The best Adele Mara’s movies

Adele Mara

Adele Mara

28/04/1923- 07/05/2010
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Sands of Iwo Jima

Sands of Iwo Jima
7/10
The relationship between Sergeant Stryker and a group of rebellious recruits is made difficult by the Sergeant's tough training tactics. At Tarawa, the leathernecks have a chance to see Stryker in action, and begin to appreciate him.

You Were Never Lovelier

You Were Never Lovelier
7.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 19/11/1942
  • Character: Lita Acuña
An Argentine heiress thinks a penniless American dancer is her secret admirer.

The Fighting Seabees

The Fighting Seabees
6.4/10
  • Genre: ActionDramaWar
  • Release: 27/01/1944
  • Character: Twinkles Tucker - Jitterbugger (uncredited)
Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the Navy to protect them. After a series of attacks by the Japanese, something new is tried, Construction Battalions (CBs=Seabees). The new CBs have to both build and be ready to fight.

California Passage

California Passage
6.3/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 15/12/1950
A series of reversals bring two desperate people together. When a saloon owner is framed by his partner for a stagecoach robbery, he fights to secure an acquittal.

Back from Eternity

Back from Eternity
6.5/10
  • Genre: AdventureDrama
  • Release: 07/09/1956
  • Character: Maria Alvarez - Stewardess
A South American plane loaded with an assortment of characters crash lands in a remote jungle area in the middle of a storm. The passengers then discover they are in an area inhabited by vicious cannibals and must escape before they are found.

Wake of the Red Witch

Wake of the Red Witch
6.5/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 30/12/1948
  • Character: Teleia Van Schreeven
Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.

Lucky Legs

Lucky Legs
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 01/10/1942
  • Character: Secretary
Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the money on a production called "Lucky Legs" that will star her. Unfortunately, the money has "made the rounds" prior to reaching Gloria and several less-than-scrupulous characters set out to separate Gloria from her inheritance.

Crime Doctor

Crime Doctor
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 22/06/1943
  • Character: Nurse
Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.

Flame of Barbary Coast

Flame of Barbary Coast
6.2/10
  • Genre: RomanceWestern
  • Release: 28/05/1945
  • Character: Marie (uncredited)
Duke Fergus falls for Ann 'Flaxen' Tarry in the Barbary Coast in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. He loses money to crooked gambler Boss Tito Morell, goes home, learns to gamble, and returns. After he makes a fortune, he opens his own place with Flaxen as the entertainer; but the 1906 quake destroys his place.

The Trespasser

The Trespasser
6.4/10
Stevie Carson, a newspaper reporter, and Denny Butler, the feature editor on the same newspaper, set out to track down a gang of literary forgers who are making a fortune off of selling fake first editions.

Reveille with Beverly

Reveille with Beverly
6.6/10
Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army camp assemble for reveille. Beverly, with her modern music, camp bulletins and chatter, is a hit with the soldiers. Beverly's younger brother and his two buddies are soldiers at the camp. The buddies vie for Beverly's attentions.

A Guy Could Change

A Guy Could Change
5.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/01/1946
  • Character: Bernice
A playboy is reformed by his daughter and fiancee.

Honolulu Lu

Honolulu Lu
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 11/12/1941
  • Character: Debutante
While in Hawaii, Velez begins the film as a risque nightclub act and due to her involvement with a group of sailors becomes a beauty queen.

Blondie Goes to College

Blondie Goes to College
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 15/01/1942
  • Character: Babs Conelly
Number 10 in the Blondie series, Blondie Goes to College is predicated on the notion that Dagwood Bumstead (Arthur Lake) must receive a college diploma or lose his job with the Dithers Construction Company. Not wishing to be separated from her husband, Blondie (Penny Singleton) enrolls in college as well. But Leighton College rules stipulate "No Married Couples", forcing Blondie and Dagwood to pretend that they're not married. This causes quite a dilemma when coed Laura Wadsworth (Janet Blair) begins flirting with Dagwood and Rusty Bryant (Larry Parks) does same with Blondie. And Blondie's discovery of a very pleasant secret threatens to expose her and Dagwood's marital status too. The student body at this particular seat of learning is comprised of quite a few familiar faces, including Lloyd Bridges, Sid Melton, and Adele Mara.

Exposed

Exposed
5.7/10
A private eye (Adele Mara) and her sidekick solve the case of a dead client.

Night Train to Memphis

Night Train to Memphis
7.1/10
A mountain community is thrown into turmoil as the townspeople debate the advantages and disadvantages of having a railroad.

Rock Island Trail

Rock Island Trail
6.2/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 18/05/1950
  • Character: Constance Strong
A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.

The Last Crooked Mile

The Last Crooked Mile
6.2/10
A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.

The Big Circus

The Big Circus
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/07/1959
  • Character: Maria 'Mama' Colino
A circus owner tries to keep his financially troubled circus on the road, despite the efforts of a murderous saboteur who has decided that the show must not go on.

I, Jane Doe

I, Jane Doe
6.9/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 25/05/1948
  • Character: Marga-Jane Hastings
While stationed in France during World War II, an American fighter pilot marries a French girl but leaves her behind when he returns to the U.S. The French woman follows him to America only to discover he’s already married to a successful lawyer.

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