Mara Corday
Born
January 3, 1930
Died
February 9, 2025 (95 years old)
Known For
Acting
Place of Birth
Santa Monica, California, USA
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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).
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The Rookie
Interrogator #2
1990

Pink Cadillac
Stick Lady
1989

Sudden Impact
Loretta - Coffee Shop Waitress
1983

The Gauntlet
Jail Matron
1977

Surfside 6
(1 episode)
1960

Adventures in Paradise
Angel · (1 episode)
1959

Peter Gunn
(1 episode)
1958

Wanted: Dead or Alive
Lucinda Lorenz · (1 episode)
1958

Girls on the Loose
Vera Parkinson
1958

Undersea Girl
Valerie Hudson
1957

The Black Scorpion
Teresa Alvarez
1957

The Quiet Gun
Irene
1957

The Giant Claw
Sally Caldwell
1957

Naked Gun
Louisa Jackson / Morales
1956

A Day of Fury
Sharman Fulton
1956

Raw Edge
Paca
1956

Tarantula
Stephanie 'Steve' Clayton
1955

Foxfire
Maria
1955

Allen in Movieland
Self
1955

The Man from Bitter Ridge
Holly Kenton
1955

Man Without a Star
Moccasin Mary
1955

So This Is Paris
Yvonne
1954
The George Gobel Show
Self · (1 episode)
1954

Dawn at Socorro
Letty Diamond
1954

Francis Joins the WACS
Kate
1954

Drums Across the River
Sue Randolph
1954

Playgirl
Pam
1954

Sweethearts on Parade
Belle
1953

Tarzan and the She-Devil
Locopo Woman
1953

Problem Girls
Dorothy Childers
1953

Toughest Man in Arizona
1952

Mr. & Mrs. North
(1 episode)
1952

Sea Tiger
Lola, Hotel Proprietress
1952
Tall, Dark and Dead
Greta Varden
1952

The Adventures of Kit Carson
(4 episodes)
1951

The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self · (1 episode)
1950