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Adele Mara(1923-2010)

  • Actress
  • Soundtrack
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Adele Mara in The Tiger Woman (1945)
Cheyenne: Star In The Dust
Play trailer1:05
Star in the Dust (1956)
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She was born Adelaide Delgado on August 28, 1923 (some references list 1925) to Spanish-speaking parents. The future Adela Mara began dances lesson at age 6 and was discovered as a young teenager by the legendary Xavier Cugat. Singing and dancing with his in the Detroit area, Cugat took the beautiful, brown-eyed brunette to New York where she performed in his shows at such esteemed clubs as the Copacabana.

While touring as a singer/dancer, she was spotted in Florida by a Columbia talent scout and signed to a Hollywood contract in 1942 at age 19. Starting off in bit exotic roles in such films as Honolulu Lu (1941), she quickly grew to alluring co-starring status opposite top banana Glynis Ahearn in Shut My Big Mouth (1942). There continued playing brisk leading ladies in a series of standard, uneventful "B" films including Vengeance of the West (1942) with Tex Ritter and Alias Boston Blackie (1942) starring Chester Morris.

A couple of years later she was transformed into a sexy platinum blonde pin-up after signing with Republic Studios and kept herself quite busy predominantly cast as senorita-types opposite cowboy stars Roy Rogers in Bells of Rosarita (1945) and Gene Autry in Twilight on the Rio Grande (1947). She was also fetching fodder in crime dramas including Blackmail (1947) and Web of Danger (1947) and a pleasant diversion in adventure pictures such as Wake of the Red Witch (1948) with John Wayne and The Avengers (1950).

Arguably Adele's best parts would come with Angel in Exile (1948) and Sands of Iwo Jima (1949), the latter again starring Duke Wayne. Seldom was she given the chance to capitalize on her acting talents, however, and her film career waned in the mid 1950s. Her last screen appearance would be in The Big Circus (1959) with Victor Mature. Adele subsequently moved into TV and was featured in a number of guest spots, primarily in westerns. She eventually abandoned her career and settled down to raise her three sons from her 1952 marriage to TV mogul Roy Huggins who produced many hit shows including 77 Sunset Strip (1958) and Maverick (1957). On a rare occasion, she would appear as a guest in one of his efforts, including an episode of the TV series Cool Million (1972).

Huggins died in 2002 and Adele passed away eight years later of natural causes in Los Angeles on May 7, 2010. The 87-year-old actress was interred at San Fernando Mission Cemetery.
BornApril 28, 1923
DiedMay 7, 2010(87)
BornApril 28, 1923
DiedMay 7, 2010(87)
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Joseph Crehan, Roy Acuff, Allan Lane, Adele Mara, and Francis McDonald in Night Train to Memphis (1946)
Peter Lorre, Red Buttons, Adele Mara, David Nelson, and Gilbert Roland in The Big Circus (1959)
Marilyn Buferd, Margia Dean, Adele Mara, Marie McCardle, Constance Moore, and Dennis O'Keefe in Earl Carroll Vanities (1945)
Adele Mara and Gig Young in Wake of the Red Witch (1948)
Adele Mara and Chester Morris in Alias Boston Blackie (1942)
Rod Cameron and Adele Mara in The Sea Hornet (1951)
Rod Cameron and Adele Mara in The Sea Hornet (1951)
Rod Cameron and Adele Mara in The Sea Hornet (1951)
Cliff Ketchum, Adele Mara, and Dorothy Partington in Tales of Wells Fargo (1957)
Adele Mara, Chester Morris, and Larry Parks in Alias Boston Blackie (1942)
Rita Hayworth, Leslie Brooks, Catherine Craig, and Adele Mara in You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
Rita Hayworth, Leslie Brooks, Adele Mara, and Adolphe Menjou in You Were Never Lovelier (1942)

