Corinna Mura

American singer and diseuse (1910–1965)

Singer
diseuse
actress

Years active1942–1957Notable workCasablanca

Corinna Mura (born Corinna Wall; March 16, 1910 – August 1, 1965) was a cabaret singer, actress, and diseuse.^[1]^[2] 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 Mexico City, Mexico in 1910. As a child she was trained by her parents 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.^[3]

Death

She died in Mexico City on 1 August 1965, at 55 years of age, from cancer.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
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^[4] (final film role)

References

^ Oakland Tribune obituary, Saturday, October 20, 1965, p. 5
^ Wilson, Scott (August 22, 2016). Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, Inc. p. 538. ISBN 9780786479924.
^ Theroux, Alexander (2011). The Strange Case of Edward Gorey. Fantagraphics, p. 15. ISBN 1606993844.
^ "The Helen Morgan Story". Retrieved September 1, 2016.