Mara Corday

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Mara Corday (* 3. January 1930 as Marilyn Joan Watts in Santa Monica , California ) is an American actress and model .

Life

Corday went to Hollywood at the age of 17 . She first worked as a dancer at the Earl Carroll Theater on Sunset Boulevard and as a model. In 1951 she had an extra role as a showgirl in Two Tickets to Broadway . She then got a film contract with Universal International Pictures and was mainly cast for B-Movies and TV series . Her first starring role was played Corday in the famous science fiction - Horror Tarantula as a young biology doctoral student. Other larger roles in horror and western films followed . In addition, she continued to work as a photo model and pin-up girl during the 1950s and was Playmate of the Month in Playboy Magazine in October 1958 .

During the filming of Playgirl (1954) she met her future husband, the actor Richard Long . They both married in 1957, and in the early 1960s she retired from acting to devote herself to raising their three children. About this marriage she had with Marshall Thompson verschwägert . Only after Long's death in 1974 did she return to show business. She supported her longtime friend Clint Eastwood , with whom she on the film set of Tarantula had befriended and helped her now regular appearances in his films.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1951: Three women conquer New York (Two Tickets to Broadway)
  • 1952: The Lion of Arizona (Toughest Man in Arizona)
  • 1952: The son of Ali Baba (Son of Ali Baba)
  • 1953: The Daring Jockey (Money from Home)
  • 1953: Tarzan breaks the chains (Tarzan and the She-Devil)
  • 1954: In the dungeons of Morocco (Yankee Pasha)
  • 1954: Adlerschwinge (Drums Across the River)
  • 1954: Duel in Socorro (Dawn at Socorro)
  • 1955: Tarantula
  • 1955: Three Sailors in Paris (So ​​This Is Paris)
  • 1955: With a fist as hard as steel (Man Without a Star)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mara Corday in: Masterpieces of Science Fiction Films, 1902 to 2005: from Georges Méliès '"Le voyage dans la vune" to Garth Jennings' "The hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" by Peter M. Gaschler, EDFC, First German Fantasy Club , 2006
personal data
SURNAME Corday, Mara
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Watts, Marilyn Joan (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American model and actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Monica , California