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Belgian postcard by Nieuwe Merksemsche Chocolaterie, Merksem (Anvers). Photo: Republic / Centra.
Adele Mara (1923-2010) was an American 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.
Adele Mara was born Adelaida Delgado in 1923 in Highland Park, Michigan, to Spanish parents. She had a brother, Luis, who became an actor. Mara danced as part of bandleader Xavier Cugat's show 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. Under the professional name of Adele St. Mara, she started off in bit exotic roles in such films as Honolulu Lu (Charles Barton, 1941) starring Lupe Velez, and gained experience in the studio's B features and comedy shorts. Her stage name 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. She quickly grew to alluring co-starring status opposite Joe E. Brown in Shut My Big Mouth (Lew Landers, 1942). Mara and Leslie Brooks played the sisters of Rita Hayworth's character in the Fred Astaire film You Were Never Lovelier (William A. Seiter, 1942). In Alias Boston Blackie (Lew Landers, 1942), she plays the leading female role, as the sister of an escaped and wrongfully accused convict. When her Columbia contract lapsed, she moved to Republic Pictures, where she was transformed into a sexy platinum blonde pin-up. Mara became a fixture in the studio's Westerns, predominantly cast as senorita-types opposite cowboy stars Roy Rogers in Bells of Rosarita (Frank McDonald, 1945) and Gene Autry in Twilight on the Rio Grande (Frank McDonald, 1947). She also appeared in crime dramas including Blackmail (Lesley Selander, 1947) and Web of Danger (Philip Ford, 1947) and adventure films starring John Wayne such as Wake of the Red Witch (Edward Ludwig, 1948), and Sands of Iwo Jima (Allan Dwan, 1949) in which she was John Agar's love interest. Other interesting films were the Film-Noirs The Tiger Woman (Philip Ford, 1945), and Count the Hours! (Don Siegel, 1953) with Theresa Wright.
In 1955 Adele Mara appeared as Sarita on the TV Western Cheyenne in the episode 'Border Showdown'. In 1958, Mara played Maria Costa in the Bat Masterson episode 'Double Showdown' with Gene Barry. In 1961, Mara appeared as a nurse with Cesar Romero on The Red Skelton Show in a sketch titled 'Deadeye and The Alamo'. About this time, she guest-starred on the Western series The Tall Man (1962) with Clu Gulager, as well as three episodes of Maverick (1958-1960), episodes of Laramie (1960), Tales of Wells Fargo (1959) with Dale Robertson and The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1958-1961) with Hugh O'Brien. She also appeared in the Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode 'House Guest' (1962). Her last screen appearance would be in The Big Circus (Joseph M. Newman, 1959) with Victor Mature. Mara was married to screenwriter/series creator/producer/novelist Roy Huggins and appeared in his television series Maverick. She eventually abandoned her career and settled down to raise their three sons, Thomas (1960), John (1961), and James Patrick (1963). Only on a rare occasion, she would appear as a guest in one of his husband's efforts, including an episode of the TV series Cool Million (1972). The couple remained married until his death at age 87 in 2002. The marriage had spanned half a century. Mara's brother, Luis Delgado (1925–1997) played small, often uncredited roles in films and TV, especially in the projects of his close friend James Garner, for whom Delgado also worked as a personal assistant. Adele Mara died of natural causes in Los Angeles in 2010. The 87-year-old actress was interred at San Fernando Mission Cemetery.
Sources: Gary Brumburgh (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
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The Patagonian mara is a relatively large rodent in the mara genus Dolichotis. It is also known as the Patagonian cavy, Patagonian hare, or dillaby. This herbivorous, somewhat rabbit-like animal is found in open and semiopen habitats in Argentina, including large parts of Patagonia.
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Mara Jade Skywalker was, during different times in her life, an Emperor's Hand, a smuggler, and later a Jedi Master who sat upon the Jedi High Council. She was raised as a servant to Emperor Palpatine and became a high-level Force-using operative.
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Model: Mara B.
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Italian postcard by Bromostampa, Milano, no. 170.
