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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.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
adele just came back from a visit to lynne where she was spruced up a bit! :-)
she's looking good now!
wearing a pullip stock dress and a cape from max & marley
Vintage postcard, no. 951. Photo: R.K.O.
Glamorous Adele Jergens (1917-2002) was an American film actress of the 1940s and 1950s who was often cast in B-films as blonde floozies and burlesque dancers.
Adele Jergens was born Adele Louisa Jurgens in Brooklyn, New York, in 1917 (her birth date is sometimes listed as 1922). She was the youngest of four to working-class Norwegian parents. She graduated from Grover Cleveland High School and received a scholarship to study at a Manhattan dance studio. Jergens first rose to prominence in the late 1930s, when she danced in the Moss Hart/Cole Porter musical Jubilee!, and was named Miss World's Fairest at the 1939 New York World's Fair. In the early 1940s, she worked as a model and chorus girl, including a short stint as a Rockette, and was dubbed "The Champagne Blonde", "The Girl with the Million Dollar Legs", and even "The Number One Showgirl in New York City". In the burlesque revue Star and Garter (1942), Adele had a featured role while understudying one of its headliners, Gypsy Rose Lee. She went on for Ms. Lee, and Hollywood took immediate notice with Twentieth Century-Fox signing her up. Adele started at the bottom rank at Fox with decorative showgirl or good-time girl parts in the musicals Hello Frisco, Hello (H. Bruce Humberstone, 1943), Sweet Rosie O'Grady (Irving Cummings, 1943), and The Gang's All Here (Busby Berkeley, 1943). When Fox dropped her option, she was snatched up by Columbia in a seven-year contract. She was entrusted with the lead female role as Princess Armina of Baghdad in the Eastern adventure A Thousand and One Nights (Alfred E. Green, 1945) starring Phil Silvers and handsome Cornel Wilde as Aladdin. Brunette Jergens became a blonde and displayed a brusque comic flair as the aptly-named Allura in the Rosalind Russell comedy She Wouldn't Say Yes (Alexander Hall, 1945). She played a hilariously-accented blonde briefly competing for Russell's man Lee Bowman. Adele also top-lined her own musical albeit the quickly forgotten When a Girl's Beautiful (Frank McDonald, 1947) which co-starred Marc Platt and Stephen Dunne. She was cast as blonde floozies and burlesque dancers in such films as Down to Earth (Alexander Hall, 1947) starring Rita Hayworth and The Dark Past (Rudolph Maté, 1948) starring William Holden. Gary Brumburgh describes her aptly at IMDb as: "the tough-talking, plump-cheeked peroxide blonde who gave her fair share of tawdry trouble in backstage dramas, film noir, crime potboilers, and adventure yarns. "
Adele Jergens played Marilyn Monroe's mother in Ladies of the Chorus (Phil Karlson, 1948) despite being only 9 years older than Monroe. In 1949, Jergens met and married actor Glenn Langan, while filming Treasure of Monte Cristo (William Berke, 1949), a Film Noir set in San Francisco. They had one child, a son named Tracy Langan, who eventually worked in Hollywood behind the scenes, as a film technician. She played an exotic dancer in Armored Car Robbery (Richard Fleischer, 1950) and also appeared in Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951). She had a part in The Cobweb (Vincente Minnelli, 1955) starring Richard Widmark and Lauren Bacall. She also worked in the 1950s radio show Stand By For Crime as 'Glamourpuss' Carol Curtis with her husband Glenn Langan as Chuck Morgan. Adele Jergens-Langan retired from the screen in 1956. She and Langan remained married until his death from lymphoma, in 1991. In 2001, their son, 48-year-old Tracy Langan died of a brain tumour. This devastated the actress and her health declined quickly after her son's death. Adele Jergens died the following year of pneumonia, just days before her 85th birthday. She was buried beside her husband and son at Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Chatsworth, California, under the headstone marked 'Langan'. Gary Brumburgh at IMDb: "She was (...) headstrong at trying to bust out of the chorus lines and cheesecake parts to become a topnotch "A" actress draw. She failed in the latter but nevertheless left a respectable Hollywood legacy for the host of hard-as-nails babes that did leave an impression."
Sources: Gary Brumburgh (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
Adele Makeda in Petite Robe Classique Jour with a miniature cheeseboard that my lovely niece gifted to me.
Bain News Service,, publisher.
Adele Astaire
[between ca. 1920 and ca. 1925]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.
Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see George Grantham Bain Collection - Rights and Restrictions Information www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/274_bain.html
Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Part Of: Bain News Service photograph collection (DLC) 2005682517
General information about the George Grantham Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain
Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.35641
Call Number: LC-B2- 5950-10
Model: Adele Makeda
Dress: by Doll Fashionista (Me)
Shoes & Clutch: Hervé Léger for Barbie
Cuff Bracelet & Earrings: Fashion Royalty
Adèle is wearing the dress from the Funny Face Think Pink doll. Chanel purse is by La Boutique.
Jewels, perfume bottles by me.
Exquise Adèle Makéda (2017) is modeleing the fashion from "Day in the Sun" Barbie (Hollywood Movie Star Collection) from 2000
Vintage card. 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.
And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.