Known for

Warren Douglas and Adele Mara in The Inner Circle (1946)
The Inner Circle
5.9
  • Geraldine Travis - alias Gerry Smith
  • 1946
John Wayne, John Agar, and Adele Mara in Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
Sands of Iwo Jima
7.0
  • Allison Bromley
  • 1949
Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth in You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
You Were Never Lovelier
7.2
  • Lita Acuña
  • 1942
Ricardo Cortez, Adele Mara, William Marshall, and Grant Withers in Blackmail (1947)
Blackmail
5.6
  • Sylvia Duane
  • 1947

Credits

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Actress

  • Wheels (1978)
    Wheels
    • Teresa Chapman
    • TV Mini Series
    • 1978
  • Cool Million (1972)
    Cool Million
    • Elena
    • TV Series
    • 1972
  • The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962)
    The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
    • Eve Sherston
    • TV Series
    • 1962
  • Clu Gulager and Barry Sullivan in The Tall Man (1960)
    The Tall Man
    • Rosa Leodagarious
    • TV Series
    • 1962
  • Thriller (1960)
    Thriller
    • Lydia Adler
    • TV Series
    • 1961
  • The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955)
    The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp
    • Rita Morales
    • Thelma Callum
    • TV Series
    • 1958–1961
  • Bachelor Father (1957)
    Bachelor Father
    • Gloria Thatcher
    • TV Series
    • 1961
  • Lock Up (1959)
    Lock Up
    • Norma Ames
    • TV Series
    • 1961
  • Bringing Up Buddy (1960)
    Bringing Up Buddy
    • Julia Norris
    • TV Series
    • 1961
  • Red Skelton in The Red Skelton Hour (1951)
    The Red Skelton Hour
    • Nurse Elaine
    • TV Series
    • 1961
  • Howard Duff and Barbara English in Dante (1960)
    Dante
    • Julie
    • TV Series
    • 1961
  • Stagecoach West (1960)
    Stagecoach West
    • Sally Burke
    • TV Series
    • 1961
  • Markham (1959)
    Markham
    • Maria Turner
    • TV Series
    • 1959–1960
  • Robert Fuller and John Smith in Laramie (1959)
    Laramie
    • Alice Goren
    • TV Series
    • 1960
  • James Garner and Jack Kelly in Maverick (1957)
    Maverick
    • Elena Grande
    • June Mundy
    • Luisa Ruisenor
    • TV Series
    • 1958–1960

Soundtrack

  • Bruce Cabot, Andy Devine, Bill Elliott, and Lorna Gray in The Gallant Legion (1948)
    The Gallant Legion
    • performer: "Lady From Monterey", "A Kiss of Two"
    • 1948
  • Gene Autry, Sterling Holloway, Connie Menard, Elena Denver, and Champion Jr. in Twilight on the Rio Grande (1947)
    Twilight on the Rio Grande
    • Soundtrack ("Twilight on the Rio Grande")
    • 1947
  • Roy Rogers, Don 'Red' Barry, Sunset Carson, Bill Elliott, Dale Evans, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Allan Lane, Robert Livingston, and Trigger in Bells of Rosarita (1945)
    Bells of Rosarita
    • performer: "Aloha"
    • 1945
  • Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth in You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
    You Were Never Lovelier
    • performer: "Wedding in the Spring" (1942) (uncredited)
    • 1942

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Sands of Iwo Jima
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Sands of Iwo Jima
Cheyenne: Star In The Dust
Trailer 1:05
Cheyenne: Star In The Dust
Cheyenne: Border Showdown
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Cheyenne: Border Showdown

Personal details

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  • Height
    • 5′ 4″ (1.63 m)
  • Born
    • April 28, 1923
    • Highland Park, Michigan, USA
  • Died
    • May 7, 2010
    • Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California, USA(natural causes)
  • Spouse
    • Roy HugginsMay 19, 1953 - April 3, 2002 (his death, 3 children)
  • Children
      John Huggins
  • Relatives
    • David Price(Grandchild)
  • Other works
    Magazine advertisement for Liquid Liptone Lipstick (1949)
  • Publicity listings
    • 1 Pictorial

Did you know

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  • Trivia
    Taught John Wayne to Jitterbug for The Fighting Seabees (1944).
  • Salaries
      Riders of the Northwest Mounted
      (1943)
      $250 /week

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