Mara Corday

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mara Corday, born Marilyn Joan Watts (January 3, 1930 — February 9, 2025) was an American showgirl, model, actress, Playboy Playmate and a 1950s cult figure. Wanting a career in films, Corday came to Hollywood while still in her teens and found work as a showgirl at the Earl Carroll Theatre on Sunset Boulevard. Her physical beauty brought jobs as a photographer's model that led to a bit part as a showgirl in the 1951 film Two Tickets to Broadway. She signed on as a Universal International Pictures (UI) contract player where she met actor Clint Eastwood with whom she would remain lifelong friends. With UI, Corday was given small roles in various B-movies and television series. In 1954, on the set of Playgirl, she met actor Richard Long. Following the death of Long's wife, the two began dating and wed in 1957. Her roles were small until 1955 when she was cast opposite John Agar in Tarantula, a Sci-Fi B-movie that proved a modest success. She had another successful co-starring role in that genre (The Black Scorpion) as well as in a number of Western films. Respected film critic Leonard Maltin said that Corday had "more acting ability than she was permitted to exhibit." Corday appeared as a pin-up girl in numerous men's magazines during the 1950s and was the Playmate of the October 1958 issue of Playboy, together with famous model and showgirl Pat Sheehan. In 1956, she had a recurring role in the ABC television series Combat Sergeant. From 1959 to early 1961, Corday worked exclusively doing guest spots on various television series. She then gave up her career to devote her time to raising a family. During her seventeen-year marriage to Long, she had three children. A few years after her husband's passing in 1974, Corday's friend Clint Eastwood offered her a chance to return to filmmaking with a role in The Gauntlet (1977). She acted with him again in Sudden Impact (1983), Pink Cadillac (1989), and in her last film, The Rookie (1990). Description above from the Wikipedia article Mara Corday,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Santa Monica, California, USA, 1930-01-03

Died: 2025-02-09

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1952	Tall, Dark and Dead	Greta Varden	0
2	1952	Sea Tiger	Lola, Hotel Proprietress	50
3	1952	Toughest Man in Arizona		0
4	1953	Problem Girls	Dorothy Childers	33
5	1953	Tarzan and the She-Devil	Locopo Woman	48
6	1953	Sweethearts on Parade	Belle	0
7	1954	Playgirl	Pam	43
8	1954	Drums Across the River	Sue Randolph	56
9	1954	Francis Joins the WACS	Kate	58
10	1954	Dawn at Socorro	Letty Diamond	72
11	1954	So This Is Paris	Yvonne	85
12	1955	Man Without a Star	Moccasin Mary	65
13	1955	The Man from Bitter Ridge	Holly Kenton	60
14	1955	Allen in Movieland	Self	50
15	1955	Foxfire	Maria	60
16	1955	Tarantula	Stephanie 'Steve' Clayton	65
17	1956	Raw Edge	Paca	58
18	1956	A Day of Fury	Sharman Fulton	55
19	1956	Naked Gun	Louisa Jackson / Morales	68
20	1957	The Giant Claw	Sally Caldwell	48
21	1957	The Quiet Gun	Irene	64
22	1957	The Black Scorpion	Teresa Alvarez	52
23	1957	Undersea Girl	Valerie Hudson	37
24	1958	Girls on the Loose	Vera Parkinson	54
25	1977	The Gauntlet	Jail Matron	66
26	1983	Sudden Impact	Loretta - Coffee Shop Waitress	65
27	1989	Pink Cadillac	Stick Lady	55
28	1990	The Rookie	Interrogator #2	59

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1950	The Colgate Comedy Hour	Self	68
2	1951	The Adventures of Kit Carson		53
3	1952	Mr. & Mrs. North		43
4	1954	The George Gobel Show	Self	73
5	1958	Wanted: Dead or Alive	Lucinda Lorenz	69
6	1958	Peter Gunn		65
7	1959	Adventures in Paradise	Angel	57
8	1960	Surfside 6		50

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