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Mara Corday Dies: ‘Tarantula’ Cult Film Star & ‘Playboy’ Playmate Was 95
Mara Corday, the showgirl, Playboy Playmate and cult movie star of 'Tarantula', has died at age 95.
Born Jan. 3, 1930 in Santa Monica, Marilyn Joan Watts began working as a showgirl at the Earl Carroll Theatre on Sunset Boulevard as a teenager, where she adopted her stage name. Following several small roles in B-rated movies, Corday’s breakout came in the 1955 Jack Arnold-helmed sci-fi cult classic Tarantula, starring alongside John Agar and Leo G. Carroll. Following the 1974 death of husband Richard Long, whom she met on the set of their 1954 film Playgirl, Corday’s friend and Tarantula co-star Clint Eastwood helped her revive her career with roles in his movies The Gauntlet(1977), Sudden Impact(1983), Pink Cadillac(1989) and The Rookie(1990).
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