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person_profile-Mara Corday

Mara Corday Age: 95

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Mara Corday

Date of Birth:

Jan 03, 1930

Country of birth:

USA

Biography of

Mara Corday

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Mara Corday (born Marilyn Joan Watts on January 3, 1930 in Santa Monica, California) is a showgirl, model, actress, Playboy Playmate and a 1950s cult figure.

    Wanting a career in films, Mara 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 married 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 Mara Corday had "more acting ability than she was permitted to exhibit."

    Mara Corday appeared as a pinup 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 Richard 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 his 1977 film The Gauntlet. She acted with him again in Sudden Impact (1983), Pink Cadillac (1989), and in her last film, 1990s The Rookie.

    Description above from the Wikipedia article Mara Corday,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Filmography of

Mara Corday

Found 27 Movies in total

The Rookie

Interrogator #2 ( Actor )

... 1990

Pink Cadillac

Stick Lady ( Actor )

... 1989

Sudden Impact

Loretta - Coffee Shop Waitress ( Actor )

... 1983

The Gauntlet

Jail Matron ( Actor )

... 1977

Girls on the Loose

Vera Parkinson ( Actor )

... 1958

Undersea Girl

Valerie Hudson ( Actor )

... 1957

The Black Scorpion

Teresa Alvarez ( Actor )

... 1957

The Quiet Gun

Irene ( Actor )

... 1957

The Giant Claw

Sally Caldwell ( Actor )

... 1957

Naked Gun

Louisa Jackson / Morales ( Actor )

... 1956

A Day of Fury

Sharman Fulton ( Actor )

... 1956

Raw Edge

Paca ( Actor )

... 1956

Tarantula

Stephanie 'Steve' Clayton ( Actor )

... 1955

Foxfire

Maria ( Actor )

... 1955

Allen in Movieland

Self ( Actor )

... 1955

The Man from Bitter Ridge

Holly Kenton ( Actor )

... 1955

Man Without a Star

Moccasin Mary ( Actor )

... 1955

So This Is Paris

Yvonne ( Actor )

... 1954

Dawn at Socorro

Letty Diamond ( Actor )

... 1954

... 1954

Drums Across the River

Sue Randolph ( Actor )

... 1954

Playgirl

Pam ( Actor )

... 1954

Sweethearts on Parade

Belle ( Actor )

... 1953

Tarzan and the She-Devil

Locopo Woman ( Actor )

... 1953

Problem Girls

Dorothy Childers ( Actor )

... 1953

... 1952

Sea Tiger

Lola, Hotel Proprietress ( Actor )

... 1952