroughbreds (1944) as Sally Crandall Girls of the Big House (1945) as Harriett Song of Mexico (1945) as Carol Adams The Tiger Woman (1945) as Sharon Winslow Bells of Rosarita (1945) as Patty Phillips Flame of Barbary Coast (1945) as Marie (uncredited) The Vampire's Ghost (1945) as Lisa Earl Carroll Vanities (1945) as Chorine (uncredited) Grissly's Millions (1945) as Maribelle The Inner Circle (1946) as Geraldine Travis alias Gerry Smith I've Always Loved You (1946) as Senorita Fortalega The Magnificent Rogue (1946) as Sugar Lee The Invisible Informer (1946) as Marie Ravelle The Last Crooked Mile (1946) as Bonnie Night Train to Memphis (1946) as Constance Stephenson Traffic in Crime (1946) as Silk Cantrell Passkey to Danger (1946) as Renee Beauchamps The Catman of Paris (1946) as Marguerite Duval A Guy Could Change (1946) as Bernice Exposed (1947) as Belinda Prentice Blackmail (1947) as Sylvia Duane Robin Hood of Texas (1947) as Julie The Trespasser (1947) as Deedee Web of Danger (1947) as Peg Mallory Twilight on the Rio Grande (1947) as Elena Del Rio Wake of the Red Witch (1948) as Teleia Van Schreeven Night Time in Nevada (1948) as Joan Andrews Angel in Exile (1948) as Raquel Chavez I, Jane Doe (1948) as Marga–Jane Hastings The Gallant Legion (1948) as Catalina Campus Honeymoon (1948) as Bessie Ormsbee The Main Street Kid (1948) as Gloria Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) as Allison Bromley Rock Island Trail (1950) as Constance Strong California Passage (1950) as Beth Martin The Avengers (1950) as Maria Moreno The Sea Hornet (1951) as Suntan Radford aka Golbraid Count the Hours (1953) as Gracie Sager – Max Verne's girlfriend The Black Whip (1956) as Ruthie Dawson Back from Eternity (1956) as Maria Alvarez, an airplane stewardess Curse of the Faceless Man (1958) as Maria Fiorillo The Big Circus (1959) as Maria 'Mama' Colino The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962) (Season 1 Episode 8: "House Guest") as Eve Sherston