Mara Corday

Mara Corday (born: Marilyn Joan Watts; January 3, 1930) is an American retired actress, showgirl, model and Playboy Playmate and 1950s cult figure.

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.

[2] 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.

She had two other co-starring roles in the genre, The Black Scorpion and The Giant Claw (both 1957), as well as in a number of Western films, including Man Without a Star, A Day of Fury and Raw Edge.

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, along with model Pat Sheehan.

Corday in The Giant Claw (1957)
From left to right, Corday, Kathleen Hughes , Myrna Hansen , and Allison Hayes in So This Is Paris (1955)