Adele

Adele Mara (April 28, 1923 until May 7, 2010) was an American actress, singer and dancer in films during the 1940s and 1950s, and in television during the 1950s, 1960s, and then later. Adele St. Mara became her official name, and she was offered a contract by Columbia Pictures[citation needed[citation required]. She had experience in comedy shorts and features on Columbia Pictures "B". Then, she was changed to Adele Mara. One of her early roles was as a receptionist for the Three Stooges film I Can Hardly Wait. Mara Brooks and Leslie Brooks portrayed the sisters in Rita Hayworth's character in Fred Astaire's film You Were Never Lovelier. She is the lead female role in Alias Boston Blackie (1942), playing the sister of an wrongly charged and escaped convict. When her Columbia contract ran out and she was transferred to Republic Pictures, where she became a regular character in the studio's westerns as well as outdoor adventure. She appeared in The Vampire's Ghost, Wake of the Red Witch which starred John Wayne, Angel In Exile (leading woman), Sands of Iwo Jima in which John Agar's love interestwas played by her, California Passage, and Don Siegel's Count the Hours.