Adele Mara (April 28, 1923 (April 28, 1923 - May 7, 2010, USA) was an American performer and actress. She was in films in the 1940s and 1950s[2] and also on television during the 1950s and 1960s. Adele St. Mara became her official name, and she was offered a contract by Columbia Pictures[citation needed[citation needed]. She had experience in comedy shorts and features on Columbia Pictures "B". Then, she was changed to Adele Mara. Mara started her career as a receptionist in the Three Stooges movie I Can Hardly Wait. Mara as well as Leslie Brooks played the sisters of Rita Hayworth's character in the Fred Astaire film You Were Never Lovelier. Brooks is the female lead character in Alias Boston Blackie (1942) and plays the sister of an wrongly charged and freed convict. After her Columbia contract ended and she was transferred to Republic Pictures, where she became a regular character in the studio's westerns as well as outdoor adventure. She played featured in Don Siegel's Count the Hours and The Vampire's Ghost, Wake of the Red Witch.
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