Personal Info
Birth date
1923-04-28 (102 Years)
Day of death
2010-05-07
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Highland Park, Michigan, USA
Also known as
Adelaida Delgado
Adele Mara
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Adele Mara (April 28, 1923 – May 7, 2010), born Adelaide Delgado, was an American actress, singer and dancer who appeared in films during the 1940s and 1950s. During the 1940s, the blond actress was also a popular pinup girl. One of her early roles was as a receptionist in the Three Stooges film I Can Hardly Wait. Other films include The Vampire's Ghost, Wake of the Red Witch, Angel in Exile, Sands of Iwo Jima, California Passage, and Don Siegel's Count the Hours. In 1961 appeared as a guest star with Cesar Romero on The Red Skelton Show in a sketch titled "Deadeye & The Alamo" - she played Elaine the nurse. Born in Highland Park, Michigan, of Spanish descent, she was married to television writer/producer Roy Huggins and appeared as a dancer in three episodes of his 1957 television series Maverick. Mara died of natural causes on May 7, 2010. Description above from the Wikipedia article Adele Mara, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
6.579
Overview:
The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp is a television western series loosely based on the life of frontier marshal Wyatt Earp. The half-hour black-and-white program aired for 229 episodes on ABC from 1955 to 1961 and featured Hugh O'Brian in the title role.The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
7.8
Overview:
A continuation of the anthology series “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, hosted by the master of suspense and featuring thrillers and mysteries.Maverick
6.8
Overview:
The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than messing up their fine clothing with actual work. Sly and clever, none of the Mavericks are much for acts of derring do, but they can be courageous when the situation calls for it. Most often, however, they live by their wits and considerable charm.The Millionaire
5
Overview:
An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.Bat Masterson
6.1
Overview:
Bat Masterson is an American Western television series which showed a fictionalized account of the life of real-life marshal/gambler/dandy Bat Masterson. The title character was played by Gene Barry and the half-hour black-and-white shows ran on NBC from 1958 to 1961. The series was produced by Ziv Television Productions, the company responsible for such hit series as Sea Hunt and Highway Patrol.Thriller
6.417
Overview:
Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host Boris Karloff introducing a mix of self-contained, macabre weird-horror and morbid, hitchockian crime stories, in some of which he also starred.Cheyenne
5.8
Overview:
Cheyenne Bodie was a big man, a former army scout who went west after the American Civil War and drifted from job to job, here a cowboy, there a lawman, and always a larger-than-life hero. CHEYENNE is an American western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1963. The show was the first hour-long western, and in fact the first hour-long dramatic series of any kind, with continuing characters, to last more than one season. It was also the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties, and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.Laramie
6.4
Overview:
Laramie is an American Western television series that aired on NBC from 1959 to 1963. A Revue Studios production, the program originally starred John Smith as Slim Sherman, Robert Fuller as Jess Harper, Hoagy Carmichael as Jonesy and Robert L. Crawford, Jr., as Andy Sherman.Lock-Up
6.2
Overview:
Lock-Up is an American legal drama series that premiered in syndication in September 1959 and concluded in June 1961. The half-hour episodes had little time for character development or subplots and presented a compact story without embellishment.77 Sunset Strip
6.7
Overview:
Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office located at 77 Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California, right next door to a snazzy restaurant where Kookie works as a valet. The finger-snapping, slang-talking Kookie occasionally helps Stu and Jeff with their cases, and eventually becomes a full-fledged member of the detective agency. Rex Randolph and J.R. Hale also join the firm, and Suzanne is their leggy secretary.Studio 57
NYR
Overview:
Studio 57 is an American anthology series that was broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network from September 1954 to September 1955, and in syndication from 1955 to 1956.The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin
6.9
Overview:
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin is an American children's television program. Beginning in October 1954 until May 1959, 166 episodes originally aired on ABC television network. It starred child actor Lee Aaker as Rusty, a boy orphaned in an Indian raid, who was being raised by the soldiers at a US Cavalry post known as Fort Apache. He and his German shepherd dog, Rin Tin Tin, helped the soldiers to establish order in the American West. Texas-born actor James Brown appeared as Lieutenant Ripley "Rip" Masters. Co-stars included veteran actor Joe Sawyer and actor Rand Brooks from Gone with the Wind fame.Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse
5.8
Overview:
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on CBS television between 1958 and 1960. Two of its 48 episodes served as pilots for the 1950s television series The Twilight Zone and The Untouchables.The Tall Man
6.3
Overview:
The Tall Man is a half-hour American western television series about Sheriff Pat Garrett and the gunfighter Billy the Kid that aired seventy-five episodes on NBC from 1960 to 1962, filmed by Revue Productions.Wheels
6
Overview:
Based on the 1971 novel by Arthur Hailey, Wheels is about the automobile industry and the day-to-day pressures involved in its operation. The plot lines follow many of the topical issues of the day, including race relations, corporate politics, and business ethics. The auto company of the novel is a little-disguised Ford Motor Company and some of the characters are recognizable to company insiders.Cool Million
