Adele MaraFilmography

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: House Guest

Synopsis: When a drifter named Ray Roscoe (Robert Sterling) saves little Tony Mitchell (Bill Mumy) from drowning, Tony's grateful father, John (MacDonald Carey), invites Ray to stay in his home until he can find a job. John's wife, Sally (Peggy McCay), isn't crazy about this situation, and it soon turns out Read More

Maverick: The Marquesa

Synopsis: Winning a high-stakes poker game, Bart (Jack Kelly) finds himself the owner of the Lucky Lady Saloon in Santa Leora. But when he shows up to claim his prize, he is confronted by the hired guns of Marquessa Luisa de Ruisenor (played byAdele Mara, the wife of Maverick producer-creator Roy Huggins). Read More

The Big Circus

Actors: Victor Mature, Red Buttons, Rhonda Fleming, Kathryn Grant, Vincent Price, Peter Lorre

Synopsis: Victor Mature, in one of his last leading man performances, plays Hank Whirling, the owner of a financially shaky circus who is trying to get back on his feet, despite cutthroat competition from a rival organization. He also has a younger sister (Kathryn Grant) to watch out for. After arranging Read More

Curse of the Faceless Man

Actors: Richard Anderson, Elaine Edwards, Adele Mara, Luis Van Rooten, Gar Moore

Synopsis: Archeologists excavating the ruins of Pompeii discover what seems to be a perfectly preserved human figure, encased in lava. A scientific team led by Dr. Paul Mallon (Richard Anderson) begins to piece together the history and identity of the stone figure. Using surviving records from the city and Read More

Maverick: Seed of Deception

Synopsis: Riding into a small town, Bret (James Garner) and Bart (Jack Kelly) are amused when the locals mistake them for the notorious gunfighters Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. But it's a bit less amusing when gorgeous Doll Hayes (Joi Lansing) begins cozying up to the local sheriff (Frank Ferguson) as a Read More

Maverick: The Spanish Dancer

Synopsis: After a fistfight with his friend Gentleman Jack Darby (Richard Long) over the affections of beauteous dancer Elena Grande (Adele Mara), Bart is charged with Jack's murder. Somehow, this turn of events is connected with Bart's efforts to reclaim a gold mine--and in this endeavor, he is teamed up Read More

Disneyland: The Saga of Andy Burnett: Andy's Love Affair

Synopsis: In this third episode of Walt Disney's six-part miniseries The Saga of Andy Burnett, Andy (Jerome Courtland, Joe Crane (Jeff York) and the other Mountain Men have finally arrived in New Mexico. The head of the local border patrol agrees to guide Jack Kelly (Andrew Duggan, the head Mountain Man, to Read More

Back from Eternity

Actors: Robert Ryan, Anita Ekberg, Rod Steiger, Phyllis Kirk, Keith Andes

Synopsis: Director John Farrow's Back From Eternity is a virtual scene-for-scene remake of Farrow's 1939 film Five Came Back. The earlier film is the better of the two, if only because it is 22 minutes shorter. The plot concerns a small passenger plane that crashlands in South America, square in the heart Read More

The Black Whip

Actors: Hugh Marlowe, Coleen Gray, Richard Gilden, Angie Dickinson, Strother Martin

Synopsis: After closing down his film studio, producer Robert L. Lippert took charge of Regal Films, a subsidiary of 20th Century-Fox designed to turn out low-budget, non-CinemaScope productions. One of the first of these films was the modest western The Black Whip. Colleen Gray, Angie Dickinson, Adele Mara Read More

Count the Hours

Actors: Teresa Wright, MacDonald Carey, Dolores Moran, Adele Mara, Edgar Barrier

Synopsis: Director Don Siegel keeps the events in Count the Hours moving so quickly that no one has time to ponder the film's huge lapses in logic. MacDonald Carey stars as a defense attorney Doug Madison who races against time to save migrant ranchhand George Braden (John Craven) from execution. While Read More

The Sea Hornet

Actors: Rod Cameron, Adele Mara, Adrian Booth, Chill Wills, Jim Davis

Synopsis: This Republic "special" stars Rod Cameron as deep-sea diver Gunner McNeil. When his partner (James Brown) drowns under mysterious circumstances, McNeil investigates, all the while carrying out a salvage assignment for the lovely Suntan Radford (Adele Mara). The titular Sea Hornet is a vessel which Read More

California Passage

Actors: Forrest Tucker, Adele Mara, Estelita Rodriguez, Jim Davis, Gerald Perreau-Saissine

