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Mara Corday
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Mara Corday appeared as a pinup 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!. 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 Richard Long she would have three children.
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Mara Corday's beautiful legs and shoulders are featured in this seated pose. Leaning slightly forward accentuates the bustline. Using the stool to direct her right leg creates that most important and pleasing diagonal line. Window light comes from camera left, with flood at camera right. Peter's favorite "pretzel" pose and position of Shirley Bonne's hands, makes it possible to fill the film's rectangle. No wasted space.
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Born Marilyn Watts in January 1930, California native Mara Corday first got her start in show business as a showgirl in the late 1940s. Soon, she was dancing in the Earl Carroll Revue, where she was encouraged to do extra work in films. Her first film appearance was in the 1951 Janet Leigh vehicle Two Tickets to Broadway, in which she was one of about 20 showgirls. In the meantime, Corday was finding more and more modeling work, and she quickly became a top model, sought after by the best photographers of the day, including Peter Gowland.
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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
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Low-Budget Horror and Science Fiction, featuring pages for actors John Agar, Evelyn Ankers, John Carradine, Lon Chaney Jr., Mara Corday, Beverly Garland, Bela Lugosi, Caroline Munro, Vincent Price, Barbara Steele, and more. And don't miss the directors section featuring Ed Wood, Del Tenney, Herschell Gordon Lewis, and William Castle.
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Besides twins and triplets, the only Playmates to appear together in the same month were Pat Sheehan (a blonde) and Mara Corday (a redhead), in October 1958. The pictorial was titled "Le Rouge et Le Blanc."
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