Adele Mara and Adele Uddo

A woman, a performer composer, who has earned 15 Grammys as well as an Oscar throughout her career. Adele Laurie Blue Adkins, MBE is a name that everyone knows. She was born 5 May 1988. Her parents had her birth she at Tottenham, London. Her Welsh-born father is English as is her English-born mother. When her father had left, her mother brought her home. The first time she sang was when she was only four years old. This is how her passion for singing developed. Mother and daughter moved to Brighton. Then, in 1999, they moved back to London. West Northwood was the setting for her debut song. Adele has left the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in Croydon in the month of May, 2006 in which she was a classmate with Leona Lewis. Her daughter Jessie J. credits her education for sustaining her skills, even if it was during this time she decided to pursue a career as a collector and artist and expect others to pursue their own vocations. Adele Mara..............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 arranged for the beautiful brunette, with brown-eyed eyes on a trip to New York. A Columbia talent scout noticed her and she signed on in 1942. There she played brisk leading ladies in a series of boring B films including Vengeance of the West (1942) with Tex Ritter and Alias Boston Blackie (1942) with Chester Morris. The actress was transformed years later into a hot platinum blonde pin-up after she was signed to Republic Studios. She was mainly cast in the senorita role opposite Roy Rogers, in Bells of Rosarita in 1945, and Gene Autry's Twilight on the Rio Grande in 1947. She was also fetching fodder in crime dramas including Blackmail (1947) and Web of Danger (1947) and a pleasant diversion in adventure films such as Wake of the Red Witch (1948) with John Wayne and The Avengers (1950). Angel in Exile was released in 1948, and Sands of Iwo Jima (both featuring Duke Wayne) are arguably two of the greatest films she has ever done. It was not often that she had the chance to prove her acting talents however and her film career waned in the 1950s in the beginning. The Big Circus (1959) which starred Victor Mature, would be her final screen appearance. Adele went on to TV and was a frequent guest on commercials, mostly westerns. She eventually settled down to raise a family after her marriage to television business mogul Roy Huggins who produced many popular shows, including 77 Sunset Strip (1958) as well as Maverick (1957). As a guest, she was in many of these. They were married for over 30 years and had 3 boys. Huggins died on February 2, 2002.