Mara Corday
| Mara Corday | |
|---|---|
| Playboy centerfold appearance | |
| October 1958 | |
| Preceded by | Teri Hope |
| Succeeded by | Joan Staley |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Marilyn Joan Watts January 3, 1930 Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Measurements | Bust: 35" Waist: 24" Hips: 35" |
| Height | 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) |
| Weight | 118 lb (54 kg; 8.4 st) |
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Mara Corday (born Marilyn Joan Watts on January 3, 1930) is a showgirl, model, actress, Playboy Playmate and a 1950s cult figure.
Corday was born in Santa Monica, California. Wanting a career in films, she 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.
One of Corday's first professional jobs was being a dancer in Earl Carroll's Vanities. Accompanied by her mother, Corday auditioned when she was 15 years old. During the 2.5 years that she was in the show, she advanced "from showgirl to actress in the sketches."
Corday signed on as a Universal International Pictures (UI) contract player. 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.
Her roles were small until 1955 when she was cast opposite John Agar and Leo G. Carroll in Tarantula, a Sci-Fi movie that proved successful (with Clint Eastwood in a brief role). She had two other co-starring roles in that genre with The Black Scorpion and The Giant Claw (both 1957), as well as in a number of Western films such as Man Without a Star and Raw Edge. Respected film critic Leonard Maltin said that Mara Corday had "more acting ability than she was permitted to exhibit."
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