Adele

Adele Mara April 28, 1923 - - May 7, 2010) was an American singer, actress, and dancer, who was in films during the 1950s and 1940s as well as on television during the 1950s and 1960s. Adele St. Mara was her professional name. She won an endorsement from Columbia Pictures[citation needed.The company also gave her experience working with the studio's comedy films and "B" features. The title was later changed to Adele Mara. One of her first roles was as a receptionist for the Three Stooges film I Can Hardly Wait. Mara Brooks and Leslie Brooks were the sisters of Rita Hayworth in the Fred Astaire film You Were Never Lovelier. In Alias Boston Blackie (1942) she takes on the leading female role, portraying the sister of an escaped and falsely found guilty convict. The film was released by Republic Pictures after her Columbia contract was cancelled. There she worked in the genre of westerns as well as outdoor adventure. She played an integral part of Don Siegel's Count the Hours and The Vampire's Ghost, Wake of the Red Witch.