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Subject: [PML1] CC: Mara Corday
From: Mark Tomlonson
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 10:04:48 -0500

Mara Corday's centerfold (October 1958) is unique in two
aspects. First, she shared the PMOM honors with Pat Sheehan, and
secondly her centerfold is a two-pager, a throwback to Playboy's
earliest days.

In the centerfold we see Mara frolicking below the sheets. Although
what she's doing is perfectly innocent, everyone in the fifties and
the more intelligent of us 45 years on understand that this kind of
frolic is just a metaphor for what is really the subject of the
photograph.

I love seeing a naked, nearly naked or even a clothed woman this
happy, whether I'm responsible or not. Combine that general pleasure
with the slyly sexual expression on Mara's face and we're talking a
winning combination.

Mara was a movie actress of moderate fame when the centerfold feature
appeared, so perhaps that explains her modesty. Actually, by Playboy's
standards of the time, her centerfold isn't all that modest. She
didn't work for almost 20 years after the centerfold appeared, but
that may have nothing to do with her Playmate status. (Mara's most
famous roll was as "Steve Clayton" in "Tarantula". Her last credit is
as "Interrogator #2" in "The Rookie")

Photographer: David Preston

Scoring:
Pin-up: 3.5
Erotic: 2.5
Artistic: 2.5

Overall: 3.0 out of 4.0

Cyber Club Portfolio Photo I like better than the Centerfold: none

http://cyber.playboy.com/members/playmates/files/1958/10/centerfold.html

Mark Tomlonson
Kalamazoo MI


To: pml1@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [PML1] Re: CC: Mara Corday
From: Mark Tomlonson
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 10:52:01 -0500

In my critque I speculated that Mara Corday's absence from acting for 
almost 20 years after her Playboy appearance might be related to that 
appearance. In her IMDB biography, http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0179408/bio 
it says she took the time off to be a wife and mother. I wouldn't count 
those two reasons as being mutually exclusive.

Mark Tomlonson
Kalamazoo MI