
Adele Mara April 28, 1923 until May 7, 2010.) was an American actress, singer and dancer who was a part of films during the 1940s and 1950s[2] and on television during the 1950s and 1960s. Adele St. Mara became her official name, and she was then offered a contract by Columbia Pictures[citation requiredColumbia Pictures [citation required]. Also, she gained experience in the studio's comedy shorts and B-features. This was later shortened to Adele Mara. Mara began her career as a receptionist for the Three Stooges movie I Can Hardly Wait. Mara Brooks and Leslie Brooks were the sisters of Rita Hayworth in the Fred Astaire movie You Were Never Lovelier. In Alias Boston Blackie (1942) she takes on the lead female character as the daughter of an escaped and falsely indicted convict. After her Columbia contract ended, she moved to Republic Pictures where she was frequent in outdoor adventure films and westerns. She was a part of in The Vampire's Ghost, Wake of the Red Witch with John Wayne, Angel In Exile (leading woman), Sands of Iwo Jima in which John Agar was John's lover, California Passage, and Don Siegel's Count the Hours.
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