"as a ""former"" Playmate because ""Once a Playmate, always a Playmate"". Marilyn Monroe, who was featured in the first issue, was the only one to appear as ""Sweetheart of the Month."" The first model called a Playmate of the Month was Margie Harrison, Miss January 1954, in the second issue of ""Playboy"". Generally a woman may appear only once as a Playmate, but in the early years of the magazine, some models were featured multiple times. Marilyn Waltz (February 1954, April 1954, April 1955 her first appearance was as Margaret Scott) and Janet Pilgrim (July 1955, December 1955, and October"
"calendar rather than for ""Playboy"". Hefner chose what he deemed the ""sexiest"" image, a previously unused nude study of Marilyn stretched with an upraised arm on a red velvet background with closed eyes and mouth open. The heavy promotion centered around Marilyn's nudity on the already-famous calendar, together with the teasers in marketing, made the new Playboy magazine a success. The first issue sold out in weeks. Known circulation was 53,991. The cover price was 50¢. Copies of the first issue in mint to near mint condition sold for over $5,000 in 2002. The novel ""Fahrenheit 451"", by Ray Bradbury,"
"very first issue significantly factored in Playboy's launch into popularity, selling over 50,000 copies. Continuing to partner with Hefner for future editions, Kelley always seemed to make his models more relaxed in order to obtain uniquely appealing and popular photos. One model, Neva Gilbert, Miss July 1954, remembered the experience in a 2016 Associated Press interview, again recalling how he would always bring his wife with him to the shoots. Kelley had her lay on a tiger rug with red painted nails for $20 an hour. Neva said of the photos, ""I didn't think it was dirty. I felt they"
"or startled by the viewer. The subject would usually have an expression of delight which seemed to invite the viewer to come and play. During World War II pin-up pictures of scantily clad movie stars were extremely popular among American servicemen. Betty Grable was one of the most famous pin-up models of all time; her pinup in a bathing suit was extremely popular with World War II soldiers. In December 1953, Marilyn Monroe was featured in the first issue of ""Playboy"" magazine. Bettie Page was the Playboy Playmate of the Month in January 1955. ""Playboy"" was the first magazine featuring"
"Hefner founded Playboy, a magazine which aimed to target males between the ages of 21 and 45. The coverpage and nude centerfold in the first edition featured Marilyn Monroe, then a rising sex symbol. The pictures were taken when Monroe was an unknown struggling actress and she received $50 for the photo shoot. The photographs were published without her consent and she received no further compensation from Playboy. Featuring cartoons, interviews, short fiction, Hefner ""Playboy Philosophy"" and - most crucially - half-naked female ""Playmates"" posing provocatively, the magazine became immensely successful. In 1960, Hefner decided to expand his enterprise and"
"Australian Playboy Australian Playboy was an Australian imprint of ""Playboy"" magazine. In 1979 Kerry Packer's ACP Magazines secured the Australian rights to ""Playboy"" magazine. ""Australian Playboy"" featured similar content to the lead US edition, and included interviews, feature articles and entertainment reviews. The magazine would rely heavily on the US edition for pictorials, and thus reprinted many pictorials featuring popular US Playmates and celebrities including Pamela Anderson, Erika Eleniak and Anna Nicole Smith. An Australian Playmate of the Year would be crowned annually. The first edition issued February 1979, featured Rosemary Paul on the cover and Karen Pini as the"
"feature reporter for the Playboy Channel. She died at age 49 in December 2012 due to a brain tumor. Lynda Wiesmeier Lynda Ann Wiesmeier (pronounced WEES-myer, May 30, 1963 – December 16, 2012) was an American model and actress. She made her debut film in ""American Pop"". Wiesmeier was selected as both cover model and Playmate of the Month for the July 1982 issue of ""Playboy"" magazine, and her centerfold was photographed by Richard Fegley. Wiesmeier also appeared in several Playboy newsstand special editions and videos, and worked steadily for ""Playboy"" for more than five years after she graced the"
"for Alice Cooper and in the business office of the Oakland Raiders. Wells died in Phoenix, Arizona, at the age of 78. She was survived by her daughter Stephanie Wolfe. Delores Wells Delores Marie Wells (October 17, 1937 – February 9, 2016) was an American model and actress. She was ""Playboy"" magazine's Playmate of the Month for its June 1960 issue. According to ""The Playboy Book"", Wells was paid $500 for her Playmate pictorial, along with $100 a month during her two-year exclusivity contract with ""Playboy."" During the 1960s, Delores had an acting career, appearing in small parts in B-movies"