Adele is from the Amy’s Favorite Cat vinyl figures by Dreams Inc. She is 2 and ¾ inches tall. One eye is green and the other eye is blue.
Finally, miss Exquise Adele has arrived!!! And what should i say...she's a REAL DEAL, definitely the best doll of 2017 to me! Words can't describe how much that i love her! I'm totally speechless!!! 😆😆😆
Happy Happy New Year to everyone here on Flickr! May 2011 be a bigger and brighter dolly year for everyone! Kisskiss!
(hope i could tag everyone... )
:)
Adele wears the "Fire Cracker" dress and the " Lava" Neck Piece.
Adele is modelling my last holiday creation - a fully lined cocktail skirt and bodice with bead detail. I highly recommend taking a doll on holiday with you to form a deeper bond! Spending time focusing on just one doll really makes you appreciate her so much more.
British postcard in The People Series by Show Parade Picture Service, London, no. P. 1131. Photo: Columbia. Publicity still for Beware of Blondie (Edward Bernds, 1950).
Glamorous Adele Jergens (1917-2002) was an American film actress of the 1940s and 1950s who was often cast in B-films as blonde floozies and burlesque dancers.
Adele Jergens was born Adele Louisa Jurgens in Brooklyn, New York, in 1917 (her birth date is sometimes listed as 1922). She was the youngest of four to working class Norwegian parents. She graduated from Grover Cleveland High School and received a scholarship to study at a Manhattan dance studio. Jergens first rose to prominence in the late 1930s, when she danced in the Moss Hart/Cole Porter musical Jubilee!, and was named Miss World's Fairest at the 1939 New York World's Fair. In the early 1940s, she worked as a model and chorus girl, including a short stint as a Rockette, and was dubbed "The Champagne Blonde", "The Girl with the Million Dollar Legs", and even "The Number One Showgirl in New York City". In the burlesque revue Star and Garter (1942), Adele had a featured role while understudying one of its headliners, Gypsy Rose Lee. She went on for Ms. Lee, and Hollywood took immediate notice with Twentieth Century-Fox signing her up. Adele started at the bottom rang at Fox with decorative showgirl or good time girl parts in the musicals Hello Frisco, Hello (H. Bruce Humberstone, 1943), Sweet Rosie O'Grady (Irving Cummings, 1943), and The Gang's All Here (Busby Berkeley, 1943). When Fox dropped her option, she was snatched up by Columbia in a seven-year contract. She was entrusted with the lead female role as Princess Armina of Baghdad in the Eastern adventure A Thousand and One Nights (Alfred E. Green, 1945) starring Phil Silvers and handsome Cornel Wilde as Aladdin. Brunette Jergens became a blonde and displayed a brusque comic flair as the aptly-named Allura in the Rosalind Russell comedy She Wouldn't Say Yes (Alexander Hall, 1945). She played an hilariously-accented blonde briefly competing for Russell's man Lee Bowman. Adele also top-lined her own musical albeit the quickly forgotten When a Girl's Beautiful (Frank McDonald, 1947) which co-starred Marc Platt and Stephen Dunne. She was cast as blonde floozies and burlesque dancers in such films as in Down to Earth (Alexander Hall, 1947) starring Rita Hayworth and The Dark Past (Rudolph Maté, 1948) starring William Holden. Gary Brumburgh describes her aptly at IMDb as: "the tough-talking, plump-cheeked peroxide blonde who gave her fair share of tawdry trouble in backstage dramas, film noir, crime potboilers, and adventure yarns. "
Adele Jergens played Marilyn Monroe's mother in Ladies of the Chorus (Phil Karlson, 1948) despite being only 9 years older than Monroe. In 1949, Jergens met and married actor Glenn Langan, while filming Treasure of Monte Cristo (William Berke, 1949), a Film Noir set in San Francisco. They had one child, a son named Tracy Langan, who eventually worked in Hollywood behind the scenes, as a film technician. She played an exotic dancer in Armored Car Robbery (Richard Fleischer, 1950) and also appeared in Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951). She had a part in The Cobweb (Vincente Minnelli, 1955) starring Richard Widmark and Lauren Bacall. She also worked in the 1950s radio show Stand By For Crime as 'Glamourpuss' Carol Curtis with her husband Glenn Langan as Chuck Morgan. Adele Jergens-Langan retired from the screen in 1956. She and Langan remained married until his death from lymphoma, in 1991. In 2001, their son, 48-year-old Tracy Langan died of a brain tumor. This devastated the actress and her health declined quickly after her son's death. Adele Jergens died the following year of pneumonia, just days before her 85th birthday. She was buried beside her husband and son at Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Chatsworth, California, under the headstone marked 'Langan'. Gary Brumburgh at IMDb: "She was (...) headstrong at trying to bust out of the chorus lines and cheesecake parts to become a topnotch "A" actress draw. She failed in the latter but nevertheless left a respectable Hollywood legacy for the host of hard-as-nails babes that did leave an impression."
Sources: Gary Brumburgh (IMDb), Wikipedia and IMDb.
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.
Haha, another Adele cover...
I don't know what's wrong with me.
I hate her, but I just love making covers for her...
Anyways, I haven't seen this photo used in
a cover yet so I figured why not.
And I tried to be even more original and also
use a turquoise color in the logo as well
as the green. Let me know if you like it!