Synopsis: Beautiful Adele Mara, who Republic Pictures took for granted for far too long, finally gets a chance to shine in this fine Western produced and directed by the dependent Joseph Kane. Mara plays Beth Martin, an Easterner traveling west to be reunited with her brother, Bob (Bill Williams). But Bob Read More

The Avengers

Actors: John Carroll, Adele Mara, Mona Maris, Roberto Airaldi, Jorge Villoldo

Synopsis: Filmed in Argentina, Republic's The Avengers stars John Carroll as a handsome adventurer known as Don Careless. Our Hero hopes to save heroine Maria Moreno (Adele Mara) from a forced marriage to a ruthless revolutionary (Roberto Airaldi). Both Carroll and supporting actor Vincente Padula play dual Read More

Rock Island Trail

Actors: Forrest Tucker, Adele Mara, Adrian Booth, Bruce Cabot

Synopsis: Rock Island Trail is proof enough that Republic could turn out an "A" western as well as any of the "majors." This saga of pioneer railroading stars Forrest Tucker as Reed Loomis, a visionary railman who dreams of the day that trains will run from coast to coast. During his own efforts to make Read More

Wake of the Red Witch

Actors: John Wayne, Gail Russell, Gig Young, Luther Adler, Adele Mara

Synopsis: This unusual, dreamlike John Wayne vehicle is set in the East Indies. The focus of the film is the deadly rivalry between two men of the sea. Ship's captain Rails (John Wayne) nurses a long-standing grudge against shipping magnate Van Schreeven (Luther Adler). The reason for the animosity: Van Read More

Sands of Iwo Jima

Actors: John Wayne, John Agar, Adele Mara, Forrest Tucker, Wally Cassell, Arthur Franz

Synopsis: From director Allan Dwan, Sands of Iwo Jima is a drama set during the Second World War and follows John Stryker (John Wayne), a relentlessly tough Marine sergeant as he trains a squad of naïve, rebellious recruits at a New Zealand military station in 1943. Recently left by his wife, Stryker has Read More

Campus Honeymoon

Actors: Lynn Wilde, Lee Wilde, Adele Mara, Richard Crane, Hal Hackett

Synopsis: The beauteous blonde Wilde Twins -- Lynn and Lee -- star in the Republic musical programmer Campus Honeymoon. Richard Crane and Hal Hackett co-star as a pair of GIs who offer to pose as the sisters' husbands so as to qualify for a couple of bungalows in a Veterans' housing project. The Read More

Night Time in Nevada

Actors: Roy Rogers, Adele Mara, Andy Devine, Grant Withers, Marie Harmon

Synopsis: Roy Rogers plays Roy Rogers, as ever, in Night Time in Nevada. This time Roy is a cattle owner whose stock is stolen by Grant Withers. It is Withers' hope to sell the livestock, thereby covering funds that he's been appropriating from leading lady Adele Mara's trust fund. Roy is able to vanquish Read More

I, Jane Doe

Actors: Ruth Hussey, John Carroll, Vera Ralston, John Howard, Gene Lockhart

Synopsis: In this courtroom drama, a French girl stands trial for murder. Flashbacks tell the grim story of how, during the Great War she got involved with a wealthy soldier and married him. He disappeared after the war. She then came to the U.S. There she finds him married to another woman. To cover Read More

The Gallant Legion

Actors: Adrian Booth, James Brown, Bruce Cabot, Andy Devine, Steve Drake

Synopsis: When Republic moved its popular star William Elliot from "B" series westerns to "A" frontier specials, a lot of the fun and excitement was lost in the process. Additionally, Republic seemed reluctant to admit the new Elliot films were westerns, as witness the title Gallant Legion, which could have Read More

Angel in Exile

Actors: John Carroll, Adele Mara, Thomas Gomez, Alfonso Bedoya

Synopsis: Angel in Exile represents a one-time-only directorial collaboration between cult favorite Allan Dwan and B-western workhouse Philip Ford. Upon his release from jail, hardened criminal Charlie Dakin (John Carroll) heads to Mexico in search of his stolen gold, hidden in a mine shaft by Dakin's Read More

The Web of Danger

Actors: William Hall, Russell Hicks

Synopsis: An unimportant but likeable Republic drama, Web of Danger revolves around the rivalry between two hardhat bridge-builders. Ernie (Bill Kennedy) and Bill (Damian O'Flynn) spend most of the footage duking it out, usually over a "dame". But when the chips are down, our heroes work side by side to Read More

The Trespasser

Actors: Betty Alexander, William Bakewell, Joy Barlowe, Vince Barnett, Joseph Crehan

