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Adele Mara Profile
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| (Adelaida Delgado) |
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| 28 April 23 / 25 | is born in Highland Park, Michigan. Her brother is future actor Luis Delgado. |
| ? | wins dance lessons as a movie theater door prize at age 6 |
| ? | starts dancing at age 8 |
| ? | is spotted by Xavier Cugat at age 12 or 13 |
| ? | sings and dances with Cugat’s orchestra in Detroit at age 15 |
| ? | leaves high school and goes with her brother to New York |
| ? | Cugat signs her to a contract when he opens in New York City |
| ? | performs at the Copacabana |
| c. 41 | is working in Florida when she is spotted by a Columbia talent scout. She journeys to Hollywood and is signed by Columbia. |
| 42 | loses the part of Ada in The Moon and Sixpence to Elena Verdugo |
| ? | leaves Columbia at age 18 |
| ? | is voted "Pinup Girl of the Year" in a poll held by Yank magazine |
| 44 | teaches John Wayne how to jitterbug for his upcoming The Fighting Seabees |
| 24 April 44 | is put under contract at Republic |
| c. 45 | feels that Herbert J. Yates takes more than a fatherly interest in her and could have boosted her career if his wife, actress Vera Ralston, hadn’t absorbed so much of Republic’s publicity budget |
| September 50 | becomes serious with fellow actor Forrest Tucker |
| 25 June 51 | is dropped by Republic |
| c. 54 | marries industrial engineer-turned-writer, creator, producer, and later TV mogul, Roy Huggins |
| 2 May 60 | her son Thomas R. is born in Los Angeles |
| 29 October 61 | her son John F. is born in Los Angeles |
| 1 March 63 | her son James P. is born in Los Angeles |
| ? | arranges to have her parents live with her until they pass away |
| 3 April 02 | becomes the widow of Huggins |
| 7 May 10 | dies of natural causes at her home in Pacific Palisades |
| Sources: Ladies of the Western by Michael G. Fitzgerald and Boyd Magers, Classic Images, Motion Picture, www.IMDb.com, www.Ancestry.com, The Los Angeles Times | |
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