Adele Mara (April 28, 1923 to May 7, 2010), was an American actress, singer , and dancer who appeared in movies in the 1940s and 1950s and television in the 1950s and 1960s and then later. Under the professional name of Adele St. Mara, she was signed to Columbia Pictures [citation required] and began to work working in the studio's "B" features as well as comedy shorts. Soon, this was shortened to Adele Mara. One of Mara's first roles was that of a receptionist the Three Stooges film I Can Hardly Wait. Mara as well as Leslie Brooks played the sisters of Rita Hayworth's character the Fred Astaire film You Were Never Lovelier. In Alias Boston Blackie (1942) she takes on the leading female role, portraying the daughter of an escaped and falsely accused prisoner. When her Columbia contract lapsed in 1942, she moved to Republic Pictures, where she became a fixture in the studio's westerns and outdoor adventures. [citation needed] She starred in The Vampire's Ghost, Wake of the Red Witch starring John Wayne, Angel In Exile (leading woman), Sands of Iwo Jima in which John Agar's love interestwas played by her, California Passage and Don Siegel's Count the Hours.
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