| 词条 | Mara Corday |
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| image = | caption = | issue = October 1958 | birth_name = Marilyn Joan Watts | birth_place = Santa Monica, California, U.S. | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1930|1|3}} | bust = 35 in | waist = 24 in | hips = 35 in | height = 5 ft 5 in | weight = 118 lb | preceded = Teri Hope | succeeded = Joan Staley | website = http://www.Maracorday.com }} Mara Corday (born Marilyn Joan Watts; January 3, 1930) is a showgirl, model, actress, Playboy Playmate and 1950s cult figure. Early lifeCorday was born in Santa Monica, California. 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.[1] 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. DancingOne of Corday's first professional jobs was being a dancer in Earl Carroll's Vanities.[2] Accompanied by her mother, Corday auditioned when she was 15 years old. During the two and a half years that she was in the show, she advanced "from showgirl to actress in the sketches."[3] This was also when she adopted the stage name Mara Corday, because it made her seem more exotic. The name Mara came from a bongo player who called her Marita when she was working as an usher at the Mayan Theater, while Corday was lifted from a perfume bottle.[4] FilmCorday signed on as a Universal International Pictures (UI) contract player. 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.[5] Her roles were small until 1955 when she was cast opposite John Agar and Leo G. Carroll in Tarantula,[6][7] a science-fiction film that proved successful (with Clint Eastwood in a brief role). She had two other co-starring roles in that genre with The Black Scorpion and The Giant Claw (both 1957), as well as in a number of Western films such as Man Without a Star and Raw Edge. Film critic Leonard Maltin said Corday had "more acting ability than she was permitted to exhibit." A few years after her husband's death in 1974, Corday's friend Eastwood offered her a chance to return to filmmaking with a role in his 1977 film The Gauntlet. She had a brief-but-significant role in Sudden Impact (1983), where she played the waitress dumping sugar into Harry Callahan's coffee in that movie's iconic "Go ahead, make my day" sequence.[8] And she acted with Eastwood again in Pink Cadillac (1989) as well as in her last film, 1990's The Rookie. ModelingCorday appeared as a pinup girl in numerous men's magazines during the 1950s and was the Playmate of the October 1958 issue of Playboy, along with famous model and showgirl Pat Sheehan.[9][10][11] TelevisionIn 1956, Corday had a recurring role in the ABC television series Combat Sergeant.[12] From 1959 to early 1961, Corday worked exclusively doing guest spots on various television series. Personal lifeFollowing the 1955 death of Suzan Ball, the first wife of actor Richard Long, Corday began dating Long, and they married in 1957. Through Long's sister Barbara, Corday was a sister-in-law of actor Marshall Thompson. In the early 1960s, Corday gave up her career to devote herself to raising a family. Widowed in 1974, she and Long had three children during their 17-year marriage: Valerie, Carey, and Gregory.[2] Corday has also been a lifelong friend of actor Clint Eastwood, whom she met while working for Universal Pictures.[8] Partial filmography{{Div col|colwidth=30em}}
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References1. ^{{cite journal|last1=Weaver|first1=Tom|title=The Sci-Fi Stalwarts: Mara Corday|journal=Classic Images|date=April 2017|issue=502|page=73}} 2. ^1 {{cite news|last1=Henniger|first1=Paul|title=Undaunted, Mara Corday returns to TV|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4496806/the_journal_news/|agency=The Journal News|date=February 1, 1976|location=Ohio, Hamilton|page=25|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 2, 2016}} {{Open access}} 3. ^{{cite news|last1=Thomas|first1=Bob|title=Dreams Help Mara Corday Make Decisions on Career|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4496888/the_corpus_christi_callertimes/|agency=The Corpus Christi Caller-Times|date=October 6, 1954|location=Texas, Corpus Christi|page=25|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = March 2, 2016}} {{Open access}} 4. ^{{cite book |last=Weaver |first=Tom |title=It Came from Horrorwood: Interviews with Moviemakers in the Sf and Horror Tradition |url={{Google books|mmo0XHr99y0C|page=67|plainurl=yes}} |year=2004 |publisher=McFarland & Company |isbn=9780786420698 |page=67}} 5. ^{{cite book|last1=Magers|first1=Boyd|last2=Fitzgerald|first2=Michael G.|title=Westerns Women: Interviews With 50 Leading Ladies Of Movie And Television Westerns From The 1930s To The 1960s|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E2YvBhX8CZ0C&pg=PA62|accessdate=12 May 2012|date=2004-07-31|publisher=McFarland & Company |isbn=9780786420285|pages=62–}} 6. ^{{cite book|last1=Weaver|first1=Tom|last2=Brunas|first2=John|last3=Brunas|first3=Michael|title=Interviews With B Science Fiction And Horror Movie Makers: Writers, Producers, Directors, Actors, Moguls and Makeup|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kMYf7vlGQn0C&pg=PA2|accessdate=12 May 2012|date=2006-09-30|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786428588|pages=2–}} 7. ^{{cite journal|last=Williams|first=Tony|date=November 1985|title=Female Oppression in "Attack of the 50-Foot Woman" (L'oppression des femmes dans "Attack of the 50-Foot Woman")|journal=Science Fiction Studies|volume=12|issue=3|pages=264–273|jstor=4239701}} 8. ^1 {{cite book|last=O'Brien|first=Daniel|title=Clint Eastwood: film-maker|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qGNZAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=12 May 2012|date=1996-08-08|publisher=B.T. Batsford|isbn=9780713478396|page=153}} 9. ^{{cite book |editor1-first=Martin |editor1-last=Connors |editor2-first=James |editor2-last=Craddock |title=VideoHound's golden movie retriever |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2RacqQu0B3IC |year=1996 |publisher=Visible Ink Press |isbn=978-0787607807 |page=cxcviii}} 10. ^{{cite book |last=Lisanti |first=Tom |title=Fantasy Femmes of Sixties Cinema: Interviews with 20 Actresses from Biker, Beach, and Elvis Movies |url={{Google books|2_E6M3LEGP4C|page=12|plainurl=yes}} |year=2001 |publisher=McFarland & Company |isbn=978-0786408689 |pages=12}} 11. ^{{cite book |last=Petersen |first=James R. |title=Playboy Redheads |url={{Google books|mWTRNkFiP_cC|page=16|plainurl=yes}} |year=2005 |publisher=Chronicle Books |isbn=978-0811848589 |page=16}} 12. ^{{cite book|last=Terrace|first=Vincent|title=Encyclopedia of television shows, 1925 through 2007|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WhsqAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=12 May 2012|year=2009|publisher=McFarland|isbn=9780786433056|page=300}} External links
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