Mara Berni was born in 1932 in Brunate, Lombardy, Italy as Mara Rita Antonia Bernasconi. Following her parents' wishes, Mara Berni made her debut as a child in Wanda Petrini's "Compagnia dei piccoli", while at the same time taking lessons from the elderly actress Teresa Franchini. After finishing her studies, she studied dance and piano and made her debut as a television presenter and announcer. Berni debuted in Italian cinema as one of the marathon dancers in Luigi Comencini's La tratta delle bianche (1952). Blonde, shapely, with fresh and sensual beauty, Mara Berni took part in about forty films made between the 1950s and 1960s, mostly in the comical genre, alongside big names such as Alberto Sordi in Buonanotte... avvocato! (1955, her first main credit after many minor parts), Accadde al penitenziario (1955), and Il moralista (1959), all three by Giorgio Bianchi, and Il vigile (1960) by Luigi Zampa, and Totò in Totò, Peppino e... la dolce vita (1961) by Sergio Corbucci. Occasionally, she also worked in Spain and France, while in the early 1960s she acted in various peplum films.
Gifted with grace and ease, Berni was often relegated to the role of 'femme fatale', even in a comic vein, and it can be said that she was not exploited to the best of her ability. From the mid-1960s onward she abandoned the screen but worked occasionally for television, both acting in TV adaptations of novels, where she e.g. played the brief but intense role of Cecilia's mother in Sandro Bolchi's I promessi sposi (1967), and participating in variety shows (a fitting tribute to her beauty was paid when she was chosen to play the part of the goddess Venus in Antonello Falqui's brilliant musical show Biblioteca di Studio Uno, with the Cetra Quartet, in the episode dedicated to the Odyssey) until the end of the 1980s. In October 1989, she married a rich Pakistani industrialist Tarik Mamoud Rana (with whom she had a daughter in 1990, at the age of 58), and currently lives between Los Angeles and Italy.
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Mara is an off the shoulder fluffy sweater for the warmer fall days
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Mara — the demon who assaulted Gautama Buddha beneath the bodhi tree with the vision of beautiful women
Belgian postcard by Nieuwe Merksemsche Chocolaterie, Merksem (Anvers). Photo: Republic / Centra. Adele Mara's name is misspelt at the card as Adèla Mara.
Adele Mara (1923-2010) was an American 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.
Adele Mara was born Adelaida Delgado in 1923 in Highland Park, Michigan, to Spanish parents. She had a brother, Luis, who became an actor. Mara danced as part of bandleader Xavier Cugat's show 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. Under the professional name of Adele St. Mara, she started off in bit exotic roles in such films as Honolulu Lu (Charles Barton, 1941) starring Lupe Velez, and gained experience in the studio's B features and comedy shorts. Her stage name 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. She quickly grew to alluring co-starring status opposite Joe E. Brown in Shut My Big Mouth (Lew Landers, 1942). Mara and Leslie Brooks played the sisters of Rita Hayworth's character in the Fred Astaire film You Were Never Lovelier (William A. Seiter, 1942). In Alias Boston Blackie (Lew Landers, 1942), she plays the leading female role, as the sister of an escaped and wrongfully accused convict. When her Columbia contract lapsed, she moved to Republic Pictures, where she was transformed into a sexy platinum blonde pin-up. Mara became a fixture in the studio's Westerns, predominantly cast as senorita-types opposite cowboy stars Roy Rogers in Bells of Rosarita (Frank McDonald, 1945) and Gene Autry in Twilight on the Rio Grande (Frank McDonald, 1947). She also appeared in crime dramas including Blackmail (Lesley Selander, 1947) and Web of Danger (Philip Ford, 1947) and adventure films starring John Wayne such as Wake of the Red Witch (Edward Ludwig, 1948), and Sands of Iwo Jima (Allan Dwan, 1949) in which she was John Agar's love interest. Other interesting films were the Film-Noirs The Tiger Woman (Philip Ford, 1945), and Count the Hours! (Don Siegel, 1953) with Theresa Wright.