"General compilations Anniversary collections Interview compilations Official Others Playboy Playboy is an American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine. It was founded in Chicago in 1953, by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. Notable for its centerfolds of nude and semi-nude models (Playmates), ""Playboy"" played an important role in the sexual revolution and remains one of the world's best-known brands, having grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc. (PEI), with a presence in nearly every medium. In addition to the flagship magazine in the United States, special nation-specific versions of ""Playboy"" are published"
"Hugh Hefner Hugh Marston Hefner (April 9, 1926 – September 27, 2017) was an American magazine publisher and life-stylist. He was founder and editor-in-chief of ""Playboy"" magazine, a revolutionary publication, aimed at a sophisticated young readership, with revealing glamour photographs and sensational articles provoking charges of obscenity. The first issue, in 1953, featuring Marilyn Monroe in her nude calendar shoot, sold over 50,000 copies. Hefner extended the brand into a world network of Playboy Clubs, as well as his own luxury mansions where the Playboy ‘playmates’ shared his wild partying life, keenly reported in the media. An advocate of sexual"
"Playboy Playboy is an American men's lifestyle and entertainment magazine. It was founded in Chicago in 1953, by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. Notable for its centerfolds of nude and semi-nude models (Playmates), ""Playboy"" played an important role in the sexual revolution and remains one of the world's best-known brands, having grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc. (PEI), with a presence in nearly every medium. In addition to the flagship magazine in the United States, special nation-specific versions of ""Playboy"" are published worldwide. The magazine has a long history of"
"to fundamentally respect women, and women realise that they have the power to present themselves as empowered, fully capable people, raunch culture may moan its last and final faked orgasm."" Playboy, an American magazine company that features photographs of nude women, was founded by Hugh Hefner, but is primarily run by women. Among these women is Hefner’s daughter, Christie Hefner, the chairman and CEO of Playboy Enterprises. The images displayed in Playboy are sometimes accompanied by brief biographies of the models; however, the focus is on the models’ sexualized bodies. Not all of the women who have appeared in the"
"Hefner left his job as a copywriter for ""Esquire"" after he was denied a $5 raise. In 1953, he took out a mortgage, generating a bank loan of $600, and raised $8,000 from 45 investors, including $1,000 from his mother (""Not because she believed in the venture,"" he told ""E!"" in 2006, ""but because she believed in her son.""), to launch ""Playboy"", which was initially going to be called ""Stag Party"". The first issue, published in December 1953, featured Marilyn Monroe from her 1949 nude calendar shoot and sold over 50,000 copies. (Hefner, who never met Monroe, bought the crypt"
"issue of ""Playboy"" into a bribe to meet a girl. In 1963, Hugh Hefner unexpectedly noticed photographs that Bill Kobrin had taken of Jayne Mansfield and asked him to shoot her centerfold for Playboy. In June of that year, photos in which she appeared naked on the set of the film ""Promises! Promises!"" were used in a series of photographs that were published in a ""Playboy"" pictorial (titled ""The Nudest Jayne Mansfield""). The pictorial was printed with a description that went, ""enjoying the luxuries of a bubble bath and a double bed"". It included pictures that shows Mansfield staring at"
"Allison Parks Allison Parks (born Gloria Waldron; October 18, 1941 – June 21, 2010) was an American model and actress. She was chosen as ""Playboy"" magazine's Playmate of the Month in October 1965, and Playmate of the Year for 1966, appearing as the cover model and in a pictorial in the May issue. She was also in a Playboy Mansion pictorial in the January 1966 issue of ""Playboy"", along with Ashlyn Martin. Her original pictorial was photographed by William Figge. ""Allison Parks"" was a pseudonym she used when modelling for ""Playboy"". She told ""The Playmate Book"" that she liked it"
"first to feature up and coming fashion models and glamour models nude, a number of whom went on to become ""Playboy"" Playmates or ""Penthouse"" Pets, most notably Jodi Paterson (2000 Playboy Playmate of the Year) and Erica Lookadoo (aka Juliet Cariaga, 2000 Penthouse Pet of the Year). Lexie Karlsen posed in ""Perfect 10"", then became both a Playboy Playmate and Penthouse Pet. Miss Universe contestants Evelina Papantoniou (Miss Greece 2001) and Leilani Dowding (Miss Great Britain 1998) also posed for the magazine. Other notable Perfect 10 models included Erica Campbell, Katie Richmond, Veronika Zemanová, Marisa Miller, Tereza Benesova, and Ashley"
