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Mara Corday‌

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1930-01-03

Popularity

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Mara Corday

Santa Monica, California, USA

Mara Corday

Santa Monica, California, USA

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1930-01-03

Popularity

star3.3

Biography

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.

Movie Credits

Foxfire

Foxfire‌
star6.0
calendar 1955

Tarzan and the She-Devil

Tarzan and the She-Devil‌
star4.8
calendar 1953

Allen in Movieland

Allen in Movieland‌
star5.0
calendar 1955

Tarantula

Tarantula‌
star6.5
calendar 1955

The Giant Claw

The Giant Claw‌
star4.8
calendar 1957

The Black Scorpion

The Black Scorpion‌
star5.2
calendar 1957

Toughest Man in Arizona

Toughest Man in Arizona‌
star0.0
calendar 1952

Girls on the Loose

Girls on the Loose‌
star5.4
calendar 1958

Drums Across the River

Drums Across the River‌
star5.4
calendar 1954

Raw Edge

Raw Edge‌
star5.8
calendar 1956

A Day of Fury

A Day of Fury‌
star5.5
calendar 1956

Dawn at Socorro

Dawn at Socorro‌
star7.2
calendar 1954

Naked Gun

Naked Gun‌
star6.8
calendar 1956

The Man from Bitter Ridge

The Man from Bitter Ridge‌
star6.0
calendar 1955

The Quiet Gun

The Quiet Gun‌
star6.4
calendar 1957

Francis Joins the WACS

Francis Joins the WACS‌
star5.8
calendar 1954

Undersea Girl

Undersea Girl‌
star3.7
calendar 1957

Playgirl

Playgirl‌
star4.3
calendar 1954

Tall, Dark and Dead

Tall, Dark and Dead‌
star0.0
calendar 1952

The Gauntlet

The Gauntlet‌
star6.6
calendar 1977

Sudden Impact

Sudden Impact‌
star6.5
calendar 1983

Pink Cadillac

Pink Cadillac‌
star5.5
calendar 1989

The Rookie

The Rookie‌
star5.8
calendar 1990

Problem Girls

Problem Girls‌
star3.3
calendar 1953

Man Without a Star

Man Without a Star‌
star6.5
calendar 1955

So This Is Paris

So This Is Paris‌
star8.5
calendar 1954

Sea Tiger

Sea Tiger‌
star5.0
calendar 1952

Sweethearts on Parade

Sweethearts on Parade‌
star0.0
calendar 1953

Tv Credits

The Colgate Comedy Hour

The Colgate Comedy Hour‌
star7.0
calendar 1950

Surfside 6

Surfside 6‌
star5.0
calendar 1960

Peter Gunn

Peter Gunn‌
star6.5
calendar 1958

Adventures in Paradise

Adventures in Paradise‌
star5.7
calendar 1959

Wanted: Dead or Alive

Wanted: Dead or Alive‌
star6.9
calendar 1958

The Adventures of Kit Carson

The Adventures of Kit Carson‌
star5.3
calendar 1951

Mr. & Mrs. North

Mr. & Mrs. North‌
star4.8
calendar 1952

The George Gobel Show

The George Gobel Show‌
star7.0
calendar 1954