In 1955 Adele Mara appeared as Sarita on the TV Western Cheyenne in the episode 'Border Showdown'. In 1958, Mara played Maria Costa in the Bat Masterson episode 'Double Showdown' with Gene Barry. In 1961, Mara appeared as a nurse with Cesar Romero on The Red Skelton Show in a sketch titled 'Deadeye and The Alamo'. About this time, she guest-starred on the Western series The Tall Man (1962) with Clu Gulager, as well as three episodes of Maverick (1958-1960), episodes of Laramie (1960), Tales of Wells Fargo (1959) with Dale Robertson and The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1958-1961) with Hugh O'Brien. She also appeared in the Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode 'House Guest' (1962). Her last screen appearance would be in The Big Circus (Joseph M. Newman, 1959) with Victor Mature. Mara was married to screenwriter/series creator/producer/novelist Roy Huggins and appeared in his television series Maverick. She eventually abandoned her career and settled down to raise their three sons, Thomas (1960), John (1961), and James Patrick (1963). Only on a rare occasion, she would appear as a guest in one of his husband's efforts, including an episode of the TV series Cool Million (1972). The couple remained married until his death at age 87 in 2002. The marriage had spanned half a century. Mara's brother, Luis Delgado (1925–1997) played small, often uncredited roles in films and TV, especially in the projects of his close friend James Garner, for whom Delgado also worked as a personal assistant. Adele Mara died of natural causes in Los Angeles in 2010. The 87-year-old actress was interred at San Fernando Mission Cemetery.
Sources: Gary Brumburgh (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
Photographer: Daniele Nicolucci
Model: Mara B.
Make-up artist: Stefania Di Gregorio
You can now get prints of my photos (including this one!) on paper and canvas! Click here!
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Check out my other photos of Mara here and all my models here!
Belgian collectors card by Merbotex, Bruxelles (Brussels), no 10. Photo: Universal.
American actress Mara Corday (1930) was also a popular showgirl, model and Playboy Playmate of the 1950s.
Mara Corday was born Marilyn Joan Watts in Santa Monica, California, in 1930. Wanting a career in films, she came to Hollywood while still in her teens and found work dancing in the back row of the chorus at the Earl Carroll Theatre on Sunset Boulevard. Her physical beauty brought jobs as a photographer's model that led to a bit part as a showgirl in Two Tickets to Broadway (James V. Kern, 1951) starring Tony Martin. She signed on as a Universal International Pictures (UIP) contract player where she met actor Clint Eastwood with whom she would remain lifelong friends. With UIP, Corday was given small roles in various B-movies and television series. In 1954 on the set of Playgirl she met actor Richard Long. Following the death of Long's wife, the two began dating and married in 1957. Her roles were small until 1955 when she was cast opposite John Agar in Tarantula (Jack Arnold, 1955) a Sci-Fi B-film that proved a cult success. She had another successful co-starring role in The Black Scorpion (Edward Ludwig, 1957) as well as in a number of Western films.
Mara Corday appeared as a pinup girl in numerous men's magazines during the 1950s and was the Playmate of the October 1958 issue of Playboy. In 1956, she had a recurring role in the ABC television series Combat Sergeant. From 1959 to early 1961, Corday worked exclusively doing guest spots on various television series. She then gave up her career to devote her time to raising a family. During her seventeen-year marriage to Richard Long she had three children, actress Valerie Long, Carey Long and Gregory Long. A few years after her husband's death in 1974, Corday's friend Clint Eastwood offered her a chance to return to filmmaking with a role in his film The Gauntlet (1977). She had a brief-but-significant role in Sudden Impact (Clint Eastwood, 1983), where she played the waitress dumping sugar into Harry Callahan's coffee in that movie's iconic 'Go ahead, make my day' sequence. And she acted with Eastwood again in Pink Cadillac (Buddy Van Horn, 1989) as well as in her last film, The Rookie (Clint Eastwood, 1990).
Sources: Tom Weaver (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.