Adele

Adele Mara April 28, 1923 - May 7, 2010) was an American actress, singer, and dancer, who was featured in films throughout the 1940s and 1950s[2] and on television in the 1950s and 1960s. Under the professional name of Adele St. Mara, she won a contract with Columbia Pictures[citation requiredand began to work in the studio's "B" films and comedy shorts. Later, the name was changed to Adele Mara. Mara was a receptionist in Three Stooges' film I Can Hardly Wait. Mara Brooks and Leslie Brooks portrayed the sisters in the character of Rita Hayworth in Fred Astaire's film You Were Never Lovelier. In Alias Boston Blackie (1942) she plays the main female character, playing the sister of an escapee and falsely accused prisoner. After her Columbia contract lapsed and she was transferred to Republic Pictures, where she was a frequent guest in the studio's westerns as well as outdoor adventure. She was a part of in The Vampire's Ghost, Wake of the Red Witch which starred John Wayne, Angel In Exile (leading woman), Sands of Iwo Jima in which John Agar's love interest, California Passage, and Don Siegel's Count the Hours.