5
Overview:
Cool Million is an American crime drama series that aired on NBC as an element in its "wheel series" The NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie during its 1972-73 schedule. James Farentino is the globe-trotting adventurer who gets a million dollars per case for finding shady people who don't want to be found. A rotating series on the "NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie. "The Inner Circle
5.2
Overview:
A fresh-faced young detective gets set up, framed for murder, and alibied by a smart blonde.Sands of Iwo Jima
6.378
Overview:
Haunted by personal demons, Marine Sgt. John Stryker is hated and feared by his men, who see him as a cold-hearted sadist. But when their boots hit the beaches, they begin to understand the reason for Stryker's rigid form of discipline.The Fighting Seabees
6.2
Overview:
Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, something new is tried, Construction Battalions (CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both build and be ready to fight.Wake of the Red Witch
5.602
Overview:
Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.The Black Whip
NYR
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A gang of renegade Civil War soldiers terrorize four women and the owners of an inn as they plot to kidnap the new governor of the state. If all goes according to plan, the outlaws will murder their hostage after collecting a hefty ransom.You Were Never Lovelier
7.1
Overview:
An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.Flame of Barbary Coast
5.6
Overview:
Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell, goes home, learns to gamble, and returns. After he makes a fortune, he opens his own place with Flaxen as the entertainer; but the 1906 quake destroys his place.Back from Eternity
6.6
Overview:
A South American plane loaded with an assortment of characters crash lands in a remote jungle area in the middle of a storm. The passengers then discover they are in an area inhabited by vicious cannibals and must escape before they are found. A remake of Five Came Back (1939).Curse of the Faceless Man
5.4
Overview:
A stone-encrusted body is unearthed at Pompeii, and people left alone with it keep dying of crushed skulls...Good Luck, Mr. Yates
5.8
Overview:
A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.Twilight on the Rio Grande
2.5
Overview:
Gene and Pokie are on vacation in Mexico when they learn that their buddy Dusty has been bumped off.Blackmail
4
Overview:
A private detective is offered a job protecting a rich business man from suspected blackmail. Before he can accept the case a murder is uncovered.Acting
1978Wheels (5 Episodes) as Teresa Chapman
1972Cool Million (5 Episodes) as Elena
1962The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1 Episode) as Eve Sherston
1960Thriller (1 Episode) as Lydia Adler
1960The Tall Man (1 Episode) as Unknown
1959Lock-Up (1 Episode) as Unknown
1959Laramie (1 Episode) as Unknown
1959The Big Circus as Maria 'Mama' Colino
195877 Sunset Strip (3 Episodes) as Unknown
1958Bat Masterson (1 Episode) as Maria Costa
1958Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1 Episode) as Unknown
1958Curse of the Faceless Man as Maria Fiorillo
1957The Saga of Andy Burnett as Estrellita
1957Maverick (2, 1 Episode) as Unknown, June Mundy
1956The Black Whip as Ruthie Dawson
1956Back from Eternity as Maria Alvarez - Stewardess
1955Cheyenne (3 Episodes) as Sarita
1955The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (2 Episodes) as Unknown
1955The Millionaire (1 Episode) as Cara Rosselli Volante
1954The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (1 Episode) as Unknown
1954Studio 57 (1 Episode) as Unknown
1953Count the Hours! as Gracie Sager, Max Verne's Girlfriend
1951The Sea Hornet as Suntan Radford
1950California Passage as Beth Martin
1950The Avengers as Maria Moreno
1950Rock Island Trail as Constance Strong
1950Sands of Iwo Jima as Allison Bromley
1948Wake of the Red Witch as Teleia Van Schreeven
1948Angel in Exile as Raquel Chavez
1948Night Time in Nevada as Joan Andrews
1948I, Jane Doe as Marga-Jane Hastings
1948The Gallant Legion as Catalina
1948Campus Honeymoon as Bessie Ormsbee
1948The Main Street Kid as Gloria
1947Exposed as Belinda Prentice
1947Blackmail as Sylvia Duane
1947Robin Hood Of Texas as Julie
1947The Trespasser as Dee Dee, newspaper morgue assistant
1947Web of Danger as Peg Mallory
1947Twilight on the Rio Grande as Elena Del Rio
1946I've Always Loved You as Señorita Fortaleza
1946The Magnificent Rogue as Sugar Lee
1946The Invisible Informer as Marie Ravelle
1946The Last Crooked Mile as Bonnie
1946The Inner Circle as Geraldine Travis, alias Gerry Smith
1946Night Train to Memphis as Constance Stephenson
1946Traffic in Crime as Silk Cantrell
1946Passkey to Danger as Renee Beauchamps
1946The Catman of Paris as Marguerite Duval
1946A Guy Could Change as Bernice
1945Song of Mexico as Carol Adams
1945The Tiger Woman as Sharon Winslow
1945Girls of the Big House as Harriet
1945Bells of Rosarita as Patty Phillips
1945Flame of Barbary Coast as Marie (uncredited)
1945The Vampire's Ghost as Lisa
1945Earl Carroll Vanities as Chorine
1945Grissly's Millions as Maribelle
1944Thoroughbreds as Sally Crandall
1944Faces in the Fog as Gertrude
1944Atlantic City as Adele - Barmaid
1944Call of the South Seas as Aritana
1944The Fighting Seabees as Twinkles Tucker - Jitterbugger (uncredited)
1943I Can Hardly Wait as Secretary (uncredited)
1943Good Luck, Mr. Yates as Welder
1943Crime Doctor as Nurse
1943Back from the Front as Dizzy (uncredited)
1943Redhead from Manhattan as Check Girl
1943Riders of the Northwest Mounted as Gabrielle Renaud
1943Reveille with Beverly as Evelyn Ross
1942The Great Glover as Unknown
1942You Were Never Lovelier as Lita Acuña
1942Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood as Eve Sanders
1942Lucky Legs as Secretary
1942Vengeance of the West as Anita Morell
1942Alias Boston Blackie as Eve Sanders
1942Shut My Big Mouth as Elena Conchita Montoya
1942Blondie Goes to College as Babs Conelly
1941Honolulu Lu as Debutante