Corinna Mura (born Corinna Wall; March 16, 1910 – August 1, 1965) was an American cabaret singer, actress, and diseuse.Oakland Tribune obituary, Saturday, October 20, 1965, p. 5 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). The Strange Case of Edward Gorey. Fantagraphics, p. 15. .
Death She died in Mexico City on 1 August 1965, at 55 years of age, from cancer.
Filmography Year Title Role Notes1942 Call Out the Marines Zana Zaranda 1942 Prisoner of Japan Loti 1942 Casablanca Singer with Guitar Uncredited1944 Passage to Marseille Singer 1945 The Gay Senorita Corina 1947 Honeymoon Senora Mendoza 1957 The Helen Morgan Story Guitarist Uncredited (final film role)
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Corinna Mura at Turner Classic Movies Corinna Mura at the British Film Institute