Mara Corday, the showgirl, Playboy Playmate and cult film star of Tarantula, has died at age 95.
The Golden Age actress died of arteriosclerotic heart problems on Feb. 9 at her residence in Valencia, California, in keeping with the Los Angeles County Division of Public Well being.
Her reason behind loss of life was listed on a loss of life certificates obtained by The Washington Publish.
Born Jan. 3, 1930 in Santa Monica, Marilyn Joan Watts started working as a showgirl on the Earl Carroll Theatre on Sundown Boulevard as a youngster, the place she adopted her stage identify. She was additionally Playboy‘s October 1958 Playmate of the Month.
Following a number of small roles in B-rated motion pictures, Corday’s breakout got here within the 1955 Jack Arnold-helmed sci-fi cult basic Tarantula, starring alongside John Agar and Leo G. Carroll.
Corday additionally appeared in sci-fi titles The Black Scorpion (1957) and The Big Claw (1957), in addition to westerns like Drums Throughout the River (1954), The Man From Bitter Ridge (1955) and Man With out a Star (1955).
Following the 1974 loss of life of husband Richard Lengthy, whom she met on the set of their 1954 movie Playgirl, Corday’s pal and Tarantula co-star Clint Eastwood helped her revive her profession with roles in his motion pictures The Gauntlet (1977), Sudden Influence (1983), Pink Cadillac (1989) and The Rookie (1990).
