Happy 90th Birthday Mara Corday!!!
Jan 3, 2020 8:39:15 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Jan 3, 2020 8:39:15 GMT
Happy 90th Birthday Mara Corday!!! 
Born on January 3, 1930 in Santa Monica, California.
A showgirl, model, actress, Playboy Playmate and 1950s cult figure. Film critic Leonard Maltin said Corday had "more acting ability than she was permitted to exhibit".
Wanting a career in films, she 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.
Corday signed with Universal-International Pictures as a contract player, where she was given small roles in various B-movies and television series.
Her acting roles were small until 1955 when she was cast opposite John Agar and Leo G. Carroll in the successful science fiction film Tarantula, which has Clint Eastwood in a brief role as a jet fighter pilot. She had two other co-starring roles in the genre, The Black Scorpion and The Giant Claw, both 1957, as well as in a number of Western films, including Man Without a Star and Raw Edge.
She gave up acting in the early '60s to concentrate on marriage and motherhood during 17 tumultuous years as the wife of actor Richard Long.
A few years after her husband's death in 1974, Corday's old friend Eastwood offered her a chance to return to films with a role in his 1977 film The Gauntlet. She also had a brief but-significant role in Sudden Impact 1983, where she played the waitress who dumped sugar into the coffee of Det. Harry Callahan in that film's iconic "Go ahead, make my day" sequence. She acted with Eastwood again in his 1989 film Pink Cadillac, as well as in her last film, 1990's The Rookie.
Tarantula 1955
1956
The Giant Claw 1957
Girls on the Loose 1958
Born on January 3, 1930 in Santa Monica, California.
A showgirl, model, actress, Playboy Playmate and 1950s cult figure. Film critic Leonard Maltin said Corday had "more acting ability than she was permitted to exhibit".
Wanting a career in films, she 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.
Corday signed with Universal-International Pictures as a contract player, where she was given small roles in various B-movies and television series.
Her acting roles were small until 1955 when she was cast opposite John Agar and Leo G. Carroll in the successful science fiction film Tarantula, which has Clint Eastwood in a brief role as a jet fighter pilot. She had two other co-starring roles in the genre, The Black Scorpion and The Giant Claw, both 1957, as well as in a number of Western films, including Man Without a Star and Raw Edge.
She gave up acting in the early '60s to concentrate on marriage and motherhood during 17 tumultuous years as the wife of actor Richard Long.
A few years after her husband's death in 1974, Corday's old friend Eastwood offered her a chance to return to films with a role in his 1977 film The Gauntlet. She also had a brief but-significant role in Sudden Impact 1983, where she played the waitress who dumped sugar into the coffee of Det. Harry Callahan in that film's iconic "Go ahead, make my day" sequence. She acted with Eastwood again in his 1989 film Pink Cadillac, as well as in her last film, 1990's The Rookie.
Tarantula 1955
1956
The Giant Claw 1957
Girls on the Loose 1958
