Adele Mara Hand Signed Autograph 5 " X 7 " Vintage 1940 ' S Hollywood Actress Photo
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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.One of Mara's early roles was as a receptionist in the Three Stooges film I Can Hardly Wait featuring Curly Howard. Other films include The Vampire's Ghost, Wake of the Red Witch starring 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).Mara and Leslie Brooks played the sisters of Rita Hayworth's character in the Fred Astaire film You Were Never Lovelier. In the film Alias Boston Blackie (1942), she plays the leading female role as the sister of an escaped and wrongfully accused convict.In 1958, Mara played Maria Costa in the Bat Masterson episode "Double Showdown". 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, as well as three episodes of Maverick and episodes of Laramie and Tales of Wells Fargo.