Mara Corday
Born in Santa Monica, California, USA — Jan 03 1930• Died Feb 09 2025
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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 pla…
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Mara Corday's Credits
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The Colgate Comedy Hour
Self
Adventures in Paradise
Angel
Wanted: Dead or Alive
Lucinda Lorenz
Peter Gunn
Surfside 6
The Adventures of Kit Carson
The George Gobel Show
Self
Mr. & Mrs. North
Sudden Impact
Loretta - Coffee Shop Waitress
The Gauntlet
Jail Matron
The Rookie
Interrogator #2
Pink Cadillac
Stick Lady
Son of Ali Baba
Girl on Balcony (uncredited)
Tarantula
Stephanie 'Steve' Clayton
Man Without a Star
Moccasin Mary
Dawn at Socorro
Letty Diamond
Raw Edge
Paca
The Man from Bitter Ridge
Holly Kenton
Foxfire
Maria
Toughest Man in Arizona
Naked Gun
Louisa Jackson / Morales
The Giant Claw
Sally Caldwell
A Day of Fury
Sharman Fulton
The Quiet Gun
Irene
The Black Scorpion
Teresa Alvarez
Drums Across the River
Sue Randolph
Tarzan and the She-Devil
Locopo Woman
Francis Joins the WACS
Kate
Allen in Movieland
Self
Sea Tiger
Lola, Hotel Proprietress
So This Is Paris
Yvonne
Problem Girls
Dorothy Childers
Playgirl
Pam
Girls on the Loose
Vera Parkinson
Undersea Girl
Valerie Hudson
Sweethearts on Parade
Belle
Tall, Dark and Dead
Greta Varden