Synopsis: Though already established as Roy Rogers' favorite leading lady (offscreen and on), Dale Evans was permitted a rare non-western appearance minus Rogers in the 1947 Republic mystery thriller The Trespasser. Evans is cast as nightclub singer Linda Coleman, the sister of newspaper-book reviewer Bruce Read More

Robin Hood of Texas

Actors: Stanley Andrews, Gene Autry, Michael Branden, Al Bridge, Paul Bryar

Synopsis: A dude ranch, unemployed cowhands, modern-day bank robbers, and music are the main ingredients in this, Gene Autry's swan song for Republic Pictures, lovingly restored by UCLA and Gene Autry Entertainment in 2001. Swindled out of their savings, Gene and the Cass County Boys mistakenly get mixed up Read More

The Main Street Kid

Actors: Al Pearce, Janet Martin, Alan Mowbray, Adele Mara, Arlene Harris

Synopsis: In this drama, a print shop owner suffers a blow to the head and wakes up a mind-reader. Meanwhile the president of a publishing firm finds himself involved with a former chorus girl who has secretly teamed up with a phony mind-reader. An ambitious friend of the president aspires to his job; to Read More

Blackmail

Actors: William Marshall, Adele Mara, Ricardo Cortez, Grant Withers, Stephanie Bachelor

Synopsis: The all-purpose title Blackmail was again revived for this breezy Republic comedy-mystery. William Marshall (not the African American star of Blacula) plays private eye Dan Turner, assigned to shield playboy Ziggy Cranston (Ricardo Cortez) from a pair of clever blackmailers (Adele Mara, Richard Fraser Read More

Exposed

Actors: Adele Mara, Robert Scott, Adrian Booth, Robert Armstrong, William Haade

Synopsis: Not precisely the best film of 1947, the Republic comedy-mystery Exposed is nevertheless consistently enjoyable. Adele Mara is a delight as wisecracking female private eye Belinda Prentice, who has to put in a lot of overtime when her first client is murdered. Following the clues to an apartment Read More

Twilight on the Rio Grande

Actors: Gene Autry, Sterling Holloway, Adele Mara, Bob Steele, Charles Evans

Synopsis: Smugglers are working the border between Mexico and California in this action-filled and, of course, tuneful Gene Autry Western. Autry, sidekick Sterling Holloway, and the Cass County Boys get involved with fiery Elena Del Rio (Adele Mara), a singer in the local cantina who alternately throws Read More

The Magnificent Rogue

Synopsis: Magnificent Rogue is the title of a less than magnificent Republic programmer. Warren Douglas plays the title role, a wheeler-dealer businessman with fingers in several dirty pies. When Douglas is drafted, his wife Lynne Roberts is compelled to take over his business. Completely unaware of his Read More

Passkey to Danger

Actors: Kane Richmond, Stephanie Bachelor, Adele Mara, Gerald Mohr

Synopsis: In this comedy-mystery, an advertising executive begins looking into a touchy situation involving two brothers who are embezzling from his company. Also involved are two vicious thugs who are pursuing the brothers. When the ad man releases his new campaign, "The Three Springs," the brothers, whose Read More

I've Always Loved You

Actors: Philip Dorn, Catherine McLeod, William Carter, Maria Ouspenskaya, Felix Bressart

Synopsis: As its fortunes grew in the mid-1940s, Republic Pictures occasionally strayed from its usual manifest of westerns and serials, hoping to produce something of "class." Filmed on a lavish budget in glorious Technicolor, Republic's I've Always Loved You stars Philip Dorn as a tyrannical symphony Read More

The Inner Circle

Actors: Adele Mara, Warren Douglas, William Frawley, Ricardo Cortez, Virginia Christine

Synopsis: In this mystery, a private detective is falsely accused of murder by his secretary who wants to protect her little sister who has been formally charged with the crime. The detective must solve the crime before it is too late. To do so, he gathers all the suspects at a radio student and reenacts Read More

Traffic in Crime

Actors: Kane Richmond, Adele Mara, Anne Nagel, Wilton Graff, Roy Barcroft

Synopsis: Lesley Selander directs the urban goings-on in Traffic in Crime with the same breeziness he brought to his Republic westerns. Kane Richmond stars as police undercover agent Sam Wire, who charms his way into the confidence of two rival gambling rings. Playing one group against the other, Wire Read More

