Marjorie Corso

Movies

Beach Blanket Bingo
Costume Design
In the fourth of the highly successful Frankie and Annette beach party movies, a motorcycle gang led by Eric Von Zipper kidnaps singing star Sugar Kane managed by Bullets, who hires sky-diving surfers Steve and Bonnie from Big Drop for a publicity stunt. With the usual gang of kids and a mermaid named Lorelei.
Pajama Party
Costume Designer
A Martian teenager sent to prepare for an invasion falls in love with an Earth girl.
Bikini Beach
Costume Design
A millionaire sets out to prove his theory that his pet chimpanzee is as intelligent as the teenagers who hang out on the local beach, where he is intending to build a retirement home.
Muscle Beach Party
Costume Design
Local beach-goers find that their beach has been taken over by a businessman training a stable of body builders.
The Comedy of Terrors
Costume Design
An undertaker who hasn't had any 'customers' in a long time is forced to pay one year's back-rent. To get money he starts to kill people, which brings absurd results.
Twice-Told Tales
Costume Designer
3 horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the 1st story titled "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", Heidegger attempts to restore the youth of three elderly friends. In "Rappaccini's Daughter", a demented father is innoculating his daughter with poison so she may never leave her garden of poisonous plants. In the final story "The House of the Seven Gables", The Pyncheon family suffers from a hundred year old curse and while in the midst of arguing over inheritance, a stranger arrives.
Beach Party
Costume Design
Anthropology Professor Robert Orwell Sutwell and his secretary Marianne are studying the sex habits of teenagers. The surfing teens led by Frankie and Dee Dee don't have much sex but they sing, battle the motorcycle rats and mice led by Eric Von Zipper and dance to Dick Dale and the Del Tones.
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes
Costume Design
A doctor uses special eye drops to give himself x-ray vision, but the new power has disastrous consequences.
The Terror
Costume Design
A young officer in Napoleon's army pursues a mysterious woman to the castle of an elderly Baron.
Diary of a Madman
Costume Design
Simon Cordier, a French magistrate and amateur sculptor comes into contact with a malevolent entity. The invisible - yet corporeal - being, called a "horla" is capable of limited psychokinesis and complete mind control.
The Raven
Costume Supervisor
A magician who has been turned into a raven turns to a former sorcerer for help.
Tower of London
Costume Design
The twisted Richard III is haunted by the ghosts of those he has murdered in his attempt to become the King of England.
Tales of Terror
Wardrobe Master
Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe: 1) A man and his daughter are reunited, but the blame for the death of his wife hangs over them, unresolved. 2) A derelict challenges the local wine-tasting champion to a competition, but finds the man's attention to his wife worthy of more dramatic action. 3) A man dying and in great pain agrees to be hypnotized at the moment of death, with unexpected consequences.
The Premature Burial
Costume Design
An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational horror of premature burial consumes him.
The Nun and the Sergeant
Costume Design
A weary sergeant in Korea commands military prisoners on a dangerous mission and is joined by a nun and a group of schoolgirls in enemy territory.
Bloodlust!
Costume Design
Two couples are on a boating trip when they come across an uncharted island. The four investigate and find themselves in the clutches of Dr. Albert Balleau, whose hobby is hunting both animals and humans… The group tries to escape only to be thwarted by Dr. Balleau and his henchmen.
The Pit and the Pendulum
Costume Design
Francis Barnard goes to Spain, when he hears his sister Elizabeth has died. Her husband Nicholas Medina, the son of the most brutal torturer of the Spanish Inquisition, tells him she has died of a blood disease, but Francis finds this hard to believe. After some investigating he finds out that it was extreme fear that was fatal to his sister and that she may have been buried alive!
Master of the World
Wardrobe Supervisor
A mad genius tries to bomb the world into peace.
A Bucket of Blood
Wardrobe Master
Nerdy Walter Paisley (Dick Miller), a maladroit busboy at a beatnik café who doesn't fit in with the cool scene around him, attempts to woo his beautiful co-worker, Carla (Barboura Morris), by making a bust of her. When his klutziness results in the death of his landlady's cat, he panics and hides its body under a layer of plaster. But when Carla and her friends enthuse over the resulting artwork, Walter decides to create some bigger and more elaborate pieces using the same artistic process.
The Diary of a High School Bride
Costumer
A 17-year-old high-school senior marries a 20-something law student who works as a waiter. Who said marriage was bliss?
Missile to the Moon
Costume Design
Two escaped convicts are found hiding in a rocketship built by a renegade inventor, who forces them to become the crew for a trip to the Moon. Also on board, as inadvertent stowaways, are his assistant and his secretary; and none of them are aware that the inventor is actually a Lunarian explorer sent to Earth by the dying Lunar civilization and the only remaining male member of that civilization.
Earth vs. the Spider
Wardrobe Supervisor
Teenagers from a small town and their high school science teacher join forces to battle a giant mutant spider, living in a cave nearby and getting hungry.
Hot Rod Gang
Wardrobe Master
A kid who wants to enter his car in the drag races joins a rock band to make enough money to do it.
Teenage Cave Man
Costume Design
Roger Corman's post-holocaust quickie about an adolescent tribesman who dares to explore the feared "forbidden zone."
Giant from the Unknown
Costume Design
A series of grisly murders plague a small mountain community and the sheriff suspects a local scientist whom he dislikes. Together with a former professor and the professor's pretty daughter, the scientist sets about solving the crimes and discovers the killer is an oversized 16th century conquistador, resurrected by a lightning bolt from his mountain grave.
Carnival Rock
Wardrobe Designer
An ocean-side nightclub owner loves a singer who only has eyes for a gambler.
Reform School Girl
Costume Design
A teen girl is thrown into reform school for refusing to squeal on her delinquent boyfriend where she ends up meeting his ex-girlfriend and the jealous tempers fly.
Dragstrip Girl
Costume Design
Girl loves hot cars and a rich dragstrip racer. Her parents don't like either one.
Burden Of Truth
Wardrobe Master
Joe and Ella Mae Hamilton, having just moved into a new neighborhood, are confronted by an angry, jeering mob of whites outside their house. Joe thinks back on his life. According to press materials, the film's story was based on an idea "expressed by [United Steelworkers of America Union, distributor of the film] President David J. McDonald in a speech on civil rights given by him" in Los Angeles in September 1956.
The Sharkfighters
Wardrobe Supervisor
Landing on a small island not far from Havana, Cuba, Lt. Cmdr. Ben Staves joins a Navy scientific project engaged in finding an effective shark repellent to help save the lives of WWII military personnel stranded in shark-infested waters. His zeal for completing the project as fast as possible is explained by his having lost a large percentage of his crew to sharks when his ship was sunk by the Japanese. Against the advice of the others on the project, Staves demands that the new repellent be tested on a live subject surrounded by hungry sharks and will allow no one but himself to be the test subject!