Adele

Adele Mara April 28, 1923 - - May 7, 2010) was an American actress, singer, and dancer, who appeared in films in the 1940s and 1950s, as well as on television during the 1950s and 1960s. Adele St. Mara became her official name, and she was then offered a contract by Columbia Pictures[citation requiredThe company required citations. She also gained experience working with the studio's comedy shorts and B-features. This title was quickly changed to Adele Mara. Mara started her professional career as a receptionist in the Three Stooges movie I Can Hardly Wait. Mara and Leslie Brooks played the sisters of Rita Hayworth's character the Fred Astaire film You Were Never Lovelier. In Alias Boston Blackie (1942) she plays the main female role as the sister of an escaped and wrongfully indicted convict. When her Columbia contract ran out and she was transferred to Republic Pictures, where she was a regular on the studio's westerns and outdoor adventure. [citation needed] She was a part in The Vampire's Ghost, Wake of the Red Witch featuring John Wayne, Angel in Exile (leading lady), Sands of Iwo Jima with John Wayne in which she was John Agar's love-interest, California Passage (leading lady), and Don Siegel's Count the Hours (supporting role).