Mara Corday Profile

Full Name:Mara Corday - Contact Mara Corday
Birth Name:Marilyn Watts
Famous As: Actress
Date of Birth: January 03, 1930
Place of Birth: Santa Monica, California, USA
Height: 5' 5
Nationality: American
Spouse: Richard Long (an actor, 1957 - December 21, 1974, death)
Son(s): Carey, Gregory
Daughter(s): Valerie Long (an actress)
Claim to Fame: Playboy Centerfold - Miss October, 1958

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    Clip 10 MINUTE VERSION Jeff Morrow, Mara Corday, and the silliest looking marionette you have
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    Filename: THE GIANT CLAW (1957) Jeff Morrow, Mara Corday
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    Mara Corday
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    Mara Corday
    Playboy centerfold appearance
    October 1958
    Preceded by Teri Hope
    Succeeded by Joan Staley
    Born Marilyn Joan Watts
    January 3, 1930 (1930-01-03) (age 79)
    Santa Monica, California, United States
    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 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.

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