
Adele Mara April 28, 1923 - May 7, 2010) was an American singer, actress and dancer who appeared in films during the 1940s and 1950s[2] and on television in the 1950s and 1960s. Adele St. Mara became her professional name when she was offered a contract from Columbia Pictures[citation required[citation needed]. She had experience in comedy shorts and features for Columbia Pictures "B". This was soon shortened to Adele Mara. Mara was a receptionist in Three Stooges' film I Can Hardly Wait. Mara Brooks and Leslie Brooks were the sisters of Rita Hayworth in the Fred Astaire film You Were Never Lovelier. In Alias Boston Blackie (1942) she takes on the leading female role, as the sister of an escaped and falsely indicted convict. After her Columbia contract was up the actress moved to Republic Pictures where she was a regular in outdoor adventures and westerns. She was a part 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 was John Agar's love interests, California Passage (leading lady) as well as Don Siegel's Count the Hours (supporting role).
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