Profile
Mara Corday
Chorus Girl + Actress + Model
Female
Born
Jan 3, 1930
Age
83
Hometown
Santa Monica, Cal...
Mara Corday is a showgirl, model, actress, Playboy Playmate and a 1950s cult figure. Wanting a career in films, Mara 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… Read More
Timeline
Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Mara Corday.
CHILDHOOD
1930
Birth
Born on January 3, 1930.
TWENTIES

1951
21 Years Old
Wanting a career in films, Mara 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.
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1954
24 Years Old
In 1954 on the set of Playgirl she met actor Richard Long. Following the death of Long's wife, the two began dating and married in 1957.

1955
25 Years Old
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.
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1956
26 Years Old
In 1956, she had a recurring role in the ABC television series Combat Sergeant.
1959
29 Years Old
From 1959 to early 1961, Corday worked exclusively doing guest spots on various television series.
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FORTIES

1974
44 Years Old
A few years after her husband's death in 1974, Corday's friend Clint Eastwood offered her a chance to return to filmmaking with a role in his 1977 film The Gauntlet.
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LATE ADULTHOOD

1990
60 Years Old
And she acted with Eastwood again in Pink Cadillac (1989) as well as in her last film, 1990's The Rookie.
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