
Adele Mara April 28, 1923 (died May 7, 2010) was an American singer, actress and dancer who was featured in films throughout the 1940s and 1950s[2] and on television in the 1950s and 1960s. As a professional under the name Adele St. Mara, she won a contract with Columbia Pictures[citation neededand gained experience in the studio's "B" features as well as comedy shorts. This was soon shortened to Adele Mara. Mara began her career as a receptionist in the Three Stooges movie I Can Hardly Wait. Mara as well as Leslie Brooks played the sisters of Rita Hayworth's character the Fred Astaire film You Were Never Lovelier. Brooks plays the lead female part in Alias Boston Blackie (1942) as the sister of an wrongly accused and freed convict. After her Columbia contract lapsed, she moved to Republic Pictures, where she was a regular on the studio's westerns as well as outdoor adventures. The actress was featured in The Vampire's Ghost, Wake of the Red Witch with John Wayne, Angel in Exile (leading lady), Sands of Iwo Jima with John Wayne in which she played John Agar's love interest, California Passage (leading lady) and Don Siegel's Count the Hours (supporting role).
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