Corinna Mura
{{Short description|American singer and diseuse (1910–1965)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Corinna Mura
| image = Corinna Mura in Mexican Hayride.jpg
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| caption = Mura in the musical Mexican Hayride, 1944
| birth_name = Corinna Wall
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1910|03|16|mf=yes}}
| birth_place = San Antonio, Texas, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|mf=y|1965|08|01|1910|03|16}}
| death_place = Mexico City, Mexico
| occupation = {{hlist|Singer|diseuse|actress}}
| years_active = 1942–1957
| notable_works = Casablanca
| spouse =
}}
Corinna Mura (born Corinna Wall; March 16, 1910 – August 1, 1965) was a cabaret singer, actress, and diseuse.Oakland Tribune obituary, Saturday, October 20, 1965, p. 5{{cite book |last=Wilson |first=Scott |date= August 22, 2016|title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7-DgDAAAQBAJ&q=Corinna+Wall+1965&pg=PA538 |location=Jefferson, North Carolina |publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc |page=538 |isbn=9780786479924}} She had a small role in the classic film Casablanca as the woman playing the guitar while singing "Tango Delle Rose" and "La Marseillaise" at Rick's Café Américain.
Biography
Mura was born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1910. As a child she was trained by her parents, Lillian Bright (nee West) and D. Buckner Wall, to become a coloratura soprano. She sang three times for President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1944, Mura appeared in Cole Porter's hit Broadway musical Mexican Hayride, and can be heard in two numbers on the Decca original-cast album. She was stepmother to author/illustrator Edward Gorey.Theroux, Alexander (2011). [https://books.google.com/books?id=PFgeDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA15 The Strange Case of Edward Gorey]. Fantagraphics, p. 15. {{ISBN|1606993844}}.
Death
She died in Mexico City on 1 August 1965, at 55 years of age, from cancer.
Filmography
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Year
! Title ! Role ! Notes | |||
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1942 | Call Out the Marines | Zana Zaranda | |
1942 | Prisoner of Japan | Loti | |
1942 | Casablanca | Singer with Guitar | Uncredited |
1944 | Passage to Marseille | Singer | |
1945 | The Gay Senorita | Corina | |
1947 | Honeymoon | Senora Mendoza | |
1957 | The Helen Morgan Story | Guitarist | Uncredited{{cite web |url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/77662/the-helen-morgan-story |title= The Helen Morgan Story|author= |date= |website= |publisher= |access-date= 1 September 2016|quote=}} (final film role) |
References
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External links
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- [https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/137460%7C34082/Corinna-Mura#overview Corinna Mura] at Turner Classic Movies
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20180528173615/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2bac0a1157 Corinna Mura] at the British Film Institute{{better source needed|reason=Help request: a live link can be searched for at https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/search/expert - if available, replace the archive URL with the live link. Or if none found, remove this 'better source needed' template. | date=October 2023}}
- {{IBDB name|103043}}
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Category:American cabaret singers
Category:Deaths from cancer in Mexico
Category:American film actresses
Category:Place of birth missing
Category:20th-century American actresses
Category:20th-century American singers
Category:American expatriates in Mexico
Category:20th-century American women singers
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