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 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). Description above from the Wikipedia article Mara Corday,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 1990The Rookie — Interrogator #2
• 1989Pink Cadillac — Stick Lady
• 1983Sudden Impact — Loretta - Coffee Shop Waitress
• 1977The Gauntlet — Jail Matron
• Surfside 6
• Adventures in Paradise — Angel
• 1958Girls on the Loose — Vera Parkinson
• Peter Gunn
• Wanted: Dead or Alive — Lucinda Lorenz
• 1957The Black Scorpion — Teresa Alvarez
• 1957The Giant Claw — Sally Caldwell
• 1957The Quiet Gun — Irene
• 1957Undersea Girl — Valerie Hudson
• 1956A Day of Fury — Sharman Fulton
• 1956Naked Gun — Louisa Jackson / Morales
• 1956Raw Edge — Paca
• 1955Foxfire — Maria
• 1955Man Without a Star — Moccasin Mary
• 1955Tarantula — Stephanie 'Steve' Clayton
• 1955The Man from Bitter Ridge — Holly Kenton
• 1954Dawn at Socorro — Letty Diamond
• 1954Drums Across the River — Sue Randolph
• 1954Francis Joins the WACS — Kate
• 1954Playgirl — Pam
• 1954So This Is Paris — Yvonne
• 1953Problem Girls — Dorothy Childers
• 1953Sweethearts on Parade — Belle
• 1953Tarzan and the She-Devil — Locopo Woman
• Mr. & Mrs. North
• 1952Sea Tiger — Lola, Hotel Proprietress
• 1952Son of Ali Baba — Girl on Balcony (uncredited)
• 1952Tall, Dark and Dead — Greta Varden
• 1952Toughest Man in Arizona
• The Adventures of Kit Carson

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 1955Allen in Movieland — Self
• The George Gobel Show — Self
• The Colgate Comedy Hour — Self