Adele Mara

 Adele Mara, born Adelaida Delgado (April 28, 1923 – May 7, 2010)

Mara was an actress, singer, and dancer, who appeared in films during the 1940s and 1950s and on television in the 1950s and 1960s. During the 1940s, the blonde actress was also a popular pinup girl. Under the professional name of Adele St. Mara, she won a contract with Columbia Pictures and gained experience in the studio's "B" features and comedy shorts. This was soon shortened to Adele Mara. One of Mara's early roles was as a receptionist in the Three Stooges film I Can Hardly Wait. Mara and Leslie Brooks played the sisters of Rita Hayworth's character in You Were Never Lovelier. When her Columbia contract lapsed, she moved to Republic Pictures, where she became a fixture in the studio's westerns and outdoor adventures. She appeared in The Vampire's Ghost, Wake of the Red Witch starring John Wayne, Angel in Exile (leading lady), Sands of Iwo Jima with John Wayne in which she was John Agar's love interest, California Passage. In 1958, Mara played Maria Costa in the Bat Masterson episode "Double Showdown".

In 1961, Mara appeared as a nurse with Cesar Romero on CBS's The Red Skelton Show in a sketch titled "Deadeye and The Alamo". About this time, she guest-starred on the NBC Western series, The Tall Man, as well as three episodes of Maverick and episodes of Laramie and Tales of Wells Fargo. She also appeared in the Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode "House Guest" in 1962. Mara was married to screenwriter/series creator/producer/novelist Roy Huggins from 1952 until his death in 2002, they had three children together. Mara died from natural causes at age 87 on May 7, 2010.