A Guy Could Change

Actors: Jane Frazee, Twinkle Watts, Wallace Ford

Synopsis: In this drama, a husband becomes a single parent after his wife dies in childbirth. He is so engrossed in his newspaper career that he pays little attention to his daughter. He then meets and falls for a woman who chastises him for ignoring the child. He has just begun reestablishing his Read More

Night Train to Memphis

Actors: Allan Lane, Roy Acuff, Adele Mara, Irving Bacon, Joseph Crehan

Synopsis: Country-western star Roy Acuff heads the cast of the modest Republic musical Night Train to Memphis. Taking time off from his musical duties, Acuff tries to patch up a feud between a family of hillbillies and a railroad company. Complicating matters is the fact that Roy's brother Don (Allan Lane) Read More

The Invisible Informer

Actors: Donia Bussey, Tristram Coffin, William Henry

Synopsis: Invisible Informer serves as a feature-length vehicle for Republic serial queen Linda Stirling. The story is set in motion by a missing necklace, worth $100,000. The insurance agency covering the necklace suspects that the "theft" is a fraud, and dispatches special operatives Eve Murray (Stirling) Read More

The Last Crooked Mile

Actors: Don "Red" Barry, Ann Savage, Adele Mara, Tom Powers, Sheldon Leonard

Synopsis: Republic contractee Don Barry plays private eye Tom Dwyer, whose ability to irritate both cops and crooks alike hides his keen deductive skills. Dwyer takes on the case of a missing $300,000, stolen from a bank by three robbers who were subsequently killed in a car accident. Before he can recover Read More

The Catman of Paris

Actors: Carl Esmond, Lenore Aubert, Adele Mara, Douglas Dumbrille, Gerald Mohr

Synopsis: Horror films were not Republic Pictures' forte, as one can see while watching the stylish but pedestrian Catman of Paris. Carl Esmond stars as Charles Reigner, an amnesia victim who may or may not be fiendish "Catman" who has been cutting a homicial swath throughout Gay Paree. Essentially a Read More

Thoroughbreds

Actors: Tom Neal, Adele Mara, Roger Pryor, Paul Harvey, Gene Garrick

Synopsis: Rusty Curtis wants his beloved cavalry horse back, but unfortunately the former sergeant's steed has been sold to a society woman desiring to turn it into a steeplechaser. This drama chronicles Rusty's endeavors to get the horse back. He does so by having Sally Crandall, the woman, hire him as the Read More

The Vampire's Ghost

Actors: John Abbott, Charles Gordon, Peggy Stewart, Grant Withers, Adele Mara

Synopsis: It is altogether typical of Republic Pictures that the studio's 1945 horror effort The Vampire's Ghost was interrupted mid-film by a barroom brawl! Set in a coastal African village, the story concerns one Webb Fallon (John Abbott), an unprepossessing sort who holds the region in thrall because of Read More

Girls of the Big House

Actors: Lynne Roberts, Virginia Christine, Marion Martin, Adele Mara, Richard Powers

Synopsis: A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman framed by a man whom she met in a nightclub in the big city. She is not welcomed by the inmates and immediately the prisoners are divided. The conflict ends in murder. In the end, the innocent woman's Read More

Flame of Barbary Coast

Actors: John Wayne, Ann Dvorak, Joseph Schildkraut, William Frawley, Virginia Grey

Synopsis: John Wayne is not the title character of Flame of the Barbary Coast: that honor goes to second-billed Ann Dvorak. Wayne plays a Montana cattleman who is lured into a San Francisco gambling joint by dance-hall girl Dvorak. Though Ann at first brings Wayne luck, he ends up losing his shirt to Read More

Song of Mexico

The Tiger Woman

Actors: Adele Mara, Kane Richmond, Richard Fraser, Peggy Stewart

Synopsis: Though released by Republic Pictures, The Tiger Woman is not a serial, as might be assumed from the title. Adele Mara stars as nightclub singer Sharon Winslow, billed for no discernible reason as "The Tiger Woman." Not exactly the sort of girl one takes home to mother, Sharon kills her husband for Read More

Flame of the Barbary Coast

Synopsis: In this western, a Montana cattle rancher travels to San Francisco's notorious Barbary Coast and ends up falling in love with a dance hall girl who helps him win big at the gaming tables. Unfortunately, a card sharp takes it all from the innocent rube. The dance hall girl is also involved with the Read More

Grissly's Millions

Actors: Paul Kelly, Virginia Grey, Donald Douglas, Elizabeth Risdon, Robert H. Barrat

Synopsis: The old bromide about a group of avaricious heirs waiting for an old millionaire to die is trotted out in Grissly's Millions. A coterie of disreputable-looking heirs are gathered in the home of the wealthy man (Robert H. Barrat). A murder is committed, and all present fall under suspicion Read More

Bells of Rosarita

Actors: Roy Rogers, George "Gabby" Hayes, Dale Evans, Adele Mara, Grant Withers

Synopsis: The standard Roy Rogers musical western Bells of Rosarita is enlivened by a cute last-reel gimmick. Rogers is appropriately cast as a cowboy star who invariably rescues the heroine from the villain in his movie vehicles. But when Sue Farnum (Dale Evans) is cheated out of her inheritance by the Read More

Atlantic City

Actors: Stanley Brown, Constance Moore, Brad Taylor, Charles Grapewin, Jerry Colonna

Synopsis: Definitely no relation to the 1980 Louis Malle film of the same name, 1944's Atlantic City is a tuneful Republic musical, not quite an "A" picture but certainly not a "B". Brad Taylor (who formerly acted at Columbia under the name of Stanley Brown) stars as Brad, an early-20th-century entrepreneur Read More

Call of the South Seas

Actors: Allan Lane, Janet Martin, William Henry, Wally Vernon

Synopsis: At 50 minutes, Call of the South Seas must qualify as the shortest of Republic's non-western B films. Janet Martin plays Tahia, princess of a faraway tropical island. Tahia's people are being victimized by extradition-free crooks led by an unsavory type named Landrau (Roy Barcroft). Disguised as a Read More

Faces in the Fog

Actors: Jane Withers, Paul Kelly, Lee Patrick, John Litel, Eric Sinclair

Synopsis: In this melodrama, two young lovers secretly elope after the woman is involved in a hit-and-run accident. The young groom takes the rap and is thrown out of school. The bride's enraged father shoots the boy. At the trial the bride lies on the stand to save her dad. Things work out, and the young Read More

Reveille with Beverly

Actors: Ann Miller, William Wright, Dick Purcell, Franklin Pangborn, Tim Ryan

Synopsis: Beverly Ross (nn Miller) is a would-be radio personality, but the closest she gets to being on the air is running the switchboard at a local station. Worse yet, the blustery station owner Mr. Kennedy (Tim Ryan) wants no part of programming "jive" (i.e., swing music) that she loves, preferring the Read More

Redhead from Manhattan

Actors: Lupe Velez, Michael Duane, Tim Ryan, Gerald Mohr, Lillian Yarbo

Synopsis: Substantially, Lupe Velez' Columbia vehicle Redhead from Manhattan was the same as her previous RKO starrers-boisterous, unsubtle, and immensely profitable. La Lupe plays a dual role, as twin sisters named Rita and Elaine. Escaping from a torpedoed ship, Rita shows up in New York, where she takes Read More

Riders of the Northwest Mounted

Synopsis: Riders of the Northwest Mounted was one of a handful of "northerns" produced by Columbia's B-western unit. Stalwart Russell Hayden and prankish Dub Taylor go through their paces in Mountie garb and Smokey-the-bear hats. They're on the trail of escaped criminal Dick Curtis, who has the whole great Read More

You Were Never Lovelier

Actors: Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Adolphe Menjou, Larry Parks, Adele Mara, Xavier Cugat, Leslie Brooks

Synopsis: The second and last of the Fred Astaire-Rita Hayworth vehicles, You Were Never Lovelier takes place in Argentina (courtesy of the Columbia Pictures art-direction department). Fred plays an American dancer whose fondness for betting on horse races has left him broke. Rita is the daughter of wealthy Read More

Alias Boston Blackie

Synopsis: In this entry in the "Boston Blackie" series, the suave ex-thief returns to prison to see a Christmas show. There he is impressed by the talent of the inmates. One particularly talented fellow uses his magic act to break out of prison. Now Blackie must find him. Meanwhile the fugitive searches for Read More

Shut My Big Mouth

Actors: Joe E. Brown, Adele Mara, Victor Jory, Fritz Feld, Don Beddoe

Synopsis: The best of Joe E. Brown's Columbia starring vehicles, Shut My Big Mouth is also one of Joe's funniest efforts since his heyday at Warner Bros. Brown is cast as wealthy easterner Wellington Holmes, who heads to the Wild West in search of peace and quiet (!) When Wellington's stagecoach is held up Read More

Lucky Legs

Synopsis: When a young woman inherits $1 million she finds herself the target of a criminals who wants her money too! ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Blondie Goes to College

Actors: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Janet Blair

Synopsis: One of the most fondly remembered of the "Blondie" series entries, 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 Read More

Vengeance of the West