MARA CORDAY VS TARANTULAS, BLACK SCORPIONS AND GIANT CLAWS
Brown eyed and demure brunette Mara Corday eventually became most remembered by her fans for her roles in three Universal science fiction, giant bug movies all made towards the end of her short acting career. Those films, Tarantula (1955), The Black Scorpion and The Giant Claw (1957) were slight departures from her previous roles which exploited her smoldering almost ethnic sex appeal such as Man Without a Star with Kirk Douglas and A Day of Fury. She acted in films for Paramount, Republic and Universal for only seven years before quitting altogether to become a house wife and mother with actor Richard Long who was most famous for his TV role in The Big Valley.
Born Marilyn Watts in 1932 in Santa Monica California, Mara Corday was not only a actress whose career seemed to taking off just as quit, but was also one of the most popular and most photographed models of her time. She eventually would be Playboy playmate for October 1958. She did mostly the cheesecake pinup style photos of the time and some of the spicier black stocking type as well.
Richard Long suffered from a series of heart attacks before dying in 1974. Mara would return to acting with the help of her old friend and Universal contract player Clint Eastwood. She appeared in supporting roles in a number of his film made during the late 70’s and 80’s. She was not only known for her good looks but her charming and hard working personality. She is still active and has a strong fan base on the net. Her site is:
but all the pictures are just thumbnail samples and you have to pay to see the real thing, but the images look great, better than what I have found on the net so far, so I am counting my pennies. In the meantime I edited some images that show Mara in a variety of moods, all sultry, from terrified scream queen to tough gal with a gun to long legged pinup doll pulling up her nylons.
A THUMBNAIL GALLERY OF SULTRY MARA CORDAY
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