Monsters and Matinees: With Beauty and Brains, Mara Corday Battled the Beasts

Classic Movie Hub Blog Posted by Toni Ruberto on Aug 14, 2021

My lifelong obsession with the horror classic Tarantula is well known among my family and friends. The second column I wrote for Classic Movie Hub detailed my love for the film even though it still gives me nightmares. There is just so much to enjoy: a cool monster, a scientist dabbling in ill read more

Mara Corday

Classic Cinema Gold Posted by Art on Jan 3, 2012

Mara Corday is a showgirl, model, actress, Playboy Playmate and a 1950s cult figure. Mara Corday was born Marilyn Joan Watts on January 3, 1930 in Santa Monica, California. When Corday was seventeen she came to Hollywood and found work as a showgirl at the Earl Carroll Theatre on Sunset Bouleva read more