"choices. In the early years, with Italy still a religiously conservative society at the time, each month the Italian police in some cities would order a mass seizure of the magazine. ""Playmen"" rarely lasted more than 48 hours on the newsstands before either being sold out or seized by the police. Many actresses began their careers on the cover of ""Playmen"": Pamela Villoresi, the singer Patty Pravo, the actress Ornella Muti, the singer Amanda Lear and many others. The magazine contained notables such as Teresa Ann Savoy, Barbara Bouchet, Lilli Carati, and Camille Keaton. The July 1968 edition contains an"
"and has partnered with actor Brian Cox. Marilyn Cole Marilyn Cole (born 5 July 1949) is ""Playboy"" magazine's January 1972 Playmate of the Month. She was the magazine's first full-frontal nude centerfold. She also became 1973's Playmate of the Year – the only Briton to hold that title. Her original pictorial was photographed by Alexas Urba. Cole worked at a Post Office punched card unit in Portsmouth Central Telephone Exchange, before working for £12 weekly at the Portsmouth Co-op Fuel Office when she was interviewed to be a Playboy Bunny at the London Playboy Club. She worked as a bunny"
"Reagan Wilson Reagan Diana Wilson (born March 6, 1947) is an American model and actress who was ""Playboy"" magazine's Playmate of the Month for its October 1967 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ron Vogel. Wilson was born in Torrance, California, and attended Roosevelt Elementary School in Santa Monica. After her parents' divorce, she relocated to Missoula, Montana with her mother, younger brother and sister. She studied journalism at the University of Montana. Wilson began working as a model after relocating to Los Angeles, California in the late 1960s. She made her film debut the 1971 horror film ""Blood Mania"""
"appeared as ""Hardbody"" of the month in ""Iron Man"" magazine several times, including a pictorial together with frequent collaborator Karen McDougal in the November 2009 issue. Katie Lohmann Katie Lohmann (born January 29, 1980) is a model, actress, and most notably a ""Playboy"" Playmate for the Month for April 2001. Her first appearance in Playboy was in the Playmate 2000 search pictorial, published in the December 1999 issue. In that pictorial, she was described as a 19-year-old massage therapist. In November 2006, Lohmann was part of a trio of Playmates (along with Tina Marie Jordan and Karen McDougal) who appeared"
"revolving slot of Playboy-related celebrity guests. Season one celebrity judges included Adrianne Curry, Sara Jean Underwood, Andrea Lowell, Tiffany Fallon, Traci Bingham, Ida Ljungqvist, Carmella DeCesare, and ""The Girls Next Door"". One by one, each team was eliminated, with ultimately 1 photographer and 1 model getting the chance to be featured in Playboy magazine. ""Playboy Shootout"" is scheduled to premiere on April 3, 2010 at 10:00pm EST, as part of Playboy TV's new Saturday block of Date Night couples-friendly programming with a new episode appearing every Saturday until the finale on June 5, 2010. Playboy Shootout Playboy Shootout is an"
"Jennifer Jackson (model) Jennifer Jackson (born February 6, 1945) is an American model who was chosen as ""Playboy"" magazine's Playmate of the Month for the March 1965 issue. She was the first Black Playmate of the Month and was photographed by Pompeo Posar. Jackson also worked as a Playboy Bunny in a Playboy Club. In October 2017, Cooper Hefner, son of ""Playboy"" founder Hugh Hefner, announced that Ines Rau would appear as ""Playmate of the Month"" in the magazine's November/December 2017 issue, making her the first openly transgender woman to be featured this way. Hefner likened the choice to feature"
"centerfold), Marilyn Lange (both her Playmate of the Month and Playmate of the Year layouts for May 1974 and June 1975 issues respectively) and Jill De Vries (the first Playmate with signed centerfold). He also photographed Playmate and Playboy bunny Barbi Benton (actress and singer who was Hugh Hefner's girlfriend) and Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning actor Alan Alda. Hooker mentored other Playboy photographers including Stephen Wayda. He shot the cover for the first paperback edition of ""Playboy's Book of Forbidden Words"" (1974), with model Mercy Rooney. He is reported to have the record number of rejections for a Playboy"
"Lynda Wiesmeier Lynda Ann Wiesmeier (pronounced WEES-myer, May 30, 1963 – December 16, 2012) was an American model and actress. She made her debut film in ""American Pop"". Wiesmeier was selected as both cover model and Playmate of the Month for the July 1982 issue of ""Playboy"" magazine, and her centerfold was photographed by Richard Fegley. Wiesmeier also appeared in several Playboy newsstand special editions and videos, and worked steadily for ""Playboy"" for more than five years after she graced the magazine's fold-out page, first as a nude glamour and pin-up model, and then as a promotional model and a"
"Allison Parks (starting on page 105). In ""The Playmate Book"", Hugh Hefner says that Laura's pseudonym was inspired by a character in the Ernest Hemingway novel ""The Sun Also Rises"", most likely Brett Ashley. She also worked as a Bunny at the Chicago Playboy Club. Ashlyn Martin Ashlyn Martin (born 20 March 1946 in Dayton, Ohio) is the stage name of Laura Lynn Hale, a model and actress who was ""Playboy"" magazine's Playmate of the Month for its April 1964 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar and Mario Casilli. She also appeared in the July 1963 issue of"
"Cynthia Myers Cynthia Jeanette Myers (September 12, 1950 – November 4, 2011) was an American model, actress, and ""Playboy"" magazine's Playmate of the Month for the December 1968 issue. Myers was the first ""Playboy"" Playmate born in the 1950s when she appeared in the magazine in December 1968. The pictures were shot in June 1968 when she was 17 years old, but it was Playboy's policy by that time to wait until a Playmate turned 18 before her pictures would be published. Her pictorial was titled ""Wholly Toledo!"" because of Myers' hometown and large breasts. Her centerfold was photographed by"
"Chicago, Illinois, in April 2012. In January 2013, the company said it employed 165. Playboy Enterprises was created in 1953 as the ""HMH Publishing Co., Inc."" for the purpose of publishing ""Playboy"". The business quickly expanded and began to develop and distribute a wider range of adult entertainment. It went public in 1971. Christie Hefner, daughter of Hugh Hefner, was the President from 1982, Chairman of the Board and CEO from 1988, until she left the company in 2009. In late 2015, it was announced that the print edition of the magazine would drop all centerfolds. The first magazine without"
"1956) are tied for the most appearances. Margie Harrison (January 1954, June 1954) and Marguerite Empey (May 1955, February 1956) are the only other women to appear more than once as Playmates. Under current law in most US jurisdictions, publishing nude pictures of a model younger than 18 would be a felony. However, in the early years of the magazine, laws regarding corruption of a minor were less well established. Several playmates including Nancy Crawford (April 1959), Donna Michelle (December 1963), Linda Moon (October 1966), Patti Reynolds (September 1965) and Teddi Smith (July 1960) posed when they were seventeen. Elizabeth"
"an age consent form. ""Playboy"" invites Dorothy to come to Los Angeles to pose for a professional photographer. ""Playboy"" founder and publisher Hugh Hefner is taken with Dorothy's beauty and innocence, which fit the Playboy criteria, making her Playmate of the Month for the issue of August 1979, offering her accommodation and giving her a job as a ""Bunny"" at an L.A. Playboy Club. Paul pressures her into marrying him, which Dorothy agrees to, mostly out of gratitude. She begins an acting career with small film and television roles and is made Playmate of the Year for 1980. Paul begins"
"Darine Stern Darine Stern (November 16, 1947 – February 5, 1994) was an American model and the first African-American model featured on the cover of ""Playboy"" magazine by herself. Stern was the first black woman to appear by herself on the cover of ""Playboy"" in the magazine's October 1971 issue. Her appearance followed Jean Bell who was featured on the magazine's January 1970 cover, but with four other models. Following her cover on ""Playboy"", Stern went on to become a high-profile model and she was represented by Ford Models, Nina Blanchard, Ellen Hart and Shirley Hamilton Models of Chicago. She"
"Connie Mason Connie Mason (born August 24, 1937 in Washington, D.C.) is an American model and actress who was ""Playboy"" magazine's Playmate of the Month for its June 1963 issue. Mason then acted in the gore movies pioneered by Herschell Gordon Lewis, ""Blood Feast"" and ""Two Thousand Maniacs!"" Her centerfold was photographed by Pompeo Posar. She was also a Playboy Bunny at the Chicago club. Connie was born in 1937 in Washington, D.C. Mason began her career in the early 1960s. She attended a private school for girls in Danville, Virginia. At the age of 17, she moved to Florida"
"Katie Lohmann Katie Lohmann (born January 29, 1980) is a model, actress, and most notably a ""Playboy"" Playmate for the Month for April 2001. Her first appearance in Playboy was in the Playmate 2000 search pictorial, published in the December 1999 issue. In that pictorial, she was described as a 19-year-old massage therapist. In November 2006, Lohmann was part of a trio of Playmates (along with Tina Marie Jordan and Karen McDougal) who appeared in the ""Celebrity Playmate Gift Guide"" pictorial of ""Splat"" magazine, a paintball enthusiasts magazine. The pictorial showcased new paintball products for the 2006 holiday season. Lohmann"
"died on February 5 1994 due to complications of breast cancer. Darine Stern Darine Stern (November 16, 1947 – February 5, 1994) was an American model and the first African-American model featured on the cover of ""Playboy"" magazine by herself. Stern was the first black woman to appear by herself on the cover of ""Playboy"" in the magazine's October 1971 issue. Her appearance followed Jean Bell who was featured on the magazine's January 1970 cover, but with four other models. Following her cover on ""Playboy"", Stern went on to become a high-profile model and she was represented by Ford Models,"