
Adele Mara April 28, 1923 - May 7, 2010) was an American singer, actress and dancer who was featured in films throughout the 1950s and 1940s as well as on television during the 1950s and 1960s. Adele St. Mara was her professional name. She received an endorsement from Columbia Pictures[citation needed.The company also gave her experience in the studio's comedy films and "B" films. The title was later changed to Adele Mara. Mara began her career as a receptionist 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 plays the main female role, as the daughter of an escaped and falsely found guilty convict. When her Columbia contract expired after which she moved to Republic Pictures where she was a regular in outdoor adventures and westerns. [citation needed] She starred in The Vampire's Ghost, Wake of the Red Witch featuring John Wayne, Angel In Exile (leading woman), Sands of Iwo Jima in which John Agar was John's love interestwas played by her, California Passage as well as Don Siegel's Count the Hours.
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