生于罗得岛普罗维登斯，曾就读于潘布鲁克妇女学院、布郎大学、密执安大学戏剧学院。早年曾在地方电视台任时装评论员，还在纽约当健美模特儿。1937年进入电影界，与米高梅公司签订拍片合约，首先在影片中出演配角，直到40年代初，才成为米高梅影片公司的主要女演员之一。1940年，她在《费城故事》中的出色表演，使她获得了该处最佳女配角金像奖的提名；在演戏之余，她还在百老汇参加戏剧演出，她与拉尔夫．贝拉米合作演出了的百老汇名剧《国情咨文》。
Born Adelaide Delgado in 1925, Spanish-American Adele Mara was a singer/dancer with Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra in Detroit by the age of 15. Cugat took the beautiful, brown-eyed brunette to New York where she was spotted by a Columbia talent scout and signed in 1942. There she played brisk leading ladies in a series of standard, uneventful "B" films including Vengeance of the West (1942) with Tex Ritter and Alias Boston Blackie (1942) starring Chester Morris.
American actor and occasional screenwriter. One of the most frequently seen heavies in films and television programs of the 1950s, his name is nevertheless well known only to buffs. Occasionally he played minor leads and sympathetic characters, but his stern good looks and rich deep voice made him a memorable villain, particularly in Westerns.
