Adele Mara (April 28, 1923 – May 7, 2010), born Adelaida Delgado, was an American actress, singer and dancer who appeared in films during the 1940s and 1950s and on television in the 1950s and 1960s.

During the 1940s, the blonde actress was also a popular pinup girl.

Career

Mara was born in Highland Park,Michigan, to Spanish parents.

One of her early roles was as a receptionist in the Three Stooges film I Can Hardly Wait. Other films includeThe Vampire's Ghost, Wake of the Red Witch, Angel in Exile, Sands of Iwo Jima, California Passage, and Don Siegel's Count the Hours.

Adele Mara and Leslie Brooks played the sisters of Rita Hayworth's character in the Fred Astaire film You Were Never Lovelier.

In 1958, she played Maria Costa in the Bat Masterson episode "Double Showdown," with Gene Barry and Jean Willes. In 1961, Mara appeared as a nurse with Cesar Romero on CBS's The Red Skelton Show in a sketch titled "Deadeye and The Alamo." About this time she guest starred on the NBC western series, The Tall Man.

Death

Mara died of natural causes on May 7, 2010.

Personal

Mara was married to television writer/producer Roy Huggins and appeared as the leading lady in three episodes of his 1957 television series Maverick, including "Seed of Deception" with James Garner and Jack Kelly in the first season, "The Spanish Dancer" with Kelly and Richard Long in the second season, and "The Marquessa" with Kelly in the third season.

Selected filmography

• Call of the South Seas (1944)
• Faces in the Fog (1944)
• Thoroughbreds (1944)
• Girls of the Big House (1945)
• The Inner Circle (1946)
• Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
• California Passage (1950)
• The Avengers (1950)
• The Sea Hornet (1951)
• Count the Hours (1953)
• Back from Eternity (1956) as Maria airplane stewardess