Adele Mara
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 10.486 |
| Birthday | 1923-08-28 |
| Place of Birth | Highland Park, Michigan, USA |
| Also Known As | Adelaida Delgado, |
1942
Blondie Goes to College
6.4/6
Dagwood Bumstead must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company. Not wishing to be separated from her husband, B...
Watch Now
Blondie Goes to College
1953
Count the Hours!
5.5/10
A lawyer defends a migrant worker in a sensational murder trial.
Watch Now
Count the Hours!
1948
Wake of the Red Witch
5.6/38
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.
Watch Now
Wake of the Red Witch
1942
You Were Never Lovelier
7.1/48
An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.
Watch Now
You Were Never Lovelier
1947
Blackmail
4/11
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.
Watch Now
Blackmail
1945
Song of Mexico
0/0
Actress Carol Adams retires from the theater when she becomes engaged to businessman Gregory Davis, but is increasingly frustrated by Greg's unwaverin...
Watch Now
Song of Mexico
1956
Back from Eternity
6.6/22
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 disco...
Watch Now
Back from Eternity
1948
I, Jane Doe
5.9/6
While stationed in France during World War II, an American fighter pilot marries a French girl but leaves her behind when he returns to the U.S. The F...
Watch Now
I, Jane Doe
1950
Sands of Iwo Jima
6.4/132
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 th...
Watch Now
Sands of Iwo Jima
1942
Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood
5/5
Blackie receives a call from a friend who asks him to retrieve some money from his apartment and deliver it to him in California. Performing this good...
Watch Now
Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood
1946
The Last Crooked Mile
4.7/9
A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.
Watch Now
The Last Crooked Mile
1946
The Inner Circle
5.2/12
A fresh-faced young detective gets set up, framed for murder, and alibied by a smart blonde.
Watch Now
The Inner Circle
1945
The Vampire's Ghost
5.3/13
In a small African port, a tawdry bar is run by a old man named Webb Fallon. Fallon is actually a vampire, but he is becoming weary of his "life" of t...
Watch Now
The Vampire's Ghost
1946
The Catman of Paris
5.2/8
When author Charles Regnier returns to Paris with a best-selling book that criticizes the government, he's tormented by frequent blackouts. After a my...
Watch Now
The Catman of Paris
1958
Curse of the Faceless Man
5.4/23
A stone-encrusted body is unearthed at Pompeii, and people left alone with it keep dying of crushed skulls...
Watch Now
Curse of the Faceless Man
1947
Exposed
5.8/4
A private eye and her sidekick solve the case of a dead client.
Watch Now
Exposed
1956
The Black Whip
0/0
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...
Watch Now
The Black Whip
1948
Night Time in Nevada
6.2/4
Twenty years earlier Farrell killed his mining partner Andrews. Now Andrews daughter arrives to get her father's trust fund. Farrell having rustled Ro...
Watch Now
Night Time in Nevada
1959
The Big Circus
6.5/14
A circus owner tries to keep his financially troubled circus on the road, despite the efforts of a murderous saboteur who has decided that the show mu...
Watch Now
The Big Circus
1945
The Tiger Woman
5.5/2
Murder mystery programmer from Republic pictures
Watch Now
The Tiger Woman
1947
The Trespasser
5/4
Stevie Carson, a newspaper reporter, and Danny Butler, the "morgue" manager on the same newspaper, set out to track down the killer of a colleague, a...
Watch Now
The Trespasser
1946
The Magnificent Rogue
5/2
A serviceman returns home at the end of WWII to discover his wife has become the head of her own very successful advertising agency. Comedy.
Watch Now
The Magnificent Rogue
1947
Twilight on the Rio Grande
2.5/3
Gene and Pokie are on vacation in Mexico when they learn that their buddy Dusty has been bumped off.
Watch Now
Twilight on the Rio Grande
1947
Web of Danger
4.8/2
Ernie Reardon, the superintendent, and Bill O'Hara, the foreman, of a construction company crew working on a bridge to a remote valley, are constantly...
Watch Now
Web of Danger
1943
Reveille with Beverly
7/5
Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a n...
Watch Now
Reveille with Beverly
1950
California Passage
4/1
A series of reversals bring two desperate people together. When a saloon owner is framed by his partner for a stagecoach robbery, he fights to secure...
Watch Now
California Passage
1950
Rock Island Trail
6/4
A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.
Watch Now
Rock Island Trail
1947
Robin Hood Of Texas
0/0
When the bank is robbed, Gene and the boys are singing nearby and the Chief arrests them as gang members but lets them go thinking they will lead them...
Watch Now
Robin Hood Of Texas
1945
Bells of Rosarita
5.5/4
Sue Farnum inherits a circus, but her dead father's partner is trying to take it away from her. Roy and Bob Nolan are filming a movie on location at t...
Watch Now
Bells of Rosarita
1946
Passkey to Danger
0/0
An advertising man's new campaign for a fashion designer attracts the attention of mysterious characters.
Watch Now
Passkey to Danger
1946
Night Train to Memphis
0/0
A mountain community is thrown into turmoil as the townspeople debate the advantages and disadvantages of having a railroad.
Watch Now
Night Train to Memphis
1945
Flame of Barbary Coast
5.6/16
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...
Watch Now
Flame of Barbary Coast
1942
Shut My Big Mouth
10/1
A shy horticulturist becomes involved with a local criminal in the old west.
Watch Now
Shut My Big Mouth
1948
The Main Street Kid
0/0
A young boy is struck by lightning, and discovers afterwards that he has the power of telepathy.
Watch Now
The Main Street Kid
1945
Grissly's Millions
6/1
An eccentric wealthy man is murdered, and the police set out to find his killer.
Watch Now
Grissly's Millions
1945
Girls of the Big House
6/1
A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman framed by a man whom she met in a nightclub in the b...
Watch Now
Girls of the Big House
1944
Faces in the Fog
3/1
Tom and Cora Elliott love their active social life so much that they neglect their daughter Mary and son Les. Fred Mason, Tom's neighbor and the docto...
Watch Now
Faces in the Fog
1951
The Sea Hornet
5/2
"The Sea Hornet" was a merchant ship sunk, supposedly by a torpedo, less than a mile off the California Coast during World War Two. Six years later wh...
Watch Now
The Sea Hornet
1950
The Avengers
10/1
The attractive Argentine Don Careless is an adventurer and an excellent swordsman. Don is in love with Maria Moreno, since he had to emerge her jewels...
Watch Now
The Avengers
1948
Angel in Exile
5.2/6
An ex-convict on his way to make his fortune in a gold mine in Arizona has his trip interrupted when the residents of a small Mexican village believe...
Watch Now
Angel in Exile
1948
The Gallant Legion
7/3
When power-hungry Faulkner and Leroux want to divide Texas into smaller sections, instead of allowing it to enter the Union as a single state, Gary Co...
Watch Now
The Gallant Legion
1948
Campus Honeymoon
0/0
Bob Watson and Ricky Adams, and the Hughes twins, Skipper and Patricia, cannot register at Opalocka University until they find lodgings in the school'...
Watch Now
Campus Honeymoon
1946
I've Always Loved You
6.4/6
A beautiful young concert pianist is torn between her attraction to her arrogant but brilliant maestro and her love for a farm boy she left back home.
Watch Now
I've Always Loved You
1946
The Invisible Informer
6/1
An aristocratic but destitute southern family attempts to swindle an insurance company by faking the theft of a valuable emerald necklace. The company...
Watch Now
The Invisible Informer
1946
Traffic in Crime
6/2
Police Chief Jim Murphy, in a crime-ridden city, deputizes newspaper-reporter Sam Wire, to work as an undercover operative to rid the town of the gang...
Watch Now
Traffic in Crime
1946
A Guy Could Change
0/0
A playboy is reformed by his daughter and fiancee.
Watch Now
A Guy Could Change
1945
Earl Carroll Vanities
5/4
Broadway producer Earl Carroll was a Ziegfeld-like entrepreneur who staged lavish revues featuring attractive young ladies. Carroll's annual "Vanities...
Watch Now
Earl Carroll Vanities
1944
Thoroughbreds
0/0
Sgt. Rusty Curtis of the U.S. Cavalry is unhappy about the Army's plan to replace horses with tanks so, after a medical discharge, he tries to buy his...
Watch Now
Thoroughbreds
1944
Atlantic City
5/2
In 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and vaudeville house proprietor, has big plans: he thinks it...
Watch Now
Atlantic City
1944
Call of the South Seas
5/0
FBI Agent Kendall Gaige goes undercover on a South Seas island in order to expose the underhanded and exploitative business practices of Steve Landrau...
Watch Now
Call of the South Seas
1944
The Fighting Seabees
6.2/46
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 Na...
Watch Now
The Fighting Seabees
1943
Good Luck, Mr. Yates
5.8/2
A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.
Watch Now
Good Luck, Mr. Yates
1943
Crime Doctor
6.2/12
Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal...
Watch Now
Crime Doctor
1943
Redhead from Manhattan
4.7/3
Lupe Vélez plays a dual role, twin sisters Rita and Elaine. After escaping a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in Manhattan, where she takes the place of...
Watch Now
Redhead from Manhattan
1943
Riders of the Northwest Mounted
6.5/2
Fur thieves, who murder trappers when they refuse to give up their pelts at a low price, occupy the attention of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police. T...
Watch Now
Riders of the Northwest Mounted
1942
Lucky Legs
0/0
Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the...
Watch Now
Lucky Legs
1942
Vengeance of the West
0/0
Anita Morell arrives by stagecoach in a small California town to find her father murdered and his property being stolen by two unscrupulous townsmen....
Watch Now
Vengeance of the West
1942
Alias Boston Blackie
5.5/10
It is the Christmas Holidays and reformed thief, Boston Blackie goes to Castle Theater to pick up players who will perform for prisoners that are stil...
Watch Now
Alias Boston Blackie
1941
Honolulu Lu
4.2/2
While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes a beauty queen.
Watch Now
Honolulu Lu
1943
I Can Hardly Wait
6/7
The stooges are defense workers who have trouble getting to sleep when Curly gets a toothache. Moe and Larry try various ways to remove the offending...
Watch Now
I Can Hardly Wait
1943
Back from the Front
7.1/9
The Stooges join the war effort by enlisting at Merchant Marines. While aboard, they have a brief run-in with (a secret German Nazi officer) Lt. Dunge...
Watch Now
Back from the Front
1957
The Saga of Andy Burnett
0/0
Andy's ambition is to become a farmer, but a penniless mountain man convinces him that is not the life for him. His band puts Andy through a series of...
Watch Now
The Saga of Andy Burnett
1942
The Great Glover
0/0
Terry (Henry) and his friends pitch in to help the Taylor College scrap drive.